Update, Nov. 6: Read our PS5 review. With the PS5‘s Nov. 12 launch just weeks away, Sony tantalized us with a close look at its next-gen console on Wednesday. In a teardown video, PlayStation engineer Yasuhiro Ootori highlighted the massive PS5’s exterior before pulling it apart in a lovely, PS5-white room. Since Ootori speaks Japanese as …
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Following last month’s Arctis 9 launch, SteelSeries is adding a couple of new flavors to its 2020 wireless headset lineup, the Xbox and PC-compatible Arctis 7X, and the PS4 and PS5-compatible 7P. Actually, the 7X is compatible with all platforms — Xbox (through Series X and S), PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation (through PS5) — while the 7P won’t work …
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When I was a kid and it came time for family snapshots, my dad was always heads-down. Chin to chest, eyes locked onto a camera grasped in both hands at waist height. Left hand to steady, right hand to work the controls. This was no point-and-shoot. Not like the plastic Kodak Instamatic 44 I would receive as a 12th birthday …
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When I first updated my iPhone 11 Pro to iOS 14 to try out Apple’s new spatial audio feature, I was a bit mystified. “Not sure what’s going on,” I wrote a colleague. “I seem to have the new firmware [3A283] on AirPods Pro. It says I have spatial audio. But what some people are describing I’m not experiencing. Restarting …
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A year after Google launched Stadia, Amazon seems like it’s doing the same thing for cloud gaming. The just-announced Amazon Luna service is entering a streaming games market that’s suddenly quite crowded, alongside Stadia, Microsoft’s Game Pass Ultimate and Sony’s PlayStation Now. Luna has a controller, like Stadia. It has Alexa on it, like Stadia has Google Assistant. Luna has big …
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Amazon Prime Day 2020, otherwise known as Oct. 13 and 14, will attract zillions of buyers seeking Black-Friday-in-October pricing on zillions of products. But here’s the thing: While there are sure to be some solid bargains, it’s a mistake to assume that every deal is the best deal. This is akin to what I call the “Costco fallacy,” which is …
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Pricing not available With the $950 (£799 or about AU$1,350) Xperia 5 II, Sony is essentially selling a more compact, more affordable version of the Xperia 1 II, which Sony released in May. Sony packed the Xperia 1 II with photo and video tools from its popular Alpha line of full-frame mirrorless cameras, and for $1,200 the phone targeted creative types who …
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Roku 4K TVs and streaming players will soon become more useful to people who own Apple devices. Before the end of the year, thousands of media players and smart TVs powered by Roku will receive a free software upgrade that adds support for Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit. The catch? Only 4K-compatible Roku devices will work with AirPlay, which leaves out the …
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TCL has gone from strength to strength with its TVs — CNET’s David Katzmaier recently said its 6-Series Roku TV offers “the best picture quality for the money I’ve tested this year.” As a complement to its 2020 TV range the company has announced five new soundbars, and they’re competitively priced. The Alto 9 Plus flagship, for example, tops out at $300. …
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I haven’t always been a fan of the Apple Watch. I bought one as soon as it went on sale in 2015 hoping it would blow me away, but it ended up spending more time in my drawer than on my wrist. It took three more years and the addition of two key features — LTE and the ECG app …
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