Nothing’s drip-drip of information about its upcoming Ear Stick earbuds continues with a new writeup today in Highsnobiety. Most interesting is the article’s lede image, which confirms an early rumor that the earbuds won’t have the same silicon ear tips as the Ear 1. It makes the Ear Stick look less AirPods Pro, and more AirPods.
An almost worthy successor to the excellent Nest Hello, the new Nest Doorbell wired is faster, smarter, and sleeker and has better video quality. But spotty behavior on 2.4GHz networks lets it down.
Our friend Marques Brownlee ran a “which pocket do you carry your phone in” poll, and almost 600,000 later, “front right” is winning in a shocking landslide. Obviously, not everyone has such big pockets, but for those that do... apparently the official Phone Pocket is the front right. (I’m a front-lefter, personally.) Who knew!
$39,339.60 to be exact, almost 66 times what it would have cost back in 2007. The same 8GB iPhone originally retailed for $599.
If you were eyeing the Apple Watch Ultra but didn’t like its matte titanium finish and orange action button, well now you can get one polished to a shine thanks to a jeweler based in Arizona.
That shine will cost you: it’s about $1,500, or nearly twice the cost of a dull Apple Watch Ultra. But you’ll likely be the only one at the company retreat with a shiny Ultra, while all those basic bros have the same matte finish one.
After announcing its first smartwatch running the latest version of Google’s wearable operating system last week, 9to5Google is reporting that the software is now out for Fossil Gen 6 watches with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4100 Plus processor. The update reportedly delivers redesigned Alarm, Stopwatch, and Timer apps, among other improvements.
Ugmonk started as a T-shirt store — now founder Jeff Sheldon is trying to turn it into something much more ambitious. But as he knows, hardware is hard.
This week Microsoft announced updated versions of the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and Surface Studio. But missing from the show were any new members of the Surface Headphones line. The Surface Headphones 2 are now over two years old and have fallen a bit behind the competition, despite still having very clever design features. Chris Welch wonders if Microsoft is quietly pulling out of the market:
