If you’re anything like us, you might tend to feel a bit sluggish and downbeat as the Autumn and Winter months roll around. It’s dark by the mid-afternoon, and gets colder by the week.
This isn’t a time to succumb to vegetating on the sofa, as tempting as that can be. It’s time to get your tech on and seize the day, and EE has a few time and effort-saving ways to get the ball rolling.
Our standard tech tip for anyone who does tend to feel down in the dumps around the colder, darker months is a SAD light. These output the sort of light seen on a bright, clear day, should it actually be dark and grey outdoors. However, a SAD light won’t truly help you get a project off the ground, make the first steps towards a new career, or help with the Christmas present shopping. For that, you need something else.
A shortcut to good advice
If you’re thinking about a new job or a new hobby, perhaps a fresh laptop can help out. If you want to offset the glumness of the indoors months with movies, TV and gaming, a new TV may be in order.
EE’s smart home tech can level-up your house, with everything from smart lights to smart vacuums. Pick the right items and you can convert some chore time into free time. And, as everyone knows, EE also sells a whole army of phones.
This is usually the point where some people hit the choice paralysis. Too many products, too little time to research them – and probably too little wiggle-room in the budget to avoid all that research. But EE’s Tech Store has guides that help you home in on what you need in no time. Annoyingly for us, these guides might even get you where you need to be quicker than our own reviews and product guides.
Already know what you’re after? Make sure to hit up the EE website anyway to check out its latest festive deals.
Zero-effort recommendations
Here’s how it works, using TVs as an example.
EE’s Tech Finder Tools operates a bit like one of those fun personality quizzes. You’re asked about what your priorities are. More into sport or video games? Care more about having good baked-in speakers than awesome contrast for late-night movies? It also works out roughly what size of TV you should probably consider, based on the size of your room.
In well under a minute, EE’s Tech Finder Tools will suggest a TV best suited to your needs, and a handful of runner-up contenders. It’s just a few clicks or taps.
We think this style of product guide is particularly handy for the smart home category, where it’s not clear to everyone what’s out there in the first place.
EE has separate advice categories for the living room, the kitchen and for outdoors, providing some much-needed context techy buying advice does not always offer. Like did you know Philips Hue makes a colour-shifting, rain-proof light you could mount outside your front door? Plenty of folks think smart lights end begin and end indoors.
How to pick a laptop
Or if it’s a new PC you need, the EE’s Laptop Finder Tool gets you to a top laptop suggestion, and a bunch of runners-up, by asking what you’ll actually use it for. And because none of us are one-dimensional characters, there are several layers to this.
The result is EE can rifle through all the tech specs and vital statistics of its laptop catalogue to work out what you need – even if you have no idea what “RAM”, “OS” or “CPU” stand for.
If you need to work your way out of a tech, or life, rut and want to hunt down an upgrade without needing to school-up on the latest jargon, it’s time to check out EE’s Tech Store. Alongside our own reviews, of course.