Smartphones & Gear

Motorola Edge 2026 Puts Durability, Cameras, and Faster Charging into a Smaller Midrange Phone

The motorola edge 2026 is arriving as Motorola’s newest midrange phone for North America, and its pitch is less about chasing flagship excess than making the everyday stuff feel less fragile. It has a compact 6.3″ display, a triple 50-megapixel camera system, faster wired and wireless charging, and a tougher build than many phones in its price range. At $599.99 unlocked, it’s aimed at people who want a phone that can handle travel, kids, commutes, spills, and too-full tote bags without demanding full flagship money or treating durability as an optional personality trait when it arrives in June.

Game Diary, Reviews

CRKD ATOM Keychain Gaming Controller Review: A Tiny but Functional Controller for Fun and Travel

If you like mobile gaming but don’t want to carry a full-size controller everywhere, a keychain gaming controller like the CRKD ATOM is a fun idea. It’s tiny, Bluetooth-enabled, and small enough to slip into a pocket or bag when you’re traveling or just heading out to an appointment. I took a look at what comes in the box, how the controller is laid out, how pairing works with an iPhone, and whether this miniature controller is actually usable in a real game.

News & Features

The KeySmart SmartCard Pro Tracks Your Wallet for up to Two Years on a Single Charge

The $49.99 KeySmart SmartCard Pro is a wallet tracker built for people who don’t want their missing-card anxiety tied to a single phone ecosystem. Instead of choosing between Apple Find My and Google Find Hub compatibility, this credit-card-style tracker is designed to work with either network, though you’ll pair it with one at a time. It’s thin enough to slip into a wallet, rechargeable over Qi wireless charging, rated for up to 24 months of battery life, and dressed in a polished aluminum frame with a transparent shell that shows off the hardware inside.

News & Features

UGREEN Shrinks Its Apple-Friendly Charging Gear with New Nexode and MagFlow Air Editions

UGREEN’s Nexode and MagFlow Air Editions arrive with a simple pitch: Apple gear shouldn’t require a brick-sized charger, a cable nest, and a separate battery just to make it through a long day. The new lineup includes the $39.99 UGREEN Nexode Air 65W Charger, the $39.99 Nexode Air 45W Charger Slim, and the $79.99 MagFlow Air Magnetic Power Bank 10000mAh 15W, all aimed at people who want smaller charging gear without giving up useful speed, safety checks, or enough flexibility to cover a MacBook Air, iPhone, iPad, and AirPods on a desk, plane, or commute.

Deals

Motorola’s Razr Deals Put Foldables Back in the Graduation Gift Conversation

Motorola’s latest Dads & Grads promotion puts the motorola razr FIFA World Cup 26™ Edition and the new 2026 motorola razr family in the deal spotlight, with discounts, bundled accessories, and trade-in offers aimed at anyone shopping for a more memorable tech gift than another Bluetooth speaker. The limited-edition razr is now $100 off at $599.99, and Motorola is also adding a free pair of moto buds loop earbuds, a moto watch, and a moto tag with purchase. For foldable-curious shoppers, the preorder bundles on the 2026 razr lineup may be the more interesting part.

News & Features, Events

The Motorola 2026 Razr Lineup Wants Foldables to Feel Less Fragile and More Useful

The Motorola 2026 razr lineup wants to make a familiar argument: foldables don’t have to be fragile little novelty phones you baby through the day. The family includes the motorola razr ultra, motorola razr+, and motorola razr, with the motorola razr fold sitting above them as a larger book-style foldable. There are bigger outside screens, sturdier hinges, faster chips, larger batteries, new camera tools, and a few Google Photos tricks that could be useful, provided you’re comfortable letting your phone rummage through your closet. Also arriving are the moto buds 2 plus, Motorola’s new Bose-tuned earbuds.

Reviews

Poco F8 Ultra Review: They Put a Subwoofer in a Flagship Phone, and Somehow That’s Not Even the Wildest Part

In Xiaomi land, Poco and Redmi generally focus on making excellent mid-range and budget phones, while parent company Xiaomi focuses on making great flagships. This is the way. But every now and then, Poco and Redmi crank things up a notch and release a genuine flagship. Behold the Poco F8 Ultra, an affordable flagship with a metal frame, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, triple 50MP rear shooter, a 6,500mAh silicon-carbon battery, and 50W wireless charging. Oh, and did I mention it comes with a Bose-branded subwoofer? Madness!

OPPO Find X9 Ultra with the Hasselblad Earth Explorer Kit lens attached

News & Features

The OPPO Find X9 Ultra Is the Flagship Phone Built Around the Most Interesting Camera in the Room

Most flagship phones now arrive with the same familiar promise: faster, brighter, smarter, thinner, more powerful, and somehow always “professional” at everything. Before long, the category blurs into one glossy slab of titanium, glass, marketing language, and camera bumps large enough to demand their own zip code. The OPPO Find X9 Ultra cuts through that sameness almost immediately. It is a flagship smartphone, certainly, with a sharp display, a current-generation Qualcomm chip, a very large battery, quick charging, generous storage, and the polished hardware you expect at this level. But none of that is the real headline.

Gear Bits

TCL NXTPAPER 70 Pro Is Easy on Your Eyes and Your Budget

When you’re in the market for a new phone, you have a lot of choices. Do you go Android or iOS? What’s your budget? Sure, you can get seduced by high-end flagship devices, but if you’re looking for a phone that will handle entertainment, photos, and everyday needs while also being gentle on your eyes and your wallet, the new TCL NXTPAPER 70 Pro is calling your name.

Deals

Get a Nomad Tracking Card Air for Free with Qualifying Orders for the Next 72 Hours

Nomad is running a limited 72-hour promotion that gives shoppers a free Tracking Card Air with eligible purchases, which is a tidy way to put one of the brand’s more practical accessories in front of people who were already planning to buy something. From now through 9 a.m. PST on April 17, anyone placing a global order of $80 or more can add Nomad’s $29 wallet tracker to the cart and use code FREEGIFT to get it at no extra cost. The catch is simple enough: this deal only applies to the iOS version.

Gift Guides & Round-Ups

Anker Charging Lineup: 5 New Products Tested for Daily Carry, Family Travel, and Everything in Between

Anker sent us five of its latest charging products to test, and they cover every charging situation you can throw at them. There’s an ultra-slim magnetic power bank for daily carry, a tiny wall charger with a screen, a foldable 3-in-1 wireless charging station, a 160W three-port brick, and a 20K power bank beefy enough to keep a family’s worth of devices running on a road trip. We spent a few weeks with all of them to figure out what’s worth the money and what you’d be paying for features you’ll never use.

News & Features

Motorola Pairs the Moto G Stylus 2026 with the New Moto Pad 2026 for Note-Taking, Streaming, and Everyday Multitasking

Motorola is preparing to roll out two new midrange devices, the moto g stylus 2026 and the moto pad 2026. The pairing makes enough sense on paper. One is meant for jotting down notes, sketching, and handling everyday phone duties, while the other gives you a larger screen for streaming, schoolwork, and the usual pile of tasks that somehow spreads across multiple devices.

News & Features

OPPO Find N6 vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: The Foldable Fight Samsung Might Not Win

If you’re in the market for a book-style foldable, and you live in the United States, your best option is arguably the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. If you live overseas, however, you have many more options. One of the best options is the OPPO Find N6 that came out in the spring of 2026. Both of these phones offer an insanely thin design, excellent cameras, and fun software tricks that can make for a great phone experience. If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere where both are readily available, this is a difficult choice.

iPhone 17e - ESR iPhone 17 Series Classic Hybrid Magnetic Cases with Stash Stand

News & Features

ESR iPhone 17 Classic Hybrid Magnetic Cases with Stash Stand Add Practical and Affordable Protection

ESR iPhone 17 Classic Hybrid Magnetic Cases with Stash Stand are designed for a simple reality: phones get dropped, camera bumps get scraped, and clear cases rarely stay clear for long. With options for the iPhone 17e, iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, ESR’s new lineup focuses on the sort of everyday protection that actually matters, while adding a built-in stand and magnetic charging support that won’t make your phone feel clunky.

News & Features

iPhone 17e: Apple’s Affordable iPhone Finally Feels Like a First-Class Citizen

Apple has never been shy about charging premium prices, so any iPhone that lands closer to the middle of the market tends to come with a quiet disclaimer. Something is usually missing. A feature disappears, a capability gets trimmed back, or the phone arrives with the faint suggestion that the real experience costs a few hundred dollars more. The iPhone 17e, starting at $599, does not entirely escape that dynamic. Apple still reserves its most extravagant hardware for the higher tiers. Yet this model feels less like a consolation prize than earlier “budget” iPhones.

Reviews

I Tested Apple’s iPhone 17 and 17 Pro Max in the Yukon: Here’s What I Learned

It’s been almost six months since Apple released the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, alongside the iPhone Air, and Apple just unveiled the iPhone 17e. I’ve been using a lavender iPhone 17 and a cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro Max on and off since late September 2025, primarily to create content, so I think it’s time for a proper review. Currently, my main phone is Google’s Pixel 10 Pro XL (the Canadian model with US-compatible 5G bands and a SIM tray), and while I mostly review Android phones, I prefer using iPhones to create content, especially for…

Events, News & Features

Nothing’s Boldest Lineup Yet: Hands-On with the Phone (4a) Pro, Phone (4a), and the Colorful New Headphone (a)

Nothing launched a new lineup of smartphones and audio today in London, including the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, the Nothing Phone (4a), and the Nothing Headphone (a). Supported by last year’s flagship Nothing Phone (3) and Nothing Headphone (1), this represents the strongest lineup of phones and audio that the company has ever launched. Right now, Nothing has a pretty intimidating portfolio of devices, top to bottom.

News & Features

The Limited Edition JLab Blue XL Speaker Headphones Pack 30 Watts into a Wearable Party Machine

There are times when a tiny Bluetooth speaker feels almost apologetic; you perch it on the counter during a game-day gathering, hit play, and suddenly everyone is huddled around it like it’s whispering stock tips. That’s charming for dinner music, but not so much when your team just scored. The Limited edition JLab Blue XL Speaker Headphones look like oversized blue headphones, but instead of covering your ears, they drape around your neck or sit on a table, blasting outward like a compact sound system. They’re perched squarely between personal audio and portable party, and subtle? They are not.

News & Features

Samsung Teases a New Galaxy Camera Experience Ahead of Galaxy Unpacked

Samsung is getting ready to introduce a new Galaxy camera experience, a system designed to pull photo capture, editing, and sharing into a single workflow on its latest Galaxy smartphones. The full reveal is set for Galaxy Unpacked on Wednesday, February 25, at 1 p.m. ET, but the company has already previewed how this updated camera experience will lean heavily on Galaxy AI to handle tasks that used to require multiple apps and more patience than most people care to admit.

News & Features

Statik SmartCharge Pro Is a $99 15,000mAh GaN Charger That Powers Your Laptop, Phone, and Apple Watch Anywhere

The Statik SmartCharge Pro is a $99 portable battery and wall charger hybrid designed to consolidate the tangle of cables and power bricks that tend to accumulate in your bag. With a 15,000mAh battery, built-in USB-C cable, wireless charging pad, and international plug adapters, it promises to handle everything from your phone to your laptop in a single, travel-friendly device. That’s an ambitious claim. The real question is whether it earns the space it takes up in your carry-on.

News & Features

AT&T Wants to Fix the “First Phone” Problem with the New amiGO Jr. Phone, a Smartphone Built Just for Kids

Giving a child their first smartphone has become one of modern parenting’s more fraught milestones, sitting somewhere between handing over a house key and giving them the car keys, except the smartphone is also a portal to everything wonderful and deeply questionable about the internet. For years, parents have faced an unsatisfying binary choice: hand down an old iPhone and hope for the best, or opt for a stripped-down “kid phone” that often felt more like a plastic toy than a serious communication tool. The new AT&T amiGO Jr. Phone is an attempt to redraw that line.

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