Lori Grunin

Razer Junglecat puts Joy

Attaching a game controller to your phone while on the go can be a clunky, annoying production, and many mobile games can feel nonresponsive, awkward or just impossible when you’re chronically fatfingered. Razer hopes to solve that problem with its new Junglecat, which provides Nintendo Switch Joy-Con-like controllers for Android phones. Initially, the $100 (£100, AU$168) …

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Razer Viper Ultimate wireless esports mouse enters HyperSpeed

Razer seems to be aiming for the title of “fastest wireless mouse on the planet” with its new Viper Ultimate, a more-than-just-wireless version of its recently released Viper esports-targeted gaming mouse. It introduces a host of new and updated technologies, including a 20,000 dots-per-inch sensor and improved wireless bandwidth and stability over its previous mice — and, Razer claims, better …

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Google Stadia’s latest bummer: Even Founders may not be able to play on Day 1

Google Stadia takes its place in the pantheon of eagerly awaited gaming products for which prelaunch downers gradually trickle out, steadily dampening gamers’ ardor. Now it’s dawned on some Reddit users that even if they paid $129 for the Founder’s Edition or the more recently offered Premiere Edition to be the first online, they may not receive the necessary code to access …

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Fujifilm X

Following in the philosophical footsteps of the Leica M10-D, Fujifilm’s taking the less-is-more approach for the next generation of its rangefinder-style mirrorless, the X-Pro3. It’s designed to be used with the LCD closed to minimize distractions, instead displaying a small status LCD with information like shutter speed, aperture and ISO on it. The camera also inherits the better sensor and …

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 vs. Apple MacBook Air: 13

Microsoft’s recent Surface Laptop 3 updates to its Surface Laptop line fall into two camps. The 13-inch model, an upgrade to the Surface Laptop 2, offers the bare minimum of enhancements (or less) it needs to compete in the crowded field of lightweights with prices in the $1,000-or-so range. It gets a bump to the 10th-gen Intel processor with the …

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Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition is ready for your video editing on the go

Razer was one of Nvidia’s announcement partners for the Quadro RTX 5000 mobile graphics processor and Nvidia Studio marketing push back in May, and while we’ve known what the configurations would be for the Razer Blade Studio Editions, price and availability were elusive. At least part of the mystery has been solved: The Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition, based on …

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Olympus OM

Four years on, Olympus is finally showing its middle child some love. The OM-D E-M5 Mark III, an enthusiast mirrorless camera sandwiched between the performance-focused OM-D E-M1 Mark II and E-M1X above and the entry-level OM-D E-M10 Mark II below, has been languishing as a Mark II since February 2015. And now, like many a middle child, it’s ready to …

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Pixel 4 and every Made by Google 2019 announcement: Pixel Buds, Pixelbook Go, Google Stadia

Google’s annual Made by Google event fully confirmed the details that have been leaking out for weeks regarding the company’s new Pixel 4 and 4 XL phones (read our in-depth Pixel 4 review and Pixel 4 XL review here) and other hardware, including the buzzy Pixel Buds 2 earphones and Pixelbook Go Chromebook laptop. That big phone reveal ended the string of …

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Razer hopes Blade 15’s new optical keyboard clicks with gamers

If you love clicky, tactile keyboards — or frankly, are at all picky about the feel of a keyboard — chances are you can’t stand the quiet but shallow-travel, mushy keyboard on the Razer Blade 15 line of laptops. So Razer went back to the drawing board for its thin-and-light gaming laptop and emerged with a new low-profile optical switch …

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Nikon Z50 APS

Nikon’s not exactly late to the mirrorless party. It was there in the early days with its Nikon 1 series, an odd line based around a 1-inch sensor which eventually fizzled away. But it is the last company to bring an APS-C enthusiast model to a market segment dominated by the Sony A6400 and Canon EOS M50, and to a …

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