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Redmi Buds 6 Pro

Redmi Buds 6 Pro Review: high-end features for a mid-range price

On January 25, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein

The Redmi Buds 6 Pro are the top-of-the-line wireless earbuds in the Redmi sub-brand of …

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Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G

Redmi Note 14 Pro+ 5G Review: High end looks for mid-range money

On January 10, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein
Photo of Lenovo Legion Go being held by a female model

One year later: the Lenovo Legion Go mobile game console is better than ever.

On December 4, 2024 By Adam Z. Lein

HP Chromebook Plus x360 Review: a 2024 convertible ChromeOS tablet PC

On September 6, 2024 By Adam Z. Lein
Image of 16 internet messaging apps on an Android phone with the text "The Messaging Mess is Stupid"

The smartest messaging method is not a segregated mess of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, Slack, Teams, Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, etc.

On July 19, 2022 By Adam Z. Lein

Do we need an open operating system for designers?

On July 19, 2022 By Adam Z. Lein In Design, Tech

It used to be that Mac OS was a great operating system for graphic designers since it was the first consumer available operating system with a graphical user interface plus it had great postscript printer …

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Image of 16 internet messaging apps on an Android phone with the text "The Messaging Mess is Stupid"

The smartest messaging method is not a segregated mess of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, Slack, Teams, Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, etc.

On July 19, 2022 By Adam Z. Lein In Featured, Tech

“Too Long Didn’t Read” Summary: Managing too many messaging apps can cause cognitive overload and contribute to burn-out. It’s smarter to focus on the one system that works with everything everywhere there’s internet and is …

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General User Experience Design Guidance

On July 18, 2022 By Adam Z. Lein In Design

This page lists design guideline suggestions backed by logical reasoning that has often been proven in usability studies. Many GUI designers either ignore or don’t know about many of these basic rules that should probably …

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The Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra is still my favorite phone as a photographer

On July 30, 2021 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

For the past decade or so, my primary criteria for choosing a smartphone has been its camera capabilities. For numerous years after the Nokia Lumia 1020 was released, there was no innovation in smartphone camera …

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Explaining Windows 11’s Bad Design

On July 21, 2021 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Now hold on… when I say “bad design” here, I’m talking about bad design in the context of user experience and human-computer interaction design not the beautiful new immaterial background wallpaper graphics. The new background …

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10 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram

On February 13, 2021 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

With Facebook finally changing how WhatsApp works so that they can profit off of the users (as expected), many people are choosing to switch to other internet messaging apps like Signal & Telegram. We’ve already talked about …

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Stop being naive when it comes to things like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.

On January 17, 2021 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

The trend today has been to stop using WhatsApp ever since the policy was updated to allow sharing your personal information with Facebook. Some are recommending switching to other centralized messaging systems like Signal or Telegram, …

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Why are we still using Phone Numbers?

On November 6, 2019 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Often if you take a logic-based critical look at something that society has long taken for granted, you might see that it really doesn’t make sense in modern society.  It may have made sense many …

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Chronicles of a Windows user gone iPhone (2017)

On September 28, 2017 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

  If you’ve been following Pocketnow for almost 20 years, you may remember when we did numerous series of articles where one of us as an expert in one platform, would switch to a different …

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Adam using a phone with a question mark in a thought bubble.

Why are we still using instant messaging apps at all?

On January 27, 2017 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

This article was first published on Pocketnow JANUARY 27, 2017 8:34 AM A while back, you may have seen Adam Doud’s article “A weekend with Allo: When tech geeks unite!” where a bunch of us …

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