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Lilbits: Arduboy FX-C, AYANEO AM03, OneXFly Apex announcements… and maybe Windows 11 will actually shut down when it’s supposed to soon

Developer Kevin Bates has been making Arduboy handheld game consoles for more than a decade, bringing together Arduino hardware and support for 8-bit homebrew games into portable, programmable devices. The latest is the newly announced Arduboy FX-C, wh…

Developer Kevin Bates has been making Arduboy handheld game consoles for more than a decade, bringing together Arduino hardware and support for 8-bit homebrew games into portable, programmable devices. The latest is the newly announced Arduboy FX-C, which brings some modern features like a USB-C port and some retro features… like support for playing multiplayer […]

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Lilbits: AYANEO Phone, Ubuntu’s new architecture variants, and an Always On Display update for Android 17

AYANEO is a company that’s been making handheld gaming PCs, Android-powered handhelds, and mini PCs for the past five years. But earlier this year the company announced it was working on its first smartphone. Now we have the first look at… …

AYANEO is a company that’s been making handheld gaming PCs, Android-powered handhelds, and mini PCs for the past five years. But earlier this year the company announced it was working on its first smartphone. Now we have the first look at… part of that phone. Images of the back show what appears to be a […]

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Lilbits: A new handheld Linux PC, Google opens up the Play Store (a little), Samsung’s web browser comes to PCs

In many ways, handheld gaming PCs are the modern descendants of the UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs) from twenty years ago. But with a few exceptions, most don’t have the keyboards or long battery life that you’d want for general purpose computing….

In many ways, handheld gaming PCs are the modern descendants of the UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs) from twenty years ago. But with a few exceptions, most don’t have the keyboards or long battery life that you’d want for general purpose computing. Fortunately for fans of handheld computing, we’ve also seen a number of DIY solutions […]

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Lilbits: Kensington’s new TrackBall, AMD’s new names for old chips, and a power bank that’s also a game console,

In my ongoing quest for ergonomic computer input devices, the Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball has been one of my favorite purchases of the past few years. While I still prefer a mouse for precision work like audio and video editing, the larg…

In my ongoing quest for ergonomic computer input devices, the Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball has been one of my favorite purchases of the past few years. While I still prefer a mouse for precision work like audio and video editing, the large trackball, scroll wheel, and multiple buttons make it easy to do most […]

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Lilbits: Playable LEGO Game Boy kits, AI web browsers, and the short life of ultrathin smartphones

Just a week after a report suggested that Samsung is scrapping plans for a second-gen Galaxy “Edge” phone due to low sales of the Galaxy S25 Edge, it looks like Apple may be scaling back production of its ultrathin iPhone Air for similar re…

Just a week after a report suggested that Samsung is scrapping plans for a second-gen Galaxy “Edge” phone due to low sales of the Galaxy S25 Edge, it looks like Apple may be scaling back production of its ultrathin iPhone Air for similar reasons. Maybe people aren’t as happy to trade battery life and features for […]

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Lilbits: Atari and Intellivision made a retro console (kind of), Google’s Privacy Sandbox is gone for good, and Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Select with Vega OS is a lot more locked down

Atari and Intellivision have a few things in common. They were two of the first big players in the home video game console space. And neither brand is what it once was anymore. So while it’s intriguing to see that Atari is launching a new retro c…

Atari and Intellivision have a few things in common. They were two of the first big players in the home video game console space. And neither brand is what it once was anymore. So while it’s intriguing to see that Atari is launching a new retro console called the Intellivision Sprint, this is really a […]

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Lilbits: Phosh 0.50.0, unofficial Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD, and Google Japan’s impractical keyboards

Some folks at Google Japan have a habit of designing impractical keyboards. A few years ago we saw a single-row keyboard with every letter, number and character laid out along a 5.4 foot strip. There are also Teacup, bubble wrap, and spoon bending keyb…

Some folks at Google Japan have a habit of designing impractical keyboards. A few years ago we saw a single-row keyboard with every letter, number and character laid out along a 5.4 foot strip. There are also Teacup, bubble wrap, and spoon bending keyboards, among others. Now the company has introduced its latest horribly inconvenient […]

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