Latest smart home news
We've seen screen mirroring with other smart home lighting before, but now Nanoleaf is joining the party to make your TV viewing even more immersive.... Read more
Netgear's Arlo has announced its Video Doorbell, competing with the likes of Amazon's Ring 2 and Google's Nest Hello.The Arlo Video Doorbell is a slim... Read more
Amazon has a range of Echo devices, but we'll guide you through them on so you can decide which is the the best Echo Read more
The belief that care homes are out of date could be about to change, following a digital initiative.... Read more
Here's everything you need to know about about Nest Aware, including what Nest devices it's needed for, what it offers and how much it costs.... Read more
Updated This is everything you need to know about Nest and Google Home devices. What are they, how do they work and what devices work with them?... Read more
Updated Google announced a second generation of its Home Mini, called the Google Nest Mini. This is everything you need to know.... Read more
Google has announced a new mesh network system called Nest Wifi.... Read more
Google has unveiled a new version of the Nest Mini, it’s small Google Assistant speaker... Read more
Updated ZigBee is a smart home protocol that's widely used, including in Amazon's Echo Plus. Here's everything you need to know about it... Read more
Google will unveil the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL at an event today - 15 October - but the company is also rumoured to reveal the second generation of the... Read more
Amazon recently announced a multilingual mode for its Alexa devices in the US, Canada, and India. Now, that feature is rolling out.... Read more
Updated Not only can you place a call using the feature, but you can also leave a voice message or send a text-based message.... Read more
Google introduced Google Wifi way back in 2016, and was arguably the company that brought more attention to the whole mesh network market. This wasn't... Read more
Google is introducing a second celebrity voice: Issa Rae, an American actress best known for her YouTube series Awkward Black Girl and HBO's Insecure... Read more
BT is launching Halo, a converged 5G mobile and home broadband bundle and is launching 5G services from this Friday 11 October - it runs on EE's already-live... Read more
The 16th Pocket-lint Awards will be taking place in association with EE in November, celebrating the nominations across 19 categories from games and... Read more
Ring is bringing its smart home alarm system to the UK, and you can now pre-order it for a 7 November shipping date.... Read more
At this point, we're wondering if there are some sort of technical issues that are affecting it, sort of like how Apple canned the AirPower mat because it didn't properly work.... Read more
Get £40 off the Ring Video Doorbell 2 and Ring Video Doorbell Pro, before the prices go back to normal... Read more
Arlo - best known for its range of home security cameras - could be on the verge of releasing a video doorbell to rival the Nest Hello. Arlo currently... Read more
Virgin Media has launched its consumer 1Gbps broadband offering in Southampton - the first UK city to get it ahead of a national rollout.... Read more
Amazon already has a couple so-called Day One Edition devices in testing. Here's everything you need to know about them, including when you can try them yourself.... Read more
Amazon recently unveiled a slew of devices at its now-annual autumn hardware event, but buried among those product launches was a new technology protocol that the company briefly mentioned. Called Sidewalk, it's designed to connect smart devices in and around your house.... Read more
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos got up on stage during the aftermath of Amazon's lengthy product launch today to hail the work of Amazon's team in developing the new Echo Studio.... Read more
Here is everything the company announced in one handy place... Read more
Amazon is one-upping its own Alexa-enabled microwave from last year, by introducing a smart oven that doubles as a microwave. It even works as an air fryer.... Read more
Amazon is adding smart glasses and smart rings to its ever-growing list of Echo-branded devices.... Read more
Among the new hardware announced at Amazon's autumn event are devices from Ring.... Read more
Amazon has announced a new Ring Stick-Up Cam and a Ring Indoor Cam during its September event in Seattle, alongside a range of new Echo devices.The new... Read more
Amazon has announced an Alexa-equipped wall plug, called Echo Flex, and it's available for pre-order in different versions for both the US and the UK.... Read more
Amazon has announced the first mesh network Wi-Fi system to be released after its acquisition of specialist brand Eero.... Read more
Amazon loves to add to the Echo ecosystem and has released a number of devices for kids in the past. The Amazon Echo Glow is exactly that - a smart light... Read more
You can now choose to auto-delete your Alexa recordings after 3 or 18 months. Amazon is announcing a bunch of stuff at its devices and services event... Read more
Amazon has announced a new version of the Echo Show called Echo Show 8. It follows the Echo Show 5 from last year.... Read more
Amazon has announced a new version of its popular Echo speaker moving to the third generation and shifting the design to look more like the 2018 Echo Plus.The... Read more
Amazon has announced a number of new Echo devices at its September event, including the Echo Studio, an all-new Echo, an Echo Dot with a clock and an... Read more
Amazon is live in Seattle, where it is announcing new hardware, including something called "Echo Dot with clock".... Read more
Amazon has announced a new Voice Interoperability Initiative, with the goal of allowing people to access multiple voice services - from Amazon Alexa to Microsoft Cortana - on a single device. More than 30 companies have joined the effort, including Spotify, Sonos, Salesforce, Microsoft, Harman, Ecobee, Bose, BMW.... Read more
Alexa just became a lot more useful for people who are visually impaired, thanks to a new feature called Show and Tell. Here's how it works.... Read more
Amazon has a hardware event set for 26 September, roughly one year after it held a similar hardware event to announce several new devices, ranging from an Alexa-enabled microwave to a wall clock. This year, we're expecting even more Alexa devices to be announced.... Read more
Arlo has announced a new flagship model in the Pro family, lifting a lot of the features that made their debut on the Arlo Ultra... Read more
If you're a Google One subscriber in the UK then there's a free gift waiting for you.... Read more
The idea is you’ll be able to make campaign donations to 2020 presidential candidates through your Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, as long as the candidate is eligible and chooses to sign up for Alexa donations. Here's how the feature works.... Read more
Facebook's Portal smart display devices have been in the US for a while, but now the company is launching more devices and in other countries too.... Read more
Facebook has launched its very first piece of hardware you can buy.... Read more
Google currently offers multiple Google Assistant voices in English for US users, but starting this week, it is expanding one of these internationally.... Read more
Do you love the idea of Ambilight but don't have a Philips TV? Philips Hue could have the solution for you.... Read more
Congratulations, you’re the newest source for Alexa to draw upon when answering users' questions.... Read more
Amazon is holding a "devices and services" event at its HQ in Seattle on 25 September.It's a fair bet that we'll be getting at least some new Echo devices... Read more
Smart displays from Google rival the Amazon Echo Show - but what do they do?... Read more