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FCC proposes broadband “nutrition labels” that will make it easier to pick a plan

by Brad Linder 8 Comments on FCC proposes broadband “nutrition labels” that will make it easier to pick a plan

When you’re shopping for packaged food in the US, you can get a quick overview of its nutritional data by reading a label on the side of the box. Soon you may start seeing similar-looking labels when shopping for broadband internet service. The FCC has released a proposal for “Point-Of-Sales Labels” that could bring more […]

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Lilbits: Pixel 5a, Kindle vulnerability patched, and Super Duper Secure Mode for Microsoft Edge

by Brad Linder 3 Comments on Lilbits: Pixel 5a, Kindle vulnerability patched, and Super Duper Secure Mode for Microsoft Edge

Google has already confirmed that it will launch Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones this fall, and they’ll be the company’s first phones to feature a new Google Tensor system-on-a-chip rather than a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. But they’ll also be expensive phones designed to compete with other flagships. The company isn’t giving up on the […]

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Next-gen Chromecast might have hit the FCC (Update: probably not)

by Brad Linder 3 Comments on Next-gen Chromecast might have hit the FCC (Update: probably not)

A new “Wireless Streaming Device” from Google showed up at the FCC today, and there’s a good chance that means a next-gen Google Chromecast is coming soon. It could be a follow-up to last year’s Chromecast with Google TV, which passed through the FCC website in August, about a month before it was officially launched […]

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Lilbits Leaks: Walmart’s Android TV stick, Qualcomm’s next-mid-range laptop CPU, Samsung’s Galaxy A phones

by Brad Linder Comments Off on Lilbits Leaks: Walmart’s Android TV stick, Qualcomm’s next-mid-range laptop CPU, Samsung’s Galaxy A phones

Walmart’s working on a media streamer powered by Google’s Android TV software. The company hasn’t actually announced the new product yet, but an FCC listing spilled the beans. Meanwhile Evan Blass has spilled the beans on Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A72 smartphone, Windows Future has spilled a few beans about Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon processor for mid-range […]

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Lilbits: Broadband access, electronics shopping moves online, and do expensive Chromebooks make sense?

by Brad Linder 6 Comments on Lilbits: Broadband access, electronics shopping moves online, and do expensive Chromebooks make sense?

Often when I write about Chromebooks, somebody chimes in with a comment about how they’re not “real” laptops, and people would be better off buying a Windows machine. When I write about a Chromebook that costs more than $400, someone will inevitably complain that it’s too much money to spend on a laptop with a […]

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Lilbits: Seven screen laptop, yet another smartphone laptop dock, and Android 12 details leaked (maybe)

by Brad Linder Comments Off on Lilbits: Seven screen laptop, yet another smartphone laptop dock, and Android 12 details leaked (maybe)

More than a year ago I wrote about an extraordinarily odd laptop with seven displays called the Aurora 7. Designed by a UK company called Expanscape, at the time it was described as an engineering prototype, although the company said it was willing to sell models to contract buyers before the design was even finalized. […]

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Mysterious smart glasses hit the FCC (Likely Amazon or Facebook)

by Brad Linder Comments Off on Mysterious smart glasses hit the FCC (Likely Amazon or Facebook)

A pair of smart glasses with support for WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS passed through the FCC this week. They run software that’s based on Android 7. And as some folks have noticed from the line drawing of the label, they look a lot like Facebook’s Project Aria smart glasses when viewed in profile. But there’s […]