The updated Rival 3 Gen 2 comes in black and white finishes, available either wired or wireless, and more exciting purple and blue versions exclusive to the wireless model. The big tech upgrade is click latency — now just 1.35ms wired, and 1.9ms wireless — but there’s a $5 price bump to go with it.
That’s when the flagship Phone 3 launches, and CEO Carl Pei has previously said that it’s actually getting a proper US release. The company also used Google’s Android Show to reveal that it’s targeting a price around £800 (about $1,070) for the phone, which would make it Nothing’s most expensive yet.
Today’s tease follows last week’s reveal that the brand is working on its first pair of over-ear headphones.
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The state’s governor is the sixth to sign a bill requiring the availability of repair parts for most consumer electronics, including all phones, laptops, and tablets sold since July 1st, 2021. Like Oregon and Colorado’s laws, HB 1483 explicitly bans “parts pairing,” when manufacturers use software to prevent replacement parts working or display warning pop-ups.
A second law introduces even stricter requirements for wheelchairs and mobility scooters, requiring manufacturers to provide firmware for replacement parts.
The company is walking back some of its long-term electrification plans, cutting 3 trillion yen (about $20.8 billion) from its investment in electric cars over the next six years. Instead, it’s shifting focus to hybrids, though still plans to be selling only EVs by 2040.
It’s not just them: Toyota is in the midst of a similar reassessment, while last year Volvo gave up on its plan to be fully electric by 2030.
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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.
