Author: Joe Warner

    I'm the senior editor of The CheckOut. I am an aficionado of shiny gadgets and classic Hollywood movies and can also tell you the names of the late '80s Swedish Davis Cup team members.


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  • 2021 Gift Guide: Top Smartphones and How Much You Will Pay For Them

    Much like our other tech guides this year, we analyzed the top performing smartphones on Ben’s to help our readers get a good understanding of what prices will be like when the Black Friday sales hit. Unlocked...

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  • 2021 Gift Guide: Top Laptops and How Much You Will Pay For Them

    Using data we’ve accumulated over the year on Ben’s, we’ve found the most popular laptops and determined what prices you can expect to find them during Black Friday shopping season this year. We broke down laptops into...

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  • 2021 Gift Guide: Top Wireless Headphones and How Much You Will Pay For Them

    Wireless headphones, especially “true wireless earbuds” (a la AirPods) are one of the most popular and plentiful categories on Ben’s. We analyzed the data from our top performing wireless headphones this year so you’ll know what will...

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  • 2021 Gift Guide: Top 4K TVs and How Much You Will Pay For Them

    This year, we divided the top performing 2021 4K TVs on Ben’s into 3 categories: high-end, mid-range and budget. We then crunched the numbers and assembled this guide to give our readers insight into what TV prices...

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  • Echo Show 8 Review: It’ll Grow on You

    The Echo Show 8 ($130, currently $100) is Amazon’s newest smart display device, sitting between the 10.1-inch Echo Show ($230) and the 5.5-inch Echo Show 5 ($80). It looks a lot like the Echo Show 5… just...

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  • Everything is Awesome II: 10 More Fantastic Unofficial Lego Sets

    Building Lego toys is fun, whether you’re building from the manual or creating something entirely new, a.k.a. a Lego MOC (My Own Creation). A select few expert builders from around the world are even hired by Lego and become what...

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  • Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Generation) Review

    Amazon’s new Echo Dot 3rd Generation Smart Speaker will be one of the hottest tech goodies of the 2018 holiday shopping season, especially during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales. Regularly $50, it will be $24 or...

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  • 2020 Gift Guide: Top 30 4K & Blu-ray Gifts for Movie and TV Fans

    While moviegoing has fallen on hard times during the pandemic, home video viewing has soared. These days, most viewers like to stream their entertainment, but in a dystopian future where the internet is banned, you’ll be happy...

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  • 2020 Gift Guide: The Hottest Laptops of the Season

    With more and more working from home, chances are people want to pick up a new laptop for heavy-duty use or maybe a second laptop (apart from work) to stream movies, work on personal projects or play...

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  • 2020 Gift Guide: Our Favorite Affordable Gaming Laptops

    10 years ago, PC gaming was mostly about DIY custom rigs in souped-up tower cases. Gaming laptops were overpriced, overstuffed monstrosities—never mind, that’s actually still a thing. But today, gaming laptops can be sleek, they can be...

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  • 2020 Gift Guide: The Best Smartphones of the Season

    Last year in this space, I said, “2020 will be the year of the foldable phone (for reals this time).” Yeah, well, that didn’t happen. Maybe something called a pandemic had a hand in that… While there...

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  • Amazon Echo Buds Review: Alexa In Your Ear & Everywhere

    The Amazon Echo Buds ($130) are Amazon’s first foray into “true wireless” headphones, a burgeoning product category that evokes the in-ear devices that the Cybermen use to control people in Doctor Who. Considering the Echo Buds’ big...

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