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Lilbits: Android gaming on Windows PCs, classic gaming with ScummVM, and Google Pixel phones’ disappearing features

The Windows Subsystem (WSA) for Android allows you to run some Android apps on Windows 11 PCs, but historically some apps have worked better than others. Now Microsoft is rolling out an update to WSA that could make it a little easier to play games by allowing you to use a keyboard for games that […]

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Lilbits: Samsung begins mass production of 3nm chips, Motorola roadmap leaked, and InfiniTime open source firmware for the PineWatch updated

Samsung is the first company to begin mass production of 3nm chips, which it says will bring big improvements in performance and efficiency. Motorola has a bunch of new phones scheduled to ship later this year, including budget, mid-range, and flagship (or nearly flagship) class products. And the developers behind the InfiniTime firmware for Pine64’s […]

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Motorola’s latest mid-range phones bring premium display features

The Moto G62 is a smartphone with a 6.5 inch, FHD+ display featuring a 120 Hz refresh rate, while the new Moto G42 is a 4G LTE model with a slightly smaller display that tops out at 60 Hz, but which is an OLED screen. Both are budget or mid-range devices with Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 or Snapdragon 600 […]

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Lilbits: OnePlus Nord 2T, Moto G71, and GeForce NOW brings Fortnite to iOS (and Android, and anything with a web browser)

Fortnite was famously booted from the App Store and Google Play Store a few years ago when Epic Games intentionally flouted Apple and Google’s rules in order to kick off a legal challenge. While it’s still fairly easy to install Fortnite on an Android phone by sideloading it, the game has only recently returned to […]

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Lilbits: Motorola’s rollable phone, artsy tablets from Asus, and Sharp’s phone with a 1 inch image sensor

LG may have gotten out of the phone business before the company got a chance to launch the first phone with a rollable display, and Oppo’s rollable phone may be little more than a concept, but rumor has it that at least one other major phone maker does still plan to bring a rollable phone […]

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Motorola’s 2022 Moto G 5G and Moto G Stylus 5G are mid-range phones with high refresh rates

Motorola is refreshing its Moto G line of mid-range smartphones with a new Moto G 5 (2022) sporting a 6.5 inch HD+ display with a 90 Hz refresh rate and a MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor, and a new Moto G Stylus 5G (2022) with a bigger, higher-res 6.8 inch FHD+ 120 Hz display. In case the name […]

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Lilbits: Meta’s big bet on AR glasses, a stackable single-board PC, and adding discrete graphics to the Steam Deck

Facebook changed the name of its parent company to Meta last year as part of an attempt to refocus the future of the company that’s best known for social media apps that run on other company’s platforms, like Android and iOS. It’s not clear if or when the so-called metaverse will really take off, but […]

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Lilbits: F(x)tec Pro1-X keyboard phone, Motorola hits #3 in US smartphone sales, Steam Deck answers, and more

The F(x)tec Pro1-X is a smartphone with a 6 inch display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. But it has a few features that make it very unusual for a smartphone in 2022: the phone has a slide-out keyboard, supports both Android and Ubuntu Touch […]

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Motorola Edge+ launches March 24 for $900

As expected, Motorola’s latest flagship phone features flagship-class hardware including a 144 Hz display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and support for fast charging, wireless charging, and reverse wireless charging. First announced in February, the the Motorola Edge+ goes on sale in the US on March 24, 2022. It […]