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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Apple just launched Apple Upgrade, a leasing program with Klarna that effectively provides 0% financing leases for iPhones, Macs, Apple Watches, and iPads. It’s highly competitive.
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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.
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VR was mostly absent at AWE this year while the big news was around AR and smart glasses with Qualcomm driving progress in the background.
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At 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.
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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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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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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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XREAL’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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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