After extensive leaks, Google didn’t have too many surprises at its fall hardware event where it launched the Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, updates to Nest smart speakers, and teased earbuds that won’t be out for a long time.
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Amazon introduces so many products at its fall events that it’s easy to get lost in the details. This report contains five key takeaways from the event.
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This time of year, the tech news comes so fast and furious that it’s tough to keep up and there are bound to be items of real importance to your business that are missed. Here are some of the highlights with summary analysis, including Huawei, Apple, Comcast, Gabb Wireless, KonnectOne, and previews of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
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I attended today’s Apple Event live and got hands-on with the new iPhones, iPads, and Watches. However, this report isn’t a hands-on or a review, it focuses on the competitive impact of Apple’s announcements. [updated Sept 11 with additional insights and Sept 23 with U1 info]
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As Apple launches its next round of mobile hardware, it has two distinctly different challenges: China, and everywhere else
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The new Galaxy Watch Active2 adds health features like electrocardiograms and better sleep tracking in a more attractive case than its overly large Galaxy Watch.
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Samsung is one of the only OEMs making premium Android tablets, and the new Galaxy Tab S6 adds meaningful speed, camera, S-Pen, and productivity enhancements.
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Part 1 of this report covers T-Mobile and legacy competitors. Part 2 moves to DISH and its potential.
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Smartphones can now easily exceed $1,000, but some new phones are challenging that price point. Public radio’s Marketplace was wondering if regular consumers can tell the difference between different priced phones anymore, so we arranged an experiment.
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[Updated] Huawei has been placed on an “entity” list of companies prohibited to receive U.S. technologies. This effectively bans Huawei from the global smartphone and laptop markets.
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Apple’s 2Q19 earnings suggest that Apple is becoming a services company as iPhone sales decline, but this is really just an extension of Apple’s long-term strategy of creating software platforms monetized by hardware.
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Microsoft’s Surface line stretches from headphones to corporate boardroom tools, but it’s all cohesively centered on productivity. The Surface Hub 2S adds features and functionality from across Microsoft while getting the previously fixed collaboration tool out of the conference room.
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After extremely public failures of Galaxy Fold review units, Samsung is postponing the launch. Product schedules have their own inertia, so it’s never an easy decision to stop, but it is a smart call in this case. Of course, it raises questions about …
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First impressions on the new Apple-Qualcomm settlement: what it means for Apple, Qualcomm, and Intel. Updated 11 PM ET with additional Intel news.
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Huawei already built some of the best premium smartphones in the world, and the P30 Pro makes astonishing gains in low light and zoom photography. It will not be sold in the U.S. for political reasons, but the P30 should sell well in China and Europe despite a general slowdown in global smartphone sales.
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Apple News+ is not a bad service, but, on its own, it is not threatening to other device or content vendors. The user experience needs to improve, and Apple needs to reorganize its services management.
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The Apple Card was the most compelling product Apple launched at the event and should make the iPhone and Apple Pay ecosystem stickier. An updated Apple TV app consolidates various third party apps, but Apple is not showing off clips or discussing pricing for its own Apple TV+ service.
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Apple’s iPad was already the best-selling tablet, and now there are more options at regular price intervals. The iPad mini badly needed an update – or even acknowledgement that an update was coming. The new model won’t make everyone happy, but it enables use cases that the larger models can’t fill, while serving a vital role for Apple in the enterprise.
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MWC was overwhelming this year; this report provides context and an overview of key themes and winners. It then dives deeper into new phone form factors, the rise of China, and odds and ends.
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We are still early in the AR/VR development cycle, but products like the VR-1 are needed to unlock use cases that consumer-grade VR systems cannot support.
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