Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, when US retailers have historically offered deep discounts on a wide range of products in an attempt to boost sales during the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. This year Black Friday falls on November 29th. But a number of stores kicked off their “Black Friday Week” […]
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3 Comments on Lilbits: Handheld gaming roundup, plus Huawei’s first phones with a fully Android-free OS
Lilbits: Handheld gaming roundup, plus Huawei’s first phones with a fully Android-free OS
3 Comments on Lilbits: Handheld gaming roundup, plus Huawei’s first phones with a fully Android-free OSThe company working on a Linux-based operating system for handheld gaming PCs that’s not as tightly integrated with the Steam game client as Valve’s SteamOS has released a second alpha. And this time it’s not even all that locked to handhelds – there’s keyboard, mouse, and NVIDIA graphics support, which means you can run it […]
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First handheld gaming PC with AMD Strix Point and a 144 Hz OLED display is now available
7 Comments on First handheld gaming PC with AMD Strix Point and a 144 Hz OLED display is now availableThe ONEXFLY F1 Pro is a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display featuring a 144 HZ refresh rate and up to 800 nits brightness. While that alone would be enough to make this little computer unusual, it’s also the first handheld available for pre-order to feature an AMD Strix Point […]
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This handheld gaming PC has an 11 inch, glasses-free 3D display and Intel Lunar Lake
Chinese media and gaming company Tencent has revealed a handheld gaming computer that it says is the first with a glasses-free 3D display that leverages eye-tracking technology to adjust on-screen images to create a stereoscopic 3D effect. At this point, the Tencent 3D One handheld is an experimental product, so it’s unclear whether it will […]
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Raspberry Pi-powered Pilet 5 and Pilet 7 handheld computers coming soon to Kickstarter
SoulScircuit’s Pilet line of computers are handheld PCs powered by a Raspberry Pi 5 and featuring retro-inspired designs with beige, orange, black, and grey color schemes. The Pilet 7Â is a modular tablet computer with a 7 inch display an add-on slot that lets you connect a keyboard, game controller, or other accessories. And the Pilet […]
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OneGx 2 is a handheld gaming PC that’s also a mini-laptop with swappable keyboard layouts
4 Comments on OneGx 2 is a handheld gaming PC that’s also a mini-laptop with swappable keyboard layoutsMost of the handheld gaming PCs that have launched in the past few years have looked vaguely like a Nintendo Switch or Valve Steam Deck: there’s a display squeezed between a pair of game controllers and no physical keyboard. But there are a handful of portable gaming PCs that do have keyboards for easier text input. […]
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Black Friday 2024: Streaming & Download deals
Black Friday may be the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season, but the day after Thanksgiving is also a day when you might be sitting around the house in food coma looking for something to watch on TV. Aiding and/or complicating your quest are streaming services – which have made a habit in recent […]
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4 mini PCs with Intel N150 chips are coming soon
The Intel N150 processor is expected to be a modest update to the popular Intel N100 chip that’s been used in many budget laptops and mini PCs over the past few years. While Intel hasn’t yet officially launched the new processor, at least four PC makers have already introduced upcoming mini PCs that use the new chip. […]
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is now available for $7 (RP2350 microcontroller plus WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2)
1 Comment on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W is now available for $7 (RP2350 microcontroller plus WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2)The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 hit the street this summer as a tiny board designed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. With a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller featuring two ARM Cortex-M33 and two Hazard3 RISC-V processor cores, the new model packs more processing power than the original Raspberry Pi Pico that launched in 2021. But it […]
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Milk-V Megrez mini ITX board with EIC7700X RISC-V chip now available for $199
The Milk-V Megrez is a mini ITX motherboard powered by an ESWIN EIC7700X processor featuring four SiFive P550 RISC-V (RV64CG) processors cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 graphics, and an NPU that delivers up to 20 TOPS of AI performance. First unveiled in August, the board is now available for purchase from ARACE for $199 and up. The starting […]
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Pocuter Spectra is a hackable, repairable smartwatch with expandable storage and OLED display (crowdfunding)
18 Comments on Pocuter Spectra is a hackable, repairable smartwatch with expandable storage and OLED display (crowdfunding)The Spectra smartwatch features a 1.8 inch, 368 x 448 pixel OLED display, an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, and a custom JavaScript-based operating system called SpectraOS that’s built on the open source Moddable SDK. What makes this watch stand out is that it’s designed to be a hackable and repairable device – you can open the watch […]