Month: April 2025

After a flurry of leaks, Motorola has unveiled its 2025 foldable lineup. This will be the first cycle with three Motorola Razr flip phones, ranging from the relatively inexpensive base model Razr to the lavishly expensive Razr Ultra. All three phones have a slick foldable design, a stronger hinge, and big screens—and they come in a collection of snazzy Pantone colorways.

Pretty colors, stronger hinges

The three models have similar overall designs, but the specs are notably different. The base model phone again relies on a MediaTek chip, while the Plus and Ultra are Snapdragon-based. The Ultra has the same processor seen in Samsung's latest flagship phones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. As Moto points out, it's the fastest chip available in a foldable.

The 2025 Razr in the Spring Bud colorway. Credit: Motorola

Motorola's Pantone partnership, which was recently featured in the 2025 Moto G Stylus, is used to great effect here. All three phones are available in some stunning colors with various materials and finishes. The Razr comes in Spring Bud (above), Gibraltar Sea, Parfait Pink, and Lightest Sky. The Razr+ gets Mocha Mousse, Midnight Blue, and Hot Pink (below). The Ultra comes in Rio Red, Scarab, Cabaret, or Mountain Trail, with a wood body that harkens back to the days of Moto maker. It's refreshing to get so much choice when most phones are only available in a couple of boring tones.

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The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable, internet-connected AI device designed to offer a phone-free way to interact with an AI assistant from anywhere. But when it launched in 2024 it was widely panned as an overpriced, underpowered device that was useless without paying additional subscription fees (and not super useful even if you did pay). Earlier […]

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Strukturiert zur Informationssicherheit - ein dreitägiger Online-Workshop vermittelt die IT-Grundschutz-Methodik des BSI und bereitet gezielt auf die Zertifikatsprüfung zum IT-Grundschutz-Praktiker vor. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

Motorolas neue Razr-Serie kommt mit großen internen Displays, großen Akkus und natürlich KI-Funktionen. (Motorola, Smartphone)

Der Netzbetreiber 1&1 vermarktet einen neuen 5G-Tarif mit bis zu 10 MBit/s. Unlimited XS ist eine Flatrate ohne Nachbuchung für unter 20 Euro. (1&1, Verbraucherschutz)

AT&T ist erfreut über den Rauswurf von Nokia und Wechsel zu Ericsson. Dadurch könne man leistunsgfähiges FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) anbieten. (AT&T, Nokia)

US preorders for the Nintendo Switch 2 console went live at Best Buy, Target, and Walmart at midnight Eastern time last night (though the rush of orders caused problems and delays across all three retailers' websites). The console listings came with a wave of other retail listings for games and accessories, and those listings either fill small gaps in our knowledge about Switch 2 game packaging and pricing or confirm facts that were previously implied.

First, $80 Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World will not cost $90 as physical releases. This is worth repeating over and over again because of how pernicious the rumors about $90 physical releases have been; as recently as this morning, typing "Switch 2 $90" into Google would show you videos, Reddit threads, news posts, and even Google's own AI summaries all confidently and incorrectly proclaiming that physical Switch 2 releases will cost $90 when they actually won't.

Google's AI-generated search summary about $90 Switch 2 games as of this morning. Credit: Andrew Cunningham

While physical game releases in the EU sometimes cost more than their digital counterparts, there was actually no indication that US releases of physical games would cost $90. The Mario Kart World website listed an $80 MSRP from the start, as did early retail listings that were published before preorders actually began, and this price didn't change when Nintendo increased accessory pricing in response to import tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

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Even in an alternate timeline in which the average new car didn't cost more than $50,000 and weigh well more than two tons, Volkswagen's Golf GTI would stand above the norm. Here on Earth Prime, nine years after a weasel met a particle accelerator and everything started to get weird, the GTI shines as almost the perfect blend of performance and everyday practicality while keeping the footprint small and the sticker price affordable.

The GTI has just had its midlife facelift, making this generation the Mk8.5 if you speak Golfnerd. Even if you don't, you're probably familiar with the idea. But to recap, in 1976, someone at VW had the bright idea of giving the Golf hatchback a more powerful engine and better handling. The original GTI wasn't the first hot hatch, but it was the most influential, giving VW's humble Golf a halo that shone brightly when seized upon by that most 1980s of species, the yuppie.

The GTI has been a constant in the Golf range ever since. Here in America, it is the Golf range, along with the all-wheel drive Golf R, but more on that car another day. Americans used to buy regular Golfs—I have not one but two neighbors with Golf Alltrack station wagons, in case anecdote will suffice in place of sales data—but no longer in numbers that make importing the other cars economical. On the other hand, the US is now one of the largest markets for the GTI, VW told me, and last year, it saw sales grow by almost 50 percent.

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Amazon hat einen WLAN-Stick von Netgear im Angebot, mit dem man auch auf älteren PCs und Laptops schnelles Wi-Fi 6E nutzen kann. (Netgear, Technik/Hardware)

Die Falcon Mini soll im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Quadcoptern leiser sein und schneller beschleunigen. Dazu nutzt sie Kippmotoren. (Drohne, Crowdfunding)