Huawei made a big splash at CES 2018 by announcing that the Huawei Mate 10 Pro would being coming to the US. But, of course, Huawei’s other major spot in the news wasn’t so positive. In case you missed it, AT&T dropped its plans to launch the Huawei Mate 10 Pro at the last possible minute, right before CES kicked off. And while neither Huawei nor AT&T are talking about what exactly happened, it’s undoubtedly a major blow to the phone maker, which brought a lot of energy and excitement to the sho

CES 2018 is now well under way, with innovation pouring in from every corner of the Las Vegas strip. So, what’s the best tech we found at CES 2018? Without further ado, here are the winners of TechRadar’s 2018 CES Awards! Best Smartphone – Huawei Mate 10 ProHuawei’s best phone yet is at last debuting in the US, and is indisputably the most impressive phone on the CES 2018 show floor. Best Gaming Device – Nvidia Big Format Gaming DisplaysSimply put, Nvidia’s 65-inch gaming screens are a thing of

The Aibo by Sony has been revived in time for CES 2018 , and it’s quite a return. You see, this version of the Sony Aibo has far more artificial intelligence (AI) and sensors baked into it than the previous model, so much so that Sony has angled it around simulating an untrained dog. Plus, Aibo will respond to commands and touch interaction differently depending upon who’s interacting, with the ability to ‘remember’ up to five people (i.e. Aibo was a bit slow to respond to its trainers’ commands

The ZLINK Smart Home Hub was designed to essentially convert your Amazon Echo, Echo Dot or Echo Spot into a voice-activated smart hub, using Amazon’s voice software to communicate with smart Z-Wave devices throughout your home via radio waves. Let’s back up a bit: Devices like the Google Home and Amazon Echo communicate over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which work fine for buying groceries, but doesn’t fit the bill for talking to most smart devices like thermostats or locks. But, because you can talk to

At CES 2018, we’ve had an early look at the Huawei VR 2, the company’s new mobile virtual reality headset. Building upon the first iteration VR headset, the VR 2 has adopted a now-common design to guarantee comfort while playing or enjoying a film in VR for extended periods of time. While the demo was simple, it put the VR 2’s sensors to task and it was interesting to see a mobile VR headset working with a executable file run directly from Windows 10. Speaking with Huawei representatives, there

It may finally be time to go to your nearest Pokémon Professor and update that Pokédex. Niantic has announced that it’ll be ending support for all Apple devices that aren’t able to upgrade to iOS 11. After February 28, affected users won’t be able to access anything in their account on those devices. After Pokémon Go’s latest update , Pokemon now have fixed positions and appear to scale, so big ’Mons like Snorlax tower over you. If you’re one of the affected iPhone users, don’t worry too much.

At least that’s true when talking about Samsung’s new Q9S TV that will convert anything – even SD content – into eye-watering 8K resolution. Samsung unveiled the television to the world during its First Look keynote at CES 2018, and it was there that we first got our eyes on the new, super-sized screen. While we’d love to tell you more – what type of panel the TV uses, its peak brightness or any other detail beyond its AI upscaling capabilities – but we can’t. Despite not having many details on

We would not have survived CES 2018 without the Mophie Powerstation AC. Between constantly running around the show floor and a truly awkward power outage during the world’s biggest electronics show, we hardly have a chance to plug in our devices. Luckily with the Mophie Powerstation AC we were able to bring the power plug with us wherever we went. With 100-watts of output surging from this power bank’s built-in AC connector we were able to recharge and run practically any laptop, from a MacBook

One of the big talking points of home security in 2017 was around the Amazon Key service, the one that allowed its delivery drivers to access your home while you were out. And while the response was definitely mixed, that hasn’t stopped others from trying their hand at this service. August, a manufacturer of top-quality smart lock and video doorbell products has taken the opportunity of CES 2018 to launch its own rival service called August Access. New, but not newSimilar to Amazon Key, August c

The biggest addition to this year’s family hub is Bixby, which operates a lot like it does on, say, the Samsung Galaxy S8. While our time with Samsung’s smart assistant on smartphones has had its ups and downs, our demo of the Family Hub proved that the kitchen is a place where it reigns supreme. Image 1 of 2 Image 2 of 2Samsung has yet to announce price and availability for the Family Hub 3.0 refrigerator. But based on the reception to the previous model, which is widely available, we expect to

Ford may have Alexa functionality in their cars for now, but the venerable car maker appears ready to strike out on its own as of CES 2018 : the company is looking to launch a “vehicle-to-everything” communication system with Qualcomm for a safer self-driving ecosystem. What does this have to do with voice assistants? Ford is envisioning its cloud network of cars as one supercomputing assistant, which would send traffic data directly to your smartphones so you can avoid jams. It’ll use that data

Speaking to TechRadar, Sony President and COO, Mike Fasulo, said the company would likely focus its attention elsewhere rather than adopt HDR10+. We support Dolby Vision. But when asked if those delivery mechanisms included HDR10+, Fasulo seemed nonplussed with the idea of the format on Sony TVS. HDR10+ vs Dolby Vision: what’s the difference? Instead of having one set dynamic range for an entire film like standard HDR10, Dolby Vision promised a scene-by-scene approach that would allow tones to s

Dubbed, “your first AI phone”, the Honor View10 is the only device from the company to sport the Kirin 970 chipset with an embedded NPU, or Neural-Network Processing Unit. The NPU works in tandem with the EMUI 8.0 software running in the Honor View10, creating a profile based on a person’s usage habits and behaviour when using the device. Your smartphone camera is also about to get much smarter, as the Honor View10 brings a number of AI tools to make sure you always capture the perfect shot. AI

One of the most confusing parts of the smart home setup at the moment is the need for a separate smart hub to actually control all of the elements in your smart home in one place. One step too manyWhat this means is that you have to buy a separate hub like the Samsung SmartThings hub, which you then command using your smart speaker. That’s more than the standard Amazon Echo or Google Home, but the same price as the Echo Plus. But our point is, the first smart speaker that can truly stand as a sm

However, while a kit zoom lens should prove sufficient for many photographic scenarios, it’ll come up short in terms of telephoto reach for shooting action sports and wildlife. And sometimes FX format lenses are actually a better option than using dedicated DX lenses on DX format bodies. Independently manufactured lenses from the likes of Sigma and Tamron often give similar or even better performance than own-brand Nikon lensesIf you’ve got a Nikon camera, it makes sense to use Nikon lenses. How

You can also record your screen from within a browser window, without downloading and installing a large program. It all depends on what you’re recording, the hardware you’re using, and how much time is at your disposal. If you’re recording a game, check out FBX – a dedicated screen recorder for games by the same developer, Blueberry Software. Use Apowersoft Free Online Screen RecorderIf you don’t have time to install a desktop program, you can record your PC’s screen from within any modern web

We’ve seen many a drone at CES 2018 this week, but few as compact and ingenious as the AEE Selfly drone, which can collapse down, Transformer-style, into a phone case. That means it’ll both snap your group shots and give your Android phone or iPhone some extra protection when it’s not flying around. And it looks the part too – the metal-finished version being shown around the booths of CES is more stylish than the original plastic edition shown above. Compatibility and costAccording to its maker

Sony has promised that it will bring more than 130 new games to the PlayStation VR before the end of 2018. It’s true – in December 2017 it was revealed that more than 2 million PSVR headsets have been sold. Success sellsIt’s been noticeable at events such as PSX, Paris Games Week and E3 that Sony has been dedicating more presentation time and floor space than it used to for the VR headset. At the moment there are already 150 PSVR games available, but with this commitment, Sony will see that numb

So far CES 2018 has been awash with products that are touting voice assistant integration, and when we first heard that there was a smart bathroom range coming from American luxury bathroom manufacturer Kohler we were initially thought it was going to be some pretty unnecessary integration. The range includes a shower called DTV+ that can have a number of different voice-activated presets, so you can set exactly the water temperature, steam, lighting, and music. Moving out of the bathroom for a

Kodak, alongside WENN Digital, announced that it is to launch its very own cryptocurrency that aims to protect photographer’s image rights and ensure they get paid for usage. Dubbed KODAKCoin, the digital currency will be backed up by a blockchain ledger and image rights platform called KODAKOne, which will allow photographers to securely register new and old work. Like BitCoin and other newsworthy digital monetary systems, KODAKOne aims to build a global ledger of image rights ownership, which