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The Klipsch and Onkyo Flexus Sound System is here

Back at CES 2024, Klipsch and Onkyo announced a collaboration on a new sound system, the Flexus Sound System, and now it's here.

#Klipsch #Onkyo #technews #CES2024 #hometheater

https://techaeris.com/2024/04/08/the-klipsch-and-onkyo-flexus-sound-system/

Neuer #Saugroboter mit ausfahrbarer Seitenbürste für eine noch bessere Reinigung. #Roborock stellt den #S8MaxVUltra vor. #CES #CES2024 #RoborockFlexi #RoborockZeoOneMini https://winfuture.de/videos/Hardware/S8-Max-V-Ultra-Roborock-stellt-sein-neues-Saugroboter-Topmodell-vor-25951.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

CES 2024 travel-tech report: a new laptop and an old phone

My messenger bag had less hardware than usual for a CES trip when I flew out Sunday morning–only one laptop and only one phone, plus their charging accessories, and no WiFi hotspots or any other review hardware to back up my own devices. In other words, I was gambling a little in Vegas.

The laptop, a 2022-model HP Spectre x360 that I purchased at about 30% off in August to replace the 2017 model that died at the end of 2021, made battery life one of my lesser worries at the show. I only recall it going into power-saving mode once, at the end of a long day that hadn’t allowed any recharging breaks.

But the HP’s fingerprint sensor became one of my bigger annoyances when it would mysteriously stop working. I’ve seen this happen before and know the fix (the old-school two step of deleting it in the Device Manager app and then having the app scan for hardware changes to restore it), but at CES this happened multiple times in a day because every tech problem gets worse at the show.

I assume that reinstalling Windows would fix this, but CES is also no time for complicated troubleshooting.
Fortunately, none was needed for the other glitch I saw: a confusing minute or two of this convertible laptop acting as if it had been folded up to use in tablet mode, ignoring physical keyboard input, that ended when I rebooted the machine.

The phone was the Google Pixel 5a I had brought to the two previous CESes. It’s aged extraordinarily well overall, thanks to Google software updates that have added such useful new features as Live Transcribe–a kind of magic for interviews and press conferences.

But two years and change is a lot of charge cycles for a smartphone’s battery–on top of which, I kept using the phone as a mobile hotspot to work around spotty or nonexistent WiFi. That left me worrying about recharging this more than the laptop. At least the 5a, like most new phones, also charges quickly, so 2024 battery anxiety isn’t like the 2014 kind.

I took all of my notes at the event in Evernote, having somewhat reluctantly renewed my subscription at the new, much higher rate. (I had thought of switching to Microsoft’s OneNote, but seeing Microsoft make it harder to switch by retiring its importer app did not make me want to fuss through moving over my notes via third-party tools.) Evernote’s new management seem to have fixed this app’s sync-conflict problems, which is great, but on the phone the app would struggle to load my increasingly long CES notes in lower-bandwidth situations.

Which came up often, between T-Mobile’s 5G network appearing over capacity in some places and various WiFi networks dropping my laptop or phone randomly. I was glad I’d brought my ancient USB-to-Ethernet adapter, which let my connect the laptop to a press-room cable instead of having to edit the saved press-room WiFi network setting to add the day’s password.

I tucked one other form of old-school hardware into my bag that I found useful at CES: business cards, a form of analog data exchange that’s stayed in style at this show even as networking at other tech events has been compressed to on-the-spot LinkedIn invitations.

#batteryLife #businessCards #ces #CES2024 #CESTravelTech #Ethernet #fastCharging #LasVegas #Pixel5a #SpectreX360 #TMobile5G #USBC #Vegas

It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player with all-analog features

A decade ago I was moderately surprised to find that companies like Sony were showing off portable music players at CES, because I figured most people had moved on to using smartphones to listen to music.
But that’s before I realized there was a whole world of portable hi-fi music products. So what’s new at CES this year? Something decidedly more […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=165999

#audio #cassettePlayer #ces2024 #fiio #fiioCp13 #portableAudioPlayer #portableCassettePlayer #portableMusicPlayer #tapeCassette

Lilbits: MSI teases a handheld gaming PC, Kioxia retires the Plextor storage brand, and the beginning of the end for MS WordPad

CES 2024 officially kicks off next week, but some companies aren’t waiting until then to make big announcements. Today Dell unveiled its new line of XPS-branded thin and light laptops, Microsoft announced that Windows PC makers will begin including a dedicated Window Copilot button on their keyboards, and Qualcomm announced a new chip for higher-performance VR and AR […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=165548

#240Hz #asus #asusDuo #ces2024 #dualScreen #handheldGamingPc #kioxia #lilbits #microsoft #msi #plextor #razer #razerBlade16 #razerBlade18 #storage #teasers #windows11 #wordpad