The sixth era of Fairphone arrived this week, that includes a modular design constructed to final from ethically sourced elements in a climate-conscious approach. It has been a few years since its predecessor, the Fairphone 5, and the Fairphone 6 is refreshingly smaller and lighter.
It boasts a 6.3-inch OLED display with a 120-Hz adaptive refresh price, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 processor, and a 4,415 mAh battery that Fairphone says is nice for as much as two days. You additionally get a 50-megapixel most important digicam with a 13-MP ultrawide lens and a 32-MP selfie digicam.
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Fairphone says the brand new system is made with greater than 50 % honest and recycled supplies, together with cobalt sourced by way of the Honest Cobalt Alliance, honest gold, silver, and tungsten, and recycled aluminum and uncommon earth metals. The Fairphone 6 is 100% e-waste impartial, made in factories powered by 100% renewable vitality, by folks paid a dwelling wage.
The Fairphone 6 is an Android cellphone with Google Gemini onboard, however the Fairphone Moments function allows you to hit a bodily swap for a minimalist mode with a pared-back interface and simply 5 apps. Fairphone has at all times gone for a modular design to make repairs and upgrades simpler, however this time, it features a swappable accent vary with a case, card holder, lanyard, and finger loop. Regardless of the modular design, the Fairphone 6 has an IP55 score.
The Fairphone 6 comes with a five-year guarantee, software program assist till 2033 (eight years is greater than some other Android producer guarantees), and a assure of seven main Android OS upgrades. Sadly, it’s nonetheless not formally offered within the US, however you should purchase one for £499 within the UK or 599 Euros on the continent. In case you are and dwell within the US, there is a de-Googled model of the Fairphone 6 operating e/OS, coming in August. Too dangerous it prices $899. —Simon Hill
Dell Kills the XPS Model
XPS is lastly lifeless. Oh, you did not hear? Dell introduced the sweeping rebrand earlier this yr, however maybe its most iconic laptop computer branding hasn’t modified prior to now six months. No new XPS fashions have come out, so the laptop computer line has been cruising alongside. However now, Dell’s formidable (and typically downright complicated) rebranding efforts have reached XPS, the beloved laptops which were setting the usual for premium Home windows laptops for a few years. Rather than what would’ve been the brand new Dell XPS 14 and XPS 16, the corporate is launching the Dell Premium 14 and Dell Premium 16. It would not roll off the tongue fairly the identical.
Except for the title, this can be a modest improve over final yr’s fashions. The brand new laptops use the newest Intel chips (Core Extremely 200H sequence) and Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics. Intel’s new chips declare to offer higher battery life—as much as 27 hours on the Dell Premium 16—whereas the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5070 will enhance the graphics. The Dell Premium 14 begins at $1,650, which is $50 cheaper than what it launched finally yr.
In the meantime, the Dell Premium 16 will solely launch with the RTX 5070 mannequin, with different configurations to return later. Whereas the designs stay as smooth as ever, the truth that each fashions begin with solely a 1920 x 1200-pixel decision display feels loopy at that worth, particularly when stretched out on a 16.3-inch display. Let’s not overlook: The 14-inch MacBook Professional has a decrease beginning worth and comes with a high-resolution Mini-LED display on all fashions. Costs are likely to fluctuate, although, and I am comfortable Dell is protecting these creator-based machines with discrete graphics choices round. I will hopefully be testing them quickly, however for now, let’s pour one out for XPS, an iconic PC model that is been round for the reason that early Nineties—one of many final holdouts from a wildly completely different period in know-how. —Luke Larsen
Solos’ New Good Glasses Embrace AI
Good glasses are taking off in varied types, however Solos sees them as wearable AI units. Each its new fashions, the AirGo A5 and the AirGo V2, supply entry to an AI assistant. The AirGo A5 depends on audio, with built-in audio system and microphones enabling you to entry SolosChat to answer to messages or pose queries. You can too use them for calls or to hearken to music and podcasts.
The extra attention-grabbing AirGo V2 packs a 16-megapixel digicam and a extra superior model 3.0 of SolosChat that mixes ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek to determine objects, translate textual content, and supply the solutions you want. Just like the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you can too use them to snap pictures and shoot movies hands-free.
