Meet the Best Tech 2025 winners

You guys have spoken and the best iPhone this year is the one that pulls off all the features. The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max have the longest battery life, the best cameras, the brightest screens, and the most powerful performance Apple has to offer. It can be overwhelming for many people.

It wasn’t thin, but Samsung stretched the cover screen on the Galaxy Z Flip 7 to wrap around the two cameras. The result is a flip-style fold that lets you see more at a glance without opening it.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 deservedly took the top spot for the best foldable of the year for good reason: It’s a big leap from the Z Fold 6 in terms of reducing its footprint and feeling like a normal phone when folded.

The Google Pixel 10 Pro (and 10 Pro XL) offers the cleanest, most stock version of Android available. Not to mention that Google has gone a step further by adding Gemini to many areas with “agent” features like Magic Cue to help display information from your apps at the right time and place, as well as productive actions like enhancing 100x zoom images.

It’s rarely a competition when it comes to tablets and Apple didn’t miss out with the iPad Pro (M5). With a jawdropping tandem OLED display and desktop class performance, the iPad Pro (M5) was the undisputed tablet king.

With its launch later this year, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is just right. And yet, Amazon’s first color e-reader with pen support pulled ahead of the rest. That’s the power of the Kindle platform—it’s hard to get out once you’re in.

Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip was a no-brainer. A tried-and-true design with lots of ports, a nice small LED display, and powerful performance from the M5 silicon, the refreshed MacBook Pro is a reliable “just-in-time” laptop for most situations, as long as it’s not serious gaming.

If you do want to play on your laptop, Alienware 16 Area-51 is the way to go. This 16-inch beast has high-end features, including an Intel Core i9 CPU, an Nvidia RTX 5070 or 5080 GPU, a refresh rate of 240Hz, and plenty of ports that ensure you won’t need any dongles. And yes, it runs games very well.

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X may not be officially made by Microsoft, but it’s proven to be a powerful handheld for playing many PC games and supported Xbox titles. It could be a preview of what’s to come if Microsoft launches its own mobile in the future.

Apple’s wireless earbuds have destroyed the competition. With even better active noise cancellation, a built-in heart rate sensor for workouts, and real-time rendering, the AirPods Pro 3 swung to an easy win.

The king of active noise canceling in-ear headphones never rested. Proving again that Sony makes ANC headphones even better, the WH-1000XM6 has improved with even better sound, stronger ANC, and greater comfort.

There are many portable wireless speakers released every year, but the Bose SoundLink Plus stood out with its full and bass-heavy sound and great volume. The bright colors only add to its appeal.

The EOS R6 Mark III is superior to its predecessor with several notable improvements: a high-resolution 32-megapixel sensor, 7K-resolution and 4K-resolution 120 fps video recording, and a CFexpress card slot for data transfer speed. The perfect camera for creators who want to increase the quality of their productions.

It’s no surprise that the most popular smartwatch is the Apple Watch Ultra 3—the largest, longest-lasting, and longest-lasting smartwatch for iPhones. The Ultra 3 adds built-in 5G and satellite connectivity when you have to go touch grass.

With twice the battery life and improved video recording compared to the previous model, the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI Glasses didn’t have to do much to impress. Smart glasses with screens like the Meta Ray-Ban Display may be the future, but as it stands, we probably don’t need notifications on our eyes just yet.

Our reviewer wasn’t impressed with the Gemini’s tricky notification shortcuts or the fact that you have to pay a subscription fee to get better AI features. However, it’s clear that AI—specifically computer vision—is something that will become the standard for home security cameras. The abbreviations just need to be more precise.

The Roborock Saros Z70 was not without its bugs when it launched and its robotic arm was hit or miss. That being said, you guys saw this robot duster as something new, even if the execution wasn’t perfect.

Wi-Fi 7 may not be commonplace yet, but if you’re a newbie and looking for one of the fastest and most reliable routers to connect all your devices to the Internet, the TP-Link Tri-Band BE9700 does the job without any problems, while offering tons of settings to adjust.