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  1. Lilbits: Ploopy’s A+ trackball has eight buttons (two are also dials), Xteink X4 discontinued, and more

    A company with a funny name has made some of the most interesting computer input devices of recent years. Ploopy got its start with trackballs, at a time when bigger companies were exiting the space. Since then, the company has made trackpads, pointing sticks, and dials.

    Now the company is bringing some of those gadgets together with the new Ploopy A+. It’s a trackball mouse with eight […]

    #appStores #dumberMini #dumphone #google #googlePlayStore #lilbits #ploopy #ploopyAPlus #xteinkX4 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-ploopys
  2. Lilbits: Samsung’s wider-screen foldable, AYANEO’s $3000 handheld, and Pebble Watch faces on smartphone’s second screen

    Samsung has expanded its smartphone lineup with three new Galaxy Z foldables, including one model with a wider-than-usual display. After suspending orders for a high-priced handheld gaming PC earlier this year due to unsustainable pricing (thank RAMageddon), the AYANEO NEXT 2 is available for purchase again… with prices ranging from $3,000 to $5,200. But if […]

    #ayaneo #ayaneoNextIi #foldables #galaxyZFlip8 #galaxyZFold8 #galaxyZFold8Ultra #games #gkd350h #handheldGameConsole #lilbits Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-samsung
  3. Lilbits: Goodbye OnePlus, Hello Xteink X4 Pro and a Game Boy Advance lookalike from AYANEO

    A year and a half after launch, the MeLE QuieterDL fanless mini PC is getting a modest processor spec bump… and a big price increase. More than a decade after entering the global smartphone market, OnePlus is pulling back. And at a time when most consumer electronics are seeing RAM & storage-related price hikes, Xteink has made a bit of a splash with its cheap, small, and honestly barely […]

    #ayaneo #ayaneoKonkrPocketAdvance #ereader #fanless #lilbits #mele #meleQuieterdl #miniPc #oneplus #xteink #xteinkX4 #xteinkX4Pro Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-goodbye
  4. Lilbits: Steam Deck LCD spare parts, the Asus ROG Ally X20 will be available without AR glasses, and 3rd-party app stores are coming to the Google Play Store

    I’m resisting the urge to start this post with a “yo dawg” meme, but Google is about to start putting app stores inside its app store, as the company gives up on its quest to modify a court order that stopped the company from blocking developers from distributing competing app stores in the Google Play […]

    #asusRogXboxAllyX20 #cloudGaming #coreDevices #epic #gamingLaptop #googlePlayStore #handheldGamingPc #legionC700 #lenovoLegionC700 #lilbits Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-steam-d
  5. Lilbits: Punkt MC03 Google-free Android phone now shipping, AYANEO Pocket Micro 2 goes up for pre-order (again)

    Earlier this year, Punkt introduced a new smartphone with a privacy-focused, Google-free, Android-based operating system called AphyOS. Now it’s shipping.

    And last month, AYANEO launched a pocket-sized handheld game console… which sold out almost immediately, apparently because the company only made about 100. Now they’re making… some more. At least enough for two more batches of […]

    #ayaneo #ayaneoMicro2 #haloTouchV2 #handheldGameConsole #lilbits #miniPc #minix #minixEu736Ai #pantherLake #punkt #punktMc03 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-punkt-m
  6. Lilbits: Flipper Zero’s firmware future, a new Linux gaming laptop, an E Ink monitor, and AMD’s pricey Ryzen Halo mini PC

    Shortly after launching a new thin and light Linux laptop with an Intel Panther Lake processor, Linux PC company System76 is preparing to launch… another notebook that could be described the same way.

    But the updated System76 Adder Pro also packs features like discrete graphics and an OLED display with a high refresh rate, which means that it’ll both be a better fit for gaming or mobile […]

    #amd #amdRyzenHalo #bigme #bigmeB251Pro #eInkMonitor #flipperZero #google #hmd #lilbits #linuxLaptop #nokia #pixel11 #pixel11Fold #pixel11Pro #ryzenHalo #steamMachine #strixHalo #system76AderPro #Valve Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-flipper
  7. Lilbits: Asahi Linux release fix for booting Linux on macOS 27, Surface Go is going away, and Sony announces plans to stop making PlayStation game discs

    When Apple was shipping computers with Intel processors, there were plenty of ways to install Linux on a Mac. But things got a lot trickier when the company began to switch to its own Arm-based processors around six years ago. The folks at the Asahi Linux team have been doing their best to keep up though, offering builds of a Fedora-based GNU/Linux distro that can be installed on (some) Macs […]

    #ai #appleSilicon #asahi #asahiLinux #digitalDistribution #discs #handset #lilbits #linux #macos #macos27 #microsoft #physicalMedia #playstation5 #sony #spacex #surfaceGo #surfaceLaptopGo Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-asahi-l
  8. Lilbits: Clicks Communicator, another use for the Anbernic RG Rotate, and two tiny operating systems

    The Clicks Communicator is a modern smartphone that borrows some ideas from classic BlackBerry phones. Made by the same folks behind the Clicks keyboard cases for existing phones, the company’s first full-fledged phone has a square screen, a QWERTY keyboard, and a customized Android interface.

    Clicks began taking pre-orders for the Communicator at the start of the year, and plans to begin […]

    #anbernic #anbernicRgRotate #clicks #clicksCommunicator #googleTv #hamsteros #handheldGameConsole #lilbits #linux #onn #onnFhdStreamingStick #operatingSystems #segaGenesis #segaMegadrive Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-clicks-
  9. Lilbits: Rising RAM prices are taking a toll on PCs, tablets, game consoles, and more

    PC makers have announced RAMageddon-related price hikes so many times in the past year that it’s almost more newsworthy when a company doesn’t increase prices and blame them on rising component costs. Just this week we learned that the Steam Machine costs around 30% more than anticipated, Apple is increasing prices for Macs, iPads, and other gadgets, and now Microsoft has revealed it’s hiking […]

    #apple #appleM6 #appleM7 #ayaneo #ayaneoPocketMicro2 #framework #frameworkLaptop13Pro #lilbits #lpcamm2 #ramageddon #windows10 #xbox Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-rising-
  10. Lilbits: postmarketOS and SteamOS updates, Commodore Callback price drop, and more

    Over the past few years Valve has helped make Linux a viable platform thanks to the Proton compatibility layer that lets you play many Windows games on Linux, and the SteamOS operating system that powers the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC and the Steam Machine mini PC that’s launching this week.

    But you don’t need to buy Valve’s hardware to use SteamOS. And soon it may be easier than ever to […]

    #acemagicKronMiniK5 #commodore #commodoreCallback8020 #kubuntuFocus #lilbits #miniPc #posmarketos #steamMachine #steamos #Valve Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-postmar
  11. Lilbits: Android 17 released, Microsoft Surface with Snapdragon X2, and a phone-like LoRa dev kit

    Google is now rolling out Android 17 to select Pixel phones, and the operating system will be available for additional devices soon.

    Some of the more noticeable changes include a new system for multitasking that will let you run apps in floating windows called “bubbles,” new security and parental control features, and a Continue On feature that lets you pick up where you left off when working […]

    #android #android17 #arGlasses #augmentedReality #ayaneoPocketMicro #ayaneoPocketMicro2 #lilbits #lilygo #lilygoTEchoLite #lora #qualcomm #snap #snapdragonRealityElite #snapdragonX2 #specs #surfaceLaptop #surfacePro Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-android
  12. Lilbits: Half Life on ReactOS, a mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel, and MS PowerToys 0.100

    These days you can play plenty of Windows games on Linux PCs thanks to Valve’s proton software. And a growing number of games that were originally made for Windows have also been ported to run natively on Linux.

    All of which is to say that if you really want to run an older PC game like Half Life on an open source operating system, you have plenty of options for doing that. But it’s still […]

    #beelinkMePro #crowdfunding #halfLife #lilbits #loongarch #microsoftPowertoys #mouse #nas #powertoys #reactos #rotaryMouse Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-4/
  13. Lilbits: 8TB SD cards are coming soon (likely for a small fortune)

    It’s been more than two years since SanDisk announced plans to launch 4TB SD cards based on the SDUC standard. They haven’t actually arrived yet, so take this next part with a grain of salt, but during the Computex show in Taiwan earlier this month, SanDisk indicated that those 4TB SDUC cards really are coming soon… along with even larger 8TB cards.

    Unfortunately they won’t be much use […]

    #computex2026 #degoogledAndroid #eos #htcU24Pro #lilbits #murena #murenaGs6 #sandisk #sdCard #sduc #steamMachine #trumpT1 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-8tb-sd-
  14. Lilbits: Surface Pro with Snapdragon X2 Elite, another Strix Halo mini PC, and more Linux-like tools for Windows

    This week Microsoft unveiled the Surface RTX Dev Box mini PC with an NVIDIA RTX Spark processor and a Surface Laptop Ultra with the same chip. Both are expected to arrive later this year and both are aimed squarely at developers. And last month the company introduced business-class Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models powered by Intel Panther Lake processors.

    So what’s next? According to […]

    #coreutilsForWindows #cureutilts #holostage #leaks #lilbits #microsoft #peladnYo2 #snapdragonX2Elite #strixHalo #surface #surfacePro Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-surface
  15. Lilbits: Raspberry Pi 6 is coming… but not for a few years

    Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers have always been small and cheap as part of the organization’s mission to make computing affordable… well, up until recently anyway. The skyrocketing prices of RAM have caused the company to raise prices several times in the last six months, with some models seeing price hikes of more than 100%.

    So it’s not surprising to learn that the company isn’t in a […]

    #ampax #ayaneoKonkrPocketBlock #crowdfunding #gmk #gmkEvoX3 #gmkEvoX2 #lilbits #onexplayerX1Pro #powerBank #raspberryPi #raspberryPi6 #raspberryPiZero3 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-raspber
  16. Lilbits: The trouble with lifetime subscriptions, Google puts AI everywhere, and the Trump Phone is real?

    Once upon a time, Plex was a free app that was a fork of XBMC (Kodi) that you could use as a full-screen media player on a computer, or to stream media over a local network. And you can still use it for those things. But these days Plex also offers ad-supported TV & movie streaming, and subscription services that let you stream your personal media collection over the internet (so you can watch […]

    #ai #aiSearch #anbernic #anbernicRgDs #audioGlasses #flx1s #flx1sPlus #furiLabs #gemini #google #handheldGameConsole #kindle #lifetimeSubscription #lilbits #linuxPhone #mobileLinux #plex #plexPass #search #smartGlasses #subscriptions Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-the-tro
  17. Lilbits: A RISC-V router (crowdfunding), an E Ink color dev kit, and Windows 11 taskbar customization

    As promised, Microsoft is bringing back the ability to reposition the Windows taskbar… although you can’t actually do it just yet unless your a member of the Windows 11 Insider Preview program running an experimental build of Windows 11. More options for customizing the Start Menu are also rolling out to Insiders.

    In other recent tech news from around the web, a crowdfunding project is […]

    #crowdfunding #eInk #eInkDevKit #eInkSpectra6 #geekomA9Max #googlebook #lilbits #m5paperColor #microsoft #miniPc #pinepower #pinepowerV2 #riscV #riscVRouter #spacemitK1 #start9 #taskbar #windows #windows11 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-a-risc-
  18. Lilbits: Another Raspberry Pi handheld PC, encrypted RCS messaging between iOS and Android, and a foldable Logitech mouse

    If I had a nickel for every time I saw a new handheld computer powered by a Raspberry Pi, I’d have… at least a few nickels. It’s an interesting idea: take a credit card-sized computer and stuff it into a compact device with a battery, touchscreen, and maybe a keyboard and you’ve got a portable Linux PC.

    It’s also… a device that’s not really designed for mobile use. While Raspberry Pi […]

    #android #apple #carbon #carbonComputers #carbonPiSlate #encryption #google #handheld #ios #lilbits #logitech #portableMouse #precisionTouchpad #qualcomm #raspberryPi #raspberryPiHandheld #rcs #snapdragon6Gen5 #snapdreagon4Gen5 #trumpMobile #windows11 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-another
  19. Lilbits: OpenAI phone, Steam Machine, and the death of Copilot for Xbox

    The rising prices of memory and storage in recent months have impacted the pricing and availability of all sorts of computers and other devices. But major PC makers like Apple and Lenovo have a bit more leverage to negotiate prices than smaller players like Framework and Valve.

    While Framework has been raising memory prices on an almost monthly basis, Valve has pushed back the launch of its […]

    #ai #apple #copilot #cybereck #lilbits #macStudio #microsoft #openaiPhone #ramageddon #steamMachine #typeframe #typeframePs85 #usbC #Valve #whatcable #xbox Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-openai-
  20. Lilbits: Pebble Time 2 smartwatch adds touchscreen app support, entry-level Pixel 11 could have less RAM than Pixel 10

    Before the Apple Watch or Samsung Galaxy Watch, there was Pebble. The pioneering smartwatch brand disappeared for a while after it was acquired by Fitbit… which was later acquired by Google. But last year Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky launched a new company called Core Devices and revived the brand.

    For the most part, new Pebble-branded watches are a lot like the ones that shipped a decade […]

    #eOs #evanBlass #evleaks #fairphone #fairphone3 #lilbits #murena #pebble #pebbleos #pixel11 #powertoys Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-pebble-
  21. Lilbits: Microsoft Updates… Windows Update, Valve’s new Steam Controller is almost here, and reMarkable lays off 40% of its workforce

    Windows Update is one of those features that it’s easy to have a hate/hate relationship with. Sure, it’s important to install security updates, bug fixes, and performance enhancements in a timely fashion. But sometimes you don’t want to do it right now, because it takes too long for your computer to shut down or start up… if it starts up at all. It’s not unheard of for a bad update to cause […]

    #asus #asusTablet #chips #dimensity7450 #dimensity7450x #fireTvEthernetAdapter #lilbits #mediatek #remarkable #steamController #windowsUpdate Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-microso
  22. Lilbits: Next-gen Surface Pro & Laptop, Google’s next Pixel laptop, and goodbye Kindle for PC (kind of)

    Microsoft may have just raised prices for its Surface Laptop and Surface Pro tablet, but the company is also preparing to launch new models that… will also probably be expensive. According to a new report from Windows Central, not only is Microsoft planning to use the latest Intel and Qualcomm chips, but some Surface Laptop models will also now be available with OLED displays. Oh yeah, and […]

    #amazon #google #kindle #kindleForPc #lilbits #microsoftSurface #pixelGlow #pixelLaptop #surfaceLaptop #surfacePro Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-next-ge
  23. Lilbits: Lenovo’s new gaming phone & tablets, Walmart’s new media streamers, and Microsoft Surface price hikes

    Two bits of Microsoft Surface news broke this week. The company is discontinuing its large-screen Surface Hub products. And Microsoft is raising prices across the board for its current line of Surface laptops and tablets. That’s… not particularly surprising. Given the impact of rising RAM & storage costs, soon it’s going to be more newsworthy when companies don’t raise prices than when they […]

    #android #gamingTablet #googleTv #legionPhone #legionTab #lenovo #lenovoLegionY70 #lenovoLegionY900 #lilbits #mediaStreamer #microsoft #onn4kPro #ramaggedon #surfaceHub #surfaceLaptop #surfacePro #walmart Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-lenovos
  24. Lilbits: Lenovo teases a larger gaming tablet, OpenBSD ported to the Pomera DM250, Microsoft simplifies Windows Insider channels

    Lenovo has been selling gaming tablets under the Lenovo Legion brand since 2022. But while the company has updated the processor and other key specs several times over the past four years, one thing that’s stayed the same is the screen size: 8.8 inches.

    Now it looks like Lenovo is preparing to launch its first model with a larger screen.

    Detailed specs aren’t available yet, but it also looks […]

    #amazonLuna #framework #gameStreaming #gamingTablet #legionTab #lenovo #lilbits #luna #openbsd #pomeraDm250 #radio #raspberryPiHat #riscV #spacemitK3 #suptronicsX1208 #windowsInsiderProgram #zuikiVividnode Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-lenovo-
  25. Lilbits: Vertical tabs for Chrome, Mac OS 10 for the Nintendo Wii, and a CyberDeck Pi

    The CyberDeck Pi is a DIY handheld computer that looks like something designed for a world where smartphones never existed. It’s a chunky device that probably won’t fit in your pocket. But it’s also a full-fledged computer that can run desktop GNU/Linux software thanks to its Raspberry Pi brains. And it’s made using a combination of off-the-shelf components and 3D-printed parts.

    In other […]

    #anbernic #anbernicRgRotate #apple #appleA18Pro #chrome #cyberdeckPi #esp32 #esp32S31 #google #lilbits #macOs #macbookNeo #nintendoWii #raspberryPi #verticalTabs #webBrowsers Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-vertica
  26. Lilbits: Intel Wildcat Lake specs leaked, Pixel 11 and Onn 4K Stick leaks, and would you buy a Bookshop.org eReader?

    Intel’s Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake processors have been incredibly popular with makers of budget mini PCs, Chromebooks, and other entry-level computers. With up to eight 12th-gen Intel Efficiency CPU cores, these cheap, low-power chips brought big performance gains over Intel’s earlier Atom, Celeron, and Pentium Silver processors.

    But they’re starting to show their age, which is why I’ve had […]

    #bookshopOrg #ereader #leaks #lilbits #memory #memoryShortage #onn4kStick #pixel11 #pixel11Pro #sdCard #sony #stroage #wildcatLake Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-intel-w
  27. Lilbits: The Mac Pro reaches the end of the line

    Apple is pulling the plug on the Mac Pro, more than 20 years after launching its first high-performance desktop computer with an iconic “cheese grater” design. The company has released several major updates over the years, but the last big change to the design came in 2019, and the last processor update came in 2023 when the company made the move from Intel to Apple Silicon.

    But the newer Mac […]

    #alibaba #android17 #apple #esp32 #esp32P4PiViewe #fanless #kubb #lilbits #macPro #macStudio #miniPc #riscV #xuantieC950 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-the-mac
  28. Lilbits: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, Razer Blade 16, and more fallout from Chuwi’s processor mixup

    Two recent laptops from Chinese PC maker Chuwi that were supposed to ship with AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processors actually had Ryzen 5 5500U chips inside. That means instead of getting a processor with a Zen 3 CPU, customers were getting notebooks with chips featuring AMD’s older Zen 2 architecture.

    But the only way to prove this was to actually open up the computer and remove the CPU cooler to look […]

    #chuwi #cpuZ #esp32 #foldables #galazyZFold8Wide #gamingLaptop #googleTv #lilbits #mediaStreamer #onn #onn4kPro #pantherLake #picoz89 #razer #razerBlade16 #rp2350 #samsungGalaxyZFold8Wide #z80 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-samsung
  29. Lilbits: Arm’s first silicon, Chuwi’s not-quite-apology, and Pebble’s Time 2 smartwatch ships soon

    Arm has just introduced a new processor for data centers. There’s nothing too unusual in that statement… except that for the first time the chip designer is actually making its own processor. The company has been licensing its designs to third party chip makers for decades, but the new Arm AGI CPU is an Arm-branded processor that Meta plans to use in data centers.

    In other recent tech news […]

    #arm #armAgi #chips #chuwi #cpu #lilbits #mediaStreamer #onnTv #pebble #pebbleTime2 #walmart Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-arms-fi
  30. Lilbits: Anbernic’s unusual handheld, reMarkable’s next tablet, and SteamOS 3.8

    Anbernic is a Chinese company that has made a lot of handheld game consoles over the years. But a short video making the rounds shows an upcoming handheld from the company that’s unlike anything else we’ve seen from Anbernic.

    At first it looks like a tiny phone with a small square touchscreen display. But then the person holding it flicks the screen so that it rotates 90 degrees while it […]

    #anbernic #galaxyZTrifold #handheldGameConsole #lilbits #luckfoxLume #microsoft #powertoys #remarkable #remarkablePaperPure #samsung #samsungGalaxyZTrifold #sbc #sharedAudio #steamMachines #steamos #windows11 Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-anberni
  31. Lilbits: Panther Lake PCs, Dragon Range motherboards, and NexDock’s newest Laptop Dock

    CES 2026 is just a few weeks away, and we’re expecting plenty of new PC announcements including models sporting next-gen Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors. If I had to make two predictions in advance they’d be: expect a lot of AI talk… and expect higher price tags (because AI hardware’s insatiable demand for RAM is driving up the price of memory for everyone).

    One possible solution? Don’t […]

    #ces2026 #horizonOs #lilbits #meta #minisforum #minisforumBd895iSe #nexdock #nexdock6 #thunderobot #vr

    Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-panther

  32. love when a headline reads like an AI swallowed a RadioShack catalog and panicked: LEGO Game Boy kits, AI web browsers, ultrathin phones, DOS emulators, crowdfunding, and oh—Samsung's dreams. #aiWebBrowser #lilbits #gameboy #legoButMakeItSad 📉🤖

  33. Lilbits: Playable LEGO Game Boy kits, AI web browsers, and the short life of ultrathin smartphones

    Just a week after a report suggested that Samsung is scrapping plans for a second-gen Galaxy “Edge” phone due to low sales of the Galaxy S25 Edge, it looks like Apple may be scaling back production of its ultrathin iPhone Air for similar reasons. Maybe people aren’t as happy to trade battery life and features for something thinner than an already-thin smartphone after all?

    In other recent […]

    #ai #aiWebBrowser #brickboy #buildABoy #chatgptAtlas #copilot #crowdfunding #dosboxPure #dosboxPureUnleashed #gameBoy #legoGameBoy #lilbits #microsoftEdge #openai #retroGaming

    Read more: liliputing.com/lilbits-playabl