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February 17, 2026
Now Pixel 9 phones can transfer files with AirDrop, too
When Google announced it had engineered AirDrop compatibility for its Pixel 10 phones late last year, the pessimists among us figured it would be a matter of days before Apple shut it down. But not...
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February 17, 2026
Who needs a laptop when you have a folding phone?
The first rule of Purse Computer is to check your bag before you leave the house. A few days ago, I took a 15 minute walk to a nearby coffee shop thinking I had my new folding keyboard in my bag - ...
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February 11, 2026
Process Zero is even better with a little processing on the side
Something happens every time I try to use an iPhone camera like a real camera. Here's how it goes: I shoot RAW in addition to the default HEIC output, and since I have the RAW file I might as well ...
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February 10, 2026
Samsung’s next Unpacked is confirmed for later this month
Samsung's annual Galaxy S-series reveal is later than usual this year, but we finally have a confirmed date to circle on the calendar: February 25th. And if you were hoping for major hardware upgra...
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February 5, 2026
Can I offer you a tiny Bluetooth speaker in these trying times?
I knew as soon as I laid eyes on Vappeby that I had to have it. Sure, it would be right at home on my desk, given that everything in and around my workstation is from Ikea, from the Skadis on the w...
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January 28, 2026
Process Zero II will let you do a little processing, if you want
Popular iPhone camera app Halide is debuting a major update today: Halide Mark III. It's been years in the making, and it'll be available as a "Public Preview," letting users get their hands on new...
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January 28, 2026
My favorite folding phone is the one that doesn’t exist yet
A book-style folding phone is a gadget that poses one radical idea: What if you always had a computer in your pocket? When you'd like to be writing a blog while your plane is taking off, and large ...
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January 27, 2026
The Samsung Trifold will cost nearly three grand
Samsung's much-anticipated Galaxy Z Trifold goes on sale on this Friday, January 26th, and the price is every bit as steep as we'd feared: $2,899, which gets you 512GB of storage and a phone that k...
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January 24, 2026
Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar
By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple's business. So last week's news that it was enabling some...
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January 21, 2026
This midrange Android phone also runs Windows and Linux
Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your phone into a laptop, is working on something new: the NexPhone. It's a midrange phone that's designed to double as your computer an...
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January 21, 2026
Instagram’s top boss is missing the point about AI on the platform
A couple of weeks ago, Adam Mosseri posted to his grid. In a series of messages, Instagram's top exec laid out his concerns for the platform in the coming year, largely around AI. The post was equa...
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January 15, 2026
Apple lost the AI race — now the real challenge starts
For an AI loser, Apple did an awful lot of winning last year. The mess that was the Apple Intelligence rollout was embarrassing, to be sure, but through it all, the company kept doing what it does ...
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January 11, 2026
I went looking for weird phones and CES 2026 did not disappoint
It's January, which means there's a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before that happens, I managed to find phones of a different shape lurking around the corners of the CES c...
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January 7, 2026
Moto’s new tracking tag comes with a healthy battery boost
It's always refreshing when the new version of a product gets significantly better battery life than the last. And that's the case with the Moto Tag 2: Motorola's second-gen tracker tag can go more...
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January 5, 2026
I just want to keep unfolding the Samsung Z Trifold
Holding the Z Trifold confirmed my suspicions: it's a tablet with a phone attached. And after spending an hour folding and unfolding it, I'm pretty much ready to trade in the single-hinge foldable ...
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January 2, 2026
The Clicks Communicator is a Blackberry for your phone
You ever find yourself thinking, "I wish my phone had a phone?" Good news, friend. Clicks - the company behind the QWERTY keyboard case for your iPhone - has just the thing: the Clicks Communicator...
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January 2, 2026
The Clicks Power Keyboard is also a backup battery for your phone
Clicks is expanding beyond keyboard cases and bringing its QWERTY keys for phones to another format: a magnetic power bank accessory with a slide-out keyboard. The Power Keyboard offers a 2150mAh b...
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January 2, 2026
Punkt’s German-made MC03 smartphone comes to the US this spring
Punkt, the Switzerland-based, privacy-focused phone maker, is trying the whole "smartphone" thing again. The MC03 improves on some of the disappointing features of its previous effort, the MC02, wh...
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December 25, 2025
I re-created Google’s cute Gemini ad with my own kid’s stuffie, and I wish I hadn’t
When your kid starts showing a preference for one of their stuffed animals, you're supposed to buy a backup in case it goes missing. I've heard this advice again and again, but never got around to ...
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December 19, 2025
Phones were fashionable again in 2025
A year or two ago, when a phone showed up at my door for review, I could pretty much count on it being black, gray, or maybe (as a treat) white. But in 2025, that hasn't been the case. Phones I rev...
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December 17, 2025
OnePlus 15R review: unbeatable battery life, beatable value
The OnePlus 15R's battery life is exceptional. It's a smidge better than the very impressive OnePlus 15's, and the 15R costs two hundred dollars less. So why am I having a hard time recommending it...
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December 14, 2025
AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on smartphones and digital imagery - real or otherwise - follow Allison Johnson. The Stepba...
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December 12, 2025
A presidential refresher on wireless terminology, courtesy of Trump Mobile
Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In t...
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December 9, 2025
I’m obsessed with Redfin’s AI search
Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app. I don't want to brainstorm coverage options with an LLM every time I renew my car insurance. I'd much rather message a h...
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December 4, 2025
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos
I'm starting to understand where Google's visual AI model gets its name, because after playing around with it for a couple of days, that's how I'd sum it up: bananas. The images it generates are so...
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December 2, 2025
Samsung’s Z TriFold is official and it looks like a tablet with a phone attached
Samsung is officially announcing the Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable with not one, but two hinges. It’ll launch first in Korea on December 12th, with a US launch planned for the first quar...
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November 29, 2025
Anker’s handy little 3-port charger is just 35 bucks
Earlier this year, I decided to level up my travel game and invest in a charger to bring on trips, rather than raiding my desk outlets every time I packed. I needed a multitasker, something that co...
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November 29, 2025
The Fujifilm X Half is on sale for what it should have originally cost
Fujifilm’s unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year — from “That looks like so much fun,” to “Wait, it costs how much?“ Its $849.95 list price...
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November 29, 2025
The Android phone you should buy your dad is just $349
Not to generalize, but the Google Pixel 9A is a classic dad phone. It’s not fussy. It’s durable and scheduled to get software updates for the better part of a decade. It’s a solid deal at its full ...
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November 29, 2025
All the places I used my Trump Mobile wireless service this week
Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In t...
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