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In the beginning, nobody knew how to use an iPhone . That informed everything about the device's design: The green felt in Game Center communicated fun and gambling, the messily ripped paper at the top of the Notes app made clear that this was where you scribbled away. The music app was called iPod, not Music, because Apple deemed that more easily understood. Using an iPhone was like bowling with bumpers—no one told you exactly what to do, but you couldn't screw up too badly either. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Garmin’s Fenix line has long been among the best—if not the best—multisport watches money can buy. These capable wrist-puters add performance tracking and GPS-based mapping to just about every outdoor activity. Critics have been vocal about the watches’ bulk, so there was much rejoicing earlier this year when Garmin announced multiple, slimmed-down versions of the watch, including the slender 5S. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you're going to make a phone, you have to get a lot of things right. You need all-day battery life, a big crisp screen, thoughtful software, lots of apps, a great camera, and so much more. And here's the best part: Even if you do all that, you're still just like every other phone . Making a kick-ass, take-no-prisoners phone that does everything well just lumps you into the middle of the pack. LG knows all about the middle of the pack. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Having a TV show gives you carte blanche to say whatever you want about any other TV show,” says The Kid Mero, one half of Viceland’s raucous late-night talkfest Desus & Mero . Co-host Desus Nice takes it a step further: “If you don’t have a TV show, you shouldn’t be allowed to comment on TV shows. This is my new, one percent way of living. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Every smart speaker has its advantages. With Amazon Echo , you get access to tens of thousands of "skills," the mini-apps that start a game of Jeopardy or help you mix a cocktail. With Google Home , you have the full power of Google search at your beck and call. And when Apple's HomePod comes out later this year, it'll be by far the best-sounding voice-enabled speaker of the bunch. Sony doesn't have a voice assistant, but knows its way around a speaker. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Surprise, everyone! Apple's going to launch a new iPhone. Crazy, right? You had no idea. You definitely know nothing about the device itself, or the screen it'll use, or whether it'll use your face to unlock, or if there's going to be a home button. Will there be bezels? Gosh, who could really say. Here's what we do know: The event's going to be September 12, starting at 10 am California time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The nice thing about being a digital hoarder is that all of your stuff doesn’t accumulate in scattered piles around your living room. The downside? There’s never enough space. And while SanDisk’s new 400GB microSD card may still not satiate the most extreme storage hounds, good lord is that a lot of room in a teeny tiny package. The SanDisk microSXDC USH-I, which sounds like it was named after a lesser Star Wars droid, easily offers more space than any microSD card before it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Here's something creative types will be eager to take for a spin: Logitech's newest keyboard , which has a wheel on it. The Logitech Craft is a sturdy and comfortable wireless keyboard for Mac and Windows that has a wheel in the upper-left corner, just above the escape key. This wheel—or the "Crown input dial," as the company calls it—works straight out of the box with Adobe's Creative Cloud apps and (only on Windows PCs) Microsoft's suite of Office apps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Yossi Wolf, the CEO of robot-maker Roboteam, almost didn't want to call his newest product a robot . When people think of robots, he says, they expect the stuff of science fiction—machines with faces and personalities indistinguishable from humans. Temi, the rolling robot Wolf hopes you'll soon have in your home, looks more like a tablet on wheels. Wolf knows a thing or two about robots, though. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Well, as we hoped would happen , Game of Thrones celebrated the coming of winter by bringing some serious heat. At nearly 80 minutes, “The Dragon and the Wolf” was the series’ longest to date, and it packed in what it could from the very beginning. Most of that was revelation rather than spectacle, but by the time the credits rolled, much of the show’s ambiguity had fallen away, leaving viewers with a clear view heading into the show’s eighth and final season. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices