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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Lenovo held an “Innovation World” press conference at IFA again this year, and they had something for absolutely everyone: workstations, laptops, tablets, gaming handhelds, R&D concept devices, and even phones.
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The iPhone Air is great! It needs to be experienced to be understood. Not enough people will, but it still serves its purpose for Apple well.
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MediaTek claims it is the #1 smartphone silicon vendor by volume, but its super-premium Dimensity 9000-series has been gaining real market share in smartphones outside the U.S. and in Samsung tablets everywhere.
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Apple kept prices the same – or effectively lower – while adding a lot of content to its iPhones, Watches, and AirPods Pro.
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realme’s 15 Pro 5G takes mid-tier Snapdragon silicon and adds more premium cameras, case finishes, and much bigger batteries than you would expect at the price.
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Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Pixel line by focusing on its strengths: photography and AI. The Pixel Watch 4 looks gorgeous.
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HP is updating its OMEN gaming desktops and laptops with more modular power, more subtlety – or even more RGB -- and is moving deeper into game streaming accessories with HyperX.
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This is the best Chromebook I’ve ever tested, both from a performance and battery life standpoint. It’s easily my top Chromebook recommendation. Google’s new ChromeOS AI features are nice to have but will not be a major purchase driver.
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Samsung has been making foldables longer than anyone, but its product development stagnated a bit recently while competitors leapt ahead. That’s over.
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Nothing has built a brand around attention-getting phones and earbuds with seemingly transparent designs and rear panel light shows. I spoke with CEO Carl Pei about Nothing’s attempt to move upmarket into flagship phones and premium headphones.
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AMD announced a chip at CES that seemed almost too good to be true, and HP was the first to incorporate it into its zBook workstation line. It performs as advertised, but you’ll want to keep this laptop plugged into power.
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T-Mobile has long had a superb 5G network but wasn’t claiming to have the best ...everything else. Now it is, and its satellite partnership with Starlink is now going live, and will soon allow data, something rival NTN services can’t match yet.
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Apple can’t compete with AI leaders on model capabilities, so it focused on using AI as a feature in its products, gave its platforms a new cohesive design, and made major improvements to iPadOS and VisionOS.
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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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