If you rely on a battery case to get enough juice to keep your Android devices powered throughout the day, you’re not alone. A lot of people depend on them for portable power and charging. But battery cases have some distinct downsides — they make your devices bulky and heavy at best and can hurt your wireless …

This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. With a multitude of models to chose from, it’s not easy to figure which headphone to buy these days. With that in mind, we’re highlighting several of our highest-rated wireless headphones — not all of them are pricey — to help narrow …

When you hear Razer — best known for its gaming laptops and accessories — is releasing a new noise-canceling headphone, the first thing you probably ask yourself is whether it’s a gaming headphone. Surprisingly, when it comes to the new $200 Opus, the answer is no. It’s an everyday noise-canceling headphone that Razer hopes its gaming-oriented customers will buy instead …

Sound you can see: That’s the marketing motto for JBL’s Pulse 4, which is not only a good sounding portable Bluetooth speaker, but a mini light show you can program via a companion app. It’s on sale today only for $150, which is $100 off its list price of $250. It hit that price earlier this month, but it’s the …

Back in October, Amazon updated its value-price 10-inch tablet, the Fire HD 10, and now its popular Fire HD 8 gets a similar update, adding a faster processor, 2GB of RAM (up from 1.5), USB-C charging and 32GB of storage in the base 8-inch model (up from 16GB). The new model is $90, or $10 more than the previous HD …

Sony regularly releases new portable Bluetooth speakers each year and this year we get three new models, the least expensive of which, the SRS-XB23 ($100), is a completely new design — for Sony anyway. They’re available today for preorder and will ship in the next few weeks.  Available in multiple color options, all the models are IP67 waterproof (as well …

JBL’s Boombox Bluetooth portable party speaker, known for delivering big bass — and big sound — has a lot of fans. Not too long ago, the company released the next-gen Boombox 2, which sells for $500. As you might expect, the original has dropped in price. It’s been selling for $400, but now JBL’s chopped an additional $50 off, bringing …

Anker makes a few affordable AirPod alternatives that deliver truly excellent value for money. I like the $60 Soundcore Life P2, but the superior Soundcore Liberty Air 2 earbuds are now on sale for $80 ($20 off) at Amazon and other retailers such as Best Buy. They sound good and are a top model for making calls. Like the AirPods …

Along with new Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 laptops Microsoft on Wednesday released two new headphones: The Surface Headphones 2 and the Surface Earbuds. (The earbuds were announced last October and subsequently delayed till now.) Microsoft hadn’t previewed the full-size noise-canceling Headphones 2 at its Surface event last fall, but the originals are now about 18 months old, so …

This story is part of Mother’s Day Gift Guide. CNET editors round up the hottest gadgets for Mom this year. Once upon a time, headphones were prized for their usefulness while traveling — be it on a plane, a train, a subway or any crowded venue in between. But with the worldwide coronavirus outbreak, the utility of headphones has flip-flopped: …