Gear Information This Week: The Repairable Fairphone 6 Arrives and Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked Is Up Subsequent
The sixth technology of Fairphone arrived this week, that includes a modular design constructed to final from ethically sourced parts 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 screen with a 120-Hz adaptive refresh charge, 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 principal 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 p.c truthful and recycled supplies, together with cobalt sourced by the Truthful Cobalt Alliance, truthful gold, silver, and tungsten, and recycled aluminum and uncommon earth metals. The Fairphone 6 is one hundred pc e-waste impartial, made in factories powered by one hundred pc renewable vitality, by individuals paid a residing wage.
The Fairphone 6 is an Android telephone with Google Gemini onboard, however the Fairphone Moments characteristic lets you 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 ranking.
The Fairphone 6 comes with a five-year guarantee, software program help till 2033 (eight years is greater than another 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 buy one for £499 within the UK or 599 Euros on the continent. When you are and reside within the US, there is a de-Googled model of the Fairphone 6 operating e/OS, coming in August. Too unhealthy 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 up 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 generally 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 does not roll off the tongue fairly the identical.
Apart from the identify, it is a modest improve over final yr’s fashions. The brand new laptops use the most recent Intel chips (Core Extremely 200H collection) and Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics. Intel’s new chips declare to supply 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 eventually 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 modern as ever, the truth that each fashions begin with solely a 1920 x 1200-pixel decision display screen feels loopy at that worth, particularly when stretched out on a 16.3-inch display screen. Let’s not overlook: The 14-inch MacBook Professional has a decrease beginning worth and comes with a high-resolution Mini-LED display screen on all fashions. Costs are likely to fluctuate, although, and I am completely satisfied Dell is conserving these creator-based machines with discrete graphics choices round. I am going to hopefully be testing them quickly, however for now, let’s pour one out for XPS, an iconic PC model that is been round because the 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 numerous kinds, however Solos sees them as wearable AI units. Each its new fashions, the AirGo A5 and the AirGo V2, provide 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 too can use them for calls or to take heed 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 too can use them to snap pictures and shoot movies hands-free.