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Xbox’s smallest-ever controller is surprisingly comfortable

The Nano controller is designed for young people, anyone with smaller hands, and gaming on the go.

Tom Warren
Xbox’s smallest-ever controller is surprisingly comfortable

The Nano controller is designed for young people, anyone with smaller hands, and gaming on the go.

Tom Warren

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The touchscreen MacBook Pro is just a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen

It’s thinner, lighter, and has an incredible OLED display, but after all this time, the touchscreen feels like an afterthought.

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Hands-on with Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro
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Apple is finally tackling the challenge of ‘ergonomically terrible’ touchscreen laptops.

Terrence O'Brien and Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Would you put Amazon’s smart alarm clock in your bedroom?

The Echo Time is cute, has great clock faces, and is designed for the bedroom — no cameras allowed. I’m hoping it will fill the Echo Dot-with-clock-shaped hole in my life, and its design is a fun throwback to the 2017 OG spot.

But $200?? Here’s my hands-on video and first impressions:

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Spending time with the Echo Time

Amazon’s $200 smart alarm clock is angling for a spot on your bedside table.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Our first look at Amazon’s big new Echo Show 16
Hands-on

It’s Amazon’s most ambitious smart display to date, but has it priced itself out of the game?

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Everything old is new again with the Fitbit Edge

8

Verge Score

The simple $180 tracker is a sleek return to Fitbit’s roots, albeit with a little extra AI flair.

Victoria Song
The Sony WH-1000XM4C bring back a beloved headphone design

8

Verge Score

They’re based on six-year-old technology, but the XM4C still deliver respectable performance, and I love using them.

John Higgins
Birdbuddy’s budget feeder foiled my squirrels

The Nook and Home are cheaper, faster, and sleeker smart bird feeders — but the new camera might be a deal-breaker for diehard birders.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Googlebooks just aren’t ready

Our collective reviews of every Googlebook at launch: very good laptops hobbled by beta-level software.

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The world’s first triple 200-megapixel cameraphone is great

Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max benefits more from sensor size, dynamic range, and excellent software than sheer resolution.

Dominic Preston
The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive good time

7

Verge Score

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Apple’s first foldable is an early adopter special.

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I tried a $99 plug that promises to track your car and send help when needed — without selling your data

The Miles Plug adds crash detection, roadside help, location tracking, and a warning-light decoder to your car for as low as $11 a month.

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The Maeving RM2 is high-style electric riding with a few compromises

It’s ultra-smooth and looks fantastic, but a few rough edges keep it from greatness.

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Bose’s new wired earbuds are simple in the best way

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Verge Score

Wired earbuds are making a small comeback, and Bose is capitalizing on it — with ANC this time.

John Higgins
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

Nvidia’s new Arm-based laptop chip is an exciting new challenger, but exclusively for the high-end.

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Surface Laptop Ultra review: a different kind of MacBook Pro

6

Verge Score

A beautiful laptop built for an AI future that hasn’t quite arrived.

Tom Warren
The Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is almost the Android tablet we needed

6

Verge Score

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The screen is gorgeous, the hardware works, and it finally runs full Android. But there’s too much Amazon in my tablet.

David Pierce
I don’t miss the camera on the Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses

7

Verge Score

It’s harder to be a perv in these audio-only glasses, but removing the ick does make them less ‘useful.’

Victoria Song
The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body

Tiny pickup trucks might just become a thing in the US if the California-based startup Telo has its way.

Abigail Bassett
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Instinct AI is an impressive assistant, but the pressure from OpenAI and Meta is officially on.

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It’s been a whirlwind time of coming to grips with Google’s new laptops, and we’ve got feelings about Googlebook OS.

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Amazon’s assistant can’t always remember who I am or where my daughter goes to school — but it can now reliably turn on my lights.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Hands-on with Amazon’s Alexa Tablet 12 Pro and its wild new matte display

The Alexa line is also Amazon’s first tablet to run full-fledged Android with access to the Play Store.

Terrence O'Brien
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Oppo’s Find X10 phones launch outside China on October 21st.

That’s almost exactly a month after the China launch. Highlights include the first ever triple 200-megapixel camera on the Find X10 Pro Max, and big 8,000mAh batteries on both, though Oppo warns “selected markets” get 7,150mAh instead. I’m working on a review of the Pro Max — what do you want to know?

The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max resting sideways on a blue tablecloth
The Oppo Find X10 Pro Max standing on a blue tablecloth
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Our first five impressions of Googlebooks — exciting but underbaked

Google’s new laptop OS shows lots of promise for Android phone owners, but there’s a long road ahead.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
This remote-controlled wagon is silly but so very useful

BougeRV’s DuneRover is so good on hills and sand that you’ll forgive the disco lights.

Thomas Ricker
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Think of Dots as Codex, but for regular people.

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The Sonos Ace Ultra are the headphones Sonos should have made the first time

8

Verge Score

With better sound, better ANC, and Wi-Fi audio streaming, the Ace Ultra are finally worthy of the Sonos name.

John Higgins