The Epic Games Store is giving away three PC games for free this week. B&H is selling the OnePlus 8 smartphone for half price. Amazon is running a sale on Anker charging accessories & USB hubs. And you can pick up thin and light laptops with Intel Core i5-1135G7 Tiger Lake or Ryzen 7 4700U […]
ZTE Axon 30 Ultra coming in May with a 144 Hz display and three 64MP cameras
The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra goes on sale in China next week for about $720 and up. But ZTE also plans to launch this high-end phone with a few distinctive features globally in May. So if you’ve been holding out for a phone with a 144 Hz AMOLED display and a camera system that includes […]
Raspberry Pi CM4-powered reTerminal is a versatile, modular device with a 5 inch 720p touchscreen display
Seeed Studio’s new reTerminal is an embedded Linux device with a 5 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen display, the beating heart of a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Expected to go up for pre-order at the end of April, the reTerminal has a list price of $195, but you can register to be […]
Acer Chromebook Spin 513 with Snapdragon 7c coming soon for around $420 and up
The first Chromebooks with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are coming soon. Last fall Acer introduced the Acer Chromebook Spin 513 with a 13.3 inch full HD display, a convertible tablet-style design and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c processor and promised it’d be available for purchase in the first quarter of 2021. That didn’t happen. But it looks […]
Quartz64 Model B is a Raspberry Pi-sized single-board PC with a Rockchip RK3566 processor
A few months after unveiling the upcoming Quartz64 Model A single-board computer powered by Rockchip’s new RK3566 1.8 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor, Pine64 is introducing a Quartz64 Model B. This variation is smaller, measuring 85mm x 56mm. That makes it about the same size as a Raspberry Pi Model B, or roughly the size […]
Lilbits: Samsung’s new Galaxy laptops leaked, new Oculus Quest 2 tricks, and RCS is doomed (or at least stagnant)
Samsung has scheduled a “Galaxy Unpacked” event for later this month, promising that the “most powerful” Samsung Galaxy device is coming. While the Galaxy brand is probably most commonly associated with smartphones and tablets, all signs point to this being a laptop launch. And Evan Blass has spilled the beans on specs, photos, and details […]
Parallels Desktop now lets you run Windows on Macs with Intel or M1 chips
When Apple launched the first Macs with ARM processors, the company managed to deliver big gains in performance and efficiency, whether you’re running apps designed to run natively on ARM or apps that were originally made for Macs with Intel chips. But there were some things you couldn’t do. You couldn’t install Windows on a […]
Daily Deals (4-14-2021)
Woot is running a sale on refurbished Samsung tablets, which means that, among other things, you can pick up a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e for $300 or a Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for $270. Lenovo is selling Logitech’s MX Master 2S Bluetooth mouse for half price when you use the coupon MXMASTER50). And Aukey is […]
Google is sunsetting FeedBurner email subscriptions (it’s time to update your settings if you subscribe by email)
Google-owned FeedBurner used to be a wildly popular service that websites used to customize their RSS feeds, publicize them, and offer readers a way to get updates via email. But Google has let FeedBurner languish over the years, occasionally remembering the service still exists just long enough to remove useful features. The latest update? Google […]
Sony Xperia 1 III and 5 III smartphones feature variable telephoto lenses
Sony makes high-end cameras. Sony makes high-end smartphones. And Sony makes the smartphone camera image sensors found in many of the best phones for snapping photos, including Google’s Pixel series. But Sony’s smartphones have historically been… just fine for taking pictures, although things have started to look up recently. So it’s interesting to note that […]