Apple's latest attempt to slightly differentiate the iPhone 16 series is… a faux button it's calling Camera Control. But unlike last year's new button, this one doesn't actually physically depress, and uses a mix of sensors and haptic…
Continue reading "iPhone 16 Pro hands-on: How does a faux camera control button feel so real?"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 mor…
Continue reading "Pixel Watch 3 review: Google finally got it right, especially with the battery life"Welcome back to another Engadget Review Recap (or as I prefer to call it, ERR). This is the second edition of a mostly bi-weekly series rounding up the reviews that our team has published, as well as some insight on what’s coming, what we skipped and h…
Continue reading "Engadget review recap: The Pixel 9 phones are surprisingly great, in spite of their price"What a week to kick off a new review recap series on Engadget. Google held its Made By Google event on Tuesday, launching the Pixel 9 lineup and the Pixel Watch 3. Since then, though, it's already had to admit to a mistake in one of the forms it ha…
Continue reading "Engadget review recap: Dyson’s non-weird headphones and Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon"If you thought Google might be taking a break after unveiling new Pixel 9 devices at its Made By Google event this week, you would be mistaken. A recent post on Threads appears to show part of the sign-up form to receive Pixel devices, and the language…
Continue reading "Google acknowledges it ‘missed the mark’ with onerous demands for Pixel 9 influencers"It's been three years since Google completed its acquisition of Fitbit. Since then, the company has launched three new smartwatches under the Pixel brand, including the Pixel Watch 3 at today's Made By Google event. Meanwhile, Fitbit's not …
Continue reading "Waiting for a new Fitbit smartwatch? Google says that’s the Pixel Watch 3"About 50 percent of my photo album is receipts. That is, screenshots of everything I consider even mildly interesting. Whether it’s Uber drivers who never seem to be getting closer, hot tea from my friend’s Instagram Stories or unfathomable email threa…
Continue reading "The Pixel Screenshots app uses AI to scour the screengrabs I can’t remember why I saved"One size never did fit all, especially not for a device as personal as a wearable. The fact that the first two generations of the Pixel Watch were only available in one size was one of my biggest complaints about it. The good news is, that changes with…
Continue reading "Pixel Watch 3 hands-on: A bigger size, bigger screen and bigger battery promises"Ahead of the full release of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia and more, Apple continues to bring updates to the betas it's made available to early testers. Today, the company has dropped the fifth developer beta to those platforms, and with it com…
Continue reading "Safari beta lets you selectively block distractions like pop-ups"Don't call it AI, but Apple's long-awaited take on artificial intelligence is finally rolling out today. Well, in limited form, anyway. The developer betas for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 just dropped, and they include some of …
Continue reading "Apple Intelligence is here, as part of the iOS 18.1 developer beta"