Gear News This Week: Fixable Fairphone 6 Arrives, Samsung’s Galaxy Ungacked is coming
Sixth generation The Fairphone arrived this week, with its modular design continuing to be used in a climate-conscious way from components of ethical sources. It’s been a few years since its predecessors, the Fairphone 5 and the Fairphone 6, smaller and easier.
It has a 6.3-inch OLED screen, an adaptive refresh speed of 120 Hz, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7S Gen 3 processor, and a 4,415 mAh battery, which Fairphone says will last up to two days. You also get a 50-megapixel main camera with a 13-MP Ultrawide lens and a 32-MP selfie camera.
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Fairphone said the new equipment is made from more than 50% fair and recycled materials, including cobalt sourced through the Fair Cobalt Alliance, Fair Gold, Silver and Tungsten, and recyclable aluminum and rare earth metals. Fairphone 6 is 100% e-waste neutral, a factory powered by 100% renewable energy in a factory, with wages paid by people.
The Fairphone 6 is an Android phone with Google Gemini on board, but the Fairphone Moments feature allows you to trigger physical switches using minimalist mode with discount interface and five apps. The Fairphone has been modularly designed to make repairs and upgrades easier, but this time, it includes a range of interchangeable accessories with boxes, cardholders, lanyards and finger rings. Despite the modular design, the Fairphone 6 is rated at 55.
Fairphone 6 comes with a five-year warranty, software support until 2033 (eight years more than any other Android maker promised) and guarantees seven major Android OS upgrades. Sadly, it’s still not officially sold in the US, but you can buy one in the UK for £499 or €599 on the mainland. if you yes Interested and residing in the United States, there is a De-googled version of Fairphone 6 running E/OS, which will be in August. Too bad, the price is $899. –Simon Hill
Dell Kills XPS Brand
XPS is finally dead. Oh, didn’t you hear it? Dell announced the grand rebranding earlier this year, but its most iconic laptop brand hasn’t changed in the past six months. No new XPS models are coming, so the laptop cable has been cruising. But now, Dell’s ambitious (and sometimes outright confusing) name change efforts have reached XPS, which is XPS, the beloved laptop has set up for premium windows laptops for years. The company will replace the new Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16, with the Dell Premium 14 and Dell Premium 16. It’s not exactly the same.
Apart from the name, this is a modest upgrade to last year’s model. The new laptop uses the latest Intel chips (Core Ultra 200H series) and NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series graphics. Intel’s new chips claim to offer better battery life – 27 hours on the Dell Premium 16 – the RTX 5050, 5060 and 5070 will improve graphics. The Dell Premium starts at $1,650 from 14, which is $50 cheaper than the price launched last year.
Meanwhile, the Dell Premium 16 is only launched with the RTX 5070 model, and other configurations will be done later. While the design is as stylish as ever, both models start with a 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution screen, this price feels crazy at this price, especially when it sticks out on a 16.3-inch screen. Don’t forget: The 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at a low price and comes with a high-resolution mini screen on all models. Prices tend to fluctuate, though, and I’m glad Dell keeps these creator-based machines around the discrete graphics options. I hope they will be tested soon, but for now, let’s pour one for XPS, an iconic PC brand that has been around since the early 1990s, one of the last holders of a very different tech era. –Luke Larsen
Solo new smart glasses embrace AI
Smart glasses are taking off in various forms, but solo sees them as wearable AI devices. Its new models, Airgo A5 and Airgo V2, both have access to the AI assistant. The Airgo A5 relies on audio, built-in speakers and microphones to enable you to access solos to reply to messages or constitute queries. You can also use them for calling or listening to music and podcasts.
The more interesting Airgo V2 packs a 16-megapixel camera and a more advanced version of Soloschat that combines Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek to identify objects, translate text and provide the answers you want. Like Thunder Brown Metaglasses, you can also use them to take photos and shoot videos for free.
