California might gut their Net Neutrality laws. Samsung is offloading their consumer RAM manufacturing.
Snap launched some new SPECS, and Verizon already has a plan for them. Mediatek takes the wraps off the new Dimensity chips! iPhone’s storage slows WAY down under load.
And we have to chat about this new Vivo!
Let’s get our tech week started off RIGHT!
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- Take Better Photos 10th Anniversary! https://somegadgetguy.com/2026/07/24/take-better-photos-smartphone-photography-for-noobs-tenth-anniversary-update/
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- HTC Vive Eagle Smart Glasses https://somegadgetguy.com/2026/09/03/htc-vive-eagle-first-impressions-the-alternative-ai-glasses/
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- Pixel 11 Pro By the Benchmarks https://www.patreon.com/SomeGadgetGuy/posts/google-pixel-11-167886009
- Pixel 11 Pro Camera does NOT take better close up photos https://somegadgetguy.com/2026/08/20/no-pixel-11-pro-does-not-take-better-close-up-photos-than-the-pixel-10-pro/
- California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” – Ars Technica
- Samsung to outsource all of its DRAM manufacturing and focus on HBM production – GSMArena.com news
- Survey shows Google Chrome still rules Android, but not by much
- MediaTek Dimensity 9600M is also official – GSMArena.com news
- The Dimensity 9600 Pro is a 2nm chip with Arm C2 cores and Mali-G2 Ultra NX GPU – GSMArena.com news
- Slower than an SD card under heavy load: iPhone 18 Pro Max’s QLC storage gets tested – Notebookcheck News
- Here’s the clever new way Apple used to get around shipping restrictions for the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s large battery – GSMArena.com news
- Vivo X500 Pro series launches with new flagship SoC, tweaked Zeiss camera setup, and up to 8,000mAh battery – Notebookcheck News
- Juan rambles on about whatever the chat wants to talk about…
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