3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (420+ words) Landing somewhere between a smartphone and a dumbphone, the upcoming Commodore Callback 8020 breaks the social media addiction. Commodore went from selling the best-selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64, to bankruptcy, killed off by PC compatibles and the Apple Macintosh....

21+ hour, 14+ min ago  (258+ words) Which is exactly why this very cool DS-style Android launcher speaks to me. Sure, yeah, you can customize your i Phone now or whatever. I'm going to be over here exclusively communicating with all of my friends through Flipnote. God,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (231+ words) Generative AI was supposed to make computers smarter, but its most immediate consumer benefit appears to be making every other computer more expensive. The Verge reports that Apple is raising prices across much of its lineup: the Mac Book Neo…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (220+ words) Apple Watch Series 9 owners bought a cutting-edge smartwatch and, apparently, ended up with a vintage collectible faster than anyone would have expected. The odd part is not just that Apple is dropping older watches. It is where the line falls....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (371+ words) The forthcoming folding i Phone, presumed to be named the i Phone Ultra, is hardly shrouded in the usual secrecy: leaks, renders and regulatory filings revealed the details. And now third-party case ads leave nothing to the imagination. To be…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (346+ words) Vertu, based in London, used to make luxury bling-phones covered in filigree and Swarovski crystals. The designs were tasteless, the technology was dated, and the company bled out in the smartphone era. But the company (or at least the corpse)…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (271+ words) Trump phones were sent out to reviewers, but today The Verge's Dominic Preston reports that they are the only models shown to exist. "The Trump phone is not here," he writes, despite the company having claimed it was shipping them....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (529+ words) Imagined as an original made-in-America smartphone, but realized as a made-elsewhere knockoff, the $500 Trump Phone is finally here. It's an Alibaba-tier knockoff of the years-old HTC U24 Pro and has an American flag with the wrong number of stripes on it....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (261+ words) It's by Mattias Gustavsson, who maintains the source code at Github. On Mac I had to launch it from the terminal, but on Windows you can apparently drag and drop images onto it. F8 exports! See also Shader Glass, a desktop…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (251+ words) A You Tuber going by Flamethrower spent nights listening to his brother's new hamster squeak through the exercise wheel and decided to harvest the energy. The result is a working phone charger powered by the rodent. The phone charges. Slowly....