Lenovo’s annual IFA-adjacent press event was a showcase of products across the price and capability spectrum: everything from colorful value-driven laptops, AI workstations, concept devices, and Motorola’s first WearOS smartwatch.
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Apple introduced updated Apple Silicon, and it will first show up in updated Mac mini and Mac Studio. Demand will be high; now we need to see how many Apple can make.
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Spinal Tap fans will love the Pixel 11 family because while last year’s Pixel’s went to 10, this year is 1 louder. There are smart but relatively minor hardware changes throughout, with AI and software remaining the reasons to buy.
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This is Part II of my coverage of Samsung’s summer Unpacked event, with hands-on analysis of all the foldables and wearables.
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Meta is launching three new smart glasses styles. They’re still made and sold in partnership with Essilor-Luxottica and have all the same tech, but they start at $300: $80 less than the least expensive Ray-Ban Meta models.
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Apple is finally delivering on the promises it made for Apple Intelligence two years ago. Rivals remain well ahead on agentic AI but the new Siri should be enough to be competitive, especially if developers buy in and give Siri AI more context and capabilities.
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Nvidia has taken over Computex with the long-expected announcement of the RTX Spark for Windows. This report covers why Nvidia is getting back into Windows SoCs and what this means for Microsoft, Qualcomm, MediaTek, PC OEMs, Intel, AMD, and Apple.
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Google pulled out most of its consumer-focused Android announcements into The Android Show ahead of this week’s Google I/O. Google has impactful ideas integrating AI in mobile, auto, and laptops, but that last one needs more explanation.
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Everyone is a content creator these days. AI is both fueling additional data storage needs and making it more expensive. Hard drives never fully went away, but they’re certainly back now.
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Like all tech events these days, MWC was about AI, but it differed in how it was about AI. This report covers six trends from the show that will last beyond the immediate news cycle.
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At MWC, Qualcomm applied the Snapdragon Elite brand to a new SoC for wearables expected to power pendants, pins, watches, and other form factors for AI-driven experiences. It’s an ambitious concept that will require changes in software, use cases, and social norms.
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At Samsung Unpacked, Samsung launched new Galaxy S bar phones with more AI choices and component upgrades including updated silicon, camera sensors that let in more light, and Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Pricing is… interesting.
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At T-Mobile Capital Markets Day, T-Mobile did a bit of a victory lap for its performance, promised continued growth – even in fixed wireless – and announced that network-based AI features are coming, starting with Live Translation.
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Meta is laying off Reality Labs staff and shuttering some of its VR game studios and all of its VR workplace initiatives. What does this mean for the future of XR?
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Apple will be using Google’s Gemini as the basis for future Apple Foundation Models. Siri is about to get a lot smarter, and Apple is plugging a major hole in its ecosystem. This does NOT mean iOS and Google will have the same AI features.
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Samsung’s Galaxy XR hardware impresses and dramatically undercuts Apple Vision Pro on price …but there isn’t much to do in Android XR yet, so Google is pushing entertainment.
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I spent a morning this week with Meta getting full demos of all its latest smart glasses and came away impressed.
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For consumer PCs, distribution is crucial. So, I was excited when I went to Costco Wholesale to buy groceries and saw a new table promoting Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops.
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Google just launched Gemini Enterprise, a set of enterprise-oriented AI tools that are impressive in scope but workers are going to need to scale a learning curve to get the most out of them.
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Meta has beat Google and Apple to market with smart glasses that have a display for widgets, notifications, and AI. They officially went on sale last week, but Meta wasn’t actually ready to sell too many of them.
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