Robby Payne

When we first found evidence of a higher-spec version of the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus via Geekbench 6, it was before the device was made official by both Google and Samsung two weeks ago. Fast forward to today, and we are not only seeing the Galaxy Chromebook Plus up for order, but expecting deliveries to...

I've said it already a few times this week, but I'm a bit blown away by how much tighter the launches of both the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 11" and the new Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus have been. In the Chromebook world, we usually get an announcement, a foggy arrival date, and a months-long window of...

Right on the heels of new hardware being announced alongside of a slew of new features for both Chromebook and Chromebook Plus this week, the ChromeOS team is now rolling out ChromeOS 129 to all users and it is hitting with some pretty nice perks. While not everything announced at the Chromebook Showcase event is...

Last week at the Chromebook Showcase in New York, Google unveiled two awesome new prices of hardware alongside quite a few, new ChromeOS additions that will be of great interest to many of you. Of course, there are new AI smarts coming to Chromebook Plus users, but there are some great updates for Chromebooks across...

I'm so excited to be writing this post, sharing this information, and finally getting to talk about a Chromebook that completely mesmerized me just a week ago in New York. Review units aren't out and available just yet, so I don't have one with me as I type these words and that quite literally makes...

Google's Pixel Buds Pro and Pro 2 look to be getting a desktop PWA upgrade. Last year, Chromebook users got a handy web app to manage their Pixel Buds Pro on ChromeOS, but this desktop solution for changing settings on Google's latest earbuds only worked on Chromebooks. It seems that's not the case any longer....

While I feel quite well versed in getting around a Chromebook, I have to admit that I'm regularly surprised by things I can do easily and efficiently on Android that I had no knowledge of prior. One of these things is Android's notification history, a lifesaver if you've ever accidentally swiped away a notification or...

NotebookLM, Google's AI research companion, just got another pretty sizable upgrade. You can now add YouTube videos and audio files directly into your notebooks, opening up a whole new world of learning possibilities without having to find workarounds to do so. Insights from YouTube video You can now upload a YouTube lecture and NotebookLM will...

Well, folks, the day is here and we're in New York for the semi-annual Chromebook Showcase. If the past two events are anything to go by, there are quite a few things to expect at this event, including new Chromebook hardware and maybe some updates on new features on the way to ChromeOS as well....

If you're anything like me, you bounce back and forth between your phone and your desktop throughout the day; and that includes listening to music. It's frustrating when you have to rebuild your playlist every time you switch devices, but YouTube Music is finally making that quite a bit simpler moving forward: at least in...

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Google Calendar has always been handy for keeping track of birthdays, pulling those dates straight from your Google Contacts. But until now, you couldn't manually create birthday events directly in Calendar. So, while you might have most birthdays in your calendar by default, I'm sure there are a few missing you'd love to be able...

There's no feeling quite like the anticipation of a new tech product that promises to do something pretty wildly different, and then having that anticipation paid off by the product actually delivering the goods. Such is the case with me and the new AirPods 4 ANC, and after having my hands on them and my...

January 3rd, 2024: that's the day that 'Xol' became a Chromebook we'd begin keeping tabs on for the entirety of this calendar year. At the time, I had no idea it was made by Samsung, that it would show up this fall, or any of the myriad of things we now know about this device....

We've finally made it past the finish line, folks. The day is here, and at long last, the iPhone-to-Android messaging experience is about to get a whole lot better thanks to Apples (likely-reluctant) inclusion of RCS in iMessage. In case you weren't already familiar, RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) brings a host of...

Google's 2024 Pixel launch was a bit different than past hardware events. For the first time, we saw a total of 5 new phones in 2024 from Google, including the Pixel 8a in May, followed by the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and the much-anticipated 9 Pro Fold a month ago in August....

For the third time this week, I find myself compelled to share about the AirPods 4 with ANC. You can read my initial reaction post or the one I wrote about these earbuds really upping the ante for the upcoming Google Pixel Buds Pro 2, but the gist is quite simple: what Apple somewhat-quietly debuted...

As is the trend with tech in general - streaming devices included - the spotlight often shifts quickly, leaving older gadgets in the shadows. That's what happened with the introduction of the new Google TV Streamer; but in a bit of a surprising turn of events, the Chromecast with Google TV is back in the...

Now that there's an official Chromebook showcase on the books for September 24th, I figured it's time I shared my hopes for the fall and Chromebook hardware in general. You see, these new events put on directly by Google (one last fall, one in May of this year, and now this third iteration in a...

As I made quite clear on Friday, I moved my primary SIM card over to the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and I used it for nearly 4 straight days to see what it would really be like. Having daily-drove the Galaxy Z Fold 5 for many months, I'm no stranger to the real-world ramifications...