Creator of Tech Spurt (I actually review stuff rather than just pulling it out of a box and comparing to an iPhone). Journalist & author of sweary crime novels
Not too shocked that the Nothing app is incredibly bare bones. Looks like a GCSE student's homework, if they left it til Sunday evening. Also wtf is that wallpaper?
Ready to welcome in 2021 with a bucket of whisky, but first a massive thanks to the quarter of a million new subscribers who joined the Spurtan army in 2020, and everyone else who watches my stupid wee videos - love you guys!
You won't be missed, sir. I lost a few subscribers today and frankly, I think the channel is all the stronger for it. And I don't feel 'guilty' for my race, as so many commenters put it. I just feel sad that this kind of backwards thinking still happens in a so-called society.
Up til the wee hours testing out Samsung's fresh
#GalaxyS24
Ultra, including some karaoke bar shenanigans. So far: cracker! AMA, brain is mush but will try and respond!
Whoop, the Spurtan Army is a million strong! Massive love to everyone who's subscribed and for some reason stayed. Time to bust out the celebration Sourz!
Merry Christmas to everyone with kids who were up long before the Christmas Eve hangover even kicked in. Unsurprisingly 90% of my presents are whisky, hooray!
Honor is kindly giving away a freshly launched
#HONORMagic5
Pro! Follow, comment and retweet for your chance to win this beefy blower from
@UKHonor
. Comp runs until March 31, winner announced April
T&Cs:
Honor website:
Christ, can I please just point out I don't ever get paid for reviews? I've been offered huge amounts of cash to review stuff and I've 100% turned that shit down. Because it's corrupt bullshit. And yet every time I favourably review something: "China Paid Review!"
Samsung's fresh A52 5G sports beefy specs for £399 inc. 120Hz AMOLED display, SD750G, 4500mAh battery & quad-lens camera. Here's my unboxing, and for extra fun, see if you can spot the rogue fluff that stuck to my bald bonce for the Entire Goddamn Video
Second video almost finished for tomorrow's big phone launch, five more in the bag for other launches next week. Time to go stick my head in a bucket of black coffee...
Every day I get designers emailing that my thumbnails suck and I should hire them. And every time their samples have bright green/purple BGs and one or two words in bold, often with an arrow pointing to nothing. You know, like EVERY FUCKING YOUTUBE THUMBNAIL
Quick stats update for PRs...
225k 'Spurters' (I didn't coin this term I swear!)
Over 4 million monthly video views (all organic)
Almost 100k likes and 15k video shares per month
Easily the worst phone I've reviewed in 2022. Avoid like it's a bag of sick being dangled over a pit of excrement with a rope weaved from the demon-infused pubic hairs of Charlie Manson
Lol I actually forgot
#WWDC23
was even today, until I opened Twitter and was suddenly drowning in a bukkake fountain of hyperjizz from the Apple circlejerk crew
Okay so my Echo Show has set a timer for 122 hours all by itself, and refuses to acknowledge its existence when we try and cancel. Five days until Alexa Armageddon?
Christ, if you work for a website and it runs a competition, family members are banned from entering...but MPs can nominate their own dad for a knighthood. Even if they're horrendous fuckheads
iPhone 15 Pro Max STILL doesn’t like data roaming, ‘3G’ logo flashing on and off now I’m in France, no internet connection. Anyone else had this problem? SIM works fine when I swap into a £300 Android
Ho ho ho, been a 'cracker' of a year for Tech Spurt, almost 60m views so far! Here's a final festive feast of Tech Spurt Weekly that's almost as palatable as week-old eggnog...
Kudos to the three people who manage to hit the dislike button literally seconds after I publish every single video. That's some serious dedication to hating my guts.
Just had to reshoot an entire review after realising I had a dried glob of tomato sauce in my beard. That's the kind of behind-the-scenes tidbit you won't get from other YouTube twats, people.
OK, straight up, I shot a Note 20 Ultra unboxing this morning...but instead of editing, I drank beer and watched Muppets with the sprog. So here's an Ultra selfie of me looking slightly startled drunk, video coming tomorrow!
Tech 'influencers' Photoshopping pics of themselves with tech they've never even touched seems a worrying trend. No different to travel bloggers inserting themselves in photos of places they've never visited. Just straight up deceit.
Anyone who's heard me these past few days, cursing like a sailor who just dropped a cement block on his toe after discovering his wife in bed with his best mate and his dad, will know how my first week with the
#iPhone15ProMax
has gone
Bejaysus what a relentless week, big hugs to fellow journos who survived it intact. Gonna celebrate record channel views by getting this beast in my FACE