This week has been one of the biggest of the year in tech , with Apple holding its annual iPhone launching consequence .
Apple showcased theiPhone 16series on Monday , plain off the hebdomad with a new range of phones with some brand - new feature , admit theCamera Controlbutton , fasterMagSafewireless charging and plenty ofApple Intelligencefeatures .
Of naturally , Apple was n’t the only technical school company that made newspaper headline this hebdomad . Nothing release thePhone ( 2a ) Plusin the UK , Sony annunciate the extremely - anticipatedPS5 Proand it was revealed that Flappy Bird will be making its return to the App Store 10 years after it was pulled .
Winner: Google
Our winner this hebdomad is Google as the company beganrolling Gemini Live outto all Android user free of charge .
Gemini Liveis Google ’s AI chatbot and a smarter replacement for Google Assistant . First previewed at Google I / O back in May , Gemini Live offer increased cognition , more natural interaction and the power to interrupt the assistant without disrupting the flow of the conversation .
It ’s also a competition to OpenAI’sChatGPTAdvanced Voice dick and Apple’sSiriupdate , which is also capable of calling upon ChatGPT and will be available to iPhone users with the launch ofiOS 18and the arrival ofApple Intelligencefrom Monday .
We find Gemini Live to be a capable competition to ChatGPT , with peregrine editor in chief Lewis Painter writing , “ Like ChatGPT , you could chat with Gemini Live in a more innate , colloquial way , making it handy for vague inquiry and brainstorming . I used Gemini Live to help me plan a gymnasium session , with a muckle of back and forth on my preferences , and it was truly insightful ” in his review of theGoogle Pixel 9 Pro XL .
We ’re excited to see the feature expand beyond the Google and Samsung French telephone support at launching and at no charge , at that .
Loser: PS5 Pro upgrades
Sony is our nonstarter this week after the companyunveiled the long - awaited PS5 heir , the PS5 Pro .
The reason the PS5 Pro is our also-ran is that , despite the console ’s Pro name and eminent $ 699.99/£699.99 monetary value , Sony has n’t even anticipate 4K/60p gaming as stock with the cabinet . Rather , this is a resolve and frame rate the ship’s company hopes to turn over with the console .
There are perks to pick up the PS5 Pro over the OGPlayStation 5 . The GPU has 67 % more Compute Units and 28 % faster memory than the unconstipated PS5 , which Sony claims will lend itself to 45 % faster rendering during gameplay . Ray Tracingis also quicker and more dynamic , whilePSSRleverages AI to upscale the image quality and add extra particular .
However , when it get along down to it , these are some minor benefit when the console can not even call 4K/60p play as measure .
The PS5 also cost £ 190 more than the PS5 Slim and almost twice as much as the PS5 Digital Edition , give it a steep jump for a small-scale identification number of upgrade . That ’s without including the optional $ 79.99/£99.99 Blu - ray record drive that ’ll let you to make for 4 one thousand spiritualist physically .
