NewsBite

John Davidson

Today

Good news! 2025 is a Classic year for smartwatches

Samsung’s legendary spinning, clicking watch bezel makes an appearance only every so often. Now is one such time.

This Month

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 phone.

Why this folding phone really is the one we’ve waited for

Improvements in thickness and weight mean you can carry around Samsung’s Galaxy Fold7 and not feel like you’re paying a heavy price to own a collapsible device.

Will this ring help you be an ultra human?

Ultrahuman’s Ring AIR scares the bejesus out of us. Will it be enough to make us mend our ways?

Samsung’s new folding phone feels just like a regular phone

The Galaxy Z Fold7 now looks, feels and acts very much like a slab phone, until you open it up to turn it into an 8-inch tablet.

The new Huawei watch should be brilliant. There’s a big downside

The Chinese tech company’s Watch Fit 4 Pro has fantastic hardware. It’s just a shame the apps let it down.

Advertisement
The Limitless.ai Pendant records everything it hears, and sends it off for transcription.

The sky (oh, and the law) is the limit with this AI wearable

The Limitless Pendant will record, transcribe and summarise everything it hears. Everything.

Explore: Why Sydney is a magnet for commercial litigation

A Financial Review analysis of a decade of court decisions has revealed which court is fastest at delivering justice.

Controversies aside, this Whoop tracker could slow your ageing

Whoop’s new MG health tracker will tell you how fast you’re ageing, and show you how to slow it down.

June

Explore: Why Sydney is a magnet for commercial litigation

A Financial Review analysis of a decade of court decisions has revealed which court is fastest at delivering justice.

These Shokz earbuds will be one of the best gadgets of 2025

Shokz’s new clip-on earbuds will have you wondering, how can something that sounds so average be so compelling?

How many AI agents does it take to change a smart bulb?

‘AI agents’ could turn out to be as useless as The Internet Of Things

Technologies that could automatically fix “smart” home systems are here, but they share the same problem they are meant to solve: they don’t work well together.

These travel headphones have removed their silliest feature

We put the best earphones we could find up against Sony’s now foldable WH-1000XM6s to find out if they are still worth the luggage space, and the results were …

Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering at Apple, only mentioned Siri at this year’s WWDC to say he wasn’t going to talk about Siri.

One unmentionable word sums up Apple’s battle with Google

At its developers conference the week, Apple refused to talk about its delayed updates to Siri. But it did reveal other changes that will help it catch its rivals.

Apple finally adds the iPad features users have wanted for a decade

The tech giant has announced its biggest overhaul of its tablet’s operating system, introducing pointers, menu bars and windows to make it like a real computer.

Apple CEO Tim Cook (left) and Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, are keeping mum on how well Siri’s overhaul is faring.

Apple sidelines Siri and does something unexpected instead

The on-device large-language models that the firm uses to power many of its own artificial intelligence features will soon be opened up to external developers.

Advertisement

Meet the iPhone’s biggest update in a decade

Except for the “squircles”, almost all of Apple’s smartphone overhaul was leaked ahead of time.

We’ve seen the future, and it’s wearing Birkenstocks

Roborock’s Saros Z70 marks the beginning of the era where robots follow us around the house and pick up after us.

Your iPhone is about to change

Inspired by its Vision Pro headset, Apple is expected to announce a new look and feel for its iPhone software, as well as a new name. But what about AI?

This home Wi-Fi system has a killer feature, but it comes at a price

Amazon’s eero Pro 7 isn’t the fastest we’ve tested, but it does strike a nice balance between speed and other features. However, there’s a catch.

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 12 is what Apple’s iPad Pro should be

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro might not be as fast or as fancy as an Apple iPad Pro, but you can actually use it for real work. 

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/john-davidson-j7gay