Android Authority’s high merchandise from the present!

It’s a brand new 12 months, and with that all the time comes a model new CES! As typical, Android Authority was on the bottom in Las Vegas, testing all the newest tech on the world’s largest client electronics present.

Though nobody might ever see every part at any given CES (it’s too large!), we’ve compiled the perfect of what we noticed this 12 months into the listing under. There are all kinds of merchandise right here throughout quite a few classes, together with smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, sensible residence units, and extra.

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

Folks the world over have been loving TCL’s progressive NXTPAPER know-how, which is an anti-glare show overlaying that works exceptionally effectively. TCL has additionally provided a cool characteristic on a few of its telephones and tablets known as Max Ink Mode, which is a battery-saving e-ink-style show triggered via a bodily button known as the NXTPAPER Key.

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

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efficiency and lower-grade specs, the NXTPAPER options make this the proper secondary telephone or substitute for an outdated e-reader.

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

The Steam Deck has been an enormous 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 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 truly certainly one of two variants for the brand new Legion Go. If you happen to don’t like Steam OS for no matter purpose, you will 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 probably proceed to be the {hardware} of alternative for a lot of gaming handheld patrons. However the Legion handheld provides totally different specs and a barely totally different configuration (offset sticks!), which you may 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 12 months. 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 chunk 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 residence theatre setup, providing you with the ability to have a house theatre expertise whenever you need it and have all of it fade into the background whenever you don’t.

Along with the flexibility to cover every part away, it’s also possible to flip the Ascend right into a extra ambient piece. To indicate 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 very cool concept to us, so we will’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 sensible ring — the Round Ring Slim — appeared fairly promising however didn’t absolutely 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 sensible rings in the marketplace — together with the Samsung Galaxy Ring — you have 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 power for transport.

Moreover, the Round Ring 2 is the primary sensible 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 can 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}, an attractive design, and a plethora of helpful software program options. In truth, in our evaluate of the OnePlus 13, we gave it a uncommon good 5/5 rating. In the meantime, the 13R provides some unimaginable specs at a surprisingly low worth.

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

In the meantime, the OnePlus 13R has extra storage, a greater telephoto digicam, an even bigger battery, and final 12 months’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 linked 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 elsewhere within the room.

These TVs have confronted two issues, although. First, they’re very costly. Second, the wi-fi transmitter — referred to 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 a substitute of OLED, the worth comes down considerably. And the brand new wi-fi transmitter can truly be hidden away, akin to inside a chunk of furnishings. This makes these TVs extra accessible and higher than ever.

We beloved the worth provided by the LG 4K True Wi-fi QNED TV, and are excited to see how effectively it does out there when it goes up on the market later this 12 months.

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 know-how.

The best 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 Key’s 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 conventional show mode, Shade 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 possibly can customise how this all works, with long-presses included as a 3rd choice.

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

It’ll most likely be some time earlier than NXTPAPER 4.0 and the brand new NXTPAPER Key make their solution to a telephone. It’ll even be some time earlier than you will get this pill, as TCL wouldn’t inform us any pricing or availability info.

If you happen to personal a robotic vacuum, you’ve probably confronted this subject: the robovac is making its rounds, nevertheless it will get caught when it unintentionally sucks up a sock you left on the ground. Now, it’s not going to have the ability to proceed its job, and you have 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 truly establish the thing on the ground and even transfer it to the correct place. For the sock instance, it will decide up the sock and put it in your laundry hamper. For a toy left on the ground by your baby, it will transfer that toy to the toy field. Neat!

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

Roborock didn’t have a lot info to offer us on pricing or availability for the Saros Z70, however it’s going to probably launch this 12 months — and sure be actually costly.​

Generally, whenever you’re at CES, you neglect about enjoyable. You’re all the time trying to find the following ground-breaking, life-changing tech, so generally you cross over issues which are simply plain enjoyable. Effectively, the Govee Gaming Pixel Mild is pure pleasure, and we thought it deserved an award for it.

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

Is it life-changing? No. Is it important? No. However is it enjoyable? Sure, this can be a ton of enjoyable, and any RGB lighting fan will find it irresistible.

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

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

Identical to the 2022 idea system, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 begins out as a fairly typical 14-inch Home windows laptop computer. Whenever 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 because of the versatile OLED panel.

Inside, the laptop computer has loads of specs, too. It’s powered by the newest Intel Core Extremely 7 (2nd sequence) processor, and might 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 all the time going to be expensive.

Keep in mind rear projection TVs? They have been massive, principally hole TV units again within the 90s that used an inner projection system to throw photos onto a show. Whereas these are antiquated these days because of the likes of contemporary LCDs and OLEDs, a brand new type of TV is beginning to come up that makes use of the same precept as rear projection. These are known as laser TVs, and Hisense launched a very 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 residence cope with Hisense. You may 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 vibrant imagery, the L9Q appears stupendous. It was simply one of many best-looking TVs on the present flooring.

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 the same price for the L9Q TriChroma.

SwitchBot has been promoting its tiny little K10 Plus Professional ($599.99 at Amazon) robotic vacuum since final 12 months. 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 grow to be (prepare for this) the SwitchBot Multitasking Family Robotic K20 Plus Professional. Wowzers.

Anyway, you will get an concept of what this implies within the picture above. The robovac goes below the “FusionPlatform” — the bigger system. The 2 units join collectively bodily, permitting the bigger system to regulate the smaller system.

The bigger system 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 may need to monitor remotely. There’s additionally an air air purifier, which lets you have one small air air purifier whereas nonetheless purifying the complete home.

What’s extra is that SwitchBot is making the FusionPlatform customizable via 3D printing. Principally, 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 probably the K20 Plus Professional will land at the same quantity, at the least for the bottom vac. The opposite equipment can be additional.

When Samsung makes an Odyssey monitor, you understand it’s going to be insane. Samsung’s Odyssey product line is the place the corporate places its top-tier {hardware}, and this 12 months isn’t any exception.

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

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

Samsung hasn’t introduced pricing or availability for this monitor but, however count on to spend effectively 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 probably the greatest. That product truly acquired 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 stuffed with robotic vacuums, a lot of that are loaded with all types of untamed new options. That is all the time thrilling to see, however generally you need to get again to the fundamentals (i.e., cleansing the home completely), and that’s what the Eureka J15 Max Extremely gives.

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

It additionally has extendable mopping brushes that work effectively at cleansing your flooring and in addition moving into these deep corners different robovacs may miss.

To high all of it off, the Eureka J15 Max Extremely can 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 dangerous.

Garmin’s line of Intuition smartwatches has stayed fairly related over time. 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 selections now whenever you purchase an Intuition 3: the standard LCD panel or a vibrant AMOLED panel. Every provides distinct benefits and downsides in comparison with the opposite. For instance, the AMOLED panel is full coloration, whereas the LCD panel is monochrome. Nevertheless, the LCD panel incorporates a photo voltaic charging ring, which suggests you’ll by no means must cost it (assuming you go outdoors each occasionally). The AMOLED mannequin doesn’t assist photo voltaic charging.

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

No matter which watch you choose, do not forget that there isn’t a contact display screen assist on any Intuition. You’ll must be taught Garmin’s five-button system when 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. Nevertheless, 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 verify these corporations get some love, we created the Better of CES 2025: Breakthrough awards.

Under, you’ll discover the 12 CES 2025 Breakthrough award winners. Make sure you verify them out, as any certainly one of these merchandise may very well be the following massive factor!

• Mammotion LUBA 2 AWD: This robotic lawnmower can go wherever, 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 realize these oscillating followers that transfer backwards and forwards? That’s actually inefficient. This fan makes use of mmWave to find out the place you’re and blow cool air in your course!
• Narwal Circulation: This robotic vacuum has one of the crucial succesful base stations we’ve ever seen. You could possibly let it do its factor for almost 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 cupboard space for all of your 4K recordings.
• Anker Solix EverFrost 2 Electrical Cooler: If you happen to’re nonetheless dumping a bunch of ice right into a seashore cooler, think about upgrading to this electrical cooler that may preserve your meals recent for for much longer (and preserve it a lot dryer!).
• GlocalMe UniCord: If you happen to journey rather a lot, you don’t must 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 to be new once more and dry them robotically, saving you valuable time.
• Yaber Projector K300s: This teeny, tiny projector is able to overlaying your partitions with a 100-inch picture, good on your subsequent film evening.
• Dreame X50 Extremely: Robotic vacuums have one main impediment, which is steps. The Dreame X50 Extremely, although, can truly climb over quick steps, making it the best vacuum for cleansing your total residence.
• Captify: These sensible glasses are designed particularly for people who’re arduous of listening to. It captions voices in real-time, permitting you to all the time perceive what individuals are saying.
• Lexar’s 15.6-inch starlight pexar digital image body: This digital image body is particularly designed to point out 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 under, and keep tuned for extra CES protection!