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It’s a brand new 12 months, and with that at all times comes a model new CES! As typical, Android Authority was on the floor in Las Vegas, trying out all the newest tech at the world’s largest client electronics present.
Although nobody may ever see every part at any given CES (it’s too huge!), we’ve got compiled the better of what we noticed this 12 months into the listing beneath. There are all kinds of products right here throughout quite a few classes, together with smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, sensible dwelling gadgets, and extra.
Without additional ado, listed here are the Android Authority Best of CES 2025 Award winners!
TCL 60 XE NXTPAPER 5G
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People the world over have been loving TCL’s modern NXTPAPER know-how, which is an anti-glare show protecting that works exceptionally properly. TCL has additionally supplied 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 by a bodily button known as the NXTPAPER Key.
While we’ve seen NXTPAPER shows in the United States, we’ve by no means had a telephone with a NXTPAPER Key. That modifications 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.
Finally, folks in North America can purchase a telephone with a NXTPAPER Key!
To make issues even higher, the TCL 60 XE can be extremely budget-friendly, with a beginning price of simply $199. While its funds standing will inevitably imply decrease efficiency and lower-grade specs, the NXTPAPER options make this the good secondary telephone or substitute for an previous e-reader.
TCL hasn’t introduced when the TCL 60 XE will hit retailer cabinets in the US, however we’ll probably discover out extra at Mobile World Congress in a number of weeks.
Lenovo Legion Go S — Powered by Steam OS
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The Steam Deck has been an enormous success. Since it got here on the market, numerous different gaming handhelds have launched, however none of them have had the identical Linux-based working system that comes with the Steam Deck (not less than, 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!
Want Steam OS however do not desire a Steam Deck? Now, you will have choices!
Officially titled the Lenovo Legion Go S — Powered by Steam OS (clunky, I do know), that is really certainly one of two variants for the new Legion Go. If you don’t like Steam OS for no matter purpose, you may get a Windows-powered model with the identical {hardware} choices. The solely distinction is that the Windows mannequin is white, and the Steam OS mannequin is black.
Obviously, the Steam Deck nonetheless exists and can almost certainly proceed to be the {hardware} of selection for a lot of gaming handheld patrons. But the Legion handheld affords completely different specs and a barely completely different configuration (offset sticks!), which you would possibly like higher than what’s discovered on the Steam Deck. Now, you will have choices!
The Legion Go S will hit retail in May 2025 with a beginning value of $499.
XGIMI Ascend
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Brands like to carry idea products to CES, and XGIMI joined the enjoyable this 12 months. Concept products are simply that: conceptualized products that the firm has no intention of truly releasing. In XGIMI’s case, it has created a prototype that it’s calling Ascend.
Essentially, the XGIMI Ascend is a bit 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 top. In different phrases, the console features a full dwelling theatre setup, providing you with the energy to have a house theatre expertise if you need it and have all of it fade into the background if you don’t.
The Ascend is an idea gadget that goals to pack a whole dwelling theatre into one piece of furnishings.
In addition to the potential to cover every part away, you can even flip the Ascend right into a extra ambient piece. To present this off, XGIMI rolled up the projector display screen solely a part of the manner after which performed a crackling fireplace video.
This all looks as if a very cool thought to us, so we will’t think about why XGIMI wouldn’t need to carry this to market. We’ll want to attend and see what occurs, however for now, the Ascend is only a idea.
Circular Ring 2
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Circular’s current sensible ring — the Circular Ring Slim — appeared fairly promising however didn’t absolutely ship on these guarantees. At CES 2025, the firm is again with the Circular Ring 2, and it has two very notable issues about it.
Circular has discovered a solution to ditch the cumbersome bodily sizing kits present sensible rings require.
First, and most crucially, it helps a digital sizing system. With most different sensible rings on the market — together with the Samsung Galaxy Ring — you must order a bodily sizing package to find out which ring dimension you’ll want. Circular, although, has developed a manner to do that digitally, proper in your smartphone. This saves you time, saves each you and the firm cash, and saves the setting from plastic waste and burned vitality for delivery.
Additionally, the Circular Ring 2 is the first sensible ring with an FDA-cleared atrial fibrillation (AFib) sensor. This is essential for monitoring coronary heart well being and was beforehand one thing for which you’d have wanted a smartwatch.
The Circular Ring 2 can be obtainable for $380 in February or March 2025.
OnePlus 13 and 13R
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OK, OnePlus launched the OnePlus 13 again in December 2024, however that was solely in China. The world model — that means the one you’ll purchase right here in the United States — launched on January 7 throughout CES, which made it eligible for a Best of CES 2025 award!
So far, we’re completely loving each the OnePlus 13 and the OnePlus 13R. The OnePlus 13 continues the firm’s pursuit of premium flagship perfection with stellar {hardware}, a phenomenal 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. Meanwhile, the 13R affords some unbelievable specs at a surprisingly low value.
The OnePlus 13 is a terrific premium flagship, whereas the 13R affords stellar specs at a surprisingly low value.
Notably, the OnePlus 13 has the most in depth software program replace dedication but from the model, with a assured 4 Android upgrades and 6 years of general help. That’s nonetheless far shy of the full seven years supplied by Google and Samsung for his or her respective flagships, however not less than OnePlus is catching up.
Meanwhile, the OnePlus 13R has extra storage, a greater telephoto digital camera, a much bigger battery, and final 12 months’s efficiency powerhouse, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Both telephones can be found now, with the OnePlus 13 beginning at $899 and the OnePlus 13R beginning at $599.
LG’s 4K True Wireless QNED TV
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LG has had fairly a number of wi-fi TVs over the previous few years. By “wireless” we don’t imply fully wi-fi — the TVs nonetheless want an influence cable linked to the wall — however wi-fi in the sense that you just don’t want to attach any peripherals on to it. Instead, you join your gaming consoles, Blu-Ray gamers, and many others., to a wi-fi transmitter, and it beams the sign to the TV from some other place in the room.
These TVs have confronted two issues, although. First, they’re very costly. Second, the wi-fi transmitter — often called the Zero Connect — must be positioned inside a line of sight of the TV. With the new LG 4K True Wireless QNED TV (QNED9M), the firm has addressed each of these points.
LG’s new 4K True Wireless QNED TV brings high-end options to lower-priced TVs for the first time.
Because it’s QNED (an LG branding time period for LCD) as a substitute of OLED, the value comes down considerably. And the new wi-fi transmitter can really be hidden away, comparable to inside a bit of furnishings. This makes these TVs extra accessible and higher than ever.
We cherished the worth supplied by the LG 4K True Wireless QNED TV, and are excited to see how properly it does in the market when it goes up on the market later this 12 months.
TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus
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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 latest iteration of TCL’s e-reader/anti-glare show know-how.
The coolest factor about the NXTPAPER 11 Plus is the new model of the NXTPAPER Key. On the TCL 60 XE talked about earlier on this article, the NXTPAPER Key is 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.
TCL’s new 11-inch pill options the debut of NXTPAPER 4.0 and a brand new multi-function button.
For instance, a single press of the button swaps you into both the regular show mode, Color E-Ink Mode, or Max Ink Mode. Meanwhile, a double-press of the button launches an AI toolbox TCL developed with its accomplice Microsoft. You can customise how this all works, with long-presses included as a 3rd choice.
Along with this new button, NXTPAPER 4.0 can be sharper, extra colourful, and affords higher distinction than earlier variations. For now, if you would like the finest NXTPAPER expertise attainable, you’ll want this pill.
It will most likely be some time earlier than NXTPAPER 4.0 and the new NXTPAPER Key make their solution to a telephone. It may even be some time earlier than you may get this pill, as TCL wouldn’t inform us any pricing or availability data.
Roborock Saros Z70
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If you personal a robotic vacuum, you’ve probably confronted this challenge: the robovac is making its rounds, but it surely 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 must wrestle the sock from its jaws.
A robotic arm constructed into the Saros Z70 will transfer particles in your ground to wash with out obstruction.
That received’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. Using AI, the robotic can really establish the object on the ground and even transfer it to the correct place. For the sock instance, it will choose 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!
Obviously, it’s a Roborock vacuum, before everything, so it additionally has all the cleansing options you’d anticipate from a top-tier Roborock, together with help for mopping.
Roborock didn’t have a lot data to present us on pricing or availability for the Saros Z70, however it should probably launch this 12 months — and certain be actually costly.
Govee Gaming Pixel Light
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Sometimes, if you’re at CES, you neglect about enjoyable. You’re at all times looking for the subsequent ground-breaking, life-changing tech, so typically you go over issues which can be simply plain enjoyable. Well, the Govee Gaming Pixel Light is pure pleasure, and we thought it deserved an award for it.
The Govee Gaming Pixel Light is certainly one of the most enjoyable issues we noticed at the present.
Think of the Gaming Pixel Light as a Lite-Brite however for the twenty-first century. You can add GIFs and different animations to the gadget, and it’ll render them in 8-bit-style graphics at a pace of 30fps. It may pulse and alter with music and voices, and sync to your wider sensible dwelling.
Is it life-changing? No. Is it important? No. But is it enjoyable? Yes, it is a ton of enjoyable, and any RGB lighting fan will adore it.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any pricing or availability data for this but. Stay tuned!
Lenovo ThinkGuide Plus Gen 6 Rollable
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In 2022, Lenovo confirmed off an idea gadget: a laptop computer with a rollable show. Now, in 2025, Lenovo has really made it an actual product, touchdown as the Lenovo ThinkGuide Plus Gen 6 Rollable.
Just like the 2022 idea gadget, the ThinkGuide Plus Gen 6 begins out as a fairly typical 14-inch Windows laptop computer. When you hit a particular button on the keyboard deck, although, the display screen extends upward, turning into a 16.7-inch show. This is feasible because of the versatile OLED panel.
Lenovo took a rollable laptop computer show idea from 2022 and made it into an actual product!
Inside, the laptop computer has loads of specs, too. It’s powered by the newest Intel Core Ultra 7 (2nd sequence) processor, and may be personalized with tons of RAM and storage.
Unfortunately, this distinctive kind issue makes the laptop computer ridiculously costly, touchdown at $3,499 (ouch). Still, if you wish to dwell on the bleeding fringe of tech, it’s at all times going to be dear.
Hisense L9Q TriChroma
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Remember rear projection TVs? They had been massive, largely hole TV units again in the 90s that used an inner projection system to throw photographs onto a show. While 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 an analogous 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 at the minimal. That’s proper, it’s a go massive or go dwelling cope with Hisense. You can get an L9Q with a display screen dimension of as much as 150 inches, so begin making room in your TV space.
Laser TVs are tremendous cool, however actually, actually costly.
Because the display screen is so massive and able to making such vibrant imagery, the L9Q seems to be stupendous. It was simply certainly one of the best-looking TVs on the present ground.
Unfortunately, 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 anticipate an analogous price for the L9Q TriChroma.
SwitchBot Multitasking Household Robot K20 Plus Pro
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SwitchBot has been promoting its tiny little K10 Plus Pro ($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 reinforce its capabilities. It now has grow to be (prepare for this) the SwitchBot Multitasking Household Robot K20 Plus Pro. Wowzers.
Anyway, you may get an thought of what this implies in the photograph above. The robovac goes underneath the “FusionPlatform” — the bigger gadget. The two gadgets join collectively bodily, permitting the bigger gadget to manage the smaller gadget.
SwitchBot desires your robovac to be a lot, rather more than only a robovac.
The bigger gadget can then be loaded with numerous instruments. For instance, there’s a spot for a webcam, which might permit your robotic vacuum to be a safety sentry, going to a selected a part of the home that you just would possibly 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 by 3D printing. Basically, it’s encouraging tinkerers to design their very own mods and make their K20 Plus Pro do no matter they need it to do.
SwitchBot has been mum on pricing and availability for this, however the K10 Plus Pro landed for $599, so it’s probably the K20 Plus Pro will land at an analogous quantity, not less than for the base vac. The different equipment can be additional.
Samsung Odyssey OLED G6
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When Samsung makes an Odyssey monitor, you already know it’s going to be insane. Samsung’s Odyssey product line is the place the firm places its top-tier {hardware}, and this 12 months is not 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!
120Hz? Pffff…this monitor can do 500Hz.
Granted, you’re going to want one hell of a rig to push sufficient frames to make 500Hz worthwhile, however in case you’ve bought the horsepower, the G6 could make it shine.
Samsung hasn’t introduced pricing or availability for this monitor but, however anticipate to spend properly over $1,000, if not one thing nearer to $2,000.
Timekettle W4 Pro AI Babel OS replace
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Timekettle has been making actually cool translation products for some time now, with the W4 Pro being certainly one of the finest. That product really acquired a Best of IFA 2024 award from us.
Babel OS makes present Timekettle products even higher than earlier than.
At CES 2025, although, Timekettle introduced Babel OS. This new replace brings its real-time translation {hardware} to the subsequent stage, permitting for sooner, extra correct, and extra natural-sounding translations in over 40 languages.
Best of all, although, is that you just don’t want to purchase new {hardware} for Babel OS. The replace is coming to most of the current Timekettle products, together with the aforementioned W4 Pro.
Eureka J15 Max Ultra
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CES is crammed with robotic vacuums, lots of that are loaded with all types of untamed new options. This is at all times thrilling to see, however typically you need to get again to the fundamentals (i.e., cleansing the home totally), and that’s what the Eureka J15 Max Ultra offers.
The Eureka J15 Max Ultra robovac has a crazy-high quantity of suction energy.
This new Eureka robovac options an unbelievable 16,200pa of suction, which is fairly excessive. That means it’s going to have the ability to suck up an entire lot of mud and filth, making your home good and clear.
It additionally has extendable mopping brushes that work properly at cleansing your flooring and likewise moving into these deep corners different robovacs would possibly miss.
To top all of it off, the Eureka J15 Max Ultra 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 unhealthy.
Garmin Instinct 3
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Garmin’s line of Instinct smartwatches has stayed fairly comparable over the years. In 2025, although, the firm is including the Instinct 3 to the line, and it brings a characteristic we’ve by no means seen on an Instinct earlier than: an AMOLED show.
That’s proper, you will have two selections now if you purchase an Instinct 3: the conventional LCD panel or a vibrant AMOLED panel. Each affords distinct benefits and drawbacks in comparison with the different. For instance, the AMOLED panel is full colour, whereas the LCD panel is monochrome. However, the LCD panel contains a photo voltaic charging ring, which suggests you’ll by no means must cost it (assuming you go exterior each from time to time). The AMOLED mannequin doesn’t help photo voltaic charging.
Always needed an Instinct however did not like the monochrome LCD? The Instinct 3 has an AMOLED choice!
Once you’ve chosen the sort of show you need, you then choose a dimension. The Instinct 3 is available in both 45mm or 50mm circumstances, and you may select between black or Neo Tropic colorways.
Regardless of which watch you choose, do not forget that there isn’t any contact display screen help on any Instinct. You’ll must be taught Garmin’s five-button system in case you’ve by no means used a Garmin earlier than.
The Garmin Instinct 3 begins at $399 for the LCD mannequin and $449 for the AMOLED mannequin.
Garmin Instinct 3 Solar
Built-in photo voltaic charging
LED flashlight
Potentially limitless battery life
Garmin Instinct 3 AMOLED
Updated AMOLED face
Built-in flashlight
18-day battery life
CES 2025 Breakthrough awards
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Our annual Best of CES awards go to the top-tier products which can be ground-breaking indirectly. However, CES isn’t nearly the enormous manufacturers you already know and love — it’s additionally about the smaller, up-and-coming manufacturers which can be attempting to make a reputation for themselves. To make certain these corporations get some love, we created the Best of CES 2025: Breakthrough awards.
Below, you’ll discover the 12 CES 2025 Breakthrough award winners. Be positive to examine them out, as any certainly one of these products may very well be the subsequent massive factor!
- Mammotion LUBA 2 AWD: This robotic lawnmower can go anyplace, even up hills as steep as 80 levels!
- Beatbot Aquasense 2 Ultra: Need 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 know these oscillating followers that transfer forwards and backwards? That’s actually inefficient. This fan makes use of mmWave to find out the place you might be and blow cool air in your course!
- Narwal Flow: This robotic vacuum has certainly one of the most succesful base stations we’ve ever seen. You may let it do its factor for practically a month earlier than needing to the touch it!
- Botslab 4K PT Battery Cam W510: This safety cam has a nifty accent in the HomeBase H200, which provides you 16TB (!!) of cupboard space for all of your 4K recordings.
- Anker Solix EverFrost 2 Electric Cooler: If you’re nonetheless dumping a bunch of ice right into a seashore cooler, contemplate upgrading to this electrical cooler that may hold your meals recent for for much longer (and hold it a lot dryer!).
- GlocalMe UniCord: If you journey quite a bit, 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 protecting your partitions with a 100-inch picture, good on your subsequent film night time.
- Dreame X50 Ultra: Robot vacuums have one main impediment, which is steps. The Dreame X50 Ultra, although, can really climb over brief steps, making it the preferrred vacuum for cleansing your complete dwelling.
- Captify: These sensible glasses are designed particularly for folk who’re exhausting of listening to. It captions voices in real-time, permitting you to at all times perceive what persons 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 preferrred body for art-lovers who desire a regular stream of various items that look pure on their wall.
Which of those products is your favourite? Let us know the top Best of CES 2025 award-winner in the feedback beneath, and keep tuned for extra CES protection!