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Alan Martin

Alan Martin is a freelance writer with more than a decade’s worth of experience, mainly in the technology space, with bylines at The Evening Standard, Tom’s Guide, The i and many others. His main focus at Expert Reviews is ensuring that your next pick of phone or wearable is the right choice for you and represents the best possible value for money. In the past he’s covered a broad range of games, dental apparel and pet accessories and, on one memorable occasion, had to strip off to retrieve a rogue drone from a lake – such is his dedication to reviews.

Recent articles by Alan Martin

23andMe and Ancestry DNA tests slashed for Prime Day
Health & beauty

Our two favourite DNA tests have been cut for Prime Day

Amazon is undercutting Apple on the new iPad mini
Tablets

Save £70-£84 on the new iPad mini

Save £248 on the 10.5in iPad Pro
Tablets

It’s not the very latest version, but the 2017 iPad Pro is still a beast of a tablet

Get a free Google Home Mini with the Fitbit Inspire HR
Fitness trackers

A bizarre deal, but a good one all the same

Doro 8035 review: User-friendly software, weak hardware
Mobile phones

The Doro 8035 does a good job of hiding the scary parts of Android, but weak hardware still struggles

£140 inc. VAT
Huawei Mate 20 Lite review: Shining Lite
Mobile phones

The Huawei Mate 20 Lite is an extremely competent all-round performer with cuts mostly in the right places

£379 inc VAT
Huawei P20 review: Don't believe the camera hype
Mobile phones

The Huawei P20 is pretty, but its much-vaunted camera isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

£599 inc VAT
Huawei Mate 20 X review: Making it big in China
Mobile phones

Powerful and with an excellent set of cameras, but the Mate 20 X will be a tough sell thanks to its ludicrous size

£799 inc VAT
Huawei P Smart (2019) review: The P doesn’t stand for photos
Mobile phones

Huawei’s new budget belter is a great start to 2019, but let down by a weak camera

£195 inc VAT
Save £550 on Apple’s 5K 27in iMac
PCs

It may have been surpassed by the 2019 model, but the 2017 iMac still packs a punch