There’s a particular kind of friction that comes with using AI during moments that actually matter. You’re in a meeting or a keynote, and consulting your phone means breaking focus, fumbling with a screen, and silently signaling to everyone around you that you’d rather be somewhere else. Motorola’s 312 Labs...

The iPad has a funny relationship with its own potential. Apple builds these devices with silicon that outpaces many laptops, pairs them with displays that creative professionals genuinely covet, sandwiches everything into one impossibly sleek slab of glass and aluminum… and then just announces them without...

Solar charging on a laptop lid has been a niche curiosity since Samsung tried it with the NC215S netbook in 2011, a machine that needed two full hours of midday sun to buy you a single hour of runtime. Rough trade. The idea largely disappeared after that, surfacing occasionally in concept form, most recently with...

While other OEMs are working hard at smoothening software and hardware compatibility or fine-tuning camera array, TCL is quietly working on NXTPAPER display technology, to make sure users don’t have to choose between eye comfort and capability when picking up their next mobile device. The Chinese corporation has some...

The trifold idea has been tested to death on phones. Samsung, Huawei, and a handful of Chinese manufacturers have each taken their shot at folding a smartphone screen into thirds, with varying results. The Huawei Mate XT made headlines in 2024 as the world’s first mass-produced trifold phone, and then Huawei went...

Tech collaborations with fashion and luxury brands usually follow a familiar, slightly tired script. A logo goes on the back of an otherwise unchanged device, a press release says something about “shared values,” and that’s more or less it. So when TECNO announced its partnership with Tonino Lamborghini at MWC...

Every year, MWC arrives like a controlled flood of announcements, each one louder than the last. Cameras with more megapixels, batteries with bigger numbers, screens with higher refresh rates than the human eye can meaningfully appreciate. It’s easy to walk away from Barcelona with a head full of specs and no clear...

Long before today’s ultra-powerful handheld PCs began chasing console-grade performance in a portable shell, there was something undeniably charming about simpler gaming machines. The kind that fit easily into your pocket, turned on instantly, and transported you straight back to pixelated worlds without menus,...

The sticky note has outlasted every productivity trend that was supposed to replace it, and there’s a reason for that. Writing something down by hand, right when it occurs to you, is still the fastest way to keep an idea from slipping away. Digital apps, meanwhile, have the opposite problem: the moment you unlock...

The digital nomad bag has evolved past the obvious picks. Laptop, charger, earbuds, done. That kit worked five years ago when remote work meant answering emails from a beach hostel. Now, the people doing this full-time run dual-monitor editing setups from Lisbon apartments, take client calls from co-working spaces in...