OnePlus launched its first smartwatch nearly three years ago, in 2021, and since then it almost seemed like the company has given up on smartwatches. That original OnePlus Watch got a lukewarm reception: users and reviewers complained about a number of bugs and stuttery performance, and its sports capabilities were lackluster too. For OnePlus that … Read more
Intro The OnePlus 12 and the OnePlus 12R are the never-settling company’s latest duo of flagship offerings for 2024. The OnePlus 12 is the phone that brings the best features, with all the high-end hardware and the unmatched OnePlus user experience. However, the flagship isn’t coming alone: joining forces with the OnePlus 12 is the … Read more
Galaxy A35 5G Intro Samsung’s latest affordable mid-range phone is the Galaxy A35 5G, coming in at a nice $369. This year, the Galaxy A3x series will be even more important statestide, as the higher-specced Galaxy A55 5G won’t be coming to the US market, leaving the A35 as Samsung’s sole option if you want … Read more
Samsung Galaxy A15 5G Intro Samsung starts the year with a bang, and while most people focus on the flagship Galaxy S24 series, Samsung has a new super affordable budget phone too. That phone is the Samsung Galaxy A15 5G. It works on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, and it costs just $200 (or even less … Read more
But Mr. Tan’s passion, as it is for a growing number of tech industry leaders, is San Francisco politics. He is one of a cadre of love-them-or-hate-them tech executives and investors with lots of opinions about the city and endless piles of cash to, as they say in the tech industry, move fast and break … Read more
Intro Samsung raised the bar with the Galaxy S24 Ultra, but at MWC 2024, we witnessed another flagship contender worthy of fighting for the Android crown – the Honor Magic 6 Pro. Both phones have some pretty interesting features, and even though they look different at first glance, there’s real rivalry here.Both sport very bright … Read more
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week, we look at a mess of corporate drama in artificial intelligence. Stability AI has announced that its founder and C.E.O., Emad Mostaque, is leaving the company. Meanwhile, Microsoft hired away two of the co-founders and much of the staff of Inflection, … Read more
, Oppo again proves that it is always a step or two before the competition, even the Apple-Samsung duopoly that suffocates US carrier rosters. Just like Samsung, Oppo pulled the release of its first 2024 flagship forward, and named it the Find X7 Ultra, as if to leave little doubt whose flagship phone it will … Read more
Intro Ever since Apple introduced the M-series processors in its iPad range, these little devices have become real powerhouses. Well, calling a 12.9-inch tablet little is a bit of a stretch, but it’s not a MacBook, and you have a small 11-inch option that you can do so much with. Now, it’s March already, and … Read more
General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry. The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the … Read more