Consumer Electronics & Product Reviews

Shelly Palmer talks about the end of fitness trackers and Verizon's Wear24 Smart Watch on Fox 5 with Teresa Priolo and Antwan Lewis. Original Airdate: July 25, 2017 Continue Reading →

Jawbone just went belly up. Fitbit is on life support. The Quantified Self movement is busy measuring the last days of the fitness tracker fad; its 10,000 steps of fame are up. Continue Reading →

Back, by popular demand, a reprise of my 8 Hottest Tech Trends of 1776. Enjoy! Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks with Teresa Priolo and Antwan Lewis about the best WiFi gift for Father's Day. Boosting the WiFi signal in your home with the Samsung Connect Home, or the Eero Wireless will surely keep dad connected this Father’s Day. Original Airdate: June 13, 2017 Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about the Microsoft Surface Laptop with Teresa Priolo and Antwan Lewis on Fox 5. Original Airdate: May 9, 2017 Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer speaks about the Samsung Galaxy S8 and demonstrates some of the new phone's capabilities on Fox 5 New York with Antwan Lewis and Teresa Priolo. Original Airdate: May 2, 2017 Continue Reading →

For more than a decade, if Apple manufactured it, we purchased it – in bulk. There are so many Apple devices in our offices, someone once said, “It looks like Steve Jobs threw up in here.” That was then. Continue Reading →

Apple announced the 2016 upgrade to its MacBook Pro laptops. They are really expensive. They feature last year's Intel processors. They require adaptors (dongles) for every accessory you already own such as your Hard Drive, Jump Drive, HDMI, SD Card Reader, and Power cable (goodbye MagSafe), and, incredible as it might sound, they feature a 3.5mm headphone jack. So much for Apple's "time to ditch the 100-year-old headphone jack" story from its iPhone 7 launch. All of which elicits my somewhat incredulous response, Apple MacBook Pro 2016: WTF? Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about what Google is likely to unveil at its press conference today with Robert Moses and Kerry Drew on Fox 5 New York. Original Airdate: October 4, 2016 Continue Reading →

Let me get right to the point. The new iPhone 7 is a fantastic, awesome, incredible, spectacular iteration of the iPhone 6. Great processor (a quad-core, 64-bit A10 Fusion), outstanding rear-facing camera (12 MP), a new wireless chip (W1) to facilitate Bluetooth connectivity, iOS 10, a pressure-sensitive home button, and taptic feedback. Oh, yeah, there's one more thing … [ Continue Reading →