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The Verge’s 2024 summer gift guide

Let’s face it, the right gift is cooler than any splash pad.

Effortlessly capture life’s moments with an upgraded 12MP camera and five-mic system, while Meta AI enhances your experience by identifying landmarks, providing recipe inspiration, and creating clever image captions based on what you see. Kobo’s latest ebook reader uses a six-inch Kaleido 3 display, which provides muted, pastel-like hues that work great for creating color-coded highlights or viewing your favorite cover art in all its glory. The midrange phone may not be the most powerful model in Google’s Pixel lineup, but the well-rounded device touts all the essentials, not to mention a number of perks that are an anomaly at this price point (including seven years of OS upgrades).

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