Android Authority’s high merchandise from the present!

It’s a brand new yr, and with that at all times comes a model new CES! As traditional, Android Authority was on the bottom in Las Vegas, testing all the most recent tech on the world’s largest client electronics present.

Though nobody might ever see all the things at any given CES (it’s too huge!), we now have compiled the perfect of what we noticed this yr into the record beneath. There are all kinds of merchandise right here throughout quite a few classes, together with smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, good house units, and extra.

With out additional ado, listed here are the Android Authority Better of CES 2025 Award winners!

Individuals the world over have been loving TCL’s revolutionary NXTPAPER expertise, which is an anti-glare show masking that works exceptionally nicely. TCL has additionally provided a cool characteristic on a few of its telephones and tablets referred to as Max Ink Mode, which is a battery-saving e-ink-style show triggered by way of a bodily button referred to as the NXTPAPER Key.

Whereas we’ve seen NXTPAPER shows in the US, we’ve by no means had a cellphone with a NXTPAPER Key. That modifications now with the TCL 60 XE NXTPAPER 5G! Not solely is that this cellphone coming to North America, however it’s unique to that market.

To make issues even higher, the TCL 60 XE can also be extremely budget-friendly, with a beginning price of simply $199. Whereas its funds standing will inevitably imply decrease efficiency and lower-grade specs, the NXTPAPER options make this the proper secondary cellphone or alternative for an previous e-reader.

TCL hasn’t introduced when the TCL 60 XE will hit retailer cabinets within the US, however we’ll doubtless discover out extra at Cell World Congress in a number of weeks.

The Steam Deck has been a large success. Because it got here in the marketplace, numerous different gaming handhelds have launched, however none of them have had the identical Linux-based working system that comes with the Steam Deck (at the very least, not formally). That modified at CES with the Lenovo Legion Go S, which has a variant powered by the identical Steam OS you’ll discover on a correct Steam Deck, licensed straight from Valve!

Formally titled the Lenovo Legion Go S — Powered by Steam OS (clunky, I do know), that is really one in all two variants for the brand new Legion Go. In case you don’t like Steam OS for no matter motive, you may get a Home windows-powered model with the identical {hardware} choices. The one distinction is that the Home windows mannequin is white, and the Steam OS mannequin is black.

Clearly, the Steam Deck nonetheless exists and can most certainly proceed to be the {hardware} of alternative for a lot of gaming handheld patrons. However the Legion handheld affords completely different specs and a barely completely different configuration (offset sticks!), which you would possibly like higher than what’s discovered on the Steam Deck. Now, you have got choices!

The Legion Go S will hit retail in Could 2025 with a beginning worth of $499.

Manufacturers like to convey idea merchandise to CES, and XGIMI joined the enjoyable this yr. Idea merchandise are simply that: conceptualized merchandise that the corporate has no intention of truly releasing. In XGIMI’s case, it has created a prototype that it’s calling Ascend.

Primarily, the XGIMI Ascend is a bit of furnishings that features three issues inside: an XGIMI Aura 2 projector, a pair of Harmon-Kardon soundbars, and a 100-inch projector display screen that rolls out of the highest. In different phrases, the console features a full house theatre setup, supplying you with the facility to have a house theatre expertise while you need it and have all of it fade into the background while you don’t.

Along with the power to cover all the things away, it’s also possible to flip the Ascend right into a extra ambient piece. To point out this off, XGIMI rolled up the projector display screen solely a part of the best way after which performed a crackling fireplace video.

This all looks as if a extremely cool thought to us, so we are able to’t think about why XGIMI wouldn’t need to convey this to market. We’ll want to attend and see what occurs, however for now, the Ascend is only a idea.

Round’s current good ring — the Round Ring Slim — appeared fairly promising however didn’t totally ship on these guarantees. At CES 2025, the corporate is again with the Round Ring 2, and it has two very notable issues about it.

First, and most crucially, it helps a digital sizing system. With most different good rings in the marketplace — together with the Samsung Galaxy Ring — it is advisable to order a bodily sizing package to find out which ring dimension you’ll want. Round, although, has developed a method to do that digitally, proper in your smartphone. This protects you time, saves each you and the corporate cash, and saves the setting from plastic waste and burned vitality for transport.

Moreover, the Round Ring 2 is the primary good ring with an FDA-cleared atrial fibrillation (AFib) sensor. That is essential for monitoring coronary heart well being and was beforehand one thing for which you’d have wanted a smartwatch.

The Round Ring 2 will likely be out there for $380 in February or March 2025.

OK, OnePlus launched the OnePlus 13 again in December 2024, however that was solely in China. The worldwide model — that means the one you’ll purchase right here in the US — launched on January 7 throughout CES, which made it eligible for a Better of CES 2025 award!

Up to now, we’re completely loving each the OnePlus 13 and the OnePlus 13R. The OnePlus 13 continues the corporate’s pursuit of premium flagship perfection with stellar {hardware}, a lovely design, and a plethora of helpful software program options. In truth, in our assessment of the OnePlus 13, we gave it a uncommon excellent 5/5 rating. In the meantime, the 13R affords some unbelievable specs at a surprisingly low worth.

Notably, the OnePlus 13 has probably the most in depth software program replace dedication but from the model, with a assured 4 Android upgrades and 6 years of general help. That’s nonetheless far shy of the complete seven years provided by Google and Samsung for his or her respective flagships, however at the very least OnePlus is catching up.

In the meantime, the OnePlus 13R has extra storage, a greater telephoto digital camera, an even bigger battery, and final yr’s efficiency powerhouse, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

Each telephones can be found now, with the OnePlus 13 beginning at $899 and the OnePlus 13R beginning at $599.

LG has had fairly a number of wi-fi TVs over the previous few years. By “wi-fi” we don’t imply fully wi-fi — the TVs nonetheless want an influence cable related to the wall — however wi-fi within the sense that you just don’t want to attach any peripherals on to it. As an alternative, you join your gaming consoles, Blu-Ray gamers, and so forth., to a wi-fi transmitter, and it beams the sign to the TV from someplace else within the room.

These TVs have confronted two issues, although. First, they’re very costly. Second, the wi-fi transmitter — often known as the Zero Join — must be positioned inside a line of sight of the TV. With the brand new LG 4K True Wi-fi QNED TV (QNED9M), the corporate has addressed each of these points.

As a result of it’s QNED (an LG branding time period for LCD) as an alternative of OLED, the value comes down considerably. And the brand new wi-fi transmitter can really be hidden away, akin to inside a bit of furnishings. This makes these TVs extra accessible and higher than ever.

We cherished the worth provided by the LG 4K True Wi-fi QNED TV, and are excited to see how nicely it does out there when it goes up on the market later this yr.

TCL’s second win of the present goes to its latest pill, the TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus. This pill is notable as a result of it’s the debut of NXTPAPER 4.0, the most recent iteration of TCL’s e-reader/anti-glare show expertise.

The good factor concerning the NXTPAPER 11 Plus is the brand new model of the NXTPAPER Key. On the TCL 60 XE talked about earlier on this article, the NXTPAPER Secret is binary — it’s both toggled on or toggled off. On the NXTPAPER 11 Plus, the button is able to a number of features and even lights as much as make it clear what it’s doing.

For instance, a single press of the button swaps you into both the traditional show mode, Coloration E-Ink Mode, or Max Ink Mode. In the meantime, a double-press of the button launches an AI toolbox TCL developed with its accomplice Microsoft. You may customise how this all works, with long-presses included as a 3rd possibility.

Together with this new button, NXTPAPER 4.0 can also be sharper, extra colourful, and affords higher distinction than earlier variations. For now, if you would like the perfect NXTPAPER expertise potential, you’ll want this pill.

It would most likely be some time earlier than NXTPAPER 4.0 and the brand new NXTPAPER Key make their approach to a cellphone. It would even be some time earlier than you may get this pill, as TCL wouldn’t inform us any pricing or availability data.

In case you personal a robotic vacuum, you’ve doubtless confronted this difficulty: the robovac is making its rounds, but it surely will get caught when it by chance sucks up a sock you left on the ground. Now, it’s not going to have the ability to proceed its job, and it is advisable to wrestle the sock from its jaws.

That gained’t be an issue anymore with the Roborock Saros Z70, as a result of it has a robotic arm that may come out of the vacuum and transfer objects round. Utilizing AI, the robotic can really establish the article on the ground and even transfer it to the right place. For the sock instance, it will choose up the sock and put it in your laundry hamper. For a toy left on the ground by your youngster, it will transfer that toy to the toy field. Neat!

Clearly, it’s a Roborock vacuum, firstly, so it additionally has all of the cleansing options you’ll count on from a top-tier Roborock, together with help for mopping.

Roborock didn’t have a lot data to present us on pricing or availability for the Saros Z70, however it is going to doubtless launch this yr — and sure be actually costly.​

Typically, while you’re at CES, you overlook about enjoyable. You’re at all times trying to find the following ground-breaking, life-changing tech, so typically you cross over issues which are simply plain enjoyable. Nicely, the Govee Gaming Pixel Gentle is pure pleasure, and we thought it deserved an award for it.

Consider the Gaming Pixel Gentle as a Lite-Brite however for the twenty-first century. You may add GIFs and different animations to the gadget, and it’ll render them in 8-bit-style graphics at a velocity of 30fps. It could possibly additionally pulse and alter with music and voices, and sync to your wider good house.

Is it life-changing? No. Is it important? No. However is it enjoyable? Sure, it is a ton of enjoyable, and any RGB lighting fan will like it.

Sadly, we don’t have any pricing or availability data for this but. Keep tuned!

In 2022, Lenovo confirmed off an idea gadget: a laptop computer with a rollable show. Now, in 2025, Lenovo has really made it an actual product, touchdown because the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable.

Identical to the 2022 idea gadget, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 begins out as a reasonably typical 14-inch Home windows laptop computer. While you hit a particular button on the keyboard deck, although, the display screen extends upward, turning into a 16.7-inch show. That is potential due to the versatile OLED panel.

Inside, the laptop computer has loads of specs, too. It’s powered by the most recent Intel Core Extremely 7 (2nd sequence) processor, and could be custom-made with tons of RAM and storage.

Sadly, this distinctive kind issue makes the laptop computer ridiculously costly, touchdown at $3,499 (ouch). Nonetheless, if you wish to dwell on the bleeding fringe of tech, it’s at all times going to be expensive.

Bear in mind rear projection TVs? They have been massive, largely hole TV units again within the 90s that used an inside projection system to throw photographs onto a show. Whereas these are antiquated these days due to the likes of recent LCDs and OLEDs, a brand new type of TV is beginning to come up that makes use of an identical precept as rear projection. These are referred to as laser TVs, and Hisense launched a extremely cool one at CES 2025.

The Hisense L9Q TriChroma is a laser TV that is available in at 100 inches on the minimal. That’s proper, it’s a go massive or go house take care of Hisense. You will get an L9Q with a display screen dimension of as much as 150 inches, so begin making room in your TV space.

As a result of the display screen is so giant and able to making such vivid imagery, the L9Q seems to be stupendous. It was simply one of many best-looking TVs on the present ground.

Sadly, laser TVs are a new-ish product class, which suggests they’re exorbitantly costly. Hisense hasn’t disclosed pricing or availability but, however the previous-gen mannequin began at $5,500, so count on an identical price for the L9Q TriChroma.

SwitchBot has been promoting its tiny little K10 Plus Professional ($599.99 at Amazon) robotic vacuum since final yr. In 2025, SwitchBot is upping the ante by revamping the little robovac barely and introducing a line of “mods” to boost its capabilities. It now has turn into (prepare for this) the SwitchBot Multitasking Family Robotic K20 Plus Professional. Wowzers.

Anyway, you may get an thought of what this implies within the photograph above. The robovac goes beneath the “FusionPlatform” — the bigger gadget. The 2 units join collectively bodily, permitting the bigger gadget to manage the smaller gadget.

The bigger gadget can then be loaded with varied instruments. For instance, there’s a spot for a webcam, which might enable your robotic vacuum to be a safety sentry, going to a selected a part of the home that you just would possibly need to monitor remotely. There’s additionally an air air purifier, which lets you have one small air air purifier whereas nonetheless purifying the whole home.

What’s extra is that SwitchBot is making the FusionPlatform customizable by way of 3D printing. Mainly, it’s encouraging tinkerers to design their very own mods and make their K20 Plus Professional do no matter they need it to do.

SwitchBot has been mum on pricing and availability for this, however the K10 Plus Professional landed for $599, so it’s doubtless the K20 Plus Professional will land at an identical quantity, at the very least for the bottom vac. The opposite equipment will likely be additional.

When Samsung makes an Odyssey monitor, you realize it’s going to be insane. Samsung’s Odyssey product line is the place the corporate places its top-tier {hardware}, and this yr is not any exception.

The Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 for 2025 contains one thing we’ve by no means seen earlier than on a industrial gaming monitor: an OLED panel with a whopping 500Hz refresh charge!

Granted, you’re going to want one hell of a rig to push sufficient frames to make 500Hz worthwhile, however should you’ve acquired the horsepower, the G6 could make it shine.

Samsung hasn’t introduced pricing or availability for this monitor but, however count on to spend nicely over $1,000, if not one thing nearer to $2,000.

Timekettle has been making actually cool translation merchandise for some time now, with the W4 Professional being among the best. That product really obtained a Better of IFA 2024 award from us.

At CES 2025, although, Timekettle introduced Babel OS. This new replace brings its real-time translation {hardware} to the following stage, permitting for quicker, extra correct, and extra natural-sounding translations in over 40 languages.

Better of all, although, is that you just don’t want to purchase new {hardware} for Babel OS. The replace is coming to many of the current Timekettle merchandise, together with the aforementioned W4 Professional.

CES is full of robotic vacuums, a lot of that are loaded with all kinds of untamed new options. That is at all times thrilling to see, however typically you need to get again to the fundamentals (i.e., cleansing the home totally), and that’s what the Eureka J15 Max Extremely offers.

This new Eureka robovac options an unbelievable 16,200pa of suction, which is fairly excessive. Which means it’s going to have the ability to suck up a complete lot of mud and dust, making your own home good and clear.

It additionally has extendable mopping brushes that work nicely at cleansing your flooring and likewise stepping into these deep corners different robovacs would possibly miss.

To high all of it off, the Eureka J15 Max Extremely can also be not exorbitantly costly, beginning at $999. Granted, that’s not low-cost by any stretch of the creativeness, however for what you’re getting, that’s not unhealthy.

Garmin’s line of Intuition smartwatches has stayed fairly comparable through the years. In 2025, although, the corporate is including the Intuition 3 to the road, and it brings a characteristic we’ve by no means seen on an Intuition earlier than: an AMOLED show.

That’s proper, you have got two decisions now while you purchase an Intuition 3: the normal LCD panel or a vivid AMOLED panel. Every affords distinct benefits and downsides in comparison with the opposite. For instance, the AMOLED panel is full coloration, whereas the LCD panel is monochrome. Nonetheless, the LCD panel contains a photo voltaic charging ring, which suggests you’ll by no means have to cost it (assuming you go exterior each every now and then). The AMOLED mannequin doesn’t help photo voltaic charging.

When you’ve chosen the kind of show you need, you then choose a dimension. The Intuition 3 is available in both 45mm or 50mm instances, and you’ll select between black or Neo Tropic colorways.

No matter which watch you choose, do not forget that there isn’t any contact display screen help on any Intuition. You’ll have to study Garmin’s five-button system should you’ve by no means used a Garmin earlier than.

The Garmin Intuition 3 begins at $399 for the LCD mannequin and $449 for the AMOLED mannequin.

Our annual Better of CES awards go to the top-tier merchandise which are ground-breaking in a roundabout way. Nonetheless, CES isn’t simply concerning the large manufacturers you already know and love — it’s additionally concerning the smaller, up-and-coming manufacturers which are making an attempt to make a reputation for themselves. To ensure these firms get some love, we created the Better of CES 2025: Breakthrough awards.

Beneath, you’ll discover the 12 CES 2025 Breakthrough award winners. Remember to verify them out, as any one in all these merchandise may very well be the following massive factor!

• Mammotion LUBA 2 AWD: This robotic lawnmower can go anyplace, even up hills as steep as 80 levels!
• Beatbot Aquasense 2 Extremely: Want to wash your pool however don’t need to do it your self? This nifty pool robotic can deal with all of your pool cleansing wants.
• Dreo PolyFan 707S: You understand these oscillating followers that transfer backwards and forwards? That’s actually inefficient. This fan makes use of mmWave to find out the place you might be and blow cool air in your path!
• Narwal Movement: This robotic vacuum has one of the crucial succesful base stations we’ve ever seen. You possibly can let it do its factor for practically a month earlier than needing to the touch it!
• Botslab 4K PT Battery Cam W510: This safety cam has a nifty accent within the HomeBase H200, which provides you 16TB (!!) of space for storing for all of your 4K recordings.
• Anker Solix EverFrost 2 Electrical Cooler: In case you’re nonetheless dumping a bunch of ice right into a seaside cooler, contemplate upgrading to this electrical cooler that may maintain your meals contemporary for for much longer (and maintain it a lot dryer!).
• GlocalMe UniCord: In case you journey quite a bit, you don’t have to have a charging cable and a SIM-powered hotspot. Get the UniCord, which mixes each issues into one!
• Tineco Carpet One Cruiser: This stick-style carpet cleaner could make your carpets appear like new once more and dry them mechanically, saving you treasured time.
• Yaber Projector K300s: This teeny, tiny projector is able to masking your partitions with a 100-inch picture, excellent in your subsequent film night time.
• Dreame X50 Extremely: Robotic vacuums have one main impediment, which is steps. The Dreame X50 Extremely, although, can really climb over brief steps, making it the best vacuum for cleansing your total house.
• Captify: These good glasses are designed particularly for folk who’re arduous of listening to. It captions voices in real-time, permitting you to at all times perceive what persons are saying.
• Lexar’s 15.6-inch starlight pexar digital image body: This digital image body is particularly designed to indicate art work, making it the best body for art-lovers who desire a regular stream of various items that look pure on their wall.

Which of those merchandise is your favourite? Tell us the highest Better of CES 2025 award-winner within the feedback beneath, and keep tuned for extra CES protection!