Your laptop does most of the heavy lifting, but it’s rarely the thing that makes your workday annoying. It’s the mouse that lags right when a call starts, the webcam that makes you look like you’re in a hostage video, or the fact that load-shedding kills your work mid-file because nothing’s backing you up. A […]
Your phone is basically the same as everyone else’s now. Same camera bump, same glass slab, same three colors. What actually changes month to month, what makes your setup feel current or dated, is everything around the phone: the charger that either juices you up in twenty minutes or makes you late, the watch on […]
Loadshedding hits at 2 pm. Your phone is at 14 percent. The charger works fine, but there is no electricity going into it. Most of us in Pakistan do not buy a power bank because we travel a lot. We buy one because the grid decides for us. The problem is that plenty of power […]
Rickshaw horns outside your window. A ceiling fan you cannot switch off. Two cousins arguing in the next room while you try to finish a work call. Pakistan is loud, and ordinary earbuds simply turn the volume up until your ears give out. Active noise cancellation takes a different route. It listens to that background […]
Smartwatches went from a luxury item to a Rs. 2,000 purchase faster than almost any other gadget. That is good news and bad news. Good, because you no longer need Rs. 40,000 to get notifications, heart rate tracking, and Bluetooth calling on your wrist. Bad, because the market is now full of near-identical watches with […]
A portable speaker is one of those purchases people put off for months and then wonder why they waited. It fixes the rooftop gathering where everyone is huddled around one phone, the kitchen where you want something louder than a laptop, and the road trip where the car system gives up once you park. Under […]
Rs. 5,000 buys a lot more earbuds than it did two years ago. Active noise cancellation, Bluetooth 5.3, quad microphones and 30-hour battery figures have all worked their way down into the budget bracket. The problem now is not finding options. It is telling the good ones apart from the hundreds of near-identical pairs sold […]
Two brands come up again and again when people message us asking which wireless earbuds to buy. One is SoundPEATS, which built its name on packing high-end audio features into budget hardware. The other is Anker, whose audio range sits under the Soundcore label and has a reputation for products that simply work. Both are […]
