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Ubuntu for RISC-V, Touchscreen MacBooks, and a new Atari 800XL: Liliputing News Roundup
My first PC was an Atari 800XL • PC costs have risen sharply over the past year due to rising costs of RAM & storage • Google has offered a way to run…
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Amazon Alexa Tablets are mid-range Android tablets with the Google Play Store & Amazon apps and services
Amazon launched its first Kindle Fire tablet in 2011, and the lineup has changed many times over the years. The company dropped Kindle from the name and sold…
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PCs with NVIDIA RTX Spark ship this month, Asus unveils the NUC 14 Essential Fanless mini PC, and Samsung launches Galaxy Tab S12 series : Liliputing News Roundup
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra goes up for pre-order today for $2599 and up and ships Oct 16 • The Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box mini PC with NVIDIA…
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Pebble Time Round 2 ships soon, DroidDeck brings Steam to handhelds, Magisk on Googlebooks: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Amazon Prime Day Mobile Tech Deals (Oct 6-7 2026)
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…
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Banana Pi BPI-CM7, a modern iPod, and a DIY Mini Laptop with an ATmega2560 Microcontroller: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Amazon’s New Kindle Devices, Raspberry Pi Price Hikes, and Freckle Phone: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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SteamOS Ported to Arm handhelds, PixelMob Portable NAS, and Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K with Vega OS: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Compare Amazon Fire TV device specs (Fire TV Stick HD, Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max, and Fire TV Cube)
Amazon’s Fire TV line of media streaming devices now includes three different Fire TV Stick models with list prices ranging from $35 to $60. The good…
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Firefox Gets A New Design, Repairable Earbuds, and Dual Screen Smartphone: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Microsoft moves away from Copilot+ PC branding, an amoeba-shaped dumphone is coming, and next-gen Kindle and Fire TV Stick 4K designs leaked: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Ryzen AI MAX+ 495 PCs with 192GB RAM are here, Onyx BOOX Picco launches, and postmarketOS Rebrands as Nura: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Linux On Snapdragon, Pine 64, and F-Droid: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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A Triple Screen Laptop, 4G LTE add-on for the Mecha Comet handheld, and Steam Frame: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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Googlebooks are (almost) here: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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What’s up with Liliputing? (Fall 2026 edition)
Long-time visitors to Liliputing may have noticed that we’ve been posting news articles less frequently and relying more heavily on news roundups…
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Snapdragon X2 Elite Mini PC, Steam Frame, and ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Autotwist: Liliputing News Roundup
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…
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MINISFORUM S5, ePaper Smart Badge, and Mudita: Liliputing News Roundup
The MINISFORUM S5 is a fanless PC or NAS with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM, an Intel Core 3 304 chip, 5 M.2 slots for PCIe 4.0 x1 NVMe storage, 10 GbE and 2.5 GbE LAN, WiFi…
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Onyx BOOX Palma 3, Xteink S4, and Lenovo Yoga Mini i: Liliputing News Roundup
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. The new Onyx BOOX Palma 3 is a pocket-sized eReader with similar specs to the Palma 2, but…
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Steam Frame availability, Kobo gets better sync, and Android makes changing password managers easier: Liliputing News Roundup
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset is now available to reserve for $1059 and up. It’s…
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Liliputing News Roundup: (Kindle Jailbreak, Xteink X3, and AMD Gorgon Halo)
For the second time in a month, there’s a new Kindle jailbreak method in the wild. MINISFORUM continues to make ridiculously powerful network attached…
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Liliputing News Roundup (Amazon, Single-board PCs, Framework)
Here’s a recent roundup of tech news from around the web. The OpenPaper L is a new 13.3 inch digital picture frame with an 1600 x 1200px E Ink Spectra 6…
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Liliputing News Roundup: 09/10/2026
Here’s a recent roundup of tech news from around the web. The upcoming Retroid Pocket Duo is a dual-screen gaming handheld with 120 Hz OLED displays and…
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Lilbits: Asahi Linux on Apple M3, bootloader unlock for the Fire Max 11, and Acer and Lenovo’s unusual new laptops
Apple’s Mac computers are designed to run Apple’s macOS software. The company doesn’t make it easy for users to install other operating…
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Amazon Fire Max 11 hacks: Root Shell, bootloader unlock, and custom firmware
Amazon’s Fire Tablets ship with a modified version of Android called Fire OS. That means that while the underlying operating system is based on Android…
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Acer’s DualPlay Mini concept is both a gaming handheld and a mini-laptop
This week Acer is expanding its handheld gaming PC family with the new Predator Atlas 7 featuring a 7 inch, 1080p display, an 80 Wh battery, and support for up…
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Acer Veriton RI110 is a mini PC with Intel Core Ultra X7 358 Panther Lake, up to 96GB RAM, and OcuLink
The Acer Veriton RI110 is a compact computer that Acer is calling an “AI Mini Workstation” thanks to its Intel Panther Lake processor with a…
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Amazon tablets with up to 16GB of RAM could be coming soon
Amazon launched its first Kindle Fire tablet in 2011, and over the years the company has dropped the Kindle name, dabbled in the high-end space, and largely…
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Lilbits: More phone-sized E Ink gadgets
The number of smartphones and smartphone-sized gadgets with E Ink displays continues to grow. The latest additions come from eReader companies PocketBook and…
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Lilbits: GrapheneOS coming to Moto phones in 2027, Apple launches Mac Mini with M6 and Mac Studio with M5 Ultra, Lenovo launches a handheld for game streaming
Earlier this year we learned that Motorola was working with the folks behind the security-hardened version of Android called GrapheneOS. Now it looks like the…
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GPD Win Max 3 mini gaming laptop with AMD Strix Halo to sell for $1750 and up at launch
The GPD Win Max 3 is a mini laptop with a 9.06 inch display, an AMD Strix Halo processor with discrete-class graphics, and a design that makes it clear that…
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MNT Station lets you repurpose a MNT Reform mainboard as a mini PC
Five years after starting to ship its first open source, modular laptop, the folks at MNT Research are expanding beyond laptops (and mini-laptops) with the…
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Lilbits: Framework Laptop 12 gets a Wildcat Lake upgrade, Pine64 halts Linux device production due to RAMageddon
Fairphone is finally bringing a smartphone to the US market. Framework is upgrading its cheapest laptop. And RAMageddon claims another victim. Here’s a…
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Lenovo’s next ThinkBook Plus laptop could have a rollable display that extends horizontally
Earlier this year Lenovo unveiled a Legion Pro Rollable concept laptop with a display that expands to the left and right, giving you more horizontal screen…
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Lilbits: Ploopy’s A+ trackball has eight buttons (two are also dials), Xteink X4 discontinued, and more
A company with a funny name has made some of the most interesting computer input devices of recent years. Ploopy got its start with trackballs, at a time when…
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Elecrow ThinkNode M9 is a phone-like mesh communicator with a 2.4 inch sccreen, QWERTY keyboard, and LoRa
At first glance, the Elecrow ThinkNode M9 looks like a smartphone from an alternate universe where all phones are descended from BlackBerry and Palm Treo…
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MeLE Quieter HD fanless mini PC with Intel N150 has room for an SSD and HDD inside
The MeLE Quieter line of mini PCs are small fanless computers that have been around for years, and which are often so small that they’re nearly…
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This Game Boy Advance clone is a cheap Android handheld from AYANEO
The AYANEO KONKR Pocket Advance is a handheld game console with a design that’s heavily inspired by Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, potentially making…
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Chuwi MinBook X U300 is a mini-laptop with a 10.5 inch screen and Intel Raptor Lake processor
The Chuwi MiniBook X is a compact convertible laptop with a 10.51 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen display and a 360 degree hinge that lets you fold…
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Zinwa Q27 smartphone with BlackBerry-style design now available for pre-order
The Zinwa Q27 is a smartphone that combines modern features with classic BlackBerry design. In fact, it looks a lot like the BlackBerry Classic that was…
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reTerminal Sticky is a $50 E Ink gadget with flashable firmware that can be a refrigerator sign or a pocket-sized eReader
Seeed Studio’s reTerminal Sticky is a small, versatile device that combines a 3.97 inch E Ink touschreen display with an ESP32 microcontroller and…
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Ubuntu Touch update brings better support for modern smartphones & web apps
Ubuntu Touch is a mobile Linux distribution designed to run on smartphones and tablets. But since the project was abandoned by Canonical, it’s been…
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Onyx BOOX Picco is a pocket-sized eReader with a 3.97 inch ePaper display
E Ink displays are designed to offer a paper-like viewing experience and most of the eBook readers released over the past two decades have had E Ink screens…
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Lilbits: Samsung’s wider-screen foldable, AYANEO’s $3000 handheld, and Pebble Watch faces on smartphone’s second screen
Samsung has expanded its smartphone lineup with three new Galaxy Z foldables, including one model with a wider-than-usual display. After suspending orders for…
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Xteink X4 Pro now available for $99 (Pocket-sized eReader with a 4.3 inch touchscreen, frontlit display)
The Xteink X4 Pro is a pocket-sized eBook reader with a 4.3 inch E Ink display that makes it much smaller than most Kindle, Kobo, or other devices. In fact…
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Light Flip is a flip phone with minimalist design and features (plus a keypad and T9 predictive text)
The Light Flip is an upcoming cellphone that looks like an artifact from an alternate timeline where smartphones never took off. It has a class flip-phone…
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Hisense A10 is an E Ink smartphone with a detachable LCD screen on the back
Just days after Bigme launched a crowdfunding campaign for a dual-screen smartphone with an E Ink display on one side and an LCD display on the other, Hisense…
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Lilbits: Goodbye OnePlus, Hello Xteink X4 Pro and a Game Boy Advance lookalike from AYANEO
A year and a half after launch, the MeLE QuieterDL fanless mini PC is getting a modest processor spec bump… and a big price increase. More than a decade…
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REDMAGIC Astra 2 is a $699 gaming tablet with a 185 Hz OLED display and liquid cooling
REDMAGIC’s latest gaming tablet features a 9.06 inch, 2.4K OLED display with a 185 Hz refresh rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor…
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Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 is a $400 Android tablet with a 12.1 inch screen and a BIG speaker
The Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 is an Android tablet that’s clearly made for media consumption. It has a 12.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 120 Hz display with up…
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Lilbits: Steam Deck LCD spare parts, the Asus ROG Ally X20 will be available without AR glasses, and 3rd-party app stores are coming to the Google Play Store
I’m resisting the urge to start this post with a “yo dawg” meme, but Google is about to start putting app stores inside its app store, as the…
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Lilbits: Punkt MC03 Google-free Android phone now shipping, AYANEO Pocket Micro 2 goes up for pre-order (again)
Earlier this year, Punkt introduced a new smartphone with a privacy-focused, Google-free, Android-based operating system called AphyOS. Now it’s…
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Bigme HiBreak Dual 2 smartphone with E Ink and LCD screens hits Kickstarter for $599 and up
The Bigme HiBreak Dual 2 is a smartphone with a 6.13 inch E Ink display. It’s also a phone with a 5 inch LCD display on the other side. In other words…
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Crowdfunding begins for Open Book Touch, an open source eReader
The Open Book Touch is an eBook reader with a small, front-lit E ink display, a microSD card slot for storage, and support for EPUB and TXT files. But what…
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MINISFORUM MS-03 is a compact Panther Lake PC with 10 Gigabit LAN and a PCIe slot
Chinese mini PC maker MINISFORUM unveiled its first mini PC with an Intel Core Ultra (Series 3) “Panther Lake” processor during CES: the upcoming…
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Asus ROG GR70 is a small, powerful, and expensive gaming PC
The Asus ROG GR70 is a mini PC with the guts of a high-performance gaming laptop including support for up to an AMD Ryzen 9 995HX3D processor and NVIDIA…
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Lilbits: Flipper Zero’s firmware future, a new Linux gaming laptop, an E Ink monitor, and AMD’s pricey Ryzen Halo mini PC
Shortly after launching a new thin and light Linux laptop with an Intel Panther Lake processor, Linux PC company System76 is preparing to launch… another…
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PocketMage PDA with E Ink screen and QWERTY keyboard hits crowdfunding for $185 and up
The PocketMage PDA is a pocket-sized gadget that looks a bit like a tiny laptop. It has a clamshell design featuring a 3.1 inch E Ink display on top and a…
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Beelink launches EQi Wildcat Lake mini PC for $509 and up
The Beelink EQi is a mini PC that sort of blurs the lines between a budget and premium device. It has two Thunderbolt 4 ports, multiple storage options, an…
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GMK EVO-X3 with Ryzen AI Max+ 395 and 128GB RAM now available for $3600 and up
The GMK EVO-X3 is a slim desktop computer that packs a lot of power into a compact design. With an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor featuring Radeon 8060S…