There isn’t much competition — especially in the U.S. — for premium tablets; Apple and Samsung dominate the market. OnePlus Pad 3 provides a strong alternative, but it’s still a niche market.
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Google I/O 2025 showed that Gemini is not just a set of capable AI models, but that Google is leading the industry integrating them into its ecosystem. Ironically, Gemini’s success might not mean that Android gains against iOS.
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Google will spend most of its keynote at I/O next week focused on AI and developers, so it put most of its Android news into a video launch the week prior. Here’s what matters.
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When Samsung teased the Galaxy S25 Edge at its spring Unpacked event, a scrum of rabid journalists and content creators jostled around the display to get a picture of it. Will consumers be as excited to buy one?
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We were promised incredibly fast data speeds with 5G, but uploads have been left behind – all while content creation is exploding in popularity. T-Mobile is changing that.
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People tend to focus on iPhones, Pixels, and Samsung's Galaxy S, but Samsung has an underappreciated (and somewhat oddly named) XCover line of smartphones and tablets that just got thoughtful upgrades.
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Over the past week there were two new chip announcements from MediaTek that probably got lost in the tariff noise, but they’re worth paying attention to.
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At its annual developer conference, NVIDIA justified its position as the premier AI silicon provider, showed a vision of AI transforming robotics, and expanded further onto the desktop.
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Apple’s MacBook Air is its best-selling laptop with enormous industry impact. I have been testing Apple's latest MacBook Air M4 for a few days, long enough for first impressions and analysis.
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Just ahead of the weekend, Apple quietly announced that it is delaying adding more genAI into Siri until later this year. This is a marketing black eye, but it isn’t clear if competitors can take full advantage.
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Apple is updating its core iPads and MacBooks this week with new, aggressively priced, higher performance models. Here is some quick analysis from the road (out at Mobile World Congress)
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With the iPhone 16e launching at just $600, that should give carriers room to heavily subsidize it for subscribers who want a good iPhone without all the bells and whistles. Are they?
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Apple was widely expected to launch a new iPhone SE. Instead we we got a single-camera iPhone 16 with a new modem at a big discount and vertical integration brought to the modem.
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Analyzing the tech ads: Winners include Google, T-Mobile, and Meta; others may have raised visibility but at a staggering cost.
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Verizon held a small lunch yesterday to promote its latest Consumer Connections Report. Here are five highlights from Verizon's market research with some quick analysis:
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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 family is notable not for new hardware or design – though the design improved and the specs are great – but for the integration of useful AI features that can be transferred in the future.
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There was a lot of silicon news at CES 2025; Qualcomm’s may be the most impactful by targeting the volume segment of the laptop market and pushing on-device AI to all.
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HP bought HyperX to help it in PC gaming, a key industry growth area. However, the gaming keyboard market segment is under extreme pricing pressure, so it was with that in mind that I tested HyperX’s latest mechanical keyboard with its in-house switches.
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LG is planning a major reorganization. The structural changes tie ThinQ and robotics directly to the home and suggest further investment is being made in webOS, but major challenges remain.
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At Microsoft’s annual IT conference, the company focused on security and AI, but also made an intriguing VR announcement and launched a small cloud client PC
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