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T-Mobile Achieves 500 Mbps UPLOADS with 5G Advanced Network and Off-the-Shelf MediaTek Smartphone
T-Mobile Achieves 500 Mbps UPLOADS with 5G Advanced Network and Off-the-Shelf MediaTek Smartphone

We were promised incredibly fast data speeds with 5G, but uploads have been left behind – all while content creation is exploding in popularity. T-Mobile is changing that.

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Hybrid Work, Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartMay 8, 2025
Apple Watch’s 10th Anniversary – Three Questions
Apple Watch’s 10th Anniversary – Three Questions

Apple 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.

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WearablesAvi GreengartApril 25, 2025
Samsung XCover7 Pro: Odd Naming, Thoughtful Improvements, Little Direct Competition
Samsung XCover7 Pro: Odd Naming, Thoughtful Improvements, Little Direct Competition

People tend to focus on iPhones, Pixels, and Samsung's Galaxy S, but Samsung has an underappreciated (and somewhat oddly named) XCover line of smartphones and tablets that just got thoughtful upgrades.

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Hybrid Work, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartApril 21, 2025
MediaTek Refreshes Top End Dimensity, Goes Ultra for Chromebooks
MediaTek Refreshes Top End Dimensity, Goes Ultra for Chromebooks

Over the past week there were two new chip announcements from MediaTek that probably got lost in the tariff noise, but they’re worth paying attention to.

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AI, Hybrid Work, Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartApril 10, 2025
Plaud AI Note and NotePin: AI That Works, But Convergence is Coming
Plaud AI Note and NotePin: AI That Works, But Convergence is Coming

Is 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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Hybrid Work, AI, WearablesAvi GreengartApril 4, 2025
Varjo Updates Reflect the State of the Enterprise XR Market and Geopolitics
Varjo Updates Reflect the State of the Enterprise XR Market and Geopolitics

Varjo’s new software updates, professional services, and higher pricing reflect more military use cases and less concern about competition from Apple.

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Wearables, AR/VRAvi GreengartMarch 25, 2025
NVIDIA GTC 2025: NVIDIA’s Roadmap for AI in Datacenter, Desktops, and Robots
NVIDIA GTC 2025: NVIDIA’s Roadmap for AI in Datacenter, Desktops, and Robots

At its annual developer conference, NVIDIA justified its position as the premier AI silicon provider, showed a vision of AI transforming robotics, and expanded further onto the desktop.

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AI, Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartMarch 18, 2025
Apple MacBook Air M4: First Impressions and Analysis
Apple MacBook Air M4: First Impressions and Analysis

Apple’s MacBook Air is its best-selling laptop with enormous industry impact. I have been testing Apple's latest MacBook Air M4 for a few days, long enough for first impressions and analysis.

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Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartMarch 11, 2025
Apple Intelligence Delay: Marketing Black Eye, Not A Strategic Failure* (*Yet)
Apple Intelligence Delay: Marketing Black Eye, Not A Strategic Failure* (*Yet)

Just ahead of the weekend, Apple quietly announced that it is delaying adding more genAI into Siri until later this year. This is a marketing black eye, but it isn’t clear if competitors can take full advantage.

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AI, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartMarch 9, 2025
With Alexa+, Amazon Nails the Value Proposition for genAI
With Alexa+, Amazon Nails the Value Proposition for genAI

Amazon’s long gestating genAI version of Alexa, Alexa+, is coming with all the capabilities you’d expect and more integration than you might think. The key is that it will be part of Prime (for now).

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AI, Home Entertainment, IoTAvi GreengartMarch 6, 2025
Apple Updates iPads, MacBook Air, and Mac Studio Without Raising Prices
Apple Updates iPads, MacBook Air, and Mac Studio Without Raising Prices

Apple is updating its core iPads and MacBooks this week with new, aggressively priced, higher performance models. Here is some quick analysis from the road (out at Mobile World Congress)

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Hybrid Work, Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartMarch 4, 2025
How Aggressively Are U.S. Carriers Pushing the iPhone 16e?
How Aggressively Are U.S. Carriers Pushing the iPhone 16e?

With the iPhone 16e launching at just $600, that should give carriers room to heavily subsidize it for subscribers who want a good iPhone without all the bells and whistles. Are they?

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Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartFebruary 24, 2025
visionOS 2.4 Makes Apple Vision Pro Easier to Show Off
visionOS 2.4 Makes Apple Vision Pro Easier to Show Off

Apple visionOS 2.4 was announced today, bringing some Apple Intelligence and quality of life improvements to the Apple Vision Pro.

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AI, AR/VRAvi GreengartFebruary 21, 2025
Apple iPhone 16e Is a Surprising Value and the Beginning of the Apple Modem Era
Apple iPhone 16e Is a Surprising Value and the Beginning of the Apple Modem Era

Apple was widely expected to launch a new iPhone SE. Instead we we got a single-camera iPhone 16 with a new modem at a big discount and vertical integration brought to the modem.

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Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartFebruary 19, 2025
Super Bowl LIX (2025) Tech Ad Winners and Losers
Super Bowl LIX (2025) Tech Ad Winners and Losers

Analyzing the tech ads: Winners include Google, T-Mobile, and Meta; others may have raised visibility but at a staggering cost.

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AI, AR/VR, Wearables, Home Entertainment, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartFebruary 10, 2025
Verizon Consumer Connections Report
Verizon Consumer Connections Report

Verizon held a small lunch yesterday to promote its latest Consumer Connections Report. Here are five highlights from Verizon's market research with some quick analysis:

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Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartFebruary 5, 2025
TCL A1: TCL Cautiously Enters the Projector Market
TCL A1: TCL Cautiously Enters the Projector Market

TCL initially ignored the surge of portable projectors out of China but it is now dipping its toes into the market. TCL is late to this trend; while the A1 is respectable, TCL needs to take more risks.

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Home EntertainmentAvi GreengartFebruary 2, 2025
Samsung Galaxy S25: Excellent Hardware Meets Integrated AI You Can Take With You
Samsung Galaxy S25: Excellent Hardware Meets Integrated AI You Can Take With You

Samsung’s Galaxy S25 family is notable not for new hardware or design – though the design improved and the specs are great – but for the integration of useful AI features that can be transferred in the future.

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AI, Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartJanuary 22, 2025
CES 2025 Silicon: Qualcomm Disrupts the PC Market. Again.
CES 2025 Silicon: Qualcomm Disrupts the PC Market. Again.

There was a lot of silicon news at CES 2025; Qualcomm’s may be the most impactful by targeting the volume segment of the laptop market and pushing on-device AI to all.

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Silicon, AI, Hybrid Work, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartJanuary 20, 2025
Android XR and the State of AR/VR/Spatial Computing
Android XR and the State of AR/VR/Spatial Computing

After teasing at various events that it was working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a VR headset, Google announced Android XR for all types of devices. This report covers both Android XR and the state of the market in general.

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AR/VR, AI, Wearables, SiliconAvi GreengartJanuary 3, 2025
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