Nubia’s Red Magic Tablet was built for gaming (if you like gaming on Android)

Chinese phone maker Nubia has been selling gaming smartphones under its Red Magic brand for more than four years. Now the company is expanding into gaming tablets. The first Red Magic tablet features a 12.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display with a 144 H…

Chinese phone maker Nubia has been selling gaming smartphones under its Red Magic brand for more than four years. Now the company is expanding into gaming tablets. The first Red Magic tablet features a 12.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display with a 144 Hz refresh rate, 240 Hz touch sampling rate, and up to […]

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Going deep with the Book 8088, the brand-new laptop that runs like it’s 1981

Stolen BIOS, stolen software, and half-busted hardware. But still… kind of neat?

The Book 8088, a strange homebrewed curio that recalls the earliest days of x86 PCs.

Enlarge / The Book 8088, a strange homebrewed curio that recalls the earliest days of x86 PCs. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

The words you're reading are time travelers.

They were written on a laptop that is technically brand new, in the sense that it was only released recently. But everything from the word processor this text was written in to the CPU that ran it is decades old.

I am writing this on the Book 8088, an utterly bizarre $200-ish imported system that uses a processor from 1984, a custom motherboard design, and a bunch of cobbled-together parts to approximate the specs of the original IBM PC 5150 from 1981. It's running at a blazing-fast speed of 4.77MHz, at least when it's not in TURBO MODE, and it has a generous helping of 640KB (yes, kilobytes) of system memory. (If you can't buy one now, keep an eye on the listing because it has blinked into and out of stock a few times over the last few weeks).

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Murena Fairphone 4 brings the repairable smartphone to the United States with /e/OS software

Dutch company Fairphone has been making modular, repairable smartphones using sustainable and ethically-sourced materials (where possible) for the better part of a decade. But up until now they’ve only been available for purchase in Europe. That…

Dutch company Fairphone has been making modular, repairable smartphones using sustainable and ethically-sourced materials (where possible) for the better part of a decade. But up until now they’ve only been available for purchase in Europe. That changes today with the launch of the Murena Fairphone 4, which comes from a partnership between Fairphone and the […]

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Anzeige: Modernes Webdesign – Angular, Vue.js und Typescript im Fokus

Moderne Frameworks und Skriptsprachen wie Angular, Vue.js und Typescript sind essenziell in der Javascript-Umgebung. Unsere Online-Workshops erleichtern den Einstieg. (Golem Karrierewelt, Programmiersprachen)

Moderne Frameworks und Skriptsprachen wie Angular, Vue.js und Typescript sind essenziell in der Javascript-Umgebung. Unsere Online-Workshops erleichtern den Einstieg. (Golem Karrierewelt, Programmiersprachen)

Maßnahmen gegen die Klimakrise: Aerosole in der Atmosphäre und ein gigantischer Sonnenschirm

Das Weiße Haus und das Europäische Parlament begrüßen Überlegungen zur Verringerung der Sonneneinstrahlung. Dies könnte die Erderwärmung verlangsamen – aber auch unvorhersehbare Risiken bergen. (Klimakrise, Politik)

Das Weiße Haus und das Europäische Parlament begrüßen Überlegungen zur Verringerung der Sonneneinstrahlung. Dies könnte die Erderwärmung verlangsamen - aber auch unvorhersehbare Risiken bergen. (Klimakrise, Politik)

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US

Fairphone teams up with the developer of the /e/ Android fork to enable US sales.

Fairphone is a unique Android manufacturer; it offers a smartphone designed for repair, long software support times, and a selection of parts available online. The Dutch electronics manufacturer has mostly only focused on the European market and says, "When is Fairphone coming to the US?" is one of the most common questions it gets asked. Well, ask no more! The company is finally bringing the Fairphone 4 to the US—with some caveats.

Fairphone is launching a "US pilot" program to sell the Fairphone 4 in America in partnership with Murena, the primary developer behind the /e/ Android fork. Murena has been selling Fairphones in Europe for a while, and they come pre-loaded with the /e/ OS, instead of Fairphone's build of Android, and now the US is getting the deal. The phone costs $599.

"We know based on feedback we have received that there are many people interested in Fairphone in the US." Fairphone CEO Eva Gouwens said in the press release. "However, currently our main focus is on the European market. This collaboration with e/OS/ is a great opportunity for us to pilot selling devices in the US market with a long-standing partner and learn more about the American market.”

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