Just five months after the release of its Mate 20 Pro, Huawei, the fastest-growing smartphone company in the world, has shown the world another $1,000 phone that this time promises to rewrite the rules of photography: the P30 Pro.
So why should you buy it?

Huawei has four reasons why and all four of them are on the back of the phone: we are talking about the new quad-camera system that makes it possible to capture 40% more light for better night photos and a brand new periscope camera that gives you the option for a 5x or even 10x times zoom without losing too much in quality.

I have spent the last week using the P30 Pro as my daily driver and most importantly, I have had this phone as my go-to camera on a trip to Paris, France, and I was eager to get some great photos. How did it work out? Read on to find out.

*This review has also been updated with impressions from the smaller Huawei P30, another phone with a more compact size and lacking the periscope camera, but similarly powerful and well-built.

In the box:

• Huawei P30 Pro
• 40-watt wall charger
• USB-C to standard USB cable
• Silicone case
• SIM tool
• What’s NOT found in the box: a USB-C to 3.5mm audio adapter 😦

Design

Rich color selection and a few cool extras like an IR blaster

With their gradient finishes and solid build quality, Huawei phones have managed to stand their ground in the flagship space and become easy to recognize in an ocean of me-too rectangular slabs. The Huawei P30 and the P30 Pro continue this tradition and come in a wide selection of new colors, all of which look nice.

Both on the P30 and the P30 Pro, you have a classic black and then a white color version, and while those look good, it is the other three colors that really stand out. There are ‘Amber Sunrise’, which is a bold, orangey shade of red; the ‘Breathing Crystal’ gradient with color flowing from white to blue; and finally, our favorite, the‘Aurora’ blue-and-green gradient, a new twist on the Huawei ‘twilight’ gradient, but one that is lighter and looks even better with colors flowing as light hits the phone from different angles.

One curious detail is that the P30 Pro comes with flat top and bottom, but unfortunately, it is very top-heavy and it cannot stand on its own when you place it up-right.

The P30 Pro also features a 6.47-inch AMOLED display that tapers around the sides. I have had a few issues with accidental touches and swipes because of the tapered edge on Huawei’s previous flagship phone, the Mate 20 Pro. Here, the tapered edge is not as wide, so I found this to work out much better, but still, it is not quite as bullet-proof as a flat display. Then on the other hand, these tapered edges are what allows this phone to be far less wide than a similarly sized flat screen, which I really like, so it’s a happy medium.

The major stand-out feature of the regular P30 is just its physical size: it is a smaller phone, much easier to hold and use with just one hand.

The modern lifestyle provides many comforts, but often we indulge in them so much that we forget to take proper care of our health and fitness. The best way to get in shape is through exercise, and as with everything else, technology is here to make that easier and even fun to do. 

Fitness trackers like the Fitbit Charge 3 provide a real-time link between our bodies and our smartphones, all while offering to help people with staying healthier and more active. It takes the spot between smart watches and simple tracking bands, providing all the core functionalities of the latter with some features of the former.
Coming in at $150, does the Charge 3 offer enough to justify upgrading from a regular activity band like the Fitbit Flex 2, or should you spend a little more and go for the Versa with its smartwatch bells and whistles? We’re here to find out!
What’s in the box:

• Fitbit Charge 3
• Small and large wrist bands
• USB charging cable with clip cradle
• Safety and Warranty booklet

Design and comfort

The Charge 3 has a clean and minimalistic design. The standard edition comes in two color variants: Graphite Aluminum tracker with black wrist band and Rose Gold Aluminum tracker with blue-gray band. Other bands, including ones made of fancier materials like fabric or leather, can be bought separately from Fitbit’s online store. But even the included silicone bands look and feel nice. Its buckle may appear plasticky, but it is actually made of aluminum.

We should mention that the Charge 3 is not compatible with bands from previous generations of the tracker. 

The Fitbit Charge itself is compact, but does stick out a bit and can easily catch onto something if you’re not too careful.
Overall, the Charge 3 is not the kind of device you’ll forget you’re wearing, but exactly how comfortable it will feel depends on the person. We’ve had some mixed feedback from the people that tried it on, some weren’t impressed with how it felt, while for others it was just right. The module that houses the sensors is small and can put a bit too much pressure on your wrist if you’re on the skinnier side, even when the band isn’t tight. If you want to use it for all-day tracking rather than just workouts, we recommend trying it on before buying one, just to be sure that you’ll feel comfortable wearing it for a long time.

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puter manufacturers which one day said, “let’s make a phone.” While Asus made that decision quite some time ago, it only recently released its first gaming phone – the ROG Phone. Although the Razer Phone 2 is Razer’s second such device, it’s but a sophomore facing Asus’ ROG Phone, as the company has years of mobile and desktop experience behind it.
Asus has done well refining its handsets over the years, but Razer’s had to adapt quick – overhauling a couple key misses from last year. We’ve seen the new kid on the block overtake the veterans before; is this Razer’s breakthrough moment?

Design

The Razer Phone 2 and ROG Phone are clearly cut from different design cloths compared to most popular phones. While the Razer sports a boxy, rectangular aesthetic with sizable bezels at the top and bottom for stereo speakers, cameras, and mics, the ROG manages to pull off a more edge-to-edge design with its screen, stereo speakers, and camera configuration. The ROG’s reddish copper speaker grilles also help to give it some flare while the rounded corners evoke a more traditional design language.

The rounded glass back also makes the ROG feel more like phones we’ve held before, but the look is unlike anything we’ve previously seen. The RGB-lit logo and decorative copper vents combine with the angular cutouts for the camera, flash, and fingerprint sensor to create a phone that truly looks like it’s part of a gaming PC lineup.

The Razer Phone 2 – still highly evocative of the Nextbit Robin from which its design was appropriated – opts for a more discreet look with its fingerprint sensor tucked away inside the side-mounted power button, and its glass back, which looks like a solid slab of obsidian, interrupted only by the RGB-lit Chroma logo and center-mounted dual-camera bump. The Razer’s backlit logo can also light up based on the color of apps you’ve received notifications from – blue for Outlook, red for Gmail, and so on – something the ROG lacks.

Asus’ ROG phone, being the first of its kind for the company, appears more original in its looks, as well as its functionality thanks to gamer-centric additions like a secondary, proprietary port comprised of two USB-C ports for attaching one of the many ROG Phone accessories or charging the ROG while gaming. This is further highlighted by the inclusion of one such accessory – an RGB-lit cooling fan – in the box with it.

All that aside, these two phones have very similar weights and dimensions, though the Razer appears bigger due to its boxy design. The Razer Phone 2 also meets the IP67 standard for dust and water resistance, while the ROG Phone can only resist minor splashes.

As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there’s merit to both design approaches, but to the unfamiliar observer, the ROG clearly screams gaming, while the Razer Phone just screams “I’m something else!” Which of these is preferable, naturally, is up to you.

As it’s not yet entirely clear what will ultimately become of the tablet category, Apple’s iPad business continues to rake in a small fortune each quarter. The iPad has long changed, though. It’s no longer that $500 device that some people called a supersized iPod Touch. It has since evolved into a more complex line-up that has tried to achieve bigger things, such as becoming an always-with-you digital notepad with support for the Apple Pencil, or encroaching into laptop territory with performance that’s not typically expected out of such a portable form-factor.
Nowadays, things are way more complicated for the iPad line. There is an affordable 9.7” iPad starting at $329, a 10.5” iPad Pro from $649 (from last year), and then there are the brand new iPad Pro 11” and 12.9” which just hit the market, and start from $799 for a base, 64GB iPad Pro 11”, and go all the way up to the exorbitant $1899 for a fully stacked iPad Pro 12.9” with 1 TB of storage and cellular connectivity.

In this peculiar landscape, it seems the iPad no longer wants to be just a jolly multimedia device. It’s trying to be a lot of different things to different people, and to seriously threaten those consumer notebooks out there. But does this advanced iOS machine have what it takes to replace your PC?

Design

Minimalistic and functional, the iPad Pro 2018’s new design is not exactly elegant

The new iPad Pro 11″ and 12.9″ (we’re testing the 11″ one) has a new design, where the body has flat, instead of rounded, sides, and those shiny chamfered edges from the front are gone, which is a win for ergonomics, as the new edges aren’t as sharp. The overall aesthetic is somewhat reminiscent of the original iPad, but of course, the new device is dramatically thinner and lighter. It feels great! It’s quite big, even the 11″ one, but the incredibly thin profile means it doesn’t feel overwhelming.

Appearance-wise, it’s quite interesting. This new model is less elegant than its predecessors, and with those unapologetic antenna lines, it’s actually quite spartan-looking. It’s hard to call this new iPad Pro (2018) beautiful, but it sure is impressive in terms of physical properties.

USB Type-CA notable new feature is that there’s no longer a Lightning port here, replaced by standard USB Type-C. This is an important change, because it means you can now connect various devices to the iPad, such as cameras, for example. However, these devices still need to be optimized for iOS use, and that extends to external storage devices, so you can’t really treat this new iPad Pro as a normal computer in that regard, at least not yet. There are very real limitations in terms of what you can connect and what is going to work.

There is also no 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPad Pro 11″ and 12.9″, and there are no EarPods in the box. Considering the available port is now USB Type C, you’ll be better off reaching for a pair of Bluetooth earphones, such as Apple’s AirPods. The good news is that at least the speakers are pretty great, so it won’t be like you absolutely need to connect headphones in order to enjoy good audio with the iPad Pro. Compared to the latest stereo speakers on an iPhone XS, XS Max or XR, the iPad Pro 11″ and 12.9″ speakers are definitely much better.

The other big change with this year’s design is that there’s no more Touch ID! Love it or hate it. The expansion of the screen and the thinning of the frame around it has led to the removal of the fingerprint sensor, now replaced by Face ID. And because this is an iPad, Apple knows many people use the tablet in landscape orientation, so it has made the necessary upgrades to Face ID so it can work in all kinds of orientations (on iPhone it doesn’t work if you hold the device in landscape).
One interesting thing that we noticed is that the iPad Pro seems to bend quite easily. If you look at it from close up along the top edge, for example, it actually doesn’t seem to be perfectly flat. And trying to bend it even without applying much strength gets the body to bend slightly. We don’t know if that means the construction is flimsy – we haven’t tried checking how much it’ll take, but it’s something to keep in mind as you’re handling your tablet.

What is special about each one of them and how do they differ? Let’s take a deeper look, but first, here is a short summary for those who are too lazy to read our full review (but you really should):

The Moto G7 series of phones is comprised of four different models:
– Moto G7 Play: $200, entry-level G7 with basic specs
– Moto G7 Power: $250, with a focus on a massive, 5,000mAh battery
– Moto G7: $300, best price-to-performance ratio in the series, sharper screen, fast charging, elegant design and teardrop notch
– Moto G7 Plus: $300+, slightly faster than the G7, better camera, super fast charging, but not sold in the US