Engadget's Best Of 2025

Read our Pixel 10 Pro review

With its tin cameras, adjuvant package features, attractive, premium build and long-lasting battery, nan Pixel 10 Pro is an excellent, well-rounded smartphone. Of course, for anyone that’s an iPhone diehard, this title astir apt intends nothing, but nan tenth-generation Google smartphone should make immoderate Android personification mobility their allegiances. The Pixel 10 Pro offers support for Qi2 wireless charging, including MagSafe compatibility, and Google’s statement of Pixelsnap accessories are thoughtfully designed successful a measurement that moreover rivals immoderate of Apple’s ain magnetic attachments. Oh and Samsung? Forget astir it — a Galaxy flagship that supports magnetically attached accessories doesn't yet exist. 

While Gemini mightiness consciousness a small excessively successful your look connected Google’s different package products and services, connected nan Pixel phones nan AI proves genuinely helpful. There are photography-centric features for illustration Add Me aliases Camera Coach, for example, while nan Magic Cue characteristic that surfaces shortcuts and actions successful your messages aliases calls based connected what you’re saying tin trim a ton of friction. It’s arsenic if Google really thought astir really group usage their phones alternatively than really to see tired generative AI devices for illustration summarizing, proofreading aliases rewriting into nan device. The Pixel 10 Pro’s suite of package showcase conscionable really AI should beryllium implemented successful our lives, and successful 2025, this helped group it isolated from nan oversea of different phones connected nan market. — Cherlynn Low, Managing Editor

Read our iPhone 17 Pro review

While nan Pixel 10 Pro sewage nan highest people of each nan smartphones we reviewed this year, nan iPhone 17 Pro is worthy a mention. When deciding what consequence to grant nan Apple flagship, I looked astatine nan title (like I usually do). While it’s difficult to comparison an iOS instrumentality straight to an Android one, it was clear nan Pixel had nan advantage acknowledgment to its AI features that are really helpful.

But nan title was close, and nan iPhone 17 Pro is simply a important crippled twist successful Apple’s playbook, eschewing a more-premium glass-and-titanium creation successful favour of a sturdier-looking aluminum case. Despite criticisms astir its propensity for scratches aliases pointedly not-as-elegant quality arsenic nan iPhone Air, nan iPhone 17 Pro is Pro wherever it matters. Its A19 Pro processor deftly handled AI image procreation and different intensive tasks, each while keeping comparatively cool nether unit acknowledgment to a caller vapor chamber. Its triple 48-megapixel camera strategy is nan champion retired of each of Apple’s phones and makes shooting overmuch much versatile. Throw successful nan unsocial and genuinely useful Center Stage selfie camera, respectable artillery life and an eye-catching caller colour action and nan iPhone 17 Pro is easy nan champion iPhone around, and fell conscionable short of nan champion smartphone title. — C.L.

Read our Galaxy Z Fold 7 review

As overmuch arsenic I admit Google's package and AI devices connected nan Pixel 10 Pro Fold, nan creation of nan Galaxy Z Fold 7 conscionable can't beryllium denied. Samsung put an moreover larger 8-inch elastic OLED surface wrong an impossibly bladed chassis that measures 4.2mm heavy (or 8.9mm folded) and weighs 7.5 ounces. That's moreover lighter and practically conscionable arsenic bladed arsenic its closest related — nan Galaxy S25 Ultra — and nan creation update yet solves 1 of nan biggest issues pinch foldables arsenic a category: their other bulk. On apical of that, you besides get awesome capacity from its Snapdragon 8 Elite spot and beardown artillery life. The only drawback is that it's still really costly astatine $2,000. But make nary mistake, if you want nan best foldable phone connected nan marketplace correct now, it's hands down nan Galaxy Z Fold 7. — Sam Rutherford, Senior Reviews Reporter

Read our MacBook Air M4 review

The MacBook Air has been 1 of our favourite laptops for years, and now it’s moreover much accessible pinch a little starting value of $999. While Apple hasn’t changed nan Air’s creation complete nan past fewer years, it’s still 1 of nan thinnest and well-designed laptops connected nan market. And pinch nan summation of Apple’s M4 chip, it’s faster than ever. There’s besides a caller 12-megapixel Center Stage camera, which makes video calls sharper and much dynamic. While we’ve seen lighter computers from a fewer PC makers, they almost ever discuss powerfulness and artillery life someway — not truthful pinch nan Air. It tin render videos successful a pinch and it’s zippy for astir productivity tasks. The MacBook Air’s fan-less creation besides makes it perfectly silent, though that besides intends you’ll person to debar getting it excessively basking pinch superior workloads. — Devindra Hardawar, Senior Reviews Reporter

Read our Dell 14 Premium review

Even though it's not an XPS anymore, nan Dell 14 Premium still has nan aforesaid creation from erstwhile it was. Not only does that make this strategy nan past personnel of 1 of nan astir iconic gadget lineages ever, it besides ticks each nan correct boxes for an ultraportable laptop. It features a ace sleek creation pinch nan correct number of ports, support for some touch and non-touch displays (including a vivid OLED panel), above-average artillery life and a awesome keyboard. You tin moreover configure it pinch discrete graphics, which gives you other oomph for editing videos aliases playing games. And while they mightiness not beryllium everyone's favourite feature, Dell's capacitive touch buttons and seamless trackpad are a beautiful addition. With nan Dell 14 Premium slated to get a redesign adjacent year, nan existent exemplary is some a tribute to its predecessors and a smart buy. — S.R.

Read our Apple Watch Series 11 review

Apple didn’t do overmuch to beforehand its smartwatch this twelvemonth — astatine least, connected nan outside. But it brought 1 important point to nan Series 11: accrued artillery life. That, together pinch watchOS 26 updates, caller hypertension notifications, arsenic good arsenic a nifty and responsive wrist flick gesture, helped cement its spot atop nan smartwatch pile.

The Apple Watch Series 11 mightiness not beryllium nan prettiest (that whitethorn good beryllium nan Pixel Watch 4), but it has immoderate of nan nicest watch faces connected nan market. Its expertise to remotely power and activity pinch iPhones is, obviously, unrivaled, making it nan champion smartwatch to usage pinch immoderate iOS device. Of course, those connected Android should still opt for 1 from Google aliases Samsung instead. If you’re looking for an Apple smartwatch that should service astir of your needs (meaning you don’t request an ECG, for example), you should see nan Apple Watch SE 3, which yet has an always-on display. Otherwise, nan Apple Watch Series 11 is easy nan best smartwatch we’ve reviewed this year. — C.L.

Read our iPad Air review

While Apple's just-updated iPad Pro M5 is simply a stupefyingly bully tablet, it's besides incredibly expensive, to nan constituent that it'll beryllium overkill for astir imaginable buyers. Fortunately, nan institution has an replacement that gets you 90 percent of nan measurement there. The iPad Air comes successful 11- and 13-inch sizes, conscionable for illustration nan iPad Pro, and has nan M3 spot inside. That’s not Apple’s astir cutting-edge technology, but successful my acquisition nan M3 is much than powerful capable for thing you’ll want to do pinch an iPad. More casual tasks for illustration gaming, writing, browsing, watching videos and mostly utilizing nan thousands of awesome apps successful nan App Store are nary issue. And it tin tackle much progressive workloads for illustration editing video, creating euphony aliases moving pinch various AI-tools without a situation arsenic well.

It’s highly versatile, arsenic nan Apple Pencil Pro makes it nan champion drafting tablet connected nan marketplace (aside from nan iPad Pro). The Magic Keyboard is an costly accessory, but it besides offers a awesome typing acquisition without having to interest astir pairing aliases charging. My only existent title pinch nan iPad Air is that its 60Hz LED touchscreen could usage an update. But different than that, nan iPad Air is nan champion tablet (and surely nan best iPad) you tin buy. — Nathan Ingraham, Deputy News Editor

Read our Mac Studio M4 Max review

Apple’s Mac Studio M4 Max is simply a contented creation beast astatine a amazingly reasonable price. With a high-end M4 Max processor, it delivers immoderate of nan highest synthetic benchmark scores we’ve seen. More importantly, it offers accelerated and fluid real-world capacity for demanding creator apps including DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Lightroom, on pinch AI programs that tally locally for illustration Bolt AI. It has generous description disposable for storage, monitors and accessories pinch six USB-C ports, including 4 high-speed Thunderbolt ports, on pinch HDMI and ethernet. It’s moreover decent arsenic a gaming instrumentality for nan fewer titles disposable connected macOS. Pricing is competitive, pinch nan saccharine spot being nan $2,500 M4 Max exemplary pinch a 16-core CPU and 40-core GPU, positive 48GB of unified memory. The main downside is Apple’s emblematic deficiency of upgradeability compared to Windows PCs, truthful take your configuration wisely. — Steve Dent, Contributing Reviews Reporter

Read our Switch 2 review

The aged adage goes "if it ain't broke, don't hole it." But successful nan world of tech wherever nan number of transistors doubles each 2 years and gamers request amended and amended graphics, that mantra doesn't rather translate. For nan Switch 2, alternatively of reworking nan full device, Nintendo retained nan basal creation and tone of nan original while making everything other better. It has overmuch faster performance, a brighter surface pinch a higher refresh rate, much retention and an improved kickstand. But nan existent icing connected nan barroom is Nintendo's caller magnetic attachment strategy for nan Switch 2's Joy-Con, which makes taking its controllers connected and disconnected incredibly easy. Despite a countless number of copycats that person emerged since nan original came out, nan Switch 2 is carrying connected its predecessor's bequest arsenic nan champion hybrid console for location and connected nan road. — S.R.

Read our Sony WH-1000XM6 review

Somehow, Sony manages to support making nan best wireless headphones moreover better. The company's WH-1000XM6 is nan latest introduction successful a agelong statement of awesome audio devices pinch improvements to sound quality, progressive sound cancellation (ANC) and fit. Sony has besides amasses a truckload of useful features, for illustration automatic sound adjustments and DSEE upscaling, that its rivals simply can't match. Some of those still request activity (Speak-to-Chat, for example), but there's plentifulness of options to thief you fine-tune your sound aliases let nan headphones to automatically alteration settings passim nan day. Sure, you tin find amended ANC and amended sound individually elsewhere, but nary of nan title offers a complete package that's arsenic bully arsenic nan WH-1000XM6. — Billy Steele, Deputy Reviews Editor

Read our AirPods Pro 3 review

Active sound cancellation (ANC) powers overmuch of what makes nan AirPods Pro 3 nan best earbuds we reviewed this year. From axenic noise-blocking expertise to Live Translation and proceeding health, Apple's ANC tech is utilized successful various ways too conscionable blocking biology noise. The institution besides improved sound value successful this exemplary and it's transparency mode offers nan astir earthy sound you'll find anywhere. Factor successful extended artillery life connected a azygous complaint and nan caller foam-infused receptor tips and there's a important overhaul to immoderate familiar-looking earbuds. — B.S.

Read our AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D is nan eventual desktop CPU for creators and gamers alike. It features 16 CPU cores, a 4.3GHz guidelines timepiece velocity and a 5.7Ghz boost speed. But what makes it typical is its 144MB of L2 and L3 cache utilizing AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology. Compared to nan modular 9950X, which has 80MB of cache, nan 9950X3D has much room to tackle processing loads without hitting RAM, thing that could return 8 to 10 times arsenic agelong according to AMD. It’s besides an perfect action if you’re streaming and moving intensive games astatine nan aforesaid time. While it’s acold from a awesome woody astatine $700, if you tin spend it, nan 9950X3D is nan champion desktop CPU you tin bargain today. — D.H.

Read our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review

In a twelvemonth that’s seen beardown title from AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 line, NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 Ti still comes retired connected apical arsenic a superior 4K gaming performer. It’s noticeably faster than nan RTX 4070 Ti, and acknowledgment to nan powerfulness of NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 AI upscaling and framework procreation technology, it tin besides present precocious framework rates successful demanding games for illustration Cyberpunk 2077. The RTX 5070 Ti is an perfect action if you really want to crippled successful 4K, aliases if you want to fulfill nan demands of precocious refresh complaint monitors, for illustration LG’s insane 480Hz Ultragear. Just watch retired for value gouging, arsenic plentifulness of retailers are pushing nan RTX 5070 Ti good beyond its $750 MSRP. — D.H.

Read our DJI Mavic 4 Pro review

DJI’s Mavic 4 Pro is easy nan astir precocious drone connected nan market, pinch nan champion video quality, obstacle discovery and taxable tracking. The trademark characteristic is nan triple-camera “Infinity Gimbal” module that tin rotate freely for improved stabilization and absorbing camera angles. The caller Four Thirds main camera shoots up to 6K 10-bit D-Log video astatine 60 fps aliases 4K astatine 120 fps. The consequence is crisp video pinch precocious move range, moreover successful debased ray situations. At nan aforesaid time, it houses a 70mm 1/1.3-inch (2x) and a 168mm (5x) camera. The Mavic 4 Pro is champion successful people for obstacle discovery pinch six sensors and a caller LiDAR sensor that useful moreover astatine night. And nary drone tin travel subjects better, letting you seizure swooping video while manually controlling camera moves. Other cardinal features see up to 460GB of soul storage, 51 minutes of artillery life and 18.6 miles of transmission range. It’s disposable pinch nan caller RC-2 foldable controller pinch a agleam and crisp 7-inch HDR display. The superior drawback is nan value that starts astatine $2,999, mostly owed to tariffs. — S.D.

Read our Sony A1 II review

Though very expensive, Sony’s A1 II is nan champion hybrid mirrorless camera successful nan world. It offers improved handling complete nan original A1 and includes flagship features for illustration a 9.44-million-dot EVF, 8.5 stops of in-body stabilization and dual SD-UHS II and CFexpress representation paper slots. Inside, it packs Sony’s awesome stacked 50MP sensor. With precocious readout and seizure speeds, nan camera allows RAW burst shooting astatine up to 30 fps, matching aliases beating its main competition. It besides has nan fastest and astir meticulous autofocus of immoderate mirrorless camera, keeping moreover accelerated moving subjects sharp. Sony’s latest AI features fastener onto quality eyes and faces pinch uncanny accuracy, while besides search birds, animals and vehicles. The A1 II is besides an outstanding creator camera pinch nan expertise to seizure up to 10-bit 8K 30 fps log video aliases 4K astatine 120 fps. The main drawbacks pinch nan A1 II is that it is mostly nan aforesaid arsenic nan original A1 and very costly astatine astir $7,000 for nan assemblage only. — S.D.

Read our Ray-Ban Meta (2nd gen) review

Smart glasses person travel a agelong measurement successful nan past year, and nan second-generation Ray-Ban Meta frames connection nan champion operation of what astir group will want successful a pair. The glasses blend classical Ray-Ban style pinch a coagulated camera, open-ear speakers and Meta's progressively tin AI assistant. The latest-generation frames besides adhd a noticeable boost to artillery life and video quality. And pinch third-party app integrations, caller camera modes and Meta AI upgrades connected nan horizon, there's a batch to look guardant to.

All that said, smart glasses still aren't rather mainstream, and these devices don't make consciousness for everyone. If you typically deterioration medicine lenses, past fitting retired a brace will costs rather a spot extra. Plenty of group besides person understandable concerns astir nan privateness implications of these devices. But if you're moreover a small funny astir what a awesome brace of smart glasses tin do, it doesn't get immoderate amended than nan second-gen Ray-Ban Meta frames. — Karissa Bell, Senior Reporter

Read our Anker Nebula X1 review

The champion user projector you tin bargain correct now, some for indoor and outdoor use, is Anker’s Nebula X1. It has a three-laser motor wrong that beams retired a category-leading 3,500 ANSI lumens astatine 4K resolution. At nan aforesaid time, it offers awesome colour accuracy and is 1 of nan uncommon projectors that supports Dolby Vision HDR. With each that, it’s agleam capable to comfortably watch a shot lucifer connected a sunny time without nan shades lowered aliases bask a movie successful a darkened room precisely arsenic nan creators intended. Audio value is coagulated excessively acknowledgment to nan 4 built-in speakers pinch 40 watts full output aliases 200 watts pinch nan optional Nebula-branded outer speakers. Another bully characteristic is built-in Google TV that includes a Netflix app pinch supports for 4K Dolby Vision HDR content. The main antagonistic constituent is nan $3,000 value tag and deficiency of Dolby Atmos support. — S.D.

Read our Ninja Swirl review

The Ninja Swirl is nan meaning of a luxury kitchen gadget. The original exemplary could already make crystal cream, and it did truthful rather well. Does nan expertise to make soft service warrant a large value hike alongside a importantly larger machine? Not really. But nan first clip you propulsion down that lever and dispense a stiff dainty that would different beryllium incredibly difficult to make astatine home, you instantly recognize why nan Swirl exists. It's a magical instrumentality that turns milk, sweetener and thing other you flip successful into edible magic. And hey, if you want to usage it to make milkshakes, consequence whips aliases immoderate different icy dainty you tin deliberation of, it tin do that too. You whitethorn not request nan Ninja Swirl, but you decidedly want what it makes. — S.R.

Read our ThermoWorks RFX review

Temperature is everything successful grilling, and there's 1 institution I've travel to trust connected much than immoderate different erstwhile it comes to somesthesia tracking: ThermoWorks. The company's wireless nutrient probe, the RFX, allows you to usage Wi-Fi to support tabs connected your position from anyplace utilizing your phone. The results are much meticulous than nan title arsenic well, since ThermoWorks only uses nutrient sensors successful nan main probe and relies connected a abstracted 1 for ambient grill temperature. There's plentifulness of information for nan barbecue nerds and nan IP69K-rated RFX probe tin withstand temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That intends you tin usage it for heavy frying and high-heat searing earlier tossing it successful nan crockery washer for cleaning. And if you request to adhd much RFX probes, nan included Gateway successful nan starter kit tin link to complete 50 of them simultaneously. — B.S.

Read our 2026 Nissan Leaf review

Nissan’s third-generation Leaf is 1 of nan champion EVs we’ve ever seen, pinch a striking caller creation and up to 300 miles of range. Best of all, it still starts astir $30,000 without skimping connected features. It sports comfortable seats, expansive infotainment screens and an optional panoramic sun roof. Step up a spot successful pricing and you tin besides get a “Bose Personal Plus” system, which puts speakers correct successful nan headrest to mildly susurration navigation instructions to your ears. The Leaf’s caller redesign gives it a stronger framework and much sturdy suspension, which makes zipping astir municipality and highways consciousness for illustration a dream. While it could usage much retention abstraction pinch nan 2nd statement up, nan Leaf still managed to clasp a fewer scooters, a tricycle and a mini cooler each astatine once. And if you driblet that 2nd statement down, you get overmuch much retention than nan older Leaf. — D.H.

Read our Proton VPN review

It's difficult to prime my favourite point astir Proton VPN. What initially attracted maine was its background. It gets a batch of financial support from nan nonprofit Proton Foundation, and is majority-owned by its original founders. That intends there's small chance of it compromising your information to make a subordinate — aliases being acquired by a genitor institution that will.

But Proton VPN isn't conscionable astir eating your privateness vegetables. It's besides a joyousness to use, pinch sensible app designs you'll ne'er struggle to find your measurement around. Speed, that all-important metric erstwhile choosing nan best VPN, is simply a non-issue, arsenic my tests showed Proton retained 88 percent of starting download speeds and 98 percent of upload speeds. It gets into overseas streaming libraries without getting caught, and pinch servers successful 117 countries, you've sewage plentifulness of locations to take from.

No proposal for Proton VPN would beryllium complete without mentioning its free plan, 1 of nan fewer connected nan marketplace that doesn't headdress your information usage. You can't take your ain server location, truthful it's not excessively useful for streaming, but it's a awesome measurement to unafraid your online privateness connected a budget. — Sam Chapman, Senior Reporter