Reviews

November 5, 2026ReviewRecommended

How Far the Apple Watch Ultra 4 Gets on One Charge

Apple's Ultra 4 battery rating includes two nights of sleep tracking. Workouts, cellular signal and settings can change actual runtime.

October 31, 2026ReviewRecommended

Apple Watch SE 3 Review: An 18-Hour Rating With No Night

The SE 3's 18-hour battery rating leaves out sleep, the thing this watch's best health features depend on, so plan on a short charge before bed.

October 26, 2026ReviewConsider

Samsung’s Galaxy Ring Works Best Beside a Galaxy Phone

Samsung charges no subscription for the Galaxy Ring, but its setup app needs Android and two of its insights need a Galaxy AI phone.

October 22, 2026ReviewConsider

Is the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 Still Worth Buying After Gen 3?

Meta lists the same camera specifications for the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 as for the Gen 3, while the Gen 2 gives up an hour of battery, a microphone and the action button.

October 16, 2026ReviewRecommended

What the Fitbit Air Does Before You Pay for Premium

The Fitbit Air's free tier already logs heart rate, sleep stages, blood oxygen and AFib alerts. Premium mainly buys the Gemini coach.

October 14, 2026ReviewRecommended

Galaxy Watch7 Review: Which Phone Gets the Whole Watch?

Best Buy's best-selling smartwatch is a 2024 Samsung, and the phone it pairs with decides how much of the watch you get.

October 9, 2026ReviewRecommended

Apple Watch Series 12 Review: Live Rewind Needs an iPhone 16

Apple's Series 12 adds a five-second heart rate reading and a microphone for Live Rewind, and only owners of an iPhone 16 or later will get the second.

October 6, 2026ReviewConsider

Amazfit Bip 6 Review: Fourteen Days, on Amazfit’s Settings

The Bip 6's two-week battery rating assumes a heart-rate reading every ten minutes and five minutes of screen a day, and Amazfit's heavy-use figure is six days.

October 2, 2026ReviewRecommended

Oakley Meta HSTN Review: Still the Sport Pick, No Longer the Spec Leader

The Oakley Meta HSTN still makes sense for Prizm lenses and a sport fit, but since Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 arrived its 3K camera and 8-hour battery are no longer advantages.

September 29, 2026ReviewConsider

Plaud NotePin S Review: The Wearable Recorder With a Real Button

The NotePin S fixes the original's unreliable touch control with a physical button, but its free plan covers about five hours of transcription a month and it cannot record phone calls.

September 25, 2026ReviewLook elsewhere

RayNeo X3 Pro Review: Full-Color AR Glasses on a 245 mAh Battery

RayNeo's X3 Pro puts full-color micro-LED displays in both lenses and runs Gemini on a 245 mAh battery, and RayNeo publishes no runtime for it.

September 22, 2026ReviewConsider

Plaud Note Pro Review: A Card-Sized Recorder With a Monthly Minute Allowance

The Plaud Note Pro is a 3 mm recorder that transcribes and summarizes meetings and calls through Plaud's app. This research-based review covers recording range, the 300 free minutes a month, charging, phone compatibility and privacy.