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Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has launched a new promotional campaign that rewards both new and existing customers with a range of discounts and benefits including 50GB of cloud storage.

The "A Little Extra Care" promotion will run from now until June 30 and customers will receive an extended device warranty, additional Huawei Mobile Cloud storage space and VIP access to its entertainment streaming services Huawei Music and Huawei Video.

In order to be eligible, existing Huawei customers will need to make sure that their devices are still under warranty. If so, they'll get an additional six months on their smartphone's current warranty while all newly purchased Huawei phones will also get an additional six months added to their warranties.

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UK customers can also visit the Huawei Westfield Stratford store or the Webley Service Centre to claim 20 percent off repair prices, a free screen protector and a cleaning service.

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A Little Extra Care

For the next three months, Huawei is offering customers 50GB of cloud storage space for free so that they can back up their photos, files and other data to the cloud to free up space on their smartphones.

To claim your 50GB free access to Huawei Mobile Cloud storage as well as your three-month VIP subscription to Huawei Music and Huawei Video, you'll need to open the Huawei App Gallery on your Huawei smartphone or purchase a new device before June 30.

Managing director of Huawei's UK Consumer Business Group explained why the company decided to launch its “A Little Extra Care” campaign in a press release, saying:

“At Huawei, our customers are our number one priority, so this April, we’d like to say thank you to our loyal users and welcome new customers with an upgraded smartphone experience. Our new promotional campaign offers a range of discounts and handy benefits including 6-months extended warranty and free VIP access to HUAWEI Music and HUAWEI Video for six months.”

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Back in January, the arrival of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 480 chipset promised cheaper 5G phones for the future, and we're now seeing the fruits of that promise with the newly announced Oppo A54 5G and the Oppo A74 5G.

The new A-Series handsets are available to buy across Australia at selected retailers right now, starting at AU$399 for the A54 5G and topping out at AU$449 for the A74 5G.

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Oppo A74 5G and A54 5G: similarities

For the most part, both handsets are remarkably similar: they're both powered by the aforementioned Snapdragon 480 processor, which means snappy performance and access to 5G networks.

They also share identical 6.49-inch FHD punch-hole LCD displays with 90Hz refresh rates (and 180Hz touch sampling rates), along with indistinguishable AI quad camera arrays led by 48MP primary sensors. Each handset also offers an 8MP wide-angle camera, 2MP monochrome camera, 2MP macro camera and 16MP selfie camera.

Oppo A74 5G and A54 5G: differences

Where the phones differ, however, is in their memory and storage: the Oppo A74 5G offers 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, as opposed to the 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage provided by the slightly cheaper Oppo A54 5G.

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Known for its prowess in the world of microphones, Rode has been at the forefront of bringing studio quality recording equipment to the modern world of streaming, podcasting and vlogging, and making it affordable in the process.

Rode Connect is the latest product to follow this mission – a free application designed to integrate and mix up to four of the company's NT-USB Mini microphones on one computer.

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Typically, when recording via USB microphones, it requires a complicated routing setup and dedicated software or hardware to use multiple microphones at once, as only one USB audio device can be selected by default.

Rode Connect addresses this issue, allowing up to four NT-USB Mini microphones to be plugged into the one computer and be seamlessly controlled within the software, including the ability to mute channels, adjust their levels, add compression or noise gates, and other useful effects.

There's an additional two channels available within Connect as well, dubbed 'virtual' and 'system'. The former allows for remote callers via apps such as Zoom to have a dedicated channel in the software, while the latter can be used to stream any audio from the computer itself, for soundbeds, stings or other audio material.

For podcasters, this suite of features would allow simple and simultaneous control over four participants in the same room, one remote speaker, and a pre-recorded interview, without having to fork out for a dedicated audio interface or specialized streaming kit.

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Caveat

It's worth noting that the software is only compatible with the Rode NT-USB Mini microphone – other USB mics won't work. Rode states that this is because "Many of the critical aspects of the software (such as the real-time monitoring, compressor, noise gate, APHEX processing, and low-latency recording capability) rely on the powerful internal digital signal processing carried out within the microphone."

With this in mind, it's better to view Rode Connect as companion software to this specific product (rather than a free audio suite), which allows more of the 'hidden' features of the microphone to be accessible to the user.

Alongside the launch of the software, Rode released a product called 'Colors', which provides four sets of USB-A, USB-C, and NT-USB Mini colored clips to help distinguish each microphone and cable when using all four at once. In Australia, this set is priced at AU$29 with other region information to follow.

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