How much better can a phone charger be? Anker’s successful answer to that question exemplifies the importance of innovation that fits within brand parameters.
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Samsung has been teasing a trifold smartphone for a while, and it is now official. It’s not a mainstream product, but it’s also not a gimmick. Here’s why Samsung is building it.
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After a disastrous rebrand effort at last year’s CES that saw sales fall relative to Lenovo and HP, Dell is promising to refocus on consumer and SMB. XPS is coming back, but Dell has a lot of ground to make up.
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Apple is bundling its creative and productivity apps into Creator Studio. This is partly about generating recurring subscription revenue but mostly about protecting (or enhancing) its platforms from a new generation of competition.
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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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The OnePlus 15 offers specs you simply don’t find on other smartphones outside of China. U.S. carriers aren’t offering this one, either, but consumers can buy them directly. Finally.
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Verizon launched an extraordinarily aggressive holiday promotion, and when I wrote that it might even be unprofitable, Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath responded that my math is wrong.
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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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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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