Adobe Premiere Hits iPhone, Nothing’s Custom Widgets Arrive
▼ Summary
– Adobe has launched Premiere for iPhone, a mobile-first video editing app that adapts desktop tools for mobile use, including trimming, layering, and auto-generating captions.
– Nothing introduced the Essential platform, allowing users to create app-like widgets with natural language and share AI-generated content, with plans for an Essential OS by 2028.
– Whoop Advanced Labs enables users to book blood tests through the app, integrating results with fitness tracking, though it is more expensive than similar offerings from competitors.
– Arlo released its Essential 3 lineup of security cameras, featuring new indoor/outdoor pan/tilt models and updated plug-in and battery cameras with 2K footage and subject tracking.
– These product updates highlight trends in AI integration, health service accessibility through wearables, and enhanced home security features across multiple tech companies.
Adobe has officially launched its powerful Premiere video editing application for iPhone, bringing a comprehensive suite of desktop-grade tools to mobile creators. This mobile-first workflow enables users to trim clips, layer footage, adjust color and exposure, and even generate captions automatically. A standout feature intelligently resizes videos for both portrait and landscape formats, ensuring subjects remain properly framed. Adobe integrates several AI capabilities, such as creating backgrounds from text prompts and producing sound effects from voice recordings. While the core application is free, accessing these AI tools requires purchasing in-app credits. An Android version remains in development.
In other tech news, Nothing has introduced a new platform named Essential, laying the foundation for what it envisions as a future AI-driven “operating system.” This isn’t a replacement for Android but a framework for generative user interfaces. The initiative launches with two applications: Essential Apps and Playground. Essential Apps transforms natural language requests into functional home screen widgets. For example, asking it to “compile all receipts from my camera roll into a PDF every Friday” generates a widget that performs that task. The upcoming Nothing Phone (3) will support up to six such apps, while older models are limited to two.
Playground serves as a community hub where users share their Essential Apps creations along with other customizations like Glyph Toys, camera presets, and audio profiles. Members can download and modify shared content. Nothing plans to evolve these features into a full Essential OS by 2028. The company also recently released Essential Space for the Phone (3a), which uses AI to capture and summarize screen content, with a forthcoming Essential Memory feature designed to learn user habits and resurface forgotten information.
Meanwhile, Whoop has rolled out Whoop Advanced Labs, a service enabling members to schedule blood tests through the app. Partnering with Quest Diagnostics, Whoop allows users to upload existing lab results or book new tests. Pricing starts at $199 for a single test, $349 for two annual tests, or $599 for four tests per year. This positions Whoop as a more expensive alternative to Oura’s similar $99 blood testing offering. Both companies aim to combine lab data with long-term wearable metrics, providing deeper health insights. These tests screen for conditions like high cholesterol, diabetes, and thyroid issues, addressing the inconvenience and complexity of traditional lab appointments. However, it highlights a growing trend where routine medical services become integrated into private subscription models, despite wearables lacking the diagnostic authority of medical professionals.
In the smart home sector, Arlo has refreshed its security lineup with the new Essential 3 series. This includes the company’s first indoor and outdoor pan/tilt cameras, alongside updated standard indoor and outdoor models. The Essential Pan Tilt and Essential Pan Tilt Indoor cameras deliver 2K video, 360-degree panning, 180-degree tilting, and automatic subject tracking, with more affordable HD versions also available. Additional models like the 3rd-gen Essential Outdoor Battery, Essential XL Outdoor Battery, and plug-in variants for indoor and outdoor use all offer 2K recording, accompanied by budget-friendly HD alternatives. This expansion arrives alongside new releases from competitors Google Nest and Amazon’s Ring and Blink.
(Source: Wired)
