Category: Others

February 19, 2019

Even before most phone makers have launched their first 5G handsets, Qualcomm, the company behind the chips powering many of these smartphones, is already thinking about the second generation. Today, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X55 5G modem, its follow-up […]

February 19, 2019

Sphero, the Colorado-based connected toy company, has had a successful, conventional run making sphere-shaped, smartphone-controlled robots. But for its next launch, Sphero is taking a different path to retail: a Kickstarter campaign. Adam Wilson, co-founder and chief creative officer, tells […]

January 7, 2019

The next generation of Wi-Fi is starting to arrive, and today TP-Link is unveiling its first family of next-gen products. There are six devices in total, ranging from high-end routers to a range extender, all of which use the new […]

November 19, 2018

If you’ve got a new Mac mini and you’ve already got a keyboard that works with it, you’re sorted. Plug that in and use it forever —or until you start to miss some features that you can get in alternatives […]

June 21, 2018

“Technical hurdles” are reportedly the main reason why the AirPower Qi charging mat hasn’t been released yet. According to sources familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg on Thursday morning, Apple engineers are also dealing with bugs in firmware further […]

May 16, 2018

The new Surface may ship as soon as the second half of 2018, and shrink from the 12.3 inches of the Surface Pro to about 10 inches, Bloomberg sources said. Microsoft is also claimed to be rounding off the edges […]

April 27, 2018

Engadget reports that Apple is bowing out of the router business. It’s discontinuing its AirPort and Time Capsule base stations; the company will sell the remaining devices in its warehouses, and continue to offer support and patches in the future. […]

January 23, 2018

The HomePod is designed to work with an Apple Music subscription. It learns preferences and tastes that are shared across devices. HomePod’s Siri implementation can handle advanced searches within Apple Music’s catalog, so users can ask questions like, “Hey Siri, […]

October 10, 2017

A new survey suggests that the average American household has expanded over the last five years to own 2.6 Apple-made products —with 64 percent of all Americans owning an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, or iPod product. The CNBC All-America […]

June 15, 2017

Roughly a third of people in the U.S. are interested in Apple’s Siri-based HomePod, though they’re more likely to buy an Amazon Echo in practice, survey results suggested on Wednesday. Of 2,200 polled adults, 33 percent said they were interested […]