DroidDeck brings SteamOS-like experience to Android, with support for Valve's Steam Big Picture mode on handhelds and phones with Snapdragon chips • As Amazon continues to replace older Fire TV hardware with Android-based software with new models that ship with Vega OS (which is more restrictive and supports fewer apps), it's noteworthy that VLC beta for Vega OS debuted this summer. jbkempf.com/blog/2026/vl • The Pebble Round 2 smartwatch is now in production, and all pre-orders expected to arrive by the end of 2026

DroidDeck now offers 60, 90 and 120 FPS LSFG modes on supported Android handhelds. Version 0.3.0 also adds automatic Turnip driver management.

Even on Amazon Prime Day, the rising costs of RAM and storage make it a tough time to be in the market for a new computer or pretty much anything that uses those components. But that doesn't mean you can't find some deals on consumer electronics that at least make things a little cheaper than normal. Case in point: I've found several decent deals on computers, tablets, eReaders, and wireless audio devices. Amazon is also offering some pretty good deals on subscriptions to Audible, Amazon Music Unlimited, and Kindle Unlimited.

Raspberry Pi Desktop is all updated for Debian Trixie and available now for your PCs and Macs. It even includes a Raspberry Pi Connect client.

VLC is now available on Vega OS, Amazon's new operating system for Fire TV devices. This is the first VLC 4.0 in production: the first shipping VLC built on libvlc 4 and our new QML interface…

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Google confirms Googlebook laptops feature unlockable bootloaders. Magisk developer John Wu has also teased Magisk for the platform.

The first Googlebooks are finally here, but Google has confirmed to Android Authority that some models might have Android app issues.

Smartphones have largely replaced iPods and other dedicated music players for most folks • The Banana Pi BPI-CM7 is a compute module with a 1.5 GHz Allwinner H618 quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU, Mali-G31 graphics, LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, WiFi 5 and BT 5.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, and 10/100 Ethernet support • The rising costs of RAM and other components are even driving up prices of older consumer electronics devices

Banana Pi BPI-CM7 is an Allwinner H618 compute module with LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, K019 Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, and two 100-pin board-to-board connectors. Key Features Allwinner H618…

Pushing an 8-bit MCU far beyond what it was designed for

Nvidia is raising the price of the Shield TV Pro by $100, now starting at $299, seven years after the product debuted.

Raspberry Pi is raising prices (again) in response to the rising costs of RAM & other components • The Freckle Phone is a $200 device with a kid-sized 3.1 inch screen, a $25/month service plan, and no web browser, social media apps, or app store • The new entry-level Amazon Kindle has a flush-front display for the first time, but now starts at $150

Make sure the Raspberry Pi products you buy are a good match for your requirements.

Today, HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced the new HP OmniBook 5, a premium consumer Windows laptop designed for people who want more from their everyday device: more screen, more battery life, more…

An enterprise specialty system with up to a Core Ultra X7 358H processor.

The all-new Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are thinner and lighter with a new display stack and seamless edge-to-edge color across the lineup.

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 steht offenbar kurz vor dem Launch einer Reihe von neuen, eigenen Hardware-Produkten. Unter anderem plant man einen Fire TV Stick 4K mit neuem Design und einer neuen Fernbedienung. Wir zeigen d...

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…

Amoeba has a wavy screen, a built-in carabiner, and comes in a variety of colors.

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

MINISFORUM MS-S1 MAX P495 features Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, Radeon 8065S, 131 TOPS AI, 192GB LPDDR5x, dual 10GbE. It packs elite power into a 2.8kg chassis.

The ACEMAGIC F9A is a compact AI mini workstation powered by the AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ PRO 495 processor. With up to 131 TOPS of AI performance, 192GB unified memory, and Radeon™ 8065S graphics, it is bu...

EVO-X5 Pro — Next-Generation Desktop AI Supercomputing Workstation, The world’s first agentic PC capable of running 320B-parameter LLMs fully offline. Powered by the AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ PRO 495,…

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

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…