Tag: Smart phones
Watch the NVIDIA CES 2025 press conference live: Monday, 9:30PM ET
SAM YEH via Getty Images It’s hard to find a company that had a better 2024 than NVIDIA. Even after some choppiness in recent weeks, the chip giant’s stock price finished last year up 178 percent, and its market cap of more than $3.3 trillion dollars — with a T…
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Android phone makers dropped the ball on Qi2 in 2024
Android phones have been the first to feature a bunch of notable standards. They were the first to support 4G, 5G, USB-C (way back in 2015 no less) and in-screen fingerprint sensors. And when it comes to wireless charging, you can trace that lineage all the way back to the…
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The best iPhones for 2024: Which model should you buy?
“Which iPhone should I buy?” It’s a question you’ve probably asked or heard many times over the years. Most of the time, the answer is simple: Get the best one you can afford. And if you’re happy with your current iPhone, there’s no need to upgrade. But if you’re ready…
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My iPhone 11 is perfectly fine, but the new buttons on the iPhone 16 are compelling
Last year, I experienced my first iPhone launch cycle at Engadget and the fanfare got to me. It seemed I couldn’t call myself a respectable member of the tech world if I didn’t own any of the shiny new tech. So I headed to the Apple store on the iPhone…
Read MorePixel Watch 3 review: Google finally got it right, especially with the battery life
2024 might just be Google’s year – for its Pixel-branded hardware, at least. After impressing us with the Pixel 9 phones, the company is ready to release the Pixel Watch 3. Spoiler alert: It continues the trend of this year’s Pixel hardware feeling more mature and ready to take on…
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The retro Barbie flip phone arrives in October, only 15 months after the movie
HMD’s Barbie Phone, the novelty device for Y2K-nostalgic hot pink aficionados, finally has pricing and release info. The Mattel-sanctioned champion of tardy movie tie-ins launches in October — only 15 months after Greta Gerwig’s movie hit theaters! — for $129. The handset is the creation of Human Mobile Devices (HMD),…
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