Qualcomm’s annual media event for its new smartphone silicon was focused on massive CPU performance gains that are also being applied to its automotive business. Plus AI. (Naturally.)
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Apple spread out Mac and Apple Silicon announcements with launch videos and press releases on three consecutive days. Apple updated desktops and laptops with more memory, launched the first carbon neutral computer, and answered rivals’ improving silicon with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max.
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T-Mobile took the first steps in making it significantly less expensive to connect smartwatches, tablets, and laptops to its cellular network. It's mostly aimed at adding value to Go5G Next but it makes connected cellular devices easier to justify.
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TCL's NXTPAPER display offers unique eyestrain benefits -- and it's now bright enough for mainstream use. A tablet seems like an ideal use for the technology, but Verizon's exclusive comes with caveats.
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At Connect, Meta launched an inexpensive Quest headset, provided updates on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and gave developers new tools and APIs. All anyone will remember is that this is where Orion, Meta’s smart glasses of the future, were launched.
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At T-Mobile Capital Markets Day, the carrier updated analysts on its business plans and financial goals, announced a 5G network slice for public safety, and teased work with nvidia and OpenAI on using AI to improve the network and customer service.
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Samsung chose the highest end Snapdragon X Elite chips for its Galaxy Book4 edge 16” laptop, and it performs well, but battery life doesn't match smaller competitors, among other form factor compromises.
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IFA celebrated its 100th anniversary with silicon drama, Lenovo Innovation World, and plenty of A/V, wearables, and gadgets. Including some silly ones.
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Key takeaways from Apple's iPhone 16 and Wearables event including Apple Intelligence, and health focus of the new Apple Watch and AirPods Pro 2 update.
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It’s easier to list the things I don’t like about Lenovo’s YOGA Slim 7x Copilot+ PC than what it gets right. The YOGA Slim 7x packages Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite platform with compelling features at a good price.
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Google needs to show consumers that Android has unique AI capabilities ahead of Apple delivering on AI, and it largely succeeded today. The Pixel 9 family brings unique and delightful features that consumers can easily understand and use, along with improved hardware across the board.
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Microsoft has been chasing Apple’s prosumer laptop line for a decade, but it took a new Qualcomm silicon platform – plus some new and upcoming software from Microsoft’s OS team – to finally get there. The Surface Laptop is excellent.
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Kopin makes XR microdisplays for consumer and military uses, and I got hands on with its latest products. Its NeuralDisplay technology in development cleverly solves a key problem with displays and the humans who use them.
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HP’s EliteBook Ultra G1q represents the launch of a new silicon platform, a new version of Windows on Arm, new Copilot+ PC and AI features, and new branding for HP (...and a new laptop).
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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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