When Apple Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams unveiled the cellular-capable Apple Watch Series 3 in Cupertino yesterday, he touted a fairly impressive 18-hour battery life. Indeed, Apple’s product page says “up to 18 hours,” and that “all day” figure matches the non-cellular Series 3 model, as well as last year’s Series 1 model, …

Apple’s September 12 event will undoubtedly be dominated by the iPhone. But let’s not forget: a new Apple TV and new Apple Watch are widely expected to be unveiled, too. While smartwatches seem to have gone into a slumber lately, many companies have suddenly gotten back in the game: Fitbit has a new fitness smartwatch. Garmin’s got one, too. Samsung’s …

A year ago, I put AirPods in my ears and they became a Reddit joke. Cigarettes in my ears. Hipster jewelry. Mini vape pipes. Dorkwear. Hell no. They were a Google Glass-level example of face-worn tech gone wrong. And then, people starting wearing them. After a September 2016 unveiling, AirPods didn’t start shipping until mid-December. As 2017 began, I slowly …

The man who made the Pebble watch is back on Kickstarter again, but this time he’s making an iPhone case. It sounds ridiculous, but according to Eric Migicovsky, there are greater things down the road, and he’s partnering with a former co-founder of Avegant and an engineer at Pebble to do it. Migicovsky last year sold his smartwatch company, Pebble, …

When Apple unveils its new high-end iPhone on Sept. 12, it’s widely expected to do away with the most iconic part of its handset: the home button. If the rumors are true, the all-screen design of the so-called iPhone 8 means no room for a bottom bezel, and thus no room for a physical home button (and its Touch ID fingerprint …

Everyone laughed at AirPods when they were announced a year ago. Now, consumers are buying them faster than Apple can make them. While Apple doesn’t provide specific sales data, the latest report from NPD analyst Ben Arnold says that AirPods are leading the category of totally-wireless earphones by a huge margin. Specifically, 85 cents of every dollar spent so far this year on the category …

Alexa, play my piano. Yamaha’s MusicCast multi-room audio technology links a number of Yamaha’s audio products together. A new Amazon Alexa hook-in means these will work with Alexa-controlled tech such as the Echo and Echo Dot via an Alexa Skill coming in October. Yamaha’s Disklavier Enspire piano is one of these products, meaning you’ll be able to control the piano …

I’m not sure what LG meant to make me remember about the new V30, but I keep thinking about that slow zoom. A new targeted cinematic zoom mode in the V30’s camera settings enables the sort of gentle zoom that immediately brings to mind every “Curb Your Enthusiasm” meme in the world. I shot some footage of CNET’s Jessica Dolcourt …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple set to launch the next iPhone on September 12 1:12 The next iPhone (or, iPhones). A new Apple Watch. Siri. Lots and lots of augmented reality. These are just a few of things we’re expecting from Apple this year, and now the date is official: Tuesday, September 12. This year, Apple’s big reveal is at …

Apple Pay can be used to pay online or at stores, but it’ll soon get peer-to-peer payments, too. That means payments to friends or anyone else you have on your contacts list. The feature was announced in June at Apple’s developer conference, where it was marketed as one of the big upgrades in iOS 11. That update to iPhones and …