Apple is suing Chinese consumer electronics company Oppo for poaching a member of the Cupertino giant’s Apple Watch team to allegedly steal trade secrets. Apple, represented by lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, is bringing the lawsuit against the company’s former sensor system architect Dr. Cheng Shi, and his new employers China-based Oppo and California-based Innopeak. […]
The Best Gadgets of June 2025
With developer conference season in the rearview mirror—Google gave us boatloads of AI, Android XR smart glasses, and a hell of a lot of Veo 3 slop, and Apple ushered in “Liquid Glass” for all of its “26” software—we can now turn our full attention back to checking out the shiny and comforting world of […]
Oppo Find X8 Ultra Review: This Might Be the World’s Best Phone Camera
I get it—the smartphone market is boring. Galaxy after iPhone after Pixel, year after year after year—at least if you’re in the U.S. Even if you’re into phone tech, it can be hard to feel enthusiastic about the prospect of annual upgrades. In Asia, however, the battle for smartphone supremacy is as brutal as ever. […]
The Best Gadgets of March 2025
As a harsh reminder—even though it feels like its been a decade since December, 2024—we have only managed to muddle through three months of 2025. It’s been an awkward time to love tech. As both consumers and the world’s biggest tech companies wrestled with the impact of Trump tariffs on supply chains. At the very […]
I Am Smitten With This Super-Thin Foldable You Can’t Buy in the U.S.
For the first time since the Galaxy Z Fold 4 launch in 2022, I have not been using a Samsung foldable to do my bidding. Instead, I’ve felt perfectly content doing it all on the Oppo Find N5 since it arrived a few weeks ago. The book-style foldable has an 8.12-inch inner screen and a […]
Americans Won’t Get One of the Coolest Foldable Smartphones
Oppo has been a trendsetter on the smartphone stage, especially among foldable smartphones. The company’s Find N5 folding smartphone is gaining traction for its claim that it’s as thin as the USB-C port will allow. We’ll know more details when the folding phone debuts globally in about two weeks. Sadly, this is one svelte smartphone we won’t […]
The Best Gadgets of January 2025
January has come and gone, and we’re already exhausted by 2025 for several big reasons. CES normally brings out enough off-the-wall tech to fill our baskets. This year’s big tech showcase included a few surprise products that seemed honestly great, from earbuds to e-bikes to AR glasses. After the festivities died down, the best gadgets […]