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Apple made it official this spring: the iPhone 17 lineup will be the most expensive iPhones in history. The base iPhone 17 starts at $899, up from $799 for the iPhone 15 just two years ago. The iPhone 17 Pro Max now starts at $1,299. If you've been watching Apple prices creep up year over year, 2026 is where the trend became impossible to ignore. The biggest driver is tariffs. The US-China trade war escalated again in early 2026, with new tariffs on Chinese-manufactured elect

Google's annual developer conference returned to the Shoreline Amphitheatre this May with more ambition than ever. After a year of consolidating its AI products and integrating Gemini across every surface, Google used I/O 2026 to show the world what comes next. The keynote was 3 hours long, the product announcements were sweeping, and the recurring theme was unmistakable: Google is betting everything on AI as the primary interface for computing. The biggest announcement was P

Foldable smartphones have been a punchline for years — expensive, fragile, and useful mostly as a party trick. That narrative is changing. The latest generation of foldables from Samsung, Google, and a wave of Chinese manufacturers have addressed most of the early complaints, and sales are finally starting to reflect that. The hinge mechanism — once the most common failure point — has been dramatically improved. Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold series and Flip series now feature water