Valve developed an ARM version of SteamOS for its Steam Frame VR headset • PixelMob is a new portable NAS/mini PC from UnifyDrive for media backup, with an RK3588 chip, up to 3 M.2 2280 slots for storage, CFexpress, SD, and microSD card support a 7 inch AMOLED display, USB4 (40 Gbps), and 2.5 GbE LAN • Apple is said to be planning to launch a new smart home product on Oct 13 with a "6-inch square display" that can be wall mounted or placed on a counter, with tight Siri integration and multi-user support for families

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Independent developers have ported Valve’s ARM-based SteamOS to several Snapdragon-powered Android handhelds, including the AYN Odin 2, Konkr Pocket Fit G3, and Ayaneo Pocket S2. The early builds…

Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus.

The new Fire TV Stick 4K gets customers to content fast, and the redesigned Fire TV Remote features more tactile controls.

Fairphone's 2nd-gen wireless earbuds are coming soon, with support for the LDAC codec for Bluetooth audio, while retaining an emphasis on repairability with seven replaceable modular parts • The Bigme HiBreak Dual 3 is a daul-screen phone with a 6.13 inch E INk screen on one side and a 5" detachable LCD display • Mozilla introduces a new design for the Firefox web browser

The Fairbuds 2 will carry forward the original’s easy-to-repair design with modular replacement parts.

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Google is telling IT admins at schools and businesses about its new platform.

The AYANEO KONKR Pocket Block is a Game Boy-style vertical handheld game console with a 3.33" 4:3 display, an MTK Helio G85 chip, and an $89 starting price for a 2GB+32GB model ($99 for 3GB+64GB). ayaneo.com/product/KONK • Pictures of upcoming Amazon products have leaked ahead of the company's usual fall hardware event • Microsoft is moving away from the Copilot+ PC branding it has been pushing for the last two years, while still pushing on-device AI features enabled by systems with 40+ TOPS NPUs

In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.

Amazon stellt in Kürze nicht nur den neuen Fire TV Stick 4K mit neuer Fernbedienung und geändertem Design vor, sondern bringt auch die 12. Generation seines E-Book-Readers Amazon Kindle auf den…

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With a 0.15 liter chassis, this mini PC from Chinese company Sixunited might be one of the smallest yet to feature an Intel Wildcat Lake processor • Mobile Linux distro postmarketOS is rebranding as Nura • Small AI workstation-class PCs w/AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 495 chips with 40-core Radeon 8040S graphics and 192GB of unified memory are starting to arrive

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At the Intel Connection 2026 event held in China, Sixunited has showcased a palm-sized mini PC that's powered by an Intel Wildcat Lake CPU. The company didn't share detailed specs yet, but for its…

F-Droid 2.0 brings a major redesign of the repository for FOSS Android apps, bringing a visual update, simplified navigation, discoverability improvements, improved search, and more categories, among other things. f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f • The new Microsoft Surface Pro (12 inch) and Surface Laptop (13 inch) with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus chips with up to 60% faster graphics, nearly 2X the AI performance, and more modest CPU boosts • Qualcomm is expanding support for Linux on PCs with Snapdragon X2 Series chips, starting with initial support for Ubuntu and Debian, and by upstreaming some core drivers, including for the Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU

Qualcomm is expanding support for Linux on PCs with Snapdragon X2 Series chips, starting with initial support for Ubuntu and Debian, and by upstreaming some core drivers, including for the Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU • This summer Pine64 said that the rising costs of RAM and storage had led it to halt production of Linux devices like phones, tablets, and SBCs for the foreseeable future • F-Droid 2.0 brings a major redesign of the repository for FOSS Android apps, bringing a visual update, simplified navigation, discoverability improvements, improved search, and more categories, among other things. f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f

Pine64 is an open-source-community-centered project of mostly-open hardware, known for such hits as the PinePhone, the Pinecil soldering iron, and the PineTime. Now, the Pine64 project wants to kno…

After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest a...

The company is launching its new "entry premium" Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, both starting at over $1,000.

Explore the Snapdragon X2 Series Linux Early Developer Preview. Learn about upstream kernel support, Hexagon NPU enablement, Adreno GPU drivers, and how to build and test Linux on Snapdragon X2…

The Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld computer that launched via a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, and is now available for pre-order for $239 and up • Why carry around a portable monitor when you can buy a laptop that has one • The Steam Frame VR headset may be one of the most repairable on the market

At the recent Intel Ecosystem Conference event in China, Beelink has introduced a new Me Pro NAS lineup that's powered by the Intel Panther Lake platform. The launch is set for October 2026, and it…

When a cushion wears out, a battery fades, or a display breaks, there’s a plausible repair ahead of you. But the heat management’s a little more buried.

The Durabook Z14I-DX3 extends a fully rugged laptop into a portable rugged triple-screen workstation for mobile command and field operations.

Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a Raspberry Pi 4 RAM upgrade story…

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Google positions Android as an open source operating system, but the company has ultimate control over what gets released to AOSP, and now Google is making some of its newest APIs exclusive to Google Pixel devices, at least until Android 17 QPR2 is released. grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/ • The first Googlebooks go up for pre-order today for $899 and up • Winamp is making a comeback... again

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Long-time visitors to Liliputing may have noticed that we've been posting news articles less frequently and relying more heavily on news roundups consisting of short summaries or previews of interesting mobile tech news articles found around the web. Here's why. As I mentioned to Patreon subscribers in August, there are a few reasons for this shift, but basically it comes down to these two: Shifting dynamics of online search and advertising have made it much more difficult for independent bloggers and journalists to make a living through the mix of advertising, affiliate revenue, and donations that have allowed me to treat this mobile tech news and info website as my full-time job for much of the past two decades.

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Valve's open source Lepton tool lets developers port Android games to Linux • The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist 14" laptop is now available in the US • The Asus Ascent QN10 is one of the first mini PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100) 18-core processor with Adreno X2-90 graphics • The Minimal Phone 2 is a follow-up to last year's Minimal Phone • According to leaked details, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 line of premium tablets will include a 12.6 inch Galaxy Tab S12+ and a 14.6 inch Galaxy Tab S12 UItra, both with Dimensity 9500 chips, 120 Hz AMOLED displays, and S-Pen support. winfuture.de/news,161385

Samsung steht kurz vor der Einführung seiner neuen High-End-Tablets der Galaxy-Tab-S12-Serie. Nach einigen ersten Leaks, die das Design vorab zeigten und die höheren Preise verrieten, liegen uns…

Valve has just released its Lepton tool as an open-source resource for bringing Android-native games to Linux and, in turn,...

You’ve seen the Minimal Phone 2. Now here’s a real look at how it actually works. In this video, we go in-depth on Minimal Phone 2 and Minimal OS, including the physical keyboard, home screen,…

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First previewed at IFA Berlin 2026, MuditaOS K 2.0 brings InkApps, new launcher options, Google Calendar sync, customizable Offline+ Mode, and more. Discover how the update makes Mudita Kompakt more…

We managed to get hold of the Boox Picco firmware and confirmed it!