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Three days of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit, we get to dive into the big features and specifications of the new 865 and 765/765G processors, 5G modems, and sensor hub. There’s also big changes to gaming, with GPU drivers as an app, desktop rendering features coming with Unreal Engine, and the XR2 VR platform. Also a quick update on the 7c and 8c processors for Windows.

Following-up on its Snapdragon 8cx SoC announcement at Mobile World Congress a few months ago, Qualcomm has taken advantage of Computex to divulge some tasty details about the upcoming chip. With the help of a new PCMark build, we’re analyzing results from both application and gaming performance, as well as get a gauge of what to expect from battery-life.

How much time do you spend indoors? If you’re like me, it’s far more than it should be. Today, modern smartphones and even computer monitors are filtering out certain light spectrums (like blue light), as studies have found them to be disruptive to sleep, concentration, and even long-term vision. But do you ever think about air quality, and what you’re breathing in?

At its third-annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm detailed most of what we want to know about its upcoming Snapdragon 855 mobile platform. Get ready for improved CPU and GPU performance, greater gaming and media capabilities, next-gen artificial intelligence performance, new alluring camera features, and a lot more.

OnePlus’ latest flagship is here, and with it, a few changes also arrive. Gone is the audio jack, but new is the in-screen finger print reader – one that works well, and looks cool. The 6T also packs in Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon SoC, 6 or 8GB of memory, and 128 or 256GB of storage. It also ships with Android 9.0, helping to deliver a truly up-to-date smartphone right out-of-the-box.

The hottest phone of the summer might just be OnePlus’ latest flagship, the aptly named OnePlus 6. It deserves the top spot on that list for a number of reasons: it offers a lot of features for the price (including advanced slo-mo and 4K/60 video capture), and boasts the most eye-catching design the company has ever released.

Since the launch of its original smartphone, OnePlus has managed to follow up again and again with solid iterations, both with the launch of a major new model, or an update to one. The 5T continues that record of quality updates, making this the latest $500 Android smartphone to beat.

Over the past couple of years, there has been a surge in the budget Android phone market. Up until recently, many budget Android devices were… terrible, at best. ZTE hopes to change that perception with its Blade V8 Pro, a $230 smartphone packing premium specs and a sharp aesthetic. Does it deliver? Let’s find out.

With its OnePlus 3, OnePlus has a lot to deliver on. Its first-ever flagship hit the ball out of the park, and the follow-up carried on the tradition – if we want to ignore the lack of NFC (which we don’t). Does the OnePlus 3 continue the company’s tradition of releasing great smartphones at their respective price-points? You bet it does.

Unless you’re Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, I think it’s safe to say that everyone owned a rubber duck at some point in their life. This however, is not your average rubber duck. This is a Bluetooth rubber duck that is a teaching toy, companion, music player, and even a tub-time friend! Meet Edwin The Duck.

We live in a portable world. Everything must be portable. Too often, compromises are made to accommodate this demand of portability, and that holds true especially when it comes to audio. Braven is no stranger to portable audio, but its latest creation might be its best yet. Can you really have it all in a portable speaker? Let’s find out if the Braven BRV-XXL can allow us to answer “yes”.

If you’re looking for a Bluetooth speaker system to blast some tunes while on the go, you’re likely looking for something compact, but can also provide good sound and a long battery life, as well as durability that’ll take life’s bumps. Even though it’s not without its shortcomings, we think we’ve found one in the Ultimate Ears BOOM 2.

When a smartphone vendor comes along and offers its latest option as a “flagship killer”, it doesn’t exactly leave much room for leeway: it’s either going to be accurate, or off the mark. On paper, the OnePlus 2’s case seems to be solid, so let’s take a hard look at it and see if its promises are lived up to.

Got a guitar? Got an Android 4.2+ phone or tablet that supports USB OTG? Ever wanted to use your phone as a multi-effects unit for your guitar? Well you just might want to consider the IK Multimedia iRig UA.

Have an Android device that’s quickly running out of space due to limited internal memory? Have a large collection of apps that refuse to move over to your SD card? If either of these is true, then you need to know about a simple tweak that can be done to forcibly move over many apps to your SD card – sometimes without rooting.