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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
68 reasons to buy a foldable phone.

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first foldable with an IP68 rating for dust- and water-resistance, and that might be all some people need to make the jump.

subotai01:

“For someone that has not bought a foldable yet, the IP68 certification is the tipping point. Time to get one.”

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
‘You carry a battery bank anyway, might as well have it double as a camera grip for your phone.’

Sharge, purveyor of translucent USB-C charging gear, is now selling the $40 Grip, a Bluetooth shutter and zoom for your phone built into a 20W, 18Wh battery. Andrew and I are a little skeptical of the clamp, but it’s tough to argue with the marketing!

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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Arm is building Nvidia-like AI cores into 2026’s smartphone GPUs.

The silicon IP licensor says it’s got its own framerate-boosting and upscaling technologies that use dedicated tensor cores, a la Nvidia’s DLSS 3 and 4, and that it’ll start building the cores into mobile GPUs. The promise is 1080p while only rendering 540p. Here’s the choppy demo video: