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After pretty much all of the specs leaked online over the past few weeks, Google has now officially announced the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones, and the Pixel Watch 2 wearable.

Not everybody wants the gaudy, RGB LED-backlit look of modern keyboards. Accessory company 8BitDo has unveiled retro-styled mechanical keyboards inspired by Nintendo’s first games consoles, complete with giant, programmable A and B buttons.

After months of official and unofficial teasers, former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has now revealed the second generation of the high-style Nothing Phone, which gains a bigger screen, refined Glyph light show, and better cameras.

We may not have the physical fight Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk childishly threatened, but the Meta boss has launched a big hit on his Twitter rival with new social media platform Threads. Should you join? We weigh up the good and the bad so far.

After launching a 10-inch color E Ink tablet back in April, Onyx International has now introduced a baby brother in the shape of the Boox Tab Mini C – a Qualcomm-powered ePaper pocket computer with "performance on par with traditional tablets."

When we wirelessly connect a laptop to a home router, we do so over radio waves. We were first introduced to wireless data transmission using light back in 2014, and now France's Oledcomm has launched the first Android tablet with integrated Li-Fi.

Google has finally presented its new Pixel 6 and 6 Pro smartphones, powered for the first time by the company's own Tensor chips. And while they're certainly feature-heavy premium-tier flagships, perhaps the most impressive thing is the price.

China's Reinkstone has launched a 10.1-inch color e-paper tablet that runs on Android 11, which offers the kind of reading and doodling experience of the excellent Remarkable 2, but with the added draw of color.

Microsoft has announced an update to its Xbox Games Pass cloud gaming platform for Android that turns one of the Surface Duo's dual screens into a virtual touch controller while the other displays the game.

Sony has three new phones to show off: the flagship Xperia 1 III, the more compact Xperia 5 III, and the more affordable Xperia 10 III. As is traditional for Sony handsets, the devices are particularly appealing in the camera and display departments.

The CZ Smart isn't Citizen's first smartwatch, but is the classic watchmaker's first to sport an all-digital display and be powered by Wear OS, bringing a suite of familiar apps and functions to the traditional design.

The smartphone market, like the world at large, finds itself in a strange spot in 2020: we've seen a wealth of new phones at the upper mid-range of the market, and with the Pixel 5, that's exactly where Google is aiming.