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Apple Goes Thin, Thick, Quiet, and Healthy, All While Keeping Prices Steady
Apple Goes Thin, Thick, Quiet, and Healthy, All While Keeping Prices Steady

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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AI, Silicon, Smartphones/Computing, WearablesAvi GreengartSeptember 10, 2025
realme 15 Pro 5G Exemplifies the Highly Competitive Mid-Tier Smartphone Market (Outside the U.S.)
realme 15 Pro 5G Exemplifies the Highly Competitive Mid-Tier Smartphone Market (Outside the U.S.)

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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Smartphones/Computing, SiliconAvi GreengartSeptember 8, 2025
Charlie Ergen Folds, Sells EchoStar/Boost’s Stockpile of Spectrum to AT&T
Charlie Ergen Folds, Sells EchoStar/Boost’s Stockpile of Spectrum to AT&T

Under pressure from regulators and deep in debt, EchoStar is selling AT&T a huge treasure trove of spectrum, making AT&T much more competitive and further muddying Boost Mobile’s future.

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Wireless CarriersAvi GreengartAugust 26, 2025
Google Celebrates Pixel’s 10th Anniversary
Google Celebrates Pixel’s 10th Anniversary

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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AI, Silicon, Smartphones/Computing, WearablesAvi GreengartAugust 20, 2025
HP Updates OMEN Gaming PCs, Aims at Streamers with HyperX
HP Updates OMEN Gaming PCs, Aims at Streamers with HyperX

HP is updating its OMEN gaming desktops and laptops with more modular power, more subtlety – or even more RGB -- and is moving deeper into game streaming accessories with HyperX.

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Home Entertainment, Smartphones/Computing, Hybrid WorkAvi GreengartAugust 15, 2025
Lenovo and MediaTek Add Performance and Battery Life (and AI) to Google’s ChromeBook Plus
Lenovo and MediaTek Add Performance and Battery Life (and AI) to Google’s ChromeBook Plus

This is the best Chromebook I’ve ever tested, both from a performance and battery life standpoint. It’s easily my top Chromebook recommendation. Google’s new ChromeOS AI features are nice to have but will not be a major purchase driver.

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AI, Hybrid Work, Silicon, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartAugust 11, 2025
Samsung Reinvents Its Foldables
Samsung Reinvents Its Foldables

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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AI, Silicon, Smartphones/Computing, WearablesAvi GreengartAugust 5, 2025
Nothing Is Premium Now: Interview with CEO Carl Pei
Nothing Is Premium Now: Interview with CEO Carl Pei

Nothing has built a brand around attention-getting phones and earbuds with seemingly transparent designs and rear panel light shows. I spoke with CEO Carl Pei about Nothing’s attempt to move upmarket into flagship phones and premium headphones.

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Smartphones/Computing, SiliconAvi GreengartJuly 21, 2025
HP Zbook Ultra G1a: AMD Competes on Price and Performance with Apple -- Plugged In
HP Zbook Ultra G1a: AMD Competes on Price and Performance with Apple -- Plugged In

AMD announced a chip at CES that seemed almost too good to be true, and HP was the first to incorporate it into its zBook workstation line. It performs as advertised, but you’ll want to keep this laptop plugged into power.

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Silicon, Hybrid Work, AI, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartJuly 14, 2025
HP Dimension with Google Beam Provides More Humanconferencing, Less Videoconferencing
HP Dimension with Google Beam Provides More Humanconferencing, Less Videoconferencing

Google’s Project Starline has official branding, pricing, and availability. Google Beam on HP Dimension is a more human way to connect for work meetings.

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Hybrid Work, AIAvi GreengartJune 26, 2025
T-Mobile Claims Network Supremacy On Land and In Space
T-Mobile Claims Network Supremacy On Land and In Space

T-Mobile has long had a superb 5G network but wasn’t claiming to have the best ...everything else. Now it is, and its satellite partnership with Starlink is now going live, and will soon allow data, something rival NTN services can’t match yet. 

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Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartJune 24, 2025
Apple WWDC: AI as a Feature and Big Platform Improvements
Apple WWDC: AI as a Feature and Big Platform Improvements

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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AI, AR/VR, Home Entertainment, Hybrid Work, Smartphones/Computing, WearablesAvi GreengartJune 11, 2025
OnePlus Pad 3: Great Hardware and Software, But Premium Tablets Are Still Niche
OnePlus Pad 3: Great Hardware and Software, But Premium Tablets Are Still Niche

There isn’t much competition — especially in the U.S. — for premium tablets; Apple and Samsung dominate the market. OnePlus Pad 3 provides a strong alternative, but it’s still a niche market.

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Hybrid Work, Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartJune 6, 2025
Google vs. Apple in an Age of Integrated AI
Google vs. Apple in an Age of Integrated AI

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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AI, AR/VR, Smartphones/Computing, WearablesAvi GreengartJune 3, 2025
Google I/O 2025: The Android Show
Google I/O 2025: The Android Show

Google will spend most of its keynote at I/O next week focused on AI and developers, so it put most of its Android news into a video launch the week prior. Here’s what matters.

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AR/VR, AI, Smartphones/Computing, WearablesAvi GreengartMay 16, 2025
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: Thin For Its Own Sake, But Few Compromises
Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: Thin For Its Own Sake, But Few Compromises

When Samsung teased the Galaxy S25 Edge at its spring Unpacked event, a scrum of rabid journalists and content creators jostled around the display to get a picture of it. Will consumers be as excited to buy one?

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Smartphones/ComputingAvi GreengartMay 12, 2025
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
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