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...

At some point between CES announcements and MWC reveals, someone at RayNeo had a genuinely inspired idea. They had built the world’s first AR glasses with HDR10 support, partnered with Bang & Olufsen on the audio, and engineered a display that could hold its own against high-end monitors. The product was...

The FIFA World Cup, the world’s biggest sporting event, is just a few months away. While there are some issues cropping up in the host countries (specifically the US and Mexico; Canada seems to be doing just fine), brand tie-ups are in full swing with global partners such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, Visa, Qatar Airways,...

Bluetooth speakers have largely solved the portability problem and mostly failed the living room one. They tend to look like gym equipment that wandered indoors, sit awkwardly on a shelf, and demand a ritual of reconnecting whenever you walk back in the door. The moto sound flow, Motorola’s first portable speaker and...

There’s a specific kind of buyer’s remorse that comes with midrange phones. You get them home, take your first few photos in decent light, and think you made the right call. Then comes the dinner, the concert, the sunset that lasted about 45 seconds, and suddenly you’re squinting at a muddy, blown-out mess,...