I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it: the best camera is the one you have on you. For most of us, this is usually the cameras built into our phones. Many of the best phones have excellent cameras, but even they can benefit from a helping hand. Insta360 recently launched a novel accessory that could help you take advantage of your phone’s rear cameras: the Snap Selfie Screen.
Traditionally, the best cameras are the ones on the back of your phone. They’re great for taking pictures of pets, landscapes, and other people. Not so great for selfies.
A phone’s selfie camera is usually its weakest in terms of megapixel count and sensor size, so the quality takes a hit, particularly in low-light situations. But at least you can see yourself when taking a photo.
Image: Insta360.
As an alternative, the Insta360 Snap Selfie Screen attaches to the back of a phone, letting you see a preview of what the rear cameras see. The idea is that you can take selfies and record vlogs with more control using your phone’s best cameras, and therefore get nicer images.
Insta360’s device takes the form of a 3.5-inch touchscreen that aligns using magnets. For recent iPhone users, that means taking advantage of the built-in MagSafe technology. Fortunately, the Snap Selfie Screen still works with Android phones via an included magnetic ring. It then uses a small USB-C cable to connect, displaying a preview of native and third-party camera apps.
In Australia, the Snap Selfie Screen costs $139.99, or $154.99 for a version with a built-in fill light. For those who don’t have the use (or budget) for a standalone camera with a built-in preview screen, like the Insta360 X5 or DJI Osmo Pocket 3, this could be a good (and cheaper) alternative.
Samsung has launched its mid-range Galaxy A37 and A57 phones in Australia with a decent launch discount to kick things off.
Announced last month, Samsung’s new handsets are the latest in the brand’s A-series range, sitting within the highly competitive mid-tier phone market. Previous entries, like the Galaxy A56, have been well-priced and well-rounded phones for folks who don’t want to spend anywhere near $1,000.
Like most devices this year, the Galaxy A37 and A57 both cost a bit more than their respective predecessors. Each one is $50 more expensive; the A37 costs $599 in Australia, while the A57 costs $749 at full price.
However, that full price is still a while away. Coinciding with the local launch, Samsung, along with several retailers, is selling the phones at discounts of up to $150 outright, and up to $200 off when bought on a plan.
Depending on where you shop, the launch deal for either the Galaxy A37 or Galaxy A57 discounts the handset cost by between 22 and 30 per cent. Not bad for a device barely a full day old.
Meanwhile, Vodafone has a Samsung Galaxy A57 deal that includes the handset for $10 per month when tacked onto an eligible 36-month plan. Some quick maths: $360 for the phone saves nearly $400 on the device’s RRP.
Pretty much anywhere you go, you’ll find some kind of discount. Most of the discounts when buying outright last until 29 April, while Telstra and Vodafone’s plan-based deals run until 4 May.
We’re currently wrapping up our reviews of Samsung’s latest mid-range phones, and will share our full thoughts soon.
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One of the world’s most popular creator cameras is about to get a long-awaited follow-up. Overnight, DJI teased a brief glimpse of the Osmo Pocket 4 gimbal camera and confirmed when we’ll get the full reveal.
I’ve been using the fantastic DJI Osmo Pocket 3 since 2023, as have many other creators. Its large one-inch CMOS sensor takes better video than most phones, which is why you see so many of them at any event attended by journalists and creators.
While DJI didn’t show much about the Osmo Pocket 4 in its teaser video, the brand did set expectations for a bigger reveal on 16 April. Speculation is running wild about how the fourth-gen camera will improve on the existing model: will it have a bigger sensor? Multiple cameras? A more weatherproof design?
No one student studies the same way, which is a big reason behind Adobe’s new Student Spaces feature in Acrobat. It’s like an AI assistant made specifically for study sessions that can go over notes and present them in different ways to suit personal learning styles.
Available online as a free beta tool, Student Spaces in Acrobat lets you upload documents, like textbook readings or study notes, so the AI can generate resources specific to your subjects. Via text prompts, students can then use the AI tool to produce flash cards, quizzes, and other study materials.
Not limited to just text-based outputs, Adobe’s new feature can also generate podcast-like audio summaries of uploaded documents, or a video summary for visual learners. Adobe is also keen to make it a collaborative learning tool, letting study groups work together in Student Spaces and share materials
Student Spaces is one of the latest AI tools that uses a technique called ‘Retrieval-Augmented Generation’ (RAG). It combines large language models (LLMs) with uploaded information that bases responses on your own data, as opposed to giving generic responses. Student Spaces is like Adobe’s student-focused answer to Google’s NotebookLM, which uses similar techniques.
As with many AI-based technologies, it’s important to verify the information with official sources. Below the Student Spaces text prompt box is a disclaimer that says “AI responses may be inaccurate”. These tools can be helpful, but should be cross-referenced with official study materials to ensure accuracy.
With AI use increasing in learning environments, it will be interesting to see how Student Spaces fits within the bigger picture. Like with any tool, it’s how you use it that matters the most.
An important thing to the GadgetGuy team is that we are independent and transparent with our reviews. We often get products to review before they are launched, and often they display issues that are subsequently fixed before mass availability. The Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight is a product I have been reviewing for six months, and I have three of them. Not because I want three, but rather it has taken three products and six months before I was prepared to write this review.
Fortunately, all ended well, but it took me some troubleshooting to solve some false trigger issues.
The Reolink TrackFlex is a mains-powered, weatherproof, Wi-Fi-enabled, dual-lens pan-tilt-zoom security camera with dual floodlights. The camera ships with a USB cable and mounting hardware to assist setup, but you will require an electrician to install it, as it requires mains power to operate.
Box contents (excluding power cable) Image: Angus Jones.
The video footage is captured either on an optional local SD card, a Reolink home hub (external storage) or via the cloud. Connectivity for the video footage is via dual-band Wi-Fi 6, enabling fast, reliable streaming. You are limited in the camera’s position to ensure the camera has a good signal from your home Wi-Fi.
The security camera has three passive infrared (PIR) sensors that will detect movement across a 270-degree arc. This, in turn, allows the camera to pan to where movement is detected. Once found, the camera will continue to pan and tilt, following, for example, an intruder. You would need to mount the camera on a pole to take advantage of its 360-degree coverage.
The TrackFlex uses two cameras: one provides a 4K wide-angle view, whilst the other provides a 2K 6x zoom. This presents itself as two images, one giving the big picture view and one providing you with extra detail.
App view showing images from both cameras. Screenshot: Angus Jones.
Let’s assume you live on a busy road and want a camera facing outward towards the street. What you don’t want is every car setting off an alert. With the TrackFlex, you can adjust detection settings by person, vehicle, animal, and motion detection. You could change detection to zero for vehicles, or alternatively, only give an alert if the vehicle is detected as stationary for, say, eight seconds.
Reolink cameras are particularly good for night vision, even in black and white, depending on the other light sources in the surveillance area. The infrared light is good for viewing up to 30m. Assuming you are using this as a floodlight, this feature is irrelevant unless you want to be stealthy and avoid the floodlight activating.
Since this camera is mains-powered, it can record until the storage capacity is exhausted or overwritten. (Once storage capacity is full, it will start recording over the oldest footage) Two features this supports are time-lapse, which will allow the recording of, say, progress on a building site, and continuous recording, which, whilst capturing everything, also marks any alert triggers so footage can be easily found.
Image: Angus Jones.
Speaking of finding footage, Reolink has an AI search feature that works for both cloud-based footage and vision saved on a standalone camera. Reolink tells me it will be a future feature for the home hub. This allows natural language searching of all recordings, like ‘find any green cars’ or ‘show me recordings of someone carrying a box’.
Reolink cameras can be connected to Alexa and Google Assistant. In my case, I can ask Alexa to show me the image of my driveway on an Amazon Echo 11.
If you do detect an intruder, a 110 dB siren can be activated, and via two-way talk, you can communicate with them.
Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi specifications and price
I remain a big fan of floodlight cameras: they light up large areas, make a great deterrent, and make anything you capture on video easy to see in the well-lit footage. Having mains power means the floodlights can be bright and, in this case, provide 3,000 lumens (brighter than many competing brands), which is equivalent to a 250W bulb in the old scale and enough to light up 37 square metres. The floodlights can be set to run all night or only activate when movement is detected.
Floodlights in action. Image: Angus Jones.
A feature of the AI search I like is that you can search if an object has been taken. For example, a parcel has been removed from the recorded footage.
Having a camera that can rotate means it can end up facing away from where you want it to focus. A guard position needs to be set by you, which then automatically returns to this view. In addition, up to 64 other preset positions can be set. For example, you may have a guard position viewing the driveway, but preset views of the front door and the road.
Reolink does offer cloud storage, but at a reasonable cost starting at approximately $45 per year. This will provide you with 30 days of video history, rich notifications, and AI search. Rich notifications label footage with extra information, like a person in a box wearing a red shirt. You can then use AI search to find every recording of a person with a red shirt. Some interesting detection features are also available, including detecting loitering, determining whether a person crosses a virtual line, counting people, and creating heat maps of where people stand.
Smartphone apps are how Wi-Fi security cameras are managed across all brands. The Reolink app is good, and all the functionality and views are as you would expect (The Amazon Ring app is the benchmark). What Reolink does differently from other brands is offer a desktop program that gives you the same access from your PC. It is much easier to view live cameras and recordings on a big screen. A handy weekly insights report also gives you an overview of what is going on.
Screenshot: Angus Jones.
I am pleased to say that after six months of working with Reolink, this camera is working as it should. However, this camera should work well from the default settings and in my case, it did not.
Many users will never play with the various fine-tuning adjustments to get the best result, and importantly, minimise false triggers. A false trigger is when you get a recording and an alert of something that you don’t want. Across all brands, the most common false trigger is a plant moving in the wind. I am pleased to say the TrackFlex does not suffer from that.
Instead, I had issues with insects and rain causing false triggers. I know Reolink will continue work on this via software updates, but in the meantime, I solved the issue by selecting ‘Detection Alarm’ in settings, then selecting ‘Motion Detection’ and reducing the ‘All-Day Sensitivity’ to 6. This has the effect of only detecting larger objects, such as people or cars.
Who is the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi for?
If you want a strong outdoor light that is also a sensor light and a security camera, then the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi is a great option, especially if you want to view details within a security recording via its two cameras.
If you have an environment you want to monitor where a fixed camera is just too small, then the 270-degree sensors and the pan and tilt camera are a great way to ensure you capture incidents, but also allow you to have a good sticky beak of what is going on around a camera’s location.
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Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi
Once I sorted out some false trigger issues, the Reolink TrackFlex Floodlight WiFi is a good security with bright lights for warding off intruders.
Features
8
Value for money
7
Performance
8
Ease of use
7
Design
9
Positives
Super bright floodlights
4K camera that tracks the action
24x7 recording is possible
Negatives
Default settings allowed false triggers from rain and insects
After much fanfare, RGB TV technology is about to arrive in Australia at a more affordable price point. Demoed at CES 2026 earlier this year, Hisense has confirmed exactly how much its Mini LED TVs will cost in Australia, and it’s good news for those keen to try a different type of TV.
As a quick refresher, RGB TV technology is being touted by various home entertainment brands as one of the next big things in display technology. Compared to traditional LED or Mini LED technology, which relies on a panel to translate white backlights into coloured images, RGB LEDs are made of clusters of red, blue, and green backlights, which are said to be capable of producing a wider colour spectrum.
That’s certainly the claim from Hisense, which says its UX, UR9, and UR8 RGB Mini LED TVs cover as much as 100 per cent of the BT.2020 gamut. It’s a colour profile increasingly used across 4K and 8K content, including a wider range of colours than the DCI-P3 gamut.
The UR9 will be the first of Hisense’s RGB Mini LED TVs to arrive in Australia. Image: Hisense.
Prices start at $2,299 for Hisense’s RGB Mini LED TVs, specifically the 55-inch UR8 model. It’s a sign that RGB technology is about to become more mainstream, and not something restricted to early adopters with loads of disposable income. These TVs are set to arrive starting this month through to July, culminating in a large 100-inch variant.
Aside from the colour representation, Hisense’s UR8 and UR9 TVs are suited to gaming, coming with 180Hz refresh rate support, along with Dolby Vision IQ and IMAX Enhanced HDR formats.
Down the line, this year’s base U6 and U7 Mini LED models are slightly cheaper than last year’s TVs. For example, last year’s 65-inch U7QAU TV cost $2,399 at full retail price. This year’s equivalent costs $2,199. Big-screen enthusiasts are set to benefit the most, with the 100-inch model costing $1,000 less year-on-year.
Dyson makes all kinds of vacuums, fans, and purifiers — everyone knows that. But most of them are larger appliances, meant for home use. For something a bit different, Dyson has launched a new device, the HushJet Mini Cool, a battery-powered handheld fan you can take anywhere.
The petite device weighs 212g, less than many pairs of over-ear headphones, and is designed to fit wherever you need it. Other than holding the HushJet Mini in your hand as a personal fan, Dyson says it can also sit on your desk or be worn, presumably when your hands are full.
Supporting this is the inclusion of what Dyson calls a ‘Neck Dock’. Essentially, it’s a fancy lanyard designed specifically for the new fan. Various clips and mounts are also supported as add-on accessories, letting you attach the fan to prams or bags.
Image: Dyson.
Like the Dyson PencilWash and PencilVac appliances before it, the HushJet Mini Cool measures a slim 38mm in diameter. It’s a consistent design signature on par with a 20-cent coin that Dyson is particularly fond of.
Based on the details provided by Dyson, the HushJet Mini Cool blasts out air at up to 25 metres-per-second speeds, courtesy of its 65,000RPM DC motor. The fan has five speed settings and an additional ‘Boost’ mode to crank up the airflow.
Dyson hasn’t confirmed when the fan will arrive in Australia, but it will cost $169 when it does. Overseas, where the warmer months are approaching, the HushJet Mini Cool costs US$99, roughly $140 in local money.
It’s a cute-looking device, one that many of us Aussies don’t need right now, with winter on the horizon. Later in the year, potentially when Dyson brings the HushJet Mini Cool to our shores, it could be a handy summer companion.
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