At its annual summer Unpacked event, Samsung added a widescreen foldable to updated Fold and Flip, with a new hinge design and nearly invisible crease. This report covers the differences in form factor and key technologies. Part 2 will be hands-on.
Read MoreVR was mostly absent at AWE this year while the big news was around AR and smart glasses with Qualcomm driving progress in the background.
Read MoreAt AWE, Snap launched SPECS, self-contained full augmented reality glasses. They are still sized and priced more for developers and early adopters than consumers, but the tech is impressive and Snap is planning to sell them this fall.
Read MoreMeta 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.
Read MoreLike 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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreMeta 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?
Read MoreXREAL’s mainstream smart display glasses just got across-the-board improvements, a price drop, and a new must-have charging/display accessory. They’re so good that ASUS is getting a version for gaming.
Read MoreSamsung’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.
Read MoreI spent a morning this week with Meta getting full demos of all its latest smart glasses and came away impressed.
Read MoreMeta 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.
Read MoreApple kept prices the same – or effectively lower – while adding a lot of content to its iPhones, Watches, and AirPods Pro.
Read MoreGoogle is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Pixel line by focusing on its strengths: photography and AI. The Pixel Watch 4 looks gorgeous.
Read MoreSamsung has been making foldables longer than anyone, but its product development stagnated a bit recently while competitors leapt ahead. That’s over.
Read MoreApple 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.
Read MoreGoogle 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.
Read MoreGoogle 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.
Read MoreApple provided me with a helpful series of facts and charts in the hopes that I would write something about the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch. It worked.
Read MoreIs there still a place for single-purpose gadgets? PLAUD.AI's Note and Pin voice recorders feature gorgeous hardware and AI software that works remarkably well.
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