The MateBook Fold isn’t the first foldable laptop we’ve seen — Lenovo got there first, with plenty others since — but it might just be the thinnest, at only 7.3mm thick when unfolded. A 13-inch screen opens to 18 inches, and instead of running on Windows it’s all powered by Huawei’s own HarmonyOS 5. It’s China-only for now though, where it costs around $3,300.
The Pad 3 is going to include software for file transfer and remote control of a Mac — I tested the same tech on the Oppo Find N5, and it works unexpectedly well.
We don’t know much else about the Pad 3 yet, except that it’ll include improved multitasking and run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite, but we’ll find out more when it launches on June 5th.
The Xring 01 will launch this Thursday, May 22nd. It’s reportedly a 3nm flagship SoC, and leaked benchmarks put it on a par with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite.
Making your own chips is in vogue now — not only do Samsung, Apple, Google, and Huawei do it, but Oppo has reportedly been exploring the option too. This is technically Xiaomi’s second attempt though — the entry-level Surge S1 launched in 2017, but never got a follow-up.
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This feels like a form factor that’s here to stay.
And... that’s all we know about them. The company is following up its now extensive range of earbuds with bigger headphones coming this summer. “I think they’re better than AirPods Max,” says Nothing designer Tom Ridley as he and the design team tease what to expect while critiquing the competition, but we’ll have to wait to learn more than that.
Last week the Search Engine podcast flagged a weird iOS bug: the Messages app flat-out refuses to send audio messages about Dave & Buster’s. The podcasters tried to figure out why, and app developer Guilherme Rambo dug even deeper. The explanation involves automatic transcriptions, HTML, and iOS’ dogged insistence that the restaurant chain uses an ampersand in its trademark.
[rambo.codes]
