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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

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

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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

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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

Fitbit Flex colours
Fitbit Flex review: Gone but not forgotten
Fitness trackers

The Fitbit Flex has been discontinued, but still does the job on the cheap

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TP-Link Kasa Cam review: A solid indoor security camera
Security cameras

The TP-Link Kasa Cam is a quality security camera with generous cloud storage

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Doogee S40 review: Literally solid, but equally unremarkable
Mobile phones

How much is that Doogee in the window? Cheap, but not cheap enough

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Apple macOS Catalina preview: What’s new in macOS 10.15?
Operating systems

Coming this autumn to a Mac near you

Alcatel 1X (2019) review: Cheap, but miserable
Mobile phones

The Alcatel 1X may be a cheap handset, but you can do a lot better for under £100

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