Sony is working on a new handheld gaming device… sort of. The company’s next handheld won’t be a next-gen PSP or PS Vita, because it’s not really a standalone product at all. Code-named Project Q, the new device is basically a PS5 companion that will let you interact with your games from anywhere in your […]
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30 Comments on Sony’s latest flagship phones leave me wondering if anyone still buys Sony’s flagship phones
Sony’s latest flagship phones leave me wondering if anyone still buys Sony’s flagship phones
30 Comments on Sony’s latest flagship phones leave me wondering if anyone still buys Sony’s flagship phonesThe Sony Xperia 1 V is an Android phone with a 6.5 inch, 3840 x 16444 pixel 120 Hz OLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and a 5,000 mAh battery. It’s also the first phone to ship with Sony’s new “Xmor T for mobile” image sensor. […]
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Sony’s next PlayStation handheld may a PS5 streaming companion rather than a standalone console
15 Comments on Sony’s next PlayStation handheld may a PS5 streaming companion rather than a standalone consoleSony hasn’t offered a handheld game console since the company discontinued the PlayStation Vita in 2019. It was already looking pretty long in the tooth at that point, having been first been released seven years earlier. Now there are reports that Sony could planning to launch a new handheld. But it’s not exactly a direct […]
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Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon (updated)
Linux 6.2 was released last week and, among other things, it includes some initial support for Apple’s M1 series processors. That’s an important step toward allowing a wide range of GNU/Linux distributions to run on Macs released in the past few years. But it’s still just a baby step. While there had been a widely-cited […]
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Lilbits: Sony PS VR2 coming in Feb for $550, when Ryzen 9 isn’t faster than Ryzen 7, and goodbye Google Hangouts (again)
2 Comments on Lilbits: Sony PS VR2 coming in Feb for $550, when Ryzen 9 isn’t faster than Ryzen 7, and goodbye Google Hangouts (again)It’s been six years since Sony released the PlayStation VR accessory, bringing support for virtual reality games to PlayStation game consoles. At the time its $399 price tag was very competitive, and its specs weren’t too bad by 2016 standards. Now Sony is getting ready to launch a 2nd-gen model featuring a higher-quality display and […]
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Now you can jailbreak a PlayStation 5 (but you can’t run homebrew code yet)
News broke over the weekend that hackers had found a way to jailbreak the Sony PlayStation 5 video game console. This allows you to access hidden settings and features and load custom code including games and other software that aren’t officially supported. Now a utility has been released that anyone can use to jailbreak a […]
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Sony Xperia 1 IV Gaming Edition has 16GB RAM and Xperia Stream clip-on accessory for cooling and streaming
5 Comments on Sony Xperia 1 IV Gaming Edition has 16GB RAM and Xperia Stream clip-on accessory for cooling and streamingThe Sony Xperia 1 IV is a premium smartphone with a 6.5 inch, 3840 x 1644 pixel OLED display with a 120 Hz refresh rate, a 240 Hz touch sampling rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, and 512GB of storage. When Sony launched the phone earlier this year, it shipped with 12GB of […]
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Lilbits: Raspberry Pi OS updated, eero’s first routers reach end of life(ish), Sony mobile gaming accessories launching next week
4 Comments on Lilbits: Raspberry Pi OS updated, eero’s first routers reach end of life(ish), Sony mobile gaming accessories launching next weekWireless routers make life a lot easier by allowing your phones, tablets, PCs, TVs, and all sorts of other devices to connect to the internet without running a series of Ethernet cables around your house. But since these routers are basically little computers that connect to the outside world, they’re subject to security threats just […]
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Sony Xperia 5 IV is a “compact” flagship (by 2022 standards)
The Sony Xperia 5 IV is a smartphone with a 120 Hz OLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, and three rear cameras, all of which can capture 4K video at up to 120 frames per second. Sony refers to the phone as a “compact” device… and I suppose that’s at a time […]
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Lilbits: PineBuds Pro, PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, and StarFive JH7110 RISC-V chip details
No Comments on Lilbits: PineBuds Pro, PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, and StarFive JH7110 RISC-V chip detailsAt least two upcoming single-board computers will be powered by StarFive’s new JH7110 processor featuring four RISC-V CPU cores and Imagination BXE-4-32 graphics, the Star64 board from Pine64, and the VisionFive 2 from StarFive. Now more details about the chip’s full feature set are have been revealed. The StarFive JH7110 is a quad-core RISC-V processor […]