The review of the Sony Xperia 5 III drew the most attention to ComputerBase in the past week. Sony's niche smartphone can ultimately not convince, even if it is essentially a good smartphone.
Like its predecessor, the Xperia 5 III offers some exclusive features: A flat display in 21: 9 format, no notch, 3.5 mm jack and Co. is not available anywhere else in this combination. In addition, the smartphone is still quite compact, although there are now smaller devices that also rely on high-end hardware. And that is the problem, because the price of 999 euros is simply too high for what is offered. The predecessor cost 100 euros less.
Seagate provides the fastest M.2 SSD
The test of the Seagate FireCuda 530 took second place this week. The M.2 SSD based on the PCIe 4.0 standard managed to do better than the previous Samsung 980 Pro in the benchmarks. The SSD with Phison E18 controller and Micron's 176-layer TLC NAND succeeded in doing this. Seagate grabs the performance crown in both short-term and long-term load phases. But that also has its price: 1 TB already costs 210 euros, 2 TB is only available from 425 euros.
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Sony Xperia 5 III update The perfect smartphone in a tiny niche
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Seagate FireCuda 530 SSD Samsung's 980 Pro has found its master
114 comments Michael Günsch 85%
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Life is Strange: True Colors Update Old virtues with revamped technology
123 comments Wolfgang Andermahr 39%
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Creative SXFI Air Gamer Sounds better than its predecessor
37 comments Michael Schäfer 29%
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Retro
Tested 15 years ago The Scythe Mine Cooler was a lot cooler for little money
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EarFun Air Pro 2 ANC-In-Ears for currently under 50 euros
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Homey is much cheaper with the new bridge
In terms of reports, Homey offers the new Homey Brigde including a cloud connection for smart home services. The manufacturer wants to have 69 euros for this, significantly less than the 399 euros for Homey Pro, which, however, does without “Cloud Only” and processes the tasks with its own, fast hardware – which, however, is rarely really needed.
The not yet announced Radeon RX 6600 made it into second place, with pictures of a custom design being posted on the Internet. The Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle is very similar to the Radeon RX 6600 XT Eagle, which is not surprising due to the identical technical basis of the graphics cards. September or October are currently being traded in the rumor mill for AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT, but this is currently not certain.
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- 3 Carbon Mobile 1 MK II 200 Euro price reduction and in the future “Made in Germany” 64%
- 4 Forza Horizon 5 First car list shows over 400 vehicles 64%
- 5 System requirements Deathloop wants at least six cores 63%
- 6 55 years of Star Trek Six classic games available digitally for the first time 61%
- 7 Intel Z690 chipset Alder Lake-S brings many connections in the desktop 58%
- 8 Denon AVS-3 & amp; Marantz VS3003 8K HDMI switches with three inputs for 199 euros 52%
Deathloop is coming
< p class = "p text-width"> Next week there will be several new articles on ComputerBase. This includes, for example, the technology test for Deathloop, the latest game from developer Arkane Studios, which is known for Prey and the Dishonored series, among others. The game will be released on Tuesday, but it is still unclear whether the test will be ready by then.
With this reading material in your luggage, the editors wish you a relaxing Sunday!