A GPU upgrade is never far from a PC gamer's mind. Be it five years or five months since their last upgrade, they're always dreaming about a new and more powerful GPU than the one they have. In the current PC hardware market, upgrading almost anything seems impossible, let alone buying an expensive graphics card. GPU prices have shot up anywhere from 30% to 50%, with the RTX 5090 selling for almost double its MSRP. If you've been monitoring GPU prices in hopes of buying a new GPU, you know that the best time to upgrade was six months ago. That said, you may not need an upgrade if you honestly consider the titles you play regularly, and what you deem "acceptable FPS." Your existing graphics card is probably more powerful than what you need.

It’s all starting to unfold. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Motorola has revealed a little more about its upcoming folding phone, and all signs point toward a premium option - not the budget-friendlier alternative the category could use. For starters, the Razr Fold will cost €1,999 (about $2,350) bundled with the Moto Pen Ultra. It'll go on sale first in Europe, with North America to follow "in the coming months." Motorola hasn't confirmed how much it will cost without the stylus, or what the price is in US dollars.The Razr Fold will come with a huge 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, making it the first foldable sold in North America to use the technology. It's not quite the biggest battery on any …Read the full story at The Verge.

AI wearables, all the way down. | Image: Qualcomm Like it or not, more AI wearables may be on the horizon - or at least Qualcomm seems to think so. Today the company announced its new Snapdragon Wear Elite chip. At a press briefing, Qualcomm said it considers the Elite to be a "wrist plus" chip. Meaning, it won't replace the previous W5 Plus, but exist alongside it. The company said it expects the Elite will appeal to gadget makers looking to create AI wearables such as pendants, pins, and potentially display-free smart glasses. (More powerful smart glasses will likely use its AR chip.) On top of being upgraded to the 3nm process, the Elite chip will have an eNPU and a Hexagon NPU for A …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Neon supposedly includes actual neon lighting in the rear. | Image: Tecno After teasing a magnetic, modular smartphone concept the other day, Tecno has followed that up with another two phone designs centered around color-changing finishes: one with E Ink, and the other incorporating neon.I'm the most taken with the Pova Neon, which the company says includes genuine neon lighting, not just bright colors: it uses "ionized inert gas lighting technology" to create a glowing effect.By contrast the AI EInk builds color electronic ink into the rear of the phone, allowing you to change the phone's color on the fly. Perhaps more impressively, you're able to set the color using the camera, so you could make your phone …Read the full story at The Verge.

Over the years, I have tried various smart home hubs and voice assistants to control my devices. While the voice control didn't turn out to be reliable for me, I resorted to using an old tablet as a dashboard for a smart home platform and mounted it on a wall.

The AI Workmate Concept can move and rotate to accomplish various tasks, but can it ever truly know love? | Image: Lenovo Alongside a handful of new laptop concepts (and a range of real products too), Lenovo used MWC to announce a pair of AI-based productivity companion concepts. Both are standalone desk devices designed to boost productivity while providing office workers with a bit of artificial dystopic companionship.Lenovo describes its AI Workmate Concept as an "always-on desk companion," but it looks like a tiny robotic arm on a swiveling base with a bulbous screen on the end displaying an expressive pair of eyes. It doesn't look as engaging as a human co-worker, but through local AI processing you can interact with the device as a smart assistant via v …Read the full story at The Verge.

Look closely and you might spot a phone in there somewhere. | Image: Vivo Vivo rarely has a presence at MWC, but this year it bucked that trend in a big way, with the reveal of its next flagship phone, the X300 Ultra, alongside an upgraded telephoto extender lens and professional camera cage. The company isn't ready to launch the handset just yet - or even reveal very many of its specs - but has confirmed that whenever it does arrive, it will be the first Ultra to go on sale outside China.The only concrete detail about the X300 Ultra itself Vivo would confirm is that it will have a 200-megapixel telephoto camera. That was true of last year's X200 Ultra too though, so we're still waiting to find out what upgrades …Read the full story at The Verge.

The magnetic pen case is pulling wedge duty in there. Lenovo has a few new Yoga laptops it's announcing at MWC 2026: the 14-inch Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, 15-inch Yoga Pro 7a, and 14-inch Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition.The most interesting of the pack is that 9i 2-in-1, outfitted with a 2880 x 1800, 120Hz OLED touchscreen. It includes a Yoga Pen Gen 2 stylus with a case that attaches to the laptop's lid. Fold the convertible back with the pen case attached and the screen sits at a slightly elevated angle. This should be more ergonomic while drawing and taking notes than writing on it flat, and the laptop has rounded edges and corners for a comfier grip. The 9i's main specs include an Intel Core …Read the full story at The Verge.

With MWC 2026 starting tomorrow, every tech enthusiast is getting ready to check out all the hot new releases coming their way. If you haven't heard of it before, MWC Barcelona is the largest annual mobile and telecommunications trade show in the world, so it's always worth checking out if you're even remotely interested in portable devices.

Well, it finally happened. For a little while, it seemed that Windows 10 and Windows 11 would have somewhat similar shares of the Windows userbase. Back in March 2025, we saw a 50/40 split between Windows 10 and Windows 11, respectively. Then, in June, it flipped so that Windows 11 had a 50% share and Windows 10, 40%.

We’ve been waiting five years for this follow-up to the X12 Detachable. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo is announcing five new ThinkPads and a new ThinkBook laptop for MWC 2026. There are various new chip offerings and updates for this swathe of ThinkPads, but the device I find the most interesting is the X13 Detachable. We haven't seen a major update to Lenovo's tablet-style ThinkPad in years, when it was the X12 Detachable. The new releases (and starting prices) are:ThinkPad T14S Gen 7 ($1,899)ThinkPad T14S 2-in-1 Gen 2 ($1,849)ThinkPad T16 Gen 5 ($1,799)ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 ($1,799)ThinkPad X13 Detachable ($1,999)ThinkBook 14 2-in-1 Gen 6 ($1,754) Compared to its predecessor, the X13 D …Read the full story at The Verge.

Lenovo goes a little Franken-laptop. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge One of Lenovo's big laptop concepts for MWC 2026 is a modular ThinkBook with two screens. Officially called the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept, the proof-of-concept is a 14-inch productivity machine with two plug-and-play interchangeable ports and a second 14-inch display magnetically attached to the rear of its lid. The second display is removable, and can be propped up on a magnetic kickstand (stored under the laptop) and plugged in via USB-C. But this concept PC has one more trick: removing the keyboard / trackpad deck and replacing it with the second screen, turning the whole thing into a dual-screen laptop you use with the keyboard a …Read the full story at The Verge.