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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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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