#battery-life

#battery-life

Companies like Samsung, Tecno, Honor, and Apple are actively locking horns here, shaving off precious millimeters off their phones to make them slimmer and sleeker, without really any strength tradeoff. The iPhone Air is a legitimately strong phone, and took over 200 lbs of pressure to break according to JerryRigEverything's strength test. The problem, however, with a slim phone isn't bendability or breakability... it's battery capacity.

Your Galaxy Watch is not so different from your phone or even a messy room. When put to great use, it, too, gets cluttered. By continually using your Galaxy Watch, regularly switching between apps and functionalities, or running too many apps at the same time, you're bogging it down with data that clutters it and slows performance. This results in slower performance, frozen screens, and an annoying user experience.

Motorola is ending the year strong, unveiling two new budget-friendly smartphones for people who want big screens, better cameras, and an all-day battery life. Meet the 2026 Moto G and Moto G Play. Earlier this year, I reviewed the 2025 Moto G and was impressed by the value it packed into a $200 device. It seems to me that this experience will carry over to the upcoming devices.

If you've been on the lookout for a reliable option with a bright screen, sleek design, and useful features, we recommend checking the Amazon Fire Max 11 tablet out, especially now that it's going at a discount on Amazon. The retailer is currently offering it for $189, which is a 32% discount on the retail price of $279. This version does not include lockscreen ads so you can enjoy a distraction-free, clean experience.

Choosing the right laptop can feel overwhelming -- even for someone like me, who has lived and breathed laptops for years. You get all these options, configurations, and feature lists that it's impossible not to know which is up and which is down. To make things easier for you, I'll break down laptops and their essentials into three broad usage categories: school, work, and gaming.

The good news is, these sound way better than the previous generation of Pixel Buds Pro, with upgraded drivers and better processing. They have a wide soundstage, particularly for wireless earbuds, that our reviewer Parker Hall says provides an energetic and joyous listening experience and handles a variety of genres with grace. Google made some big improvements to the active noise-canceling as well, boosting it to levels that almost match Bose and Sony, the current top tier of ANC.

They're incredibly detailed, particularly for earbuds, regardless of your favorite genre. Our reviewer Ryan Waniata "had a lovely time letting the buds loose across [his] whole music library" and had high praise for the excellent dynamics and precision. If you're an audio nerd who wants every note to stand out and shine, these are a great pick, particularly without the high price barrier.

The Snapdragon X Plus processor with 10 cores marks a major change in Windows computing: It offers performance that competes with Apple's M3 chip while using less power. This ARM-based design runs cooler and more efficiently than traditional Intel or AMD processors. It leads to a 14-hour battery life which makes all-day work sessions feasible without searching for outlets. The integrated NPU processes AI tasks locally on your device: It handles Copilot+ features without sending your data to the cloud, and keeps your information private

Once-weekly charging Its massive 628mAh battery has a unique dual display design for low-power standby use. That equates to an advertised 90 hours -- nearly four days -- of battery life in smart mode and up to 45 days in Essential Mode. Even better yet, just 30 minutes of fast charging provides up to two days of battery life.

We're in that part of the year where smartphone makers duke it out for the proverbial heavyweight belt. In the United States, Apple's iPhone tends to be the undisputed champ year after year. The challengersalmost exclusively Google and Samsungare young and hungry's preferred by some tech editors, but ultimately fall short on cultural impact or widespread appeal. The fact that there is an entire subsection of internet jokes focusing on "green text bubbles" proves that more than any real stat could.

I consume a firehose of online content every day as part of my job. At some point in the last week, through a post, comment, or video I can no longer remember, I became aware of a shortcut for tinkering with the brightness on my Switch 2. Turns out this existed on the original Switch as well. All you have to do his hold down the home button to instantly bring up the slider. Eureka!

Look, I love my iPhone 16 Pro Max as much as anyone else. It's top of its class. But that doesn't mean there aren't other great options out there, especially if you're looking for something, well, different. Like, say, a bendable masterpiece that transforms you into a productivity powerhouse. Yes, I'm talking about a foldable phone. Specifically, I'm talking about Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 that I'm tempted to make my main phone.

You could certainly peruse our list of the best travel mugs, which is packed with fancy double-walled, vacuum-insulated options, but if you constantly have icy hands, you might consider scooping up the Ember Travel Mug 2+, which has an actual heater inside. It's currently marked down by $40 at Best Buy, bringing the price down to just $160. While I did spot the reduced price at Amazon as well, at publication time the shipping date was a range of November 9-30.

You don't need to be training for the New York Marathon to benefit from a GPS running watch that understands your fitness level. Most people just want to run a few miles without guessing their pace, track progress over time and maybe figure out why some runs feel easier than others. The Garmin Forerunner 55 handles all of that without the overwhelming feature bloat of flagship models, and Amazon just dropped it to an all-time low of $169, down from its usual $199 price.

The Aura Ink uses a 13.3-inch E Ink Spectra 6 panel and is designed to live on your wall for months at a time before it needs a recharge. I've been testing one for the past week on my own wall, where it has mostly displayed family photos that were otherwise relegated to Google Photos albums, and that has been genuinely delightful.

Maybe I'm just too much of an audio snob to fully enjoy a portability-focused speaker, but sometimes bigger is better in the audio space, and with speakers, that's partly just a matter of physics. Bigger speakers move more air, which in turn equates to more bass, higher volume, and often, less distortion. Nevertheless, you're not going to catch me walking around with a car-sized boombox any time soon, which means some level of compromise in the audio department is always inevitable.

Fit: If you're going to be wearing these for anywhere from 30 minutes to four hours, you are going to want them to be comfortable. If you take them out and your ears are sore or itchy, that's not going to fun. They can't be sliding out of your ears, either. You also have to take into account what style you preferif you like ear hooks or a headband for the extra stability.

Apple just unveiled the first glimpses of its new 14-inch MacBook Pro with the , promising 3.5 times more AI performance, 24 hours of battery life, and faster, overall storage: up to 4TB. AI is at the forefront of the M5 MacBook Pro's feature set, with the latest-gen GPU bringing an enhanced neural engine and higher memory bandwidth to the table, translating to overall better performance running on-device LLMs. To compare, Apple says the M5's 10-core GPU delivers six times faster AI performance than the M1.

It features a 10-core CPU with 4x performance units and 6x efficiency units, alongside an all-new 10-core GPU that includes a Neural Accelerator in each core. Apple claims 3.5x faster performance for AI workflows, compared to the M4 model and a 6x jump from the M1 generation. The M5 gets a 16-core Neural Engine and a 20% jump in multithreaded performance. The new chip also features a 30% jump in memory bandwidth, which now comes in at 153GB/s.

Once you've set the equalizer, they start to really shine, with a bigger, more boomy sound that I haven't found on similarly-priced headset. There's an available richness that's really impressive, and you can hear it when you flick the EQ on and off in the app. With the preset profiles applied, games really come to life, with the right pings and pops of action games cutting through, and music in cinematic games swelling dramatically. There are EQ profiles for most games;