The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

Just from seeing that name, some readers can probably predict exactly what this device is going to be: a lightweight, mediocre performer with excellent battery life. If you’re looking for an affordable Netflix machine, the Spin is a great candidate — especially given its movie-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio. It’s portable at 2.65

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The question is, which one is right for the type of videography or photography you do? With a sensor size the same as movie cameras, it's ideal for shooting video, and its easier to hold focus than with full-frame cameras. In addition, hows the battery life? Micro Four Thirds (17.3 How do you like the handling and feel?

Camera

The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2020

It has a bigger battery than the Galaxy and lasts just long enough that life span isn’t a disqualifying factor. Ultimately, though, you’re still compromising on battery life for this screen quality — OLED laptops of this size are uncommon for a reason. It’s battery life. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

Laptop

Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

A video treatment app like Cinema FV5 or Movie Looks (to add color treatments to your video, if so desired). iMovie (for assembling all the pieces into a movie. We tend to block out these everyday noises in our normal life, but you will be surprised how loud and obvious they can be on film. Don’t let them drown out your message.

Movie

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It is very good at iPad things: watching movies, reading, browsing the web, editing photos, and so on. If you want to hand your kid or somebody else in your home your iPad, you are handing them your entire digital life. Photography by Dieter Bohn / The Verge. Starting at $329 for a 32GB version, it is a remarkable deal.

Classroom

The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

But it’s much harder to do the same thing with a projector when they’re mounted to ceilings or placed on a coffee table for an impromptu movie or gaming night with friends. Movie mode includes 60Hz MEMC motion compensation, which I promptly disabled. With projectors, the more self-contained they are, the better. inches / 6.6

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Tab S7 Plus, in particular, provides the best movie watching experience you can hold in your hands. This isn’t a problem when you’re watching movies or YouTube, but when it comes time to get work done, the Tab S7 models feel cramped. The best experience with the Tab S7 is when you’re watching movies or TV shows. Performance.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Razer has packed 10mm drivers into these earbuds, and they’ve gone through THX certification to “present a rich, balanced sound stage for all your movies, music, and gaming.” Middle-of-the-road ANC and battery life on the short side drag them down to a point where it’s hard to reconcile performance and cost.

Sound

The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Apple has upgraded their sound, added new features like spatial audio head tracking, made them more durable with IPX4 water resistance, and lengthened their battery life. As for the actual battery life, Apple says the third-gen AirPods can hit six hours of continuous playback and a total of 30 hours counting case recharges.

Design

The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

Again, it’s not a problem unless you’re sensitive to that sort of thing, but you’ll absolutely hear the volume rocker when you’re turning up a certain scene in a movie or show. But an input button would’ve at least made life easier for people switching between an Apple TV and an Xbox or PlayStation. Or if the buttons were backlit.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

There, you can swap between presets for Music, Movie, and Voice, as well as equalizer settings for different tunes. Battery life is also good. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. In a perfect world, given the lack of Thunderbolt, HDMI would be on my wishlist. The thesis of this review is that I have almost no complaints.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

You can create custom equalizer profiles in the preloaded Dolby Access software, and you can also toggle presets for scenarios like voice, music, movies, and games. Another compromise you’re making here is battery life. Both have dazzling displays, decent chips, sturdy build, boisterous fans, and mediocre battery life.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

Battery life is adequate, not stellar. Maybe I’m easily impressed by these things, but I can see myself genuinely enjoying watching a movie or a show on the Xperia 1 III, rather than as a last resort to stave off boredom. Photography by Allison Johnson / The Verge. Sony Xperia 1 III camera.

Camera

The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Sony’s new earbuds deliver on sound, battery life, and beat all comers at noise cancellation Sony first released its WF-1000XM3 earbuds nearly two years ago, and though they offered some of the best noise cancellation and sound quality you could find at that time, a lot has changed since. Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

Amazon’s big, cheap tablet can now be had many different ways Amazon’s lineup of Fire tablets has settled into a familiar routine: they are available in small, medium, and large; they are priced far lower than comparable iPads; and they are mostly good for reading and watching movies or TV, with content likely supplied by Amazon itself.

Amazon

The Verge

JUNE 30, 2021

Of course, Apple’s release cadence and insistence on major updates coming just once a year means that some of these features are arriving in what will — hopefully — be a post-pandemic return to life this fall. Photography by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge.

Widget

The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Everything else is very similar or unchanged from last time around: the design is nearly identical, battery life still tops out at 30 hours, and the buttons and controls all work the same way. You don’t need to worry about missing a call if you’re absorbed in a movie or show on Netflix on your laptop.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This is a convenient feature when two kids are watching the same movie on a single device. As for battery life, BuddyPhones claims up to 24 hours between charges. Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge.

Flash

The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

They’re nicer for watching movies, playing games, reading books, and everything else. We’re used to tablets lasting forever, but this folding tablet is more akin to your average phone when it comes to battery life. Photography by Dieter Bohn / The Verge. Big screens are great.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

And the one thing I do appreciate is the battery life. You can swap to “Movie Mode” and “Gaming Mode” in the Dolby Audio software that comes preloaded on the Vaio Z, and I preferred listening to my music on these profiles. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. In a literal sense, yes. The laptop works.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

If you have a terrible attention span during movies, it’s also good for scrolling through Twitter or checking IMDb to figure out what TV show that actor was in while watching Netflix, although the second small display is hard to use for any overly complex tasks due to its size and nearly square aspect ratio.

Learning

Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

But, almost every day, you get information from a movie image. Alli Burness, Meagen Eastep, Jenny Kidd, and Chad Weinard gave a great talk ages ago about cell phone photography/ social photography. They discussed how personal photography wasn’t just about selfies (and in fact often wasn’t).

Museum

The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

I spoke separately with El-P and Saccenti about the history of Run The Jewels’ visuals and how they’ve been brought to life through sculpture and photography for their most recent albums. I knew that Mike was super into doing Hot Wheels photography , and there’s this whole segment of photography that does miniature car photography.

Storytelling

The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You’re probably familiar with the term from still photography, where HDR systems in smartphone cameras have been a revolution. But to understand HDR in video, you have to set aside everything you know from photography HDR. iPhone 12 Pro performance and battery life. HDR stands for high dynamic range. It’s very, very different.

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The Verge

AUGUST 16, 2021

Whether you’re a die-hard OLED enthusiast or you’re just looking for a way to upgrade your movie-watching experience, you now have two excellent 13-inch OLED machines to choose from: the Dell XPS 13 and the Asus ZenBook 13. Its main selling point is battery life. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. Battery size: 67Wh.

Laptop

The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

But if you’ve got your eye on an OLED screen, either because you’re doing color work on the side or you just want your games and movies to look great, this device should get the job done (albeit in a loud and hot manner). First, the battery life is a serious disappointment. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Almost six hours of battery life isn’t terrible for a system with an H-series processor, a discrete GPU, and a high-resolution screen. I got eight hours out of a standard 1080p video rundown test, but I doubt that many people are buying a $2,300 laptop just to loop movies.). Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

Problem

The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

They allow for thinner chassis and are easy to integrate with LTE — but the primary benefit is supposed to be battery life. We’ve seen this in Arm-based Chromebooks , which have delivered over 10 hours in our testing, and in Apple’s M1-powered MacBooks , which have the best battery life of any MacBooks in recent memory.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I struggled to find a good use case for this mode other than watching movies on an airplane tray table or poking around on the touchscreen, as the angle of the display is still too vertical to comfortably write on it with a pen. Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge. A side view of the Surface Laptop Studio in tent mode.

Laptop

The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

If you’re willing to make some compromises (particularly when it comes to the chassis and the battery life), you can get high-end gaming performance at a midrange price point. Battery life, though, is a major area where the GP66 isn’t ahead of its competition. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. No backlight bleed at all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love. What I wanted to learn next, because I had lived my working life inside of large corporations, was about woman entrepreneurs. I sallied forth, not being a professional photographer, not being a professional writer.

Photography

The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

The battery life and range are competitive with other gaming headsets I’ve tested in this price range. Through the Xbox Accessories app for Windows 10 or Xbox, you can adjust the equalizer (movie, music, game, heavy bass, and speech are the presets, or make your own) and boost the bass. Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge.

Audio

The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

The Flex 5G’s 2-in-1 design adds more use cases with its tent mode, allowing you to post up and stream a movie over 5G if you want. One of the big advantages of ARM compared to an Intel or AMD CPU is the efficiency and its impact on stretching out the battery life. Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge.

Laptop

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The QC45s aren’t considered Bose’s flagship headphones anymore, but with additions like USB-C, improved ANC, and longer battery life, they’re just what some people have been waiting for. Battery life has also very modestly improved from 20 hours to 24 on the new headphones. Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Photography – Set the aspiring photographers at your auction up for success with a basket containing all the latest camera accessories. Tripods, camera bags, camera lenses, and a hard drive are perfect additions to a photography lovers basket. Fill this basket with popcorn and classic movie snacks.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Still living that single-camera iPhone 8 life? Whether you're a professional or just picked it up as a hobby, photography nerds know that the Sony a7R II is an incredible piece of equipment. All of your friends will start calling your home the "cool house" if movie nights involve this mini portable projector. A new phone.

Gift

The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

This model is delivering better performance and better battery life than I’d expect to see from all kinds of gaming laptops that are hundreds of dollars more. The Strix also comes preloaded with Dolby Access software, where you can swap between profiles for games, movies, music, and voice. Battery life was very solid.

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