At a press conference last month, renowned home audio brand Sonos made a big deal out of how its sound bar with built-in Alexa is going to change smart speakers and sound bars …
Reviews
Cavalier Maverick review: Everything the Amazon Echo should be
Amazon invented the smart speaker market out of thin air when it first launched the Amazon Echo. Since Alexa first found her way into kitchens across the country, a host of other big …
This is the best robot vacuum money can buy
It’s 2018, and many things that once involved manual labor and human effort have been turned into an app. In my increasingly smart apartment, I can yell to turn the lights down, lock …
Nanoleaf Rhythm Edition review: Smart home lighting with a colorful twist
If you throw a rock in a home improvement store you’ll hit at least two dozen different home lighting solutions. There’s smart bulbs and dumb bulbs, island lights and track lighting, and so …
Huawei MateBook X Pro review: A laptop you absolutely have to try
I wouldn’t blame you if you had no idea that Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant that’s making plenty of waves in the mobile business right now, manufactures Windows laptops. But the fact is …
Doogee Mix 2 review: A huge screen, four cameras, and a couple of compromises
It’s been a very interesting year for smartphones. Samsung’s Galaxy line is hitting new highs while Apple’s iPhone X broke new ground with its edge-to-edge-to-edge display and sky-high price. But while these flagships …
HTC Vive Tracker review: A new way to experience virtual reality
The promise of virtual reality has always been to escape the bounds of your living room or office and enjoy an entirely new world where the same rules don’t apply. High-end VR headsets …
Razer Phone review: How to build a smartphone for gamers
Aside from the occasional tiny Chinese manufacturer, you really don’t see all that many new competitors in the smartphone space these days. There’s a couple of obvious reasons for that, of course, not …
Xiaomi Mi Note 3 review: What if the iPhone 8 ran Android?
Xiaomi has always had a somewhat unpredictable strategy when it comes to their mobile devices. Wild designs like the Mi Mix stand out the most, but the company’s smartphone lineup is packed with …
Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 review: A beast from the East
Today, bezel-less displays are the expectation for any flagship phone. If the screen doesn’t spill over two or more edges, it’s almost laughable to many gadget lovers and early adopters. It was, of …
This Surface Pro 4 lookalike costs less than half of the real deal, but you’d never know it
Can a sub-$500 PC tablet hybrid make you forget about Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 and embrace the increasingly popular direct-from-the-manufacturer purchasing model? Chinese gadget maker Chuwi believes it can, and the newly launched …
Moto Z2 Force review: The first modular phone that makes it all click
The first thing you have to know about the Moto Z2 Force is that without a Moto Mod on the back, you’re basically holding an unfinished design. The Z2 Force looks like a …
Review: Nintendo’s New 2DS XL is the best version of the 3DS for newcomers
Six years to the day after launching the original 3DS in the US, Nintendo is going to launch the sixth iteration of the handheld console. That’s a whole lot of releases for a …
