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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Google just launched Gemini Enterprise, a set of enterprise-oriented AI tools that are impressive in scope but workers are going to need to scale a learning curve to get the most out of them.
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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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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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NVIDIA and Intel are connecting their silicon in the datacenter and on PCs, and NVIDIA is investing $5 billion in Intel stock. This is important, especially for Intel, but the deal is limited.
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I got eyes-on with Samsung’s new display technology its U.S. headquarters: micro RGB TV. It allows for exceptionally, ridiculously saturated colors. It’s also extraordinarily expensive.
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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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