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Simon Cocks is Good Housekeeping UK’s Technology Editor, overseeing tech buying content material and technique for the title. He beforehand additionally labored throughout different titles together with Esquire UK, Digital Spy, Men’s Health UK and Women’s Health UK.

Simon specialises in testing the most recent good devices, house leisure gear, headphones, audio system, transportable chargers, radios, e-book readers and smartphones. He’s reviewed prime tech merchandise from manufacturers together with Google, Apple, Amazon, JBL and Bose.

{A magazine} journalism graduate from Kingston University in 2014, Simon additionally labored on the Discovery and Silkroad inflight magazines. He then gained expertise writing about leisure at SFX and Total Film. He additionally contributed opinions and interviews to TwitchFilm (later ScreenAnarchy), CultBox and Frame Rated.

He joined Good Housekeeping UK because the Editorial Assistant for Special Projects and was a part of Good Housekeeping’s Consumer Affairs Team between 2014 and 2019. In this function, he carried out value comparability analysis, wrote detailed family and money-saving recommendation guides and edited 1000’s of in-depth opinions for the Good Housekeeping Institute.

He has targeted on know-how and devices since 2020, the place he began by testing out energy banks and immediate cameras. He writes opinions, roundups, information articles and offers updates, and likewise covers prime tech offers throughout gross sales like Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

When not testing out the most recent gizmos, you’ll discover Simon both catching up with the latest releases at his native cinema or out taking pictures along with his beloved compact digicam.

You can observe Simon on Instagram, on Bluesky, on LinkedIn and on Threads.