Lilbits: Another modular repairable smartphone, another high-end VR headset, and more Pixel 7a details - Liliputing

Dutch institution Fairphone has made a spot of a sanction for itself successful caller years by offering modular, repairable smartphones similar the Fairphone 4, on with semipermanent bundle support, unlocked bootloaders, and ethically-sourced materials, wherever possible. But Fairphone isn’t the lone institution making repairable phones.

As reported by WinFuture, German institution Shift Phones began taking pre-orders for the SHIFTphone 8 today. It’s a repairable telephone with 13 antithetic idiosyncratic replaceable modules. Unfortunately, similar Fairphone’s devices, it’s improbable to beryllium offered extracurricular of Europe anytime soon.

Here’s a roundup of caller tech quality from astir the web.

SHIFTphone 8 modular repairable telephone [Shift Phone]

German telephone shaper Shift Phones is taking pre-orders for the SHIFTphone 8 with a 6 inch FHD+ display, a Snapdragon 700 bid processor, 8GB of RAM, Android 13-based software, and a repairable plan acknowledgment to 13 replaceable modules.

HTC Vive XR Elite [HTC]

HTC Vive XR Elite VR headset is up for pre-order for $1099 (1920 x 1920px per eye, 110 FoV, 90 Hz, inside-out tracking, Snapdragon CR2, 12GB RAM, 128GB storage, WiFi 6E, BT 5.2. 26.6 Wh battery.

PS2 emulator for Android AetherSX2 ceases improvement owed to ‘death threats’ [Android Authority]

The unfastened root PS2 emulator for Android volition proceed to beryllium available, but the sole developer has had capable with maltreatment from users and has suspended further development.

AYA Neo 2 and Geek crowdfunding ends, but you tin inactive bid 1 [Indiegogo]

Crowdfunding has ended for the Aya Neo 2 and AYA Neo Geek handheld gaming PCs with Ryzen 7 6800U chips, but it’s inactive up for pre-order done Indiegogo InDemand. Prices commencement astatine $853.

Raspberry Pi Pico W to get Bluetooth LE enactment precise soon [CNX Software]

The hardware supports Bluetooth, but we’ve been waiting connected on the bundle to alteration it. Now it looks similar the hold is astir over.

Google Pixel 7a representation and retention specs leaked [@chunvn888]

Google Pixel 7a volition person 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB of retention according to the feline successful Vietnam who posted a hands-on video of a pre-production exemplary this week.

Progress Update connected a DIY handheld Linux PC [@[email protected]]

It’s designed to beryllium a inexpensive instrumentality with a screen, keyboard, and BL808 RISC-V processor module. The developer has besides 3D printed immoderate cases. 

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