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Fitbit Charge 4 is the best, OnePlus 8 series is close, and more tech news today
July 31, 2025
1. Fitbit Charge 4 reviews: nothing but praise
TheFitbit Charge 4is out and reviews have landed over the past 24 hours. And while it’s a weird time to be buying fitness trackers and doing the things that fitness trackers help you track, this line from a review made me sit up: “The best fitness tracker you can buy, period.”
What’s good?
What’s not as good?
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2.Google, Apple reveal more details on huge contact tracing initiative. Android phones will get the tracking updated via the Google Play Store, not Android itself (Android Authority). And here’s more details in question/answer formatfrom a call hosted by the two companies(TechCrunch).
3.OnePlus 8 series: Everything we know so far, and here’s a bunch of pricing leaks from retailers in Europe and the UK (Android Authority).
4.REDMAGIC 5G review: A beast of a smartphone with 144Hz display and 5G for $579, but uncountable little problems that make it unpolished (Android Authority).
5.Nintendo Switch update 10.0.0 is out now: finally, you can move downloaded games and saves between internal storage and an SD card, remap buttons more freely, and there are new Animal Crossing-related icons (Engadget).
6.Zoom will let (paying) customers pick which data center their calls are routed from(The Verge).
7.Quibi to let people watch on their TV after viewers complain, which implies at least some people are watching (Bloomberg). The problem is I’ve re-openedQuibi twice since we discussed it, it’s tech, and its hyperspeed content. It does not spark joy and I think I was too kind initially. On that note, if you want to read someone exploring the content itself more fully:Quibi is a vast wasteland. Ouch. (The Atlantic).
8.As YouTube traffic soars, YouTubers say pay is plummeting. Not a YouTube-related scandal, but a symptom of the wider downturn. CPMs paid by advertisers are dropping because there’s suddenly less advertising money, and less competition for spots. This isn’t just happening on YouTube but all media and advertising, from outdoors to Podcast ad-slots to newspapers (OneZero).
9.Aw: A really promising comet that might’ve been visible to the naked eye just fell to pieces(Gizmodo).
- “Is anyone else having problems with watching movies and constantly having to do volume up and down, because the dialogue is too quiet and the background music is too loud?” (With help for how to fix this!) (r/nostupidquestions).
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