It’s the tenth anniversary week of the iPhone, and it’s also the release of the iOS 11 public beta, which is now available. Much like last year, the public version of the beta software is a chance for everyone to download and experiment with what is very much a pre-release version of the software that’s …

Nokia purchased Withings, the French health tech company, last spring. Now, Withings and its app have been officially rebranded under the Nokia umbrella. What it basically means is that previous Withings products will now be labeled as Nokia ones, and a new Nokia Health Mate app will replace the Withings Health Mate one. In case you’re curious, we’ll break down …

The augmented-reality capabilities of Apple’s iOS 11 are very real, and very impressive. Developers are already coming up with some shockingly good-looking demos since the beta became available after WWDC, but it turns out that it might also be easy to set up and share across apps. The 3D content-publishing company Sketchfab has already demonstrated a tool putting Apple’s ARKit …

Fitness and VR may seem like an odd mix, but VR games can definitely motivate a fitness routine if you can avoid getting nauseous. Virzoom made a fitness bike for hard-wired VR systems like the PlayStation VR and HTC Vive last year, but it was expensive, and required placement in front of your VR PC/console. That $399 bike now works …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. I held the new 10.5-inch iPad Pro in my hands, and thought, this is better. Not massively different, but better. Apple’s yearly developer conference was surprisingly full of new hardware, and the iPad Pro was one of the biggest recipients of an overdue …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Augmented reality: what the heck do you do with it? No one really knows for sure, but everyone’s trying. Apple is making a concerted push towards AR with iOS 11, adding a developer toolset called ARKit that helps create augmented experiences on iPhones …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The iPhone improves every year in two ways: through a big hardware launch every September that also comes with a software refresh. Everyone knows that a new iPhone debuts every fall. But three months earlier, Apple‘s annual WWDC developers conference gives an early …

During a full-day briefing of Motorola’s product vision a week ago, I listened to a lot of talk about Mods. Motorola’s clever snap-on accessory system is a dream of a superconnected phone future. And yet, what I mostly saw were battery packs. Practicality aside, that’s not going to get anyone to upgrade to a modular world. Motorola might want to …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. It’s 2017. It feels like it’s been years since I dreamed of the iPad as a true laptop replacement. (Actually, it’s been five years.) I’ve come to accept that that day may never come. Instead, the iPad’s destiny might be to ride alongside …

Essential is starting with some pretty bold claims. Considering Google has been the steward of the Android for the past nine years, you’d assume that there’s no one better able to fully utilize the operating system. At least according to Essential Products, you’d be wrong. The Essential Phone “can unleash the full power of Android,” Essential President and Chief Operating …