<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTFA1LTc1cmFQWjhSaU9ROTZsS244ZTMtb0IybkhPODdQdVh6dlIyOVRWZ3k5MFpzemZya2M2TnFTWHFOQkp6bS1UeGlkc3N4VFFGNGNaTHVYMnVRclA2b0FJUFBpanY4LXFyenJtcThGRQ?oc=5" target="_blank">Lilbits: More phone-sized E Ink gadgets</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">

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Google's upcoming PC operating system that merges elements of Android and ChromeOS has a new name... or at least a code name. And there are updates on both sides of the dispute between Core Devices (the company brining Pebble watches back from the dead) and Rebble (the developers who made sure that old Pebble watches were only mostly dead). Last week the&hellip;

There's always a chance that crowdfunding campaigns will fail to deliver on their promises. But Kickstarter is introducing a few new features that should help potential backers make more informed decisions... as well as allowing backers to break their pledges into four equal payments, which is meant to encourage backers to spend more money on rewards that might be too expensive for them to pay for all at once.

The Clicks Communicator is a modern smartphone that borrows some ideas from classic BlackBerry phones. Made by the same folks behind the Clicks keyboard cases for existing phones, the company's first full-fledged phone has a square screen, a QWERTY keyboard, and a customized Android interface. Clicks began taking pre-orders for the Communicator at the start of the year, and plans to begin shipping the phone by the end of 2026. But up until recently, the company hadn't really had working hardware to show off. Now it does. In other recent tech news from around the web, a new dock for the&hellip;

Display makers have been showing of rollable screens for years, but this year Lenovo was the first company to actual bring a laptop with a rollable screen to market with the launch of the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, featuring a 14 inch display that can extend upward to become a 16.7 inch screen with 50% more screen space.

The Steam Deck handheld gaming PC now comes with a choice of LCD or AMOLED displays. But what if you already have and LCD model and want to upgrade to an AMOLED display? Officially your only option is to buy a new handheld. Unofficially though? There's another option. DeckSight is running a crowdfunding campaign for a 1080p AMOLED display that's designed to be a drop-in replacement for the screen in the Steam Deck LCD.

Microsoft may have just raised prices for its Surface Laptop and Surface Pro tablet, but the company is also preparing to launch new models that... will also probably be expensive. According to a new report from Windows Central, not only is Microsoft planning to use the latest Intel and Qualcomm chips, but some Surface Laptop models will also now be available with OLED displays.

The number of smartphones and smartphone-sized gadgets with E Ink displays continues to grow. The latest additions come from eReader companies PocketBook and HiBreak, as well as modular IoT company M5Stack. Here's a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. The PocketBook Q is the first phone-sized eReader from PocketBook, featuring a 5.84 inch, 788 x 1576 pixel E Ink display with a front light, an RK3566 processor, 1GB RAM, 32GB storage, Bluetooth audio, and a €199 price tag. pocketbook.de/news/neu-auf... — Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) August 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM&hellip;

Well this certainly isn't going to help bring down the skyrocketing prices of RAM &amp; SSDs. Micron has announced it's shutting down its Crucial brand of memory &amp; storage products for consumers in order to focus primarily on meeting the ever-growing demand for enterprise products. Thanks AI. You will still find Crucial products on store shelves for a little longer - the company says it'll keep shipping its consumer products until the end of February 2026.

The company working on a Linux-based operating system for handheld gaming PCs that's not as tightly integrated with the Steam game client as Valve's SteamOS has released a second alpha. And this time it's not even all that locked to handhelds - there's keyboard, mouse, and NVIDIA graphics support, which means you can run it on laptop and desktop computers a well.

Bose announced in October that it would soon be ending cloud services for its SoundTouch WiFi speakers. The original plan would have basically turned them into little more than Bluetooth speakers. But responding to feedback, Bose has modified its plans a bit. First, the cloud features will end on May 6 rather than Feb 18 to help ease the transition.

Google announced two years ago that it was killing its short-lived Stadia game streaming service. and while the company was refunding customers who'd purchased games and hardware, folks who'd purchased the Stadia Controller weren't thrilled that Google's original plans would have led to the device becoming useless once the servers shut down. Fortunately Google later released a tool that would let users convert the Stadia Controller&hellip;