Trezor Safe 5 review: the touchscreen tax on a decade-old designWe set up a Trezor Safe 5 from the box, moved a small holding onto it and put its touchscreen against the cheaper Safe 3. The chip inside is identical, so this is a…Hardware Wallets
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Trezor Safe 5 review: the touchscreen tax on a decade-old designWe set up a Trezor Safe 5 from the box, moved a small holding onto it and put its touchscreen against the cheaper Safe 3. The chip inside is identical, so this is a…
Tangem Wallet review: no seed phrase, and a lab attack that proves why that mattersTangem replaces the seed phrase with two or three NFC cards holding the same key. We set up a card, tested the tap-to-sign flow, and read through the laser…
Trezor Safe 3 review: the cheapest way into a certified secure elementTrezor dropped its entry-level hardware wallet to $59 while keeping the EAL6+ secure element that used to be a premium feature. We tested setup, backup and the small…
SafePal S1 Pro review: an $89.99 air gap that skips the cable entirelyThe S1 Pro drops Bluetooth and USB signing in favor of QR codes alone, wrapped in an aluminum body with a CC EAL6+ chip. We checked whether that tradeoff holds up…
Ledger Nano X Review: Bluetooth Convenience After the Recover BacklashWe carried a Nano X for six weeks, paired it over Bluetooth on a phone with no cable in sight, and dug into the 2023 Ledger Recover backlash to see whether the default…
Ledger Flex review: does the E Ink screen make DeFi signing safer?The Ledger Flex swaps the Nano X's tiny OLED for a 2.84-inch E Ink touchscreen built to show what a transaction does before you approve it. We checked its Clear Signing…
Keystone 3 Pro review: is a QR-only air gap worth $149 over USB or Bluetooth?We set up a Keystone 3 Pro, signed transactions by scanning QR codes between the device and a phone, and compared its three secure element chips against the single-chip…
BitBox02 review: a Swiss vault that trusts your phone screen, not its ownShift Crypto's BitBox02 skips the flashy touchscreen and Bluetooth radio in favor of two buttons and a microSD backup. We tested the Bitcoin-only edition against the…