Ben Schoon

The original Pixel Fold was a good start for Google’s foldable ambitions, but it didn’t age well and was quickly replaced by the drastically better Pixel 9 Pro Fold. But, if you’ve been itching to try a foldable without the crazy cost, the original Pixel Fold is a worthwhile start at its limited-time price of $599.

The flip phone market has a new entrant in Samsung’s more affordable Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE – short for “Fan Edition” – and, while that’s exciting in itself, I’m not sure Samsung’s option holds any ground up against the base Motorola Razr which, for 2025, is about as good as you could ask a more-affordable foldable flip phone to be.

Meta has a new generation of Ray-Ban smart glasses in the pipeline, and the designs have just leaked.

If your home has any of Belkin’s Wemo products, the connected devices will cease to operate in early 2026.

Google has launched its first Android Auto 14.8 update in beta which sets the stage of the death of Assistant and arrival of Gemini, while also apparently bringing a useful tweak to Google Maps.

YouTube is rolling out, or at least widely testing, a new video player design for its web experience that feels much different.

The Galaxy Z Flip 7 is an undersung achievement in Samsung’s latest foldable portfolio, with the flip phone delivering the first significant hardware improvement in years. It’s arguably as big of an update as the Fold 7, but Samsung’s stubborn refusal to give in has left that upgrade with an annoying asterisk.

Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 8 series brings a new design language, but also ditches one of the appealing parts of past generations by making a proprietary connector that works more like the attachments on Pixel Watch and Apple Watch.

Samsung is making a controversial change with the Galaxy Z Fold 7 by removing S Pen support from the foldable entirely, all in the pursuit of making a thinner and more durable device.

The foldable market as we know it today exists because of Samsung, but to say the company fumbled its lead is an understatement. The company’s foldables over the past few years have been stagnant, boring, and arguably insulting to customers amid rapidly improving competition in other parts of the world. But, finally, Samsung is giving in and acknowledging that it needed to catch up, and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 are a tremendous showing of what the company is capable of when it actually hits the gas.

In its biggest hardware update since 2020’s Galaxy Z Fold 2, Samsung is launching the Galaxy Z Fold 7 today with a drastically thinner design, bigger displays, and a higher price too.

Available now, select Garmin smartwatches are picking up an official Google Maps app that, of course, is free to download.

If you’ve updated to Android 16 and noticed that your Google Pixel device is slower to wake up or get past the lockscreen, you’re not alone.

The Nothing Phone (3) is a device that was always going to come with mixed reactions. But after spending a week with it, I’m a pretty big fan. Why? Because, regardless of what the marketing says, it gets the fundamentals absolutely right,

Google’s new AI Mode is a built-in part of the Pixel Launcher’s search bar whether you like it or not, but the company appears to be building out a way to turn it off.

Samsung is preparing to launch a new update to the Galaxy Watch Ultra, but it’s barely different. So, with that in mind, Samsung’s Prime Day deal on the existing Galaxy Watch Ultra is pretty compelling, as the smartwatch is 50% off with no strings attached.

Google Maps is perhaps one of the most influential apps ever, with the service having been available for two decades now. But what if it had launch a bit earlier? A fun new design video imagines what Google Maps would have looked like on those old, iconic Nokia phones in the early 2000s.

OnePlus has two new products launching today, with its smaller 43mm version of the OnePlus Watch 3 now available widely, and we’re also getting a new pair of earbuds in the OnePlus Buds 4.

“Pro” smartphones always seem to draw the short straw when it comes to colors, but Google is apparently making matters worse on the upcoming Pixel 10 Pro series by restricting the only actual color variant to only supporting 256GB of storage, and interestingly still also starting with 128GB of storage.