The new Pi Terminal from Elecrow integrates a 7” IPS touchscreen, a Raspberry Pi CM4 module, and sockets for mini-PCIe cards into one platform. The module packs so many connectors and onboard peripherals that there is no need to add anything else. The acrylic case provides antenna slots for Wi-Fi and GSM, while a small fan ensures the CPU always works within its recommended temperature.

The module's main selling point remains the bright 7” HD display with a five-point touchscreen. With a 400cd/m2 light intensity, it easily outshines similar displays, and at 9W, the module does not consume more than a regular Raspberry Pi board. Targeting the IoT industry, the screen is IP65-rated and comes with optional stereo speakers. The display uses one of the CM4 HDMI outputs, leaving an extra HDMI connector for an external screen.

Elecrow Pi Terminal: Price and availability

Elecrow sells displays to connect to embedded platforms such as the Raspberry Pi through the HDMI port. The Pi Terminal costs $179.90 without the processor module or accessories. Other cheaper displays support only USB peripherals.

Elecrow Pi Terminal: Design

The Pi Terminal ships between two foams that protect the glass panel. Accessories include four antennas, one 12V 24W power supply, and block connectors with screws. The acrylic panel surrounding the display protects the screen's top and bottom. Four metal spacers hold the unit, providing a robust feeling to it. A small fan at the back can be loud at times. The unit measures 19.2 cm x 12.5 cm x 4.6 cm and weighs 665 grams.

Five screws secure the screen to the acrylic back panel. Four antenna connectors, in the form of SMA connectors, are located at the top. The bottom case has laser engravings showing connector pinouts, which is handy if one needs to quickly find where to insert the Raspberry Pi SD card, for example.

Unfortunately, Elecrow has not provided a schematic for the main PCB. The user manual states that the power supply can range from 12V to 18V, while the engraving on the case shows a maximum of 36V. An on/off switch on the left allows powering down the unit while not in use. A push button on the top helps to wake or sleep the OS. Three LEDs on the left give status such as power or Ethernet activity, or can act as a user-actionable indicator.

The PCB design is straightforward under the hood, with the Pi CM4 module located off-center to the left. Two mini PCIe sockets fully utilize the Pi’s high-speed interfaces. A small 5V fan provides airflow to the CPU. A buzzer and a battery holder for a CR1220 lithium cell are present, avoiding time loss when power is removed. Finally, a 40-pin header makes the PI’s GPIOs accessible to the end-user.

Elecrow Pi Terminal: Use

The terminal power consumption depends on the peripherals to which it is connected. With only the Pi connected, the unit consumes about 10W. A complete system with two mini PCIe cards, a USB keyboard, and a mouse brings the total to 15W. The supplied power adapter should be sufficient for doing software development on an IoT product. Deploying the unit in a production environment will require a more robust power adapter. Elecrow has included an option for installing a PoE module next to the Ethernet connector.

We recommend replacing the small fan with something less noisy. The stock 5V fan buzzes a lot, reaching 45 dBA at one meter. A passive cooling solution is superior in all aspects for an industrial setting and should provide a longer lifetime. Screen control for brightness and contrast is nonexistent, and IO voltage protection is unavailable on the Pi’s 40-pin header.

Elecrow does not provide any source code for the UI demo on the micro SD card. Even though the Raspberry Pi compute module has plenty of applications to demonstrate its use as a graphical unit, having example code for peripherals such as the LoRaWan module or the 4G module to test right out of the box would have been great. The newer CM5 compute module provides an easy upgrade to the CM4 since it is almost pin-compatible in the same footprint. The CM5 improves from the previous generation by having over twice the processing power.

Elecrow Pi Terminal: The competition

Elecrow’s Pi Terminal does not lack competitors. Seeedstudio’s Pi screen, the reTerminal, offers similar characteristics, with a multitouch 5” screen powered by the CM4. It provides passive cooling but costs $200, slightly higher than the Pi Terminal. It also lacks a standard PCIe interface like the mini PCIe connector available on the Pi Terminal.

Elecrow Pi Terminal: Final verdict

The Pi Terminal is an excellent example of integrating off-the-shelf parts into a product. Elecrow has extensive experience building embedded displays, which is evident in this product. The CM4 module provides ample processing power, while the abundance of connectors will cover many IoT use cases. The board layout is small, well-organized, and solid. The only drawback is the tiny but noisy fan. Documentations such as the schematic or project source code are also lacking, making repairing or troubleshooting the unit harder.

Buy the Pi Terminal if you need a robust screen and a CPU with excellent support and documentation.

Don’t buy the Pi Terminal if you need an economical, simple-to-use display.

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Zyxel’s SCR 50AXE will appeal to small businesses and home offices that want secure wireless networks without the added expense of separate devices. This desktop router delivers tri-band Wi-Fi 6/6E services, combines these with an integral firewall and Zyxel’s threat management services, and delivers them all at a tempting price.

It looks particularly good value as the price includes a lifetime subscription to Zyxel’s Security Cloud, which enables (deep breath) a firewall, ransomware and malware prevention, VPN proxy, intrusion, dark web and ad blockers, application monitoring, GeoIP country restrictions and protection against mail fraud and phishing. An SCR Pro Pack license adds the Trellix-powered real-time threat intelligence and web filtering services, with a one-year subscription costing around £40.

The router comes with a magnetic desktop base or it can be wall-mounted with the supplied bracket. It sports a WAN and four LAN ports – all of the gigabit variety – while on the wireless side its AX5400-rated access point (AP) claims speeds of 575Mbits/sec on the 2.4GHz radio and 2,400Mbits/sec each for the 5GHz and 6GHz radios. The latter two both support the high-speed 160MHz channels, but with gigabit ports all round you won’t see their full performance potential.

The SCR 50AXE is designed to be managed from Zyxel’s Nebula cloud portal. We found it simple to add it to our account. After logging into the Nebula app on an iPad, we selected our predefined site, scanned in the QR code on the label on the device’s side and added it to our site with one tap.

The portal presents a customizable site dashboard with extra sections for the SCR 50AXE. You can check its uptime and firmware status, see the top ten apps identified by the application identification service and view threat management activity. A second table shows total detections for each category.

Up to four cloud-managed SSIDs are supported, each with their own authentication scheme, including the mandatory WPA3 for Wi-Fi 6E. You can decide which of the three radios are to be active, create custom captive portals for guest networks with click-through, voucher, Facebook or Nebula authentication, enable L2 isolation to stop guest users seeing other devices and apply upload and download rate limits.

You should use Zyxel’s application identification service with extreme caution, as its overheads will reduce wireless performance by up to 50%. We tested this using a Dell Windows 11 Pro workstation equipped with a TP-Link Archer TXE75E Wi-Fi 6E PCI-E adapter and saw close-range file-copying speeds between the client and a server on the gigabit LAN of 112MB/sec, dropping to a respectable 87MB/sec at a distance of ten meters.

Running the test again with application identification enabled saw close range and distance speeds tumble to 48MB/sec and 32MB/sec. While the copy test was running we enabled and disabled the service from the Nebula portal and could see its impact almost instantly.

Threat management is simple to apply, with six slider bars for enabling or disabling each individual component, and you can add exception lists for specific clients and IP addresses plus blocked or allowed web domains. Clicking on the main chart takes you to a monitor page with a map showing where threats are emanating from, and the affected clients with the SCR Pro Pack license extending its reporting period from 24 hours to 30 days.

This license enables content filtering, which offers 103 URL categories to block or allow, and you can fine-tune access by applying custom policies to all or selected clients. We also ran our copy tests with each threat management component progressively enabled and can confirm they have no adverse impact on performance.

The SCR 50AXE is an affordable all-in-one wireless security router for small offices. The fly in the ointment is the application detection service, which hits wireless performance hard, but otherwise the router is easy to manage from the Nebula cloud portal and offers strong threat protection measures for the price.

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Veritas Backup Exec (BE) has always been one of our top choices for on-premises data protection. It delivers a comprehensive range of backup and recovery services. The BE Simple licensing plans make it very affordable for SMBs, and BE 22.2 on review introduces plenty of new and welcome features.

Microsoft 365 (MS365) backups now support SharePoint and Teams as well as Exchange Online and OneDrive. Microsoft Azure Object Lock provides ransomware-protected immutable cloud storage, backups to ReFS volumes can be accelerated, anomaly detection protects backup scripts from tampering, and BE now uses the FIPs-compliant deduplication engine from Veritas’ enterprise NetBackup product.

The simple yearly subscription service is based only on compute instances, which can be a physical system, a virtual machine or ten MS365 users. The starter five-instance Simple Core Pack costs an agreeable £489 per year, and Veritas generously includes a bonus instance for an extra ten MS365 users.

Deployment is swift; we installed BE on a Dell PowerEdge R760xs Windows Server 2022 host in 20 minutes. After declaring our physical servers using their IP addresses, BE pushed the remote agent to them while for our Hyper-V systems, we just needed the agent loaded on the host to secure all its virtual machines.

Adding our VMware vSphere host was simple, and we only had to provide its IP address and credentials. MS365 couldn’t be any easier, either: we added our tenant using the link provided by BE and entered the unique device code it generated for us.

Backup job creation is simple, too: you just select sources from the list presented and choose from a range of predefined strategies. These include backup to disk or cloud, and you can add extra stages in the job for local and offsite backup, replication to other disk stores or conversion to VMs, and add an essential air gap by migrating backup data to tape drives attached to the BE host.

BE supports plenty of storage locations, including physical and virtual disks, cloud, tape, deduplicating stores and network shares. For our tests, we created a local store on the BE server, used a multi-TB share on a Synology NAS appliance and added immutable cloud storage using an Amazon S3 bucket with Object Lock enabled.

Veritas takes data protection very seriously, and the job wizard always advises you to enable encryption. You can choose from 128-bit or 256-bit AES encryption and, if required, only allow the user that created the key for a job to recover data from it.

Data restoration is another pleasant experience: you select a source, view its files, folders or volumes, pick a recovery point and decide where to send them. Creating a simplified recovery disk brings bare metal recovery into play, BE’s Instant GRT (granular recovery technology) is used to restore items such as SQL databases and the Instant VM Recovery feature takes seconds to create a new VM from a backup set. MS365 backups require a deduplicating store, and the best practice is to apply encryption at the store and not the job level otherwise data reduction may not be as efficient. We created one job to protect our Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint sites and Teams data and used the restore wizard to recover data by choosing a component and selecting a time point.

SMBs that want every data backup and recovery angle covered will love Backup Exec 22.2. It offers a superb range of features, is a strong candidate for protecting virtual environments, cloud support is excellent and it’s very competitively priced.

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We hoped to include the MultiSync E274FL in our annual group test of “everyday” monitors, but NEC has kept us waiting for this enterprise-friendly screen.

Especially friendly when the E274FL combines three alluring properties: a low price, USB-C docking and integrated wired networking.

As immediately became clear when I put it on my desk, it also produces excellent whites. It’s this, rather than a huge color gamut, that’s most important to office workers after all. The panel’s evident quality was backed up in our tests, where it covered 95% of the sRGB gamut with an average Delta-E of 1.08 and maximum of 3.03. Those are strong figures, even if film lovers won’t be wowed by DCI-P3 coverage of 75%, or print designers by 70% of the Adobe RGB gamut.

A measured contrast ratio of 3,493:1 also confirms that this is an MVA panel rather than IPS. MVA stands for multidomain vertical alignment, and it’s far more commonly found in curved, gaming monitors than monitors aimed at enterprises. Its use here shows that Sharp (maker of the panel and co-owner of the NEC brand) has matured the technology enough to rival IPS. For instance, the faint yellow bias that used to be seen in MVA screens isn’t visible here.

I’m also used to seeing high refresh rates and low response rates on MVA panels, but the E274FL’s 60Hz and 6ms are bog-standard times. Office workers hoping for a speed advantage in after-hours gaming sessions will be out of luck.

IT departments, on the other hand, will be delighted. While the RJ-45 port gives users fast and secure access to the office network, it gives administrators a way to track their assets and even take control of the OSD without needing to touch the device itself. For example, they may decide that rather than allow the screens to hit their peak brightness – stated as 250cd/m², but 297cd/m² in our unit’s case – that the monitor stays in one of its two Eco modes. These lock it to either 30% or 70% brightness, and while the former is dim I found the latter mode to be more than bright enough.

End users should find the OSD relatively easy to navigate. It uses a joystick, with its one quirk being that you need to press right to select an option rather than pressing down as people may be used to. But I don’t expect many calls to the support team to check; trial and error is your friend, and the OSD is extremely quick to respond to commands.

Naturally, this monitor ticks all the ergonomic boxes. There’s a low blue light mode, TCO certification and superb flexibility: 120mm of height adjustment, 170° of easy swivel in both directions, and a pivot mode. Often the latter is pointless owing to a lack of contrast and viewing angles in a vertical orientation, but that definitely doesn’t apply to the E274FL.

I mentioned right at the top that this is a docking monitor, and if you connect over USB-C then it supplies 60W of power to connected laptops; plenty for all the machines in our Labs this month, but I would have liked to see 100W to feed more powerful MacBooks. There are three USB-A ports, and it’s reassuring to see a USB-B port as well; this means you can share peripherals between a laptop on USB-C and a PC that uses the HDMI or DisplayPort inputs.

NEC also provides a pair of reasonable 1W speakers. As their power output suggests, these aren’t going to rock your world, but they’re fine for the occasional YouTube clip and video calls. Before you buy, there’s one final thing to consider. This is a 1,920 x 1,080 panel, and across a 27in diagonal that means text isn’t crisp. There’s a fuzziness to character edges in Word and Excel. This may not have a tangible effect on most workers’ productivity, but a new generation of employees used to pixel-sharp displays on their phones and tablets may not be impressed.

Still, that resolution is reflected in the price. A price that includes a three-year warranty, which covers backlight failures too. If the MultiSync E274FL had arrived in time for our group test, it would have blown away the similarly priced competition for its quality and its connectivity – which is why it walks away with a Recommended award.

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Many business backup solutions require a dedicated Windows Server host, but Nakivo’s Backup & Replication (NBR) is far more amenable as it can be deployed to just about any platform you care to name. It will run happily on a Windows host, but also supports Linux, VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, AWS EC2, Raspberry Pi and all the main NAS appliance vendors, including Qnap and Synology.

On review is NBR 10.9, which includes bare metal recovery where you use its new Bootable Media Wizard to restore physical Windows and Linux servers from selected backups. Malware protection is now available, with NBR integrating with a range of third-party antivirus products, and all MS365 components, including Teams, can be protected.

Licensing is equally versatile. There are five versions available, with options for perpetual licenses or per-workload subscriptions. Nakivo cuts through any confusion with a cost calculator on its website. We’ve shown the price for an Enterprise 10-server perpetual license with a two-year 24/7 support contract here.

For testing, we chose Qnap’s TS-855eU-RP short-depth 8-bay rack NAS and used the QuTS Hero App Center to load the NBR package. NBR comprises three service components, with a Director for browser-based management, Transporters to handle backup, replication and recovery operations, and Repositories for storing backups.

After adding protected systems to NBR’s inventory, it pushed the transporter service to our physical Windows servers and workstations; note that Mac clients are still not supported. For Hyper-V, the service just needed loading on our host, while for our VMware vSphere host, we only had to provide its credentials for agentless VM backups.

Our Qnap appliance received a default local repository but this was on its system SSDs, so we created another on a large-capacity RAID5 pool. During creation, you must enter the absolute path, which can be found from an SSH session using the Linux List command.

Other possibilities for repositories are local storage, network shares or cloud stores. Ransomware protection comes into play with NBR supporting immutable cloud storage from Amazon EC2 and S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, Wasabi and Backblaze B2.

Creating backup jobs is simple as options are based on the systems in your inventory. Just choose those you want to protect, assign a repository, set a schedule and decide how daily, weekly, monthly and yearly recovery points you want retained.

For our Hyper-V host, we chose the VMs to be included, and protecting our VMware vSphere system only required the host to be selected so any new VMs would be automatically added to the schedule. To use malware protection, you declare a “scan server” to NBR, which has the required antivirus software running on it.

MS365 licensing is separate, with ten users costing £252 per year, and it requires a special SaaS repository to store backups, which we found isn’t currently supported by QuTS Hero 5.1. Nakivo’s attentive support suggested creating an iSCSI target on the appliance and mapping it to a Windows system running the transporter service – hardly elegant, but it does work.

Recovery features are outstanding. Along with files and folders, granular restores can be used for MS365 items, SQL databases and on-premises Exchange objects. Disaster recovery is just as good, with Flash Boot jobs creating new VMs directly from the backup repository and facilities for replicating VMs as clones.

SMBs that don’t want their backup software tied to a Windows Server host will love Nakivo’s Backup & Replication 10.9 as they can run it on almost any hardware platform and OS they want. It’s good value, MS365 protection is handled well and it provides extensive data recovery services.

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Hornetsecurity’s VM Backup is designed specifically to protect VMware and Hyper-V environments. It presents a clever management console where most operations can be carried out using nothing more than drag and drop.

VM Backup’s perpetual licenses are based only on the number of hosts, regardless of the sockets each one has. There’s also a subscription model where licensing is charged on the monthly number of VMs being backed up.

A perpetual Standard edition starts at £348 and allows you to back up five VMs per host. You can protect all VMs on each host with the Unlimited edition (£426 per host), while the Unlimited Plus edition on review ups the price to £536 and enables all the features VM Backup has to offer.

And features there are aplenty, with Unlimited Plus 9 enabling support for immutable cloud storage on Amazon S3 and Wasabi, and Azure Blob coming soon. When creating offsite backup locations, you configure these locations as immutable, which brings the Object Lock mechanism into play and turns them into ransomware-resilient WORM repositories.

We installed VM Backup on a Windows Server 2019 host and had our VMware and Hyper-V hosts declared in 15 minutes. After assigning a local hard disk backup repository, we dragged and dropped selected VMs onto it and started our first backups.

VM Backup supports local and external storage, iSCSI targets and UNC paths for NAS shares as backup destination options. For secondary off-site locations you can use physical devices, network shares, the free Offsite Backup Server app and standard or immutable cloud storage. We added a Synology NAS share for our on-site backups and an Amazon S3 bucket with Object Lock enabled for immutable off-site cloud storage.

Two predefined backup schedules are provided, but it’s easy to create your own with the preferred weekly and monthly recurrences, versioning and retention policies. Each job can include replication to the secondary location. You add VMs by dragging and dropping them on the desired schedule and retention policy icons.

Along with a cloud console for managing multiple VM Backup installations, Unlimited Plus adds constant data protection (CDP) which is enabled on selected VMs and set to run as often as every five minutes. Both Unlimited and Unlimited Plus provide inline deduplication for faster backups, and you can view your storage savings from the dashboard.

A wizard guides you through the data recovery process: you choose a VM, restore its virtual hard disk, clone it or boot it straight from a backup to its original host or to another one. If you need to retrieve a file, folder or on-premises Exchange item, VM Backup provides granular recovery technology (GRT) services.

For data restoration, all three VM Backup versions use the Sandbox & Verification feature to confirm the integrity of all backups. Along with verifying data, it runs a background job that clones a VM back to the original host and confirms that it runs correctly.

VM Backup is an affordable choice for Hyper-V and VMware environments. The Unlimited Plus version delivers a wealth of features at a great price, support for immutable cloud storage, adds valuable ransomware protection and it’s incredibly easy to use.

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One Step GPS aims to simplify fleet management for businesses of various sizes by providing reliable and accessible GPS tracking technology. It focuses on providing a user-friendly and cost-effective fleet tracking solution. It emphasizes real-time data, driver behavior monitoring, and comprehensive reporting to help businesses improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.

A core strength of One Step GPS lies in its diverse feature set, designed to cater to the specific needs of fleet operators. One Step GPS primarily targets small to medium-sized businesses, fleet managers, construction and transportation companies, and service-based businesses. Its key selling points revolve around its affordability, ease of installation, and user-friendly web-based software.

OneStepGPS: Pricing

One Step GPS provides businesses with an affordable and flexible GPS fleet tracking solution. Their pricing structure is centered around a monthly fee of $13.95 per device, offering a cost-effective way to monitor and manage their fleet.

One of the key advantages of One Step GPS is the absence of long-term contracts. This allows businesses to scale their usage up or down as needed without being tied to a lengthy commitment. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for businesses with seasonal fluctuations or those that are just starting up and may not have predictable long-term needs.

While the company advertises "no equipment costs," it's important to understand that the GPS devices themselves are not purchased outright. Instead, they are provided as part of the subscription service and must be returned to One Step GPS upon termination of the service. This model allows businesses to avoid upfront hardware costs but also means that they do not own the devices.

The core of One Step GPS's offering is its subscription-based model. The $13.95 per device monthly fee is consistently advertised as the base price. However, it is recommended that businesses contact One Step GPS directly to obtain the most up-to-date and specific pricing details. There may be additional fees or variations in pricing based on specific business needs, fleet size, or additional features required.

Overall, One Step GPS presents itself as a budget-friendly and adaptable GPS tracking solution for businesses. Their focus on affordability, flexibility, and a straightforward pricing structure makes them an attractive option for businesses seeking to implement or enhance their fleet management capabilities.

OneStepGPS: Features

OneStepGPS offers a comprehensive suite of fleet management and vehicle tracking solutions designed to optimize fleet operations and enhance driver safety.

Its core functionality revolves around real-time GPS tracking, providing continuous visibility into vehicle locations with frequent updates. This real-time data is accessible through an intuitive web-based platform seamlessly integrated with Google Maps, allowing for easy visualization and analysis. Users can delve into historical data, accessing up to three years' worth of information on routes, stops, and addresses, facilitating in-depth analysis and trend identification.

The system goes beyond basic tracking by actively monitoring driving behavior. It tracks instances of speeding, harsh braking, rapid acceleration, excessive idling, and prolonged stops, providing valuable insights into driver performance and enabling proactive intervention to promote safer driving practices. The platform's alerting and notification capabilities are designed to keep fleet managers informed in real-time.

Geofencing alerts notify users when vehicles enter or exit predefined zones, while after-hours driving alerts flag unauthorized vehicle use outside of designated operating hours.

Additionally, the system can send text and email notifications to alert managers of unsafe driving behaviors or unauthorized vehicle use, allowing for immediate action to be taken. Vehicle service reminders are also incorporated, promoting preventative maintenance to minimize downtime. OneStepGPS is built with scalability and customization in mind, allowing for granular control over user access and permissions.

OneStepGPS extends its capabilities beyond basic tracking with a range of advanced features tailored to specific fleet requirements. For trucking operations, the system offers DOT-compliant Electronic Logging Device (ELD) solutions, automating the logging of Hours of Service (HOS), International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA), and Driver-Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) data, streamlining compliance and reducing administrative overhead.

Asset tracking capabilities provide real-time location data for valuable assets, aiding in theft prevention and recovery. The integration of an AI dashcam adds an extra layer of safety and accountability. The dashcam captures HD video footage both road- and driver-facing, providing valuable evidence in the event of accidents or disputes. AI-powered alerts for risky driving behaviors, such as distracted driving or drowsiness, enable real-time intervention to prevent accidents. Live and historic video recording allows for comprehensive review and analysis of driving events.

Furthermore, vehicle diagnostics capabilities, available on select vehicles, enable remote monitoring of critical vehicle health metrics, such as fuel level, engine temperature, and battery voltage. This information allows for proactive maintenance and early detection of potential issues, reducing breakdowns and optimizing vehicle performance. The comprehensive suite of features offered by OneStepGPS works together to provide businesses with a powerful and versatile tool for efficient and effective fleet management.

OneStepGPS: Support

OneStepGPS has made customer support a top priority by offering multiple channels for customers to access help, ensuring that assistance is readily available whenever it is needed. The company emphasizes its US-based support team, highlighting the benefit of direct and efficient communication with agents who are knowledgeable about the product and can provide effective solutions.

Customers can reach OneStepGPS representatives by phone, with separate numbers dedicated to general inquiries and technical or billing support. This ensures that customer inquiries are directed to the appropriate department for prompt and specialized assistance.

For those who prefer quick and convenient support, online chat is available for immediate solutions to simple issues. Email support provides an alternative for customers with more detailed inquiries or those who prefer to have a written record of their communication. This diverse contact system allows customers to choose the support method that best suits their individual preferences and needs.

In addition to its multi-channel support system, OneStepGPS further demonstrates its commitment to customer satisfaction by offering a lifetime warranty on its devices. This warranty covers manufacturing and software defects, as well as equipment failures that are not caused by customer misuse or neglect. This comprehensive warranty provides customers with peace of mind and reinforces the company's confidence in the durability and reliability of its products.

OneStepGPS also recognizes the value of self-service support and provides a range of online resources to assist customers. These resources include a frequently asked questions section that addresses common inquiries, as well as detailed information about the company's warranty and terms and conditions.

By offering both human support and comprehensive online resources, OneStepGPS aims to deliver a well-rounded and reliable customer experience that fosters trust and loyalty.

OneStepGPS: Final verdict

OneStepGPS offers a comprehensive suite of fleet management tools designed to optimize operations, enhance safety, and improve efficiency. The real-time tracking is complemented by detailed historical data, allowing for in-depth analysis of past routes, stops, and driving behaviors. Asset tracking capabilities extend beyond vehicles, allowing businesses to monitor the location and status of valuable equipment. AI dashcams enhance safety by recording incidents and providing driver coaching.

Furthermore, OneStepGPS enables robust monitoring of driver behavior, including metrics such as speed, acceleration, and braking. This information can be leveraged to identify areas for improvement, encourage safer driving practices, and reduce the risk of accidents.

OneStepGPS is committed to providing a reliable and supportive experience for its customers. They offer US-based customer support, ensuring prompt and knowledgeable assistance.

With 16in laptops all the rage, it’s hardly shocking to see that size class invade the portable monitor space. Nor is it a surprise to see Asus leading the charge, with its ZenScreen MB16QHG priced at a heavyweight £399.

That’s four times the cost of a 15.6in 1080p monitor you’d find on Amazon, but the ZenScreen not only features a 2,560 x 1,600 IPS panel but also offers a 120Hz refresh rate. Throw in strong color performance, a robust stand and one of the brightest panels we’ve seen in a portable display, and the MB16QHG has a lot going for it.

Asus opts for a hinged base rather than a kickstand or detachable/magnetic stand. This makes the unit heavier, but it’s a solid design that provides easy access to the ports. I also like the fact that the cables connect low down at desktop level and behind the screen. So, while most portable monitors have ugly cables protruding from the side, here they’re far less obvious.

The display’s hinge allows it to sit completely vertical or lay flat against the base (and any angle in between). Asus also integrates a tripod socket into the bottom of the base, adding yet more flexibility.

Speaking of the base, you’ll find a single full-size HDMI port and a full-function USB-C port on the right. The left side is home to a second USB-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. I used the included USB-C cable for my testing, as it’s a simple one-cable affair for power, video and audio. The OSD joystick and a power button are located on the back of the monitor.

Build quality matches other members of the ZenScreen family, meaning it’s primarily constructed of plastic to keep costs in check and weight down. However, it doesn’t feel cheap thanks to a stylish grain effect. I’m less convinced by the backlit Asus logo in the center of the bottom bezel, as it’s almost too eye-catching.

Fortunately, the quality and resolution of the screen distracted me. For example, I used the monitor to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and greatly appreciated the 2,560 x 1,600 resolution. And while the 120Hz refresh rate is there to attract gamers, I also appreciated it for mundane tasks such fast-scrolling in Edge; text and images stayed crisp as they whirled by. Gamers should note that this screen isn’t Adaptive Sync compliant, so there’s no AMD FreeSync or Nvidia G-Sync support.

The MB16QHG stood out in our brightness testing, delivering 417cd/m² compared to the typical 250cd/m² of a standard portable monitor (albeit short of the 500cd/m² that Asus claims). To achieve 100% brightness, plug the monitor in with the included wall adapter. Relying on a single USB-C cable to handle all the heavy lifting for power and video limits you to a 60% brightness.

The ZenScreen covered 116% of the DCI-P3 color gamut and 163% of sRGB, which is excellent for an IPS panel. Panel uniformity was good, with no obvious backlight bleeding. The only area it fell behind OLED was when I watched Incredibles 2, with blacks appearing more like a dark grey.

As usual with Asus, there are many picture modes to choose from via the OSD. Navigation is intuitive via a joystick, which is much quicker than the norm of up/down/select buttons found on lesser portable monitors.

The Asus ZenScreen MB16QHG is a great all-around portable monitor. Not only does the 2,560 x 1,600 resolution offer extra detail over FHD panels, but its 16in diagonal is the perfect match for the growing army of 16in laptops. With high brightness levels and strong color coverage, it could even attract photographers (that’s where the tripod mount comes in handy).

Admittedly, the MB16QHG doesn’t come cheap. You can buy 15.6in OLED portable monitors (including one from Asus) for this money. However, that’s a Full HD panel, and if you’re looking for additional resolution, and bumping up to 4K resolution is overkill, the MB16QHG is well worth considering despite its high price.

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