The WSJ has an excellent, well-sourced article about how much money Amazon has lost on its Devices division. It misses a key point on why.
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OnePlus has been expanding its ecosystem beyond phones and earbuds with watches and tablets with “better together” software messaging. Counterintuitively, this is enabled by Google competing with its licensees with Pixel hardware.
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Samsung’s annual foldables update turned into a Wearables and digital health show, with solid iterative updates to the Galaxy Z Flip6, Z Fold6, Buds, and Buds Pro and big news in watches, rings, and health measurement overall.
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Motorola launched updated versions of the RAZR for 2024. The RAZR+ got the best hardware, but the base model RAZR is the one to watch.
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The market for portable cannister pico-projectors is still niche, but it has attracted the attention of larger brands like Samsung and LG. LG’s first entry strikes a nice balance between performance and design.
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Apple's partnership with OpenAI is the least interesting and least important part of Apple Intelligence. Context awareness, the security model, and third-party app APIs look to be transformational -- and that's all Apple's technology and implementation, not ChatGPT.
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There was a flurry of innovation out of Computex this year, with Intel and AMD taking Qualcomm seriously as Microsoft tries to combine silicon and AI to compete with Apple.
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Logitech’s Combo Touch iPad Pro keyboard case is less expensive than Apple’s Magic Keyboard and better! …For some things. It’s worse for others. The design is the reason to buy it — or not to buy it — more than the cost savings.
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Verizon was behind rivals when it came to giving loyal customers upgrades, but as it fixes that it is also pulling further ahead of AT&T and T-Mobile when it comes to the breadth of streaming partners.
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Google’s I/O developer conference was a confusing mess of announcements aimed at different audiences and timeframes; this report breaks things down by audience and surfaces key announcements omitted from the keynote.
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There’s been a lot of hype around AI, but Microsoft is bringing substance, and it’s enabled by exceptional Snapdragon-powered hardware that finally makes Windows laptops competitive with Apple MacBook Air.
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Prepaid "Uncarrier" moves? T-Mobile’s Metro brand just addressed a big pain point with prepaid customers, and T-Mobile is doing unique things with its new REVVL 7 phones.
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Apple’s iPad Pro (13” 2024) has key advances in design, display, and silicon. I went hands on with the new iPro Pro over the past week; here is my review and a bit of market analysis.
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Apple’s new iPads make it clear which iPad to buy for every purpose and budget, while adding exceptional OLED displays to the Pro models, and launching Apple Silicon M4 six months ahead of expectations.
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In 2023, TCL chose to use mini-LED backlighting only on its higher-end QM8 line. HiSense took a different approach. Both bets paid off, but the higher-end mini-LED sets are threatening legacy competitors.
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Super-bundlers are people who combine wireless phone, home broadband, and content together in a single bundle to save money. This report examines how prevalent super bundling is, what options carriers and cable companies offer, and where the opportunities are going forward.
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Meta is taking the Horizon OS that powers its Quest headsets and opening it up to hardware licensees including Lenovo and ASUS. This could backfire but it pressures Google and provides a broader coalition against Apple’s Vision Pro.
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The overwhelmingly negative reviews of Humane’s Ai Pin have generated controversy. What can Humane fix, what can’t be fixed, and what does this mean for the AI accessory category?
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Apple has been so successful building out its hardware ecosystem that there are multiple options for wirelessly charging an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. This report explains the state of mobile ecosystems and reviews three multi-charging options.
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This year’s Mobile World Congress was a return to crowded halls, Chinese OEMs, laptops, wearables, and a continuation of AI demos from last MWC (and CES). There were also the trends that should have been but weren’t.
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