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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

Nokia G50 review: A capable 5G budget handset
Mobile phones

The Nokia G50 is perfectly competent, but older (and cheaper) handsets narrowly eclipse it

£200 inc. VAT
Fitbit Alta
Fitbit Alta review: Buy the Alta HR instead
Fitness trackers

Well designed in every respect, it may not be feature-packed, but this is still a good buy

£99 inc VAT (as of 18th of April)
Kobo Elipsa 2E review: A true Kindle Scribe rival
eReaders

The Kobo Elipsa 2E offers the best in-book annotations around and some neat features but is lacking in key areas

£350 (Inc VAT)
Garmin Forerunner 265 review - main image
Garmin Forerunner 265 review: Brilliant but too expensive
Wearable technology

The Garmin Forerunner 265 is a superb wearable, but the £130 price increase over the 255 makes it a very tough sell

£430 inc VAT
Polar Ignite review: Frustratingly close to brilliance
Wearable technology

The Polar Ignite is brilliant in many ways, but once again slips on consistency and accuracy

£174.50 inc. VAT
Asus goes all in on OLED for its 2023 laptops
Laptops

Asus uses CES show to unveil a range of OLED laptops and new 3D technology for the new year

Intel’s 13th gen laptop chips come with up to 24 cores
PCs

The 13th generation of Intel's mobile CPUs arrives and they're packed full of multi-threaded power

Amazon Echo Dot review: A well-rounded smart speaker
Smart speakers Speakers

A great smart speaker, refined

£50 inc. VAT
7 ways Three’s 5G home system beats old-school broadband
Broadband

Fast, convenient and portable, there are many good reasons to embrace 5G for your home broadband

Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 review: A solid budget choice
Mobile phones

The Note 11 is just as polished as past Redmis, but poor performance lets it down

£200 inc. VAT