Brad Linder    Asus has been selling dual-screen laptops under the Zenbook DUO brand for the past few years, with the 2025 model sporting two 14 inch, 2880 x 1800 pixel, 120 Hz OLED displays, a detachable keyboard, and support for up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285G processor. Now the company is giving us a glimpse ...

Brad Linder    With RAM prices climbing ever-upward, I’m expecting the average price of new laptops, desktops, and other computers to rise in the first half of 2026. But ahead of the holidays, there are still plenty of opportunities for savings on laptops & mini PCs with current-gen or slightly older hardware....

Brad Linder    There’s no shortage of eReaders featuring E Ink displays. But the Diptyx eReader stands out in a few ways: it has two E Ink displays and a hinge in the middle that lets you open and close the device like a book. And it’s designed as an open source project: the firmware and hardware designs will...

Brad Linder    Earlier this year Chinese PC maker FEVM introduced the FA-EX9 mini PC which stuffed an AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 Strix Halo processor into a compact computer with an internal volume of about 2 liters and measures less than 2.2 inches thick. Now the company is going even smaller. The new FEVM FA-EX1 is a...

Brad Linder    The ONEXPLAYER Super X is a tablet with a 14 inch OLED display, a detachable keyboard, and support for pressure-sensitive input. But unlike most tablets with those kinds of features, the Super X is a tablet with the kind of horsepower you’d expect from a gaming laptop or a portable AI workstation....

Brad Linder    The ShaRPiKeebo is a pocked-sized computer kit that features a custom PCB with a 2.7 inch sunlight-readable display, a 56-key thumb keyboard plus D-Pad buttons, and a LoRa radio for long-range wireless communication. It’s designed for use with a Raspberry Pi Zero W or Zero 2W. So while you’ll need...

Brad Linder    Gaming phones have been a thing for a while now, but for the most part they’re touchscreen phones with a few special features like enhanced cooling, RGB lighting effects, and sometimes air triggers. The AYANEO Pocket Play is different. Sure, it’s a smartphone with a touchscreen display. But it also...

Brad Linder    The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is tiny computer on a module with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor and up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory, 64GB of eMMC storage, and optional support for WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, plus plenty of I O capabilities. But it doesn’t actually have any full-sized ports, and...

Brad Linder    Google’s Pixel A-series smartphones have earned a reputation for offering strong bang for the buck in recent years. With starting prices under 500, they tend to feature the same processors and many of the same features available in Google’s higher-priced phones, while cutting a few corners by using...

Brad Linder    The Beelink ME Pro is an upcoming network attached storage (NAS) device with a compact design that Beelink says is about 50 percent smaller than a typical NAS. That said, with support for either two or four 3.5 inch hard drives, there’s no way it can be as small as the company’s first NAS: the [&]...

Brad Linder    Almost a year ago I hopped on a video call with Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky who was excited to tell me about a few things he was working on, but which I couldn’t report about at the time. One was that he was bringing Pebble back from the dead. And his new company, Core Devices, [&] The post...

Brad Linder    The PocketMage PDA is a tiny device that looks like a little laptop. But with a 3.1 inch E Ink display and a tiny keyboard just large enough for thumb typing, this work-in-progress device is probably better suited for jotting short notes than more demanding tasks. And in case the name wasn’t a...

Ian W Morrison (Linuxium)    When I review a mini PC, one of the things I like to keep an eye on is how hot it gets. While there are software tools that make it easy to monitor the temperature of a processor and see if it slows down when it gets hot, accurately measuring the heat on the outside [&] The post GOYOJO GH340...

Brad Linder    Earlier this year a Tunisian group called DawnDrums SARL revealed their initial plans to build a Linux-friendly smartphone called the Divine D. with a 5.5 inch AMOLED display, a Rockchip RK3588S processor, and an open source design. Now the team says it’s updated the mainboard with a Rev 1.1 design...

Brad Linder    The Xteink X4 is a tiny eBook reader with a 4.3 inch black and white ePaper display and support for viewing EPUB documents and text files, as well as images. But what really makes this tiny eReader unusual is that it’s not just small enough to easily hold in one hand or slide in your [&] The post...

Brad Linder    This summer AOOSTAR announced it was working on a mini PC with an AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 Strix Halo processor and a design that honestly makes the system look more like a router or appliance than a PC. Now the AOOSTAR NEX 395 is available for purchase in China for around 2,120. According to an [&]...

Brad Linder    This year Lenovo launched the first laptop with a rollable display that expands to give users more screen space when they need it and retracts when they don’t, allowing the company to cram a big screen into a compact laptop. Now it looks like the company is planning to launch its second rollable....

Brad Linder    The Youyeetoo NestDesk is a little computer that’s almost small enough to fit in a pocket. But with an Intel N150 processor, dual 2.5 GbE LAN ports, 12GB of RAM, and four M.2 2280 slots for PCIe NVMe storage, it’s a versatile little system that could be used as a network-attached storage solution...

Brad Linder    Pimoroni’s new Badgeware line of wearable electronics are basically high-tech replacements for paper badges that hang from a lanyard around your neck or hi my name is stickers you affix to your shirt. Available with a choice of E Ink, IPS LCD, or LED matrix displays, each member of the Badgeware...

Brad Linder    Android and iOS may dominate the smartphone space, but Finnish-based Jolla has been driving development of a Linux-based mobile operating system called Sailfish OS for well over a decade, picking up where Nokia left off when it abandoned the MeeGo project. While Jolla is primarily a software...