Noobie Tech

Buying gifts, even for your close friends and family, is not easy. You might gift them a book they may never read. Or a gift voucher that they may never use. But if they’re an Android fan or an Android power user, you can drastically narrow down the options for some awesome holiday gifts they’re bound to love. 1. Google Home ($49 – $129) Last Christmas  was all about the Amazon Echo , and we have a feeling that this one will be all about Google Home. Or at least it can be for your friend who already  uses Google Assistant on their Android phone . utting up a Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker in the living room or the kitchen can be super helpful. The full-size Google Home is a bit expensive, but you can gift them the new smaller and cheaper Google Home mini. It has the same features, just in a smaller package, with smaller speakers. Google Home can do a lot. It will play music for you, answer all your questions, play trivia games,  talk to...

It’s no big secret that Razer (the company best known for building gaming peripherals and laptops) has been building a phone. The company bought fledgling smartphone maker Nextbit earlier this year, and there’s been talk of a Razer phone ever since. Sure enough, here it is: the Android-powered Razer phone. (Not to be confused, of course, with that shining beacon of the early 2000s,  the RAZR ) The company announced the device at an event in London this afternoon. Like most things Razer does, this phone is built with a focus on gaming — which, in this case, means it’s got some pretty crazy specs: Qualcomm’s ultra-speedy Snapdragon 835 chip, the same one that powers flagships like the Pixel 2 and the Galaxy S8 A big ol’ 4,000mAh battery 8GB of RAM 64GB of internal storage, plus a microSD slot for expansion Dual 12-megapixel cameras on the rear with different levels of optical zoom — one wide angle, one telephoto. 8-megapixel cam on the front As with the Nextb...