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Most years, you leave Barcelona with a notebook full of announcements and a mental list of things you’ll forget by April. Incremental updates dressed up as revolutions. Concept phones that will never ship. Folding screens nobody asked for, made slightly less fragile than the ones from the year before. This year felt different. A few […]
Best of MWC 2026: The Tech That Actually Stopped Us in Barcelona Read More
Every sim racer who’s used a Logitech wheel knows the frustration. The Driving Force Shifter looked like an afterthought: thin plastic housing, mushy gear engagement, and after a few months of hard racing, internal contacts that started wearing down until gear positions got unreliable. For $50, it technically worked. But “technically works” isn’t what you
This $160 sim racing shifter fixes everything wrong with Logitech’s old one Read More
Most duffel bags share the same flaw. Once packed, they collapse into a fabric cave where finding anything becomes a scavenger hunt. The shape collapses the moment you set it down. The zipper eventually fails at the worst possible time, usually at an airport or a trailhead. RUX thinks that’s ridiculous. The Canadian gear company
This Zipper-Free Duffel Bag Opens Like a Cupboard and Stands on Its Own Read More
Small phones don’t sell like they used to. Most brands dropped compact flagships years ago, chasing bigger screens and bigger batteries because that’s what moves units. Vivo didn’t get that memo. The X300 fits a 200MP Zeiss camera, a Dimensity 9500 chip, and a 6,040mAh battery into a body that’s 6.31 inches across and weighs
Vivo’s X300 Proves Small Phones Don’t Need Small Cameras Read More
ARTICLE – Most speaker companies drop new products that replace what came before. Sonos is going the other direction. The company today announced Sonos Play and Sonos Era 100 SL, two speakers priced at $299 and $189 that expand an existing system rather than reset it. Both are up for pre-order now at sonos.com, with
Sonos Goes Back to Basics With Play and Era 100 SL Read More
ARTICLE – The night before MWC officially opened, AGIBOT brought a robot to the Palacio Real de Pedralbes in Barcelona. The crowd at Showstoppers had come to see new gadgets. What they got was a 131 centimeter machine performing a martial arts sequence, then hip hop choreography, then dropping into a full split on the
AGIBOT’s X2 did a full split at MWC 2026 and you can already rent one Read More
ARTICLE – OPPO and MediaTek showed up at MWC 2026 in Barcelona this week with on-device AI features that feel ahead of schedule. Their work runs on MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 chip, and it brings tools that usually need a cloud connection straight to the phone. The biggest reveal is an AI model called Omni that
These Phones See What You See and Talk to iPhones Without an App Read More
Apple hasn’t released a new MacBook this colorful since, well, ever. We featured the MacBook Neo earlier when it was still unofficial, pieced together from leaked regulatory filings and an accidental PDF on Apple’s own website. Now Apple has made it real. The MacBook Neo is the company’s new entry-level laptop, and it arrives on
10 Things to Know About Apple’s Most Colorful MacBook Yet Read More
If you thought 5G was still settling in, Qualcomm, Google, and Samsung made it clear at Mobile World Congress 2026 that the wireless industry has already moved on. For Qualcomm, CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage in Barcelona and laid out a vision for the 6G network that goes way beyond faster download speeds. He
The Race To 6G: Qualcomm Reveals 60 Companies Are Already Committed To The Network Read More
ARTICLE – Huawei has used titanium on lifestyle watches before, but never on something built specifically for runners. The Watch GT Runner 2 changes that, wrapping serious running tech inside an aerospace-grade titanium case that feels built for a different price bracket. We got hands-on time with it at MWC 2026, and the combination of
8 Things to Know About Huawei’s Titanium Running Watch Read More
NEWS – For years, smartwatch chips felt like an afterthought. Phone processors got faster, laptop chips got smarter, and the silicon inside your wrist stayed a generation behind. At MWC 2026, Qualcomm changed that with the Snapdragon Wear Elite, and among the first brands to adopt it is one that caught people off guard: Samsung.
The Smartwatch Chip Race Just Got Its Biggest Shakeup in Years Read More
There’s a common assumption about iPad refreshes: if the price stays the same and the shell looks identical, nothing meaningful changed. Apple counts on that assumption every cycle, and most of the time it holds up. The iPad Air has been the safe mid-range pick since the M1, good enough to impress, never quite powerful
This iPad Air looks the same but something important shifted inside Read More
NEWS – Tecno arrived at MWC Barcelona 2026 with a spread that’s hard to ignore. Under the theme “Pioneering the Connection of Intelligence,” the company unpacked its CAMON 50 series, the POVA 8 lineup, a connected AI ecosystem stretching across multiple device categories, and a modular concept phone that might be the most fun thing
Tecno at MWC 2026: CAMON 50, POVA 8, and more Read More
Every phone screen is a tradeoff. AMOLED panels deliver the deep blacks and punchy colors that make everything from photos to video look stunning, but they also blast concentrated light directly into your retinas for hours on end. Paper-like displays ease that strain considerably, yet they’ve always come at a cost: muted colors, lower brightness,
TCL Found a Way to Make AMOLED Screens Feel Like Paper Read More
NEWS – Motorola has spent the last few years carving out its name in foldables with the Razr flip phone line, a series that leaned hard into compact design and nostalgia-fueled marketing. The Razr Fold is something else entirely. First shown at Lenovo Tech World in Las Vegas and fully detailed at MWC 2026 in
The flip phone brand just made a book-style foldable Read More
NEWS – Glasses-free 3D on a creator laptop. A foldable gaming handheld that turns into a desktop. A modular AI PC that lets you swap its ports. Lenovo’s MWC 2026 lineup doesn’t play it safe, and the production hardware behind the concepts is just as loaded. The company brought four concept machines, a new ambient
NEWS – The camera on the back of HONOR’s new phone follows you around a room. Not digitally, not through a crop or a zoom. The actual camera module physically rotates and tilts on a motorized gimbal to stay locked on you as you move. And when you ask it a yes-or-no question, it nods.
The First Phone That Nods Back Read More
NEWS – I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve tilted my phone away from a stranger on a plane, cupped my hand over the screen while typing a password at a coffee shop, or angled it weirdly during a train commute so the person standing over my shoulder couldn’t read my messages. These are
The Galaxy S26 Ultra just made every privacy screen protector obsolete Read More
NEWS – Creator laptop collaborations usually stop at co-branded stickers and a logo swap. ASUS and GoPro went somewhere different with the ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition, and it’s now available in the United States starting at $2,999.99. I’ve had this laptop on my desk, and I wanted to share what I know so far. This
ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition Now Available: Price, Where to Buy, and What I Love So Far Read More
NEWS – Google launched the Pixel 10a today, and if you were hoping for a full redesign of the A-series, this isn’t it. The $499 starting price hasn’t moved. Most of the spec sheet reads like a copy-paste from the 9a. What Google did change sits in two spots that actually matter when you’re living
Google Pixel 10a: 7 Things That Changed (and Didn’t) Read More