The best study-from-home essentials to keep you on track

Even though a new school year begins in a few months, it’s not clear yet if all colleges will return to their pre-pandemic normal. Whether you’re forced to take virtual classes or you can attend them in person, it’s still a good idea to have a proper...

This week’s best deals: Apple Watch Series 5, Echo Dot and more

This week brought good sales on Apple and Amazon devices, as well as some intriguing gaming deals. The Apple Watch Series 5 dropped to $299 again after WWDC kicked off earlier this week and Amazon still has some of its Echo speakers on sale (includin...

The best gifts for grads under $50

Finding the right gift for a new graduate in your life is tricky, especially if you’re on a strict budget. The usual techie ideas like tablets and wearables are expensive, and at the opposite end of the spectrum are loads of corny (and often useless)...

Amazon is bringing Fire TV to cars and Dolby Atmos to its soundbars

Amazon plans to bring its Fire TV platform to in-car entertainment systems. Today, Amazon announced that Fire TV Edition for Auto will appear in future BMW and Fiat Chrysler vehicles. It will include access to Alexa, a touch screen interface and offl...

Everything in our holiday gift guide that you can buy for $50 or less

Depending on your budget and how many people are on your gift list this year, you might only have a modest amount to spend on each person. Even if you instill a cap of fifty bucks, though, you still have plenty of options. In Engadget's 2019 holiday...

Anker’s Soundcore Life earphones combine all the best bits of the AirPods designs

It’s almost as if Anker took all the customer feedback people were giving Apple about the AirPods and AirPods Pro, and combined them all into their own earphones. Meet the Anker Soundcore Life F2. They look and feel a lot like the original Airpods, but come with Pro-style silicone tips to secure themselves in your ear so that this doesn’t happen. They perform noise-cancellation like the Pros do, come with touch-based gestures like most earphones do, and offer a pretty stunning 40 hours of use with the case. Oh, and they’re designed in glorious black, something most AirPods users will agree look pretty good in that form factor!

The Soundcore Life F2 earphones pack graphene-based audio drivers that offer superior sound-quality with crystal clarity. Within its Airpods-esque long-stem design doesn’t just sit a bigger battery, but also 4 microphones that perform beam-forming, vocal enhancement, and background noise suppression to make your phone-calls up to 3-times clearer than the competition. You can answer and end calls or toggle through music playback features just like you normally would, by tapping and sliding against the earbud-stem, and depending on whether you’re running Android or iOS, you can summon the voice assistant through the earphones too. All this is packed inside an IPx7 waterproof design that works easily through rain and sweaty gym-sessions. The silicone buds give you a much more secure fit too, so you could actually go jogging or gymming with these without worrying that they’ll fall out… and if you want to be like a Bluetooth-headset-touting Wall Street businessman from a decade ago, you can independently use a single earpiece in Mono mode, keeping your second ear free! All that for a quarter of the price of the AirPods Pro.

Designer: Anker

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PC and mobile accessories that’ll make great gifts

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The best smartphones, tablets and smartwatches to give as gifts

A smartphone makes for one really nice but expensive holiday gift. If you're shopping for someone who deserves it (or just really needs to upgrade from a phone from way-back-whenever), we've got recommendations across iOS and Android, as well as othe...