Tag: Handheld & Connected Devices
The Morning After: Apple Watch Series 7, reviewed
Apple still dominates the world of wearables. Over the last year, research company Canalys noted that smartwatch sales have actually overtaken basic bands and now account for 62 percent of all wearable shipments. And Apple’s versions lays claim to just under a third of all smartwatches sold. Engadget That’s interesting…
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The Morning After: Someone made a USB-C iPhone
Years ago, I wrote this piece about how I really wanted the iPhone to adopt USB-C and retire its Lightning connector. This was just after the advent of the company’s first iPhone Pro models with pro level features, like surgical-grade stainless steel and, er, three cameras. Fast-forward to now, just…
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Motorola Edge (2021) review: Improvements where they matter most
Motorola launched a pair of Edge phones in 2020 that stood out for their “waterfall” displays. But it wasn’t the flagship that we preferred of the two. Instead, we were impressed by the more modest Edge. It wasn’t perfect, but you got a lot of phone for the price. So…
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The Morning After: Google might offer a Pixel Phone subscription bundle
Are you ready for another Pixel phone? After Apple’s iPhones and Samsung’s Galaxy devices (both folding and, er, static), Google’s homegrown phones are probably the third most interesting family of smartphones. Maybe it’s because Google has typically leaned into software and processing tricks rather than spec wars, both to offer…
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ICYMI: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s new Surface devices
It has been a busy couple of weeks at Engadget and we have many reviews to recap. Nathan Ingraham reviewed the newest base iPad as well as the Microsoft Surface Go 3, the latter of which he says lacks the processing power to be more than a secondary machine. Devindra…
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The Morning After: Facebook’s October 4th outage, explained
We’ll get into why Facebook saw its entire business fall off a cliff on Monday, but first: e-readers. It’s a device category we don’t see much development in — probably because it’s very much a device for reading text and not much else. Amazon’s Kindle, thanks to its powerful online…
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