Are you curious about the blockchain-based HTC phone reported this week? Well, this is not that phone. It’s another HTC phone expected on May 23: the flagship HTC U12+. Want to know more? Noted gadget blogger Evan Blass posted photos and even what seems to be an entire three-page spec sheet (and embargo details) of the …

Apple promised a revolution with the iPhone X when it was first announced on September 12, 2017. At the time, I was skeptical. What I mainly wanted was a perfect size, nothing too big. I wanted less bezel. I was also excited by the possibilities of not having a home button. And I wanted it to advance AR in some way. …

Google didn’t mention its smart-fabric jacket platform, Jacquard, at its recent developer conference. But the Levi’s Commuter smart jacket is getting an update that could be pretty helpful, starting next week, if you happen to own one. Google With a button tap from its cuff, the jacket can now work with ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft. Unfortunately, it doesn’t call …

Google and Qualcomm are working on a next generation of smartwatches that should be arriving this fall, and more possible details continue to arrive during this year’s Google developer conference. Google is expected to finally make its own watch through its internal hardware division — or its own watches, according to the latest report from German tech site Winfuture.de. The …

The future of Google VR needs to work better with my hands. But…maybe not just yet. Google’s next wave of VR just arrived a few days ago, in the form of a standalone headset called the Lenovo Mirage Solo. It’s an impressive demonstration of how VR will start to involve larger-scale tracking. But it doesn’t have a new, next-generation set …

Odds are, the next big wave of Google smartwatches are coming later this year. In the meantime, Google’s updating Wear OS (formerly Android Wear) with a few key upgrades. In addition to a better on-board Google Assistant, Google’s added battery-saving functions to the new developer build of Wear OS, the company announced Wednesday. The key parts of that involve re-enabling …

If a new Apple Watch debuts this fall, Google is likely to have a major new smartwatch (or watches) debuting right alongside it, powered by Qualcomm chips. Pankaj Kedia, senior director and business lead for Qualcomm’s Smart Wearables Segment, said as much yesterday in a story reported by Wareable. But I sat down at Google’s I/O developers conference with Kedia and …

Years ago, Google Glass was pitched as a magic eye on the real world. I wore one. It never did what people really thought it could do. The crazy thing is, Google is getting to that magic world fast… through phones. The latest updates to Google Lens — demoed at this week’s Google I/O developers conference, and coming soon to …

Will my 9-year-old start making VR projects when he’s in junior high? I think it’s likely, after seeing what Google has in store with Tour Creator. The tool is a surprise announcement at this year’s Google I/O conference aimed at the education market, and unlike previous educational VR efforts, this one’s about creating. Google’s first educational dives into VR, years ago, …

When will we start to experience multiplayer augmented reality that blends a shared space between phones? Oh, in the next couple of weeks. While AR and VR announcements were generally on the quiet front at this year’s Google I/O Developer Conference, a new update to Google’s ARCore called Cloud Anchors is extremely exciting. Let me explain, because I just played …