Tech Showdowns News 4 August 2025

Battle of the Ultra-Rugged Watches: Apple Watch Ultra vs Garmin Tactix vs Luminox Navy SEAL (2025 Showdown)

Ultra Smartwatch Showdown: Apple Watch Ultra 2 vs Garmin Tactix 7 AMOLED vs Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025 Edition)

Apple Watch Ultra 2 uses a 49 mm aerospace-grade titanium case with a new black finish, EN13319 dive certification, WR100 water resistance, IP6X dust resistance, an orange Action Button, sapphire crystal, a 1.92-inch LTPO OLED display up to 3000 nits, and dual‑frequency GPS. Garmin Tactix 7 AMOLED is a 51 mm model with a fiber-reinforced polymer body, DLC-coated titanium bezel, sapphire glass, MIL-STD-810, 10 ATM water resistance, a tactical nylon band, and modes like Night Vision and Stealth. Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra (2024/2025) features a 47 mm titanium case with sapphire cover glass, 10 ATM water resistance, ISO 22810, MIL-STD-810H,

23 August 2025

Battle of the Android Giants: Lenovo Tab Extreme vs OnePlus Pad Pro vs Xiaomi Pad 6 Max (2025)

Lenovo Tab Extreme features a 14.5-inch OLED display at 3000×1876 with 120Hz, a MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage (plus microSD), a 12,300 mAh battery with 68W charging, and includes the Precision Pen 3 and a keyboard dock, launching in the US at $949. OnePlus Pad Pro (Pad 3) uses a 13.2-inch LCD with 3392×2400 resolution at 144Hz, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 12–16GB RAM, 256–512GB storage, OxygenOS 15 (Android 15), a 12,140 mAh battery, and 67–80W fast charging, with base US pricing around $649–$699. Xiaomi Pad 6 Max 14 sports a 14.0-inch IPS LCD at 2880×1800 with 120Hz,

19 August 2025

Android Tablets · Lenovo · OnePlus · Tech Showdowns · Xiaomi

Canon EOS R5 C vs R3 vs R6 Mark II – 2025’s Ultimate Mirrorless Showdown

Canon EOS R5 C is a compact dual-purpose body that uses the R5’s 45MP full-frame sensor and records 8K/60p RAW internally with 4K up to 4K/60 oversampled and an active cooling fan for prolonged recording. Canon EOS R3 uses a 24.1MP stacked backside-illuminated sensor, shoots up to 30 fps with AF in electronic mode, and can burst at 195 fps in a short configurable mode for extreme action. The Canon EOS R6 Mark II features a 24.2MP full-frame sensor, delivers up to 40 fps electronic and 12 fps mechanical shooting, and records 4K/60p 10-bit with oversampling from 6K. In-body stabilization

18 August 2025

2025 Releases · Camera Comparisons · Mirrorless Cameras · NYSE:CAJ · Photography Gear · Tech Showdowns

Ultimate 2025 Showdown: iOS vs Android vs HarmonyOS — Which Mobile OS Reigns Supreme?

AI Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Google Gemini vs Anthropic Claude – Which Model Leads the Pack?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT runs on GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni), introduced in early 2025 as a multimodal model that handles text, images, and voice. GPT-4.5, code-named Orion, was rolled out to ChatGPT Pro in February 2025 to boost performance ahead of GPT-5, which is under development for late-summer 2025. Anthropic released Claude 4 in May 2025, with two main variants—Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet—featuring a 200K token context and an extended thinking mode for chain-of-thought reasoning. Google’s Gemini 2.5 arrived in mid-2025 as the first publicly available multi-agent model, with Pro and Flash variants and a full 1M token context. Gemini

4 August 2025

2025 Trends · AI Models · Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Tech Showdowns

Ultimate 2025 Showdown: iOS vs Android vs HarmonyOS — Which Mobile OS Reigns Supreme?

HarmonyOS Next, released in late 2024, runs on a fully self-developed system base with no Android dependencies. At launch, HarmonyOS Next offered over 15,000 apps and meta-services, and Huawei reported more than 6.75 million HarmonyOS developers by late 2024. Huawei claimed HarmonyOS powers over 1 billion devices as of 2024. Global smartphone OS market shares in early 2025 place Android at about 76–80%, iOS at around 19%, and HarmonyOS at roughly 5%. In China by late 2024, HarmonyOS reached 19% market share, overtaking iOS at 17%. The iOS App Store contains about 2 million apps, and in 2024 iOS generated