Comments made by Sonos and a recently leaked internal email suggest that Sonos is almost ready to enter the headphones market. The multi-room audio specialist held its latest earnings call yesterday, revealing a troubling 5.5% drop in revenue. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence said that the company’s big hope for turning things around will be “entry … [Read more…]
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has announced that the Qi2 wireless charging standard is just about ready for prime time, starting with the iPhone 15. In a press release issued yesterday, the WPC revealed that the first Qi2 mobile devices were ready to complete the certification process. The first Qi2 products – think third party … [Read more…]
If you’ve paid attention to any of the media coverage and subsequent reviews of the PlayStation Portal handheld, it’s mostly critical of the basic functionality that focuses only on Remote Play from a PS5 console. Many have wondered why Sony isn’t using this as an opportunity to make a deeper push into dedicated cloud gaming … [Read more…]
Amid the constant incursion of AI into Google Search, the company is bringing back the human element with a new feature called Notes. The addition seeks to pair a Google Search user with an oddly specific request, with a user person who knows the answer but hasn’t yet shared it with the world. Save a … [Read more…]
Look out Oura! Smart ring rival Circular is back with what it attests is not only the world’s thinnest and lightest health ring, but the slimmest and lightest wearable per se. The follow-up to the Circular Ring Pro enters an increasingly competitive smart ring market, but distinguishes itself at just 2.2mm thick, while barely registering … [Read more…]
Amazon has begun replacing Android on its smart devices with an all-new custom OS. It might not seem like it, but Amazon devices in the Fire HD tablet, Fire TV, and Echo Show lines run on a heavily forked version of Android. You’dthink that Amazon would be keen to purge one of its biggest tech … [Read more…]
The makers of the Nothing Phone have announced a new Nothing Chats app, which it claims brings iMessage to Android… sort of. Weighting in on the blue bubble vs green bubble war, Nothing says it has developed a first of its kind solution. Nothing Chats effectively enables Nothing Phone (2) owners to exchange iMessage messages … [Read more…]
It’s emerged that Google pays Apple a massive chunk of its advertising revenue from Safari web searches. Kevin Murphy, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, accidentally let slip that Google paid Apple a whopping 36% of any advertising revenue it earned from web searches through Apple’s own Safari web browser. As reported by … [Read more…]
Apple has been tipped to give its often-bashed Siri personal assistant a huge AI upgrade at WWDC 2024. According to tipster @Tech_Reve, Apple has been using a large language model (LLM) to “completely revamp Siri into the ultimate virtual assistant”. They go on to predict that the development of this new smarter Siri is well … [Read more…]
Apple is preparing a bounty of big iPad updates for 2024, which will make up for the complete absence of new hardware in 2023, according to one in-the-know analyst. The often-reliable Ming-Chi Kuo reckons Apple isn’t just planning the long awaited iPad Pro with OLED display technology, but also an iPad Air with the largest … [Read more…]