The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Needless to say, I haven’t observed any buzz or rattling while testing the Nest Audio, even at full volume. Additionally, the Nest Audio sounds good at lower volumes, which is nice when I just want some background music while I’m working or during dinner. They also act as thermal dissipators to help keep the internal components cool.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

During my tests, I listened to Spotify, and the music sounded good enough to stick with this headset instead of automatically reaching for my Sony 1000XM3s. The soundtrack and all of the various hellish sound effects have an adequate amount of crunch and punch, and I was head-banging to the music while I played.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It can play music and show you the weather and answer questions like any Echo smart display. These can get quite loud when playing music, and since the Astro can literally follow you around and always move itself to the optimal position, you’re almost always going to be able to hear it well.

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2021

The buttons are mushy, which I can understand since that means they don’t click loudly as you’re listening to music. The music control buttons can be a little cumbersome. I also tested them wired with my Apple Lossless files and streaming Amazon Music HD, and the M-200 ANCs proved wonderfully layered and rich.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

You’ll quickly get a sense of how you should orient the HyperBoom in your room once you start hearing music. And no matter how loud you like to play your music, it sounds clear and balanced with plenty of bass, mids, and highs. It’s fluid, and both methods worked perfectly in my testing.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2020

In testing, the ZenBook covered 100 percent of the sRGB gamut and 100 percent of the Adobe RGB gamut, and it reached 452 nits at maximum brightness. Asus says the hinge is “durability tested” for over 20,000 open / close cycles, and it feels sturdy enough. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

As for controls, they have just a single multifunction button that handles pausing and resuming music, changing tracks, as well as picking up phone calls. with the SBC or aptX codec, depending on the device you connect to) for music, videos, games, and phone calls, and EPOS says you can pair them with up to eight devices.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

They practically make the ambient sounds in my local coffee shop go poof, and while visiting family upstate over Memorial Day, I tested them in a crowded bar and found that I could listen to my music at around 60 percent volume without hearing any of the lively chatter surrounding me. Impressive stuff.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

It only worked on flat docks in my tests. Instead of fighting a losing computational photography battle against other smartphones, Sony is taking the fight back to its home turf: the Alpha camera line. Sony has optimized the entire camera stack for high-speed photography: it can focus at 60fps and burst-shoot at 20fps.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

During my time testing the OnePlus Buds so far, I’ve been unable to do much with the tap controls on each side. There’s no way to pause music with the earbuds right now; all you can do is double-tap to skip to the next song or hold down for three seconds to switch between synced devices. Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2021

There are interactive modes that make the strips respond to music and video, and static modes built around your preferred color patterns and scenes. After a few weeks of testing, I ultimately settled on Part / Movie video modes with brightness set to 75 percent and saturation set to about 15 percent.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As with the Beats X, you can magnetically attach them together — and this time, your music will automatically pause whenever you do so. Beats assured me that the Flex earbuds have passed the company’s usual set of reliability tests. Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge. On me, the buds fall to around my sternum area.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Multiple Suntables can be linked together for bigger sound, but I wasn’t able to test this. I tested the Suntable in two outdoor spaces. I also tested it at the beach. On a city rooftop, music should be background to the conversations or reading, not the main event, in my opinion. So that’s how I tested it.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Govee Immersion Kit and Light Bars reacting to the Fluid Sim Hue Test video on YouTube (Bar Segment color / Calm modes). There are interactive party modes that make the lights respond to music and static modes built around your preferred color patterns and scenes. Photography by Thomas Ricker / The Verge. In fact, the older $79.99

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

I attempted to run our routine video test (which involves exporting a five-minute, 33-second 4K video) multiple times using hardware acceleration, and Adobe Premiere Pro consistently crashed during the export. There, you can swap between presets for Music, Movie, and Voice, as well as equalizer settings for different tunes.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

I’ve been testing the larger 45mm variant, and it’s big and thick on my average-sized wrists. You can get either size watch in Bluetooth-only or LTE-equipped versions for a reasonable $50 more; I’ve been testing the Bluetooth model and haven’t had any major issues with it staying connected to my Galaxy S20.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Unfortunately, after testing the Sense for the past week, the impression I’ve gathered is that Fitbit tried to do too much in too little time, which results in a smartwatch that feels slightly unfinished. We may update this review down the road if longer-duration testing proves to garner important insights.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Photo Illustration by Alex Castro | Photography by Spotify. What I can tell you from 15 years of doing this now is, if we start with music, the reality is there wasn’t too many people that woke up in the morning thinking, “I’m going to find a music streaming subscription service to subscribe to.” You saw that today, too.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

That’s the area where you’ll tap (or hold) to access the various gesture controls, which proved responsive in my tests, can be customized to your liking, and cover all functionality except for volume. Like many other earbuds, these will automatically pause music if you remove one from your ear and resume when it’s put back in.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Sonos also sells a wireless charger that attaches to the Roam magnetically, but I didn’t get a chance to test that. The Roam seems to make a priority of ensuring that the texture and vibrancy of music comes through with maximum clarity. Vocals sound crisp, and strings in classical music come through lush without getting pitchy.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

The Strix G15 punches above its price I was skeptical of the ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition when I first got my test unit from AMD. This Strix is one of the first laptops announced that includes AMD’s new RX 6000M series mobile GPUs, and the first one I’ve gotten to test. Here, have a Strix. Well, the price range. to $1,699.99.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

Vaio says the Z has passed MIL-STD 10H torture tests, including drop tests, pressure tests, and body-twist tests among others. The Z beat the Razer Book in our Adobe Premiere Pro export test by a bit less than a minute — a victory, to be sure, but not a margin to write home about. There aren’t a ton of 2.3-pound

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The Verge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Music also automatically pauses when an earbud is removed.). I didn’t see any need to switch those up, but you can set them to whatever you want in the Bose Music app. In my time testing the QuietComfort Earbuds, connection stability between the buds and my phone has been mostly flawless. The defaults are 10, 5, and zero.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

I tested a midrange model that currently costs $2,253. Music sounded good, and the 3D feature made a noticeable difference. 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.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2021

Artist Jennifer Idrizi has said that it’s inspired by the “structure” of music — the fade in and fade out. There’s enough bass to give music the oomph it needs, but your walls aren’t going to be rattling at normal volume levels. Ikea sent me a pair so I could test out how they perform at home theater duty, and I came away impressed.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

The Chromebook delivered decent volume — certainly enough to fill a room — but percussion was tinny as I listened to music, and you can forget about bass entirely. Some models will support LTE connectivity, though my test unit did not. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. Acer calls this the “FineTip” keyboard.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

You can be listening to music from your laptop and take an incoming call on your phone without having to manually switch the earbuds over. The Elite 85ts still won out and hushed more noise when I tested them side by side in a coffee shop or on the streets of Brooklyn, but not lopsidedly so. Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It has all of the same watchfaces, including their deep levels of customization; comes with many of the same preinstalled apps; can use Apple’s services like iMessage, Music, Siri, and more; and can even install apps from the App Store that’s on the Watch itself. Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

With a starting price of $1,599 ($1,899 as tested), the 2021 GP66 Leopard takes the same top-end chips that are in the likes of MSI’s GE66 Raider and the Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 and puts them in a less exciting, more affordable chassis. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. Nvidia said the chip would deliver speeds up to 1.5

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The outside of the ear cups have cartoon graphics — a fairy princess and rainbow unicorn on the models I tested, with a lion, cartoon DJ, scientist, and pirate on the other color options — and you can get them in pink, white, yellow, gray, blue, or dark blue depending on your child’s preference. Image: Onanoff.

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

Beats says it dynamically adapts the strength of noise cancellation based on ambient noise, but I was underwhelmed in most scenarios where I tested it. Another annoyance is that these buds don’t have any kind of sensors to detect when they’ve been removed from your ears, so music won’t pause automatically.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

That’s because the battery life is so gargantuan that our traditional rundown test was next to useless. The base model, currently listed at $1,848.99 , comes with a quad-core Core i5-10210U, 128GB of storage, and 8GB of RAM; our test model, priced at $2,937, comes with a six-core Core i7-10810U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

Android users (like me, I tested it with a Pixel 5) can quick reply to messages from the watch (unfortunately Apple has blocked this feature on the iPhone for any device except the Apple Watch, which seems pretty anti-competitive if you ask me). The other big thing the Enduro is missing is music. Capital B Battery life.

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I've been experimenting with cambodia4kids.org blog to test out the instructions/advice I'm reading on various npotech sites about blogs. A university-aged Khmer assistant with an interest in photography will also be recruited. Before I go on about this interesting artist/social activist project, I found it in the blogsphere.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

The music was tinny and even at maximum volume was just barely loud enough to be heard from across my living room. I was afraid of putting the Galaxy down too hard on my desk while I was testing it, but I would be quite comfortable battering the Spin around in my backpack all day. I didn’t test those claims, but I’d believe it.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

I’ve been using a pre-production unit in my testing, but Insta360 did not indicate to me that it was going to change anything when it comes to features or performance on the final version.). Photography by Becca Farsace / The Verge. It is absolutely a problem I would like to see these companies spend more time fixing.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

I’ve been able to test-drive a Tab S7 Plus for a few days, and here are my thoughts on the highs and lows of the experience. Yes, technically Apple’s processor is faster than the Qualcomm in a benchmark test. I have to press the Fn key every time I want to pause music or adjust the volume. The speakers are loud and sound great.

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