With the next Apple Watch likely to debut this week, Qualcomm has launched an early smartwatch counterpunch. Qualcomm’s next-generation smartwatch chip platform, Snapdragon Wear 3100, will be in Google WearOS watches starting this holiday, starting with the Montblanc Summit 2 watch in October. The new chips were first teased by Qualcomm at Google’s developer conference …

I wake up. I reach for the iPhone X. I pick it up in the dark, face half-smushed in the pillow. I feel the haptic rattle. The iPhone X won’t recognize my face. It’s frustrating, because there’s no denying that Face ID is an amazing technology: Bleary-eyed wakeups notwithstanding, it works most of the time, and it’s the best facial …

 Apple Watch, Apple Watch Series 2, Apple Watch Series 3. The naming convention suits Apple’s approach to its watch updates. They’ve felt like gradual iterations, not huge leaps.  The basic design of the Apple Watch, and even most of its key functions, have remained largely the same, with speed and extra features added on over time: GPS, water resistance, cellular …

Apple’s September 12 event should bring new iPhones and a new Apple Watch, at the very least. And we may now know what the next watch looks like. A report from 9to5Mac’s Zac Hall claims this is an exclusive look at the next watch. The story appeared this afternoon, alongside a reported exclusive look at the next, larger, iPhone XS. At …

The competition among smartwatches and fitness wearables is heating up like never before: Fitbit has a new model, there’s a new Samsung smartwatch and Apple is expected to have a new watch soon. Not surprisingly, Google is upping its game, too: The company’s line of Wear OS smartwatches is getting some overdue software updates starting the middle of September, alongside …

The great smartwatch showdown is underway, and one of the most stylish Google WearOS smartwatches is getting a big set of fitness updates. The Skagen Falster 2, arriving Sept. 12 — possibly the same day as Apple’s next Watch unveiling — does look more promising than the good-looking but bare-bones first-generation Falster watch from earlier this year.  The Falster 2 …

Note 9 phones, Bixby smart speakers, Galaxy smartwatches, Spotify partnerships, Fortnite exclusives and even a little toss-in mention of AR. Samsung’s latest Unlocked phone event had everything. Except for one technology the company’s been pushing for years. VR. I realized it only after I left the event in Brooklyn. After I’d worn smartwatches and looked at speakers and played Fortnite …

Floating holograms. Space-age goggles. The Magic Leap One, the mysterious augmented reality headset, has been promised for so many years, it started to seem as unreal as the worlds it supposedly creates. We’re here to tell you: Magic Leap is a real thing. Its debut headset is now available to buy, but at $2,295 with availability in only a few …

Magic Leap’s augmented-reality vision started as a comic book. And I’ve read it. The same art in the lobby at the check-in desk at Magic Leap’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters is from a comic that Andy Lanning, co-creator of Marvel’s 2008 revamp of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic and now Magic Leap’s executive creative director, wrote along with Rony Abovitz …

Google’s Daydream VR platform has YouTube, Google Streetview, and now it has Chrome. A VR-ready version of Google’s Android Chrome app is now available to download to work with Daydream VR-ready phones, or on the standalone Lenovo Mirage Solo headset, Google announced today. It’s an overdue move, since Facebook’s standalone Oculus Go VR headset already has a built-in web browser, …