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    We have Xiaomi 17 Pro Max at home.

    Frustrated that Xiaomi’s new flagships, with second screens on the back, aren’t launching in the US? Nuu Mobile says its B40 is the first US phone with a second screen, though at $299.99 this is no flagship. Its Dimensity 7050 chip is basic, and the 64-megapixel main camera is joined only by a macro.

    Nuu Mobile B40 5G with a second screen on the back
    Image: Nuu Mobile
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    Dominic Preston
    At least it was only a beta.

    Google appears to have pulled the latest Android 16 QPR2 beta release just hours after it went out, amidst reports of it causing crashes linked to Android’s desktop mode.

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    Dominic Preston
    Live a little dangerously.

    Microsoft thinks the future of Windows involves letting AI take charge. It might be right, but only if you’re willing to embrace a little risk.

    Sophisticated_Bean_3:

    Tired: the certainty of clicking a button or entering a command

    Wired: the uncertainty of delegating mundane tasks to a token predictor

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    It’s nearly trifold time.

    Bloomberg reports Samsung is finally ready to show off its first trifold phone — well, nearly. It will apparently appear at the APEC summit at the end of the month to demonstrate South Korea’s technological prowess in front of a few world leaders. But will we see it first at next week’s XR headset event?

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    Realme’s next phone will let you swap out the camera housing.

    The GT 8 Pro launches in China next week, but we already know about its most unique new feature: interchangeable camera mounts, replaceable with just a couple of Torx screws. Realme shows off a lot of options in the teaser video, the question will be how many actually ever launch.

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    Dominic Preston
    Nintendo got hacked.

    But it doesn’t sound too worried about it. Last week the Crimson Collective group claimed to have accessed the company’s servers, but Nintendo told Japan’s Sankei Shimbun that no personal or business information appears to have leaked, with the breach seemingly limited to website servers.

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    Dominic Preston
    The Apple branding playbook.

    Amazon just added a “Plus” to its Fire TV Stick 4K, but if they were looking for a rebrand they should have just followed a time-honored industry approach: copy whatever Apple just did.

    spypol:

    They should rename it Apple TV

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