8 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed

The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a portable screen).

Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find the ones worth your money.

Lifting weights can keep you carrying groceries and riding bikes even as you get older. Here’s our guide to a simple home setup.

Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.

Bowers & Wilkins’ latest Px7 headphones keep sound and style at the forefront, with brilliant results.

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

The Meta CEO stuck to a playbook of repetitive answers and buzzwords in a landmark trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Bose's fabulous QuietComfort Ultra Gen 2 noise-canceling headphones are the best travel headphones and are $50 off.

Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.

While it may sound unorthodox, these earbuds make a great companion for your Switch 2 or other portable console.

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

The Alexa-enabled smoke detector is Kidde’s second model in collaboration with Ring—no wires required.

Evie is a longtime favorite of the far-right. At its very first live event, the strength of the publication’s politics was in the pretense that it doesn’t have any.

Here’s a guide to all the models—plus Pixel case recommendations and smart software tricks to try.

A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all.

With specs nearly identical to last year’s Pixel 9a, the new Pixel 10a doesn’t pack as much of a punch as prior A-series smartphones.

A svelte smart ring can track important activity, sleep, and health metrics. Unlike some smartwatches, a ring doesn’t need to be charged every day.

Benoît Richaud is working with 16 figure skaters from 13 countries at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games. WIRED spoke to him about how he roots for all of them.