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Cover card: 7,000mAh battery, 200MP telephoto camera, 12,000-nit peak brightness, US price $1,599.99

Deep Dive · Smartphone · Global

Motorola Signature 27: GrapheneOS Is Still Just a Promise

Motorola announced the Signature 27 on November 5. Here is how its chip, display, battery, cameras and US price compare with the OnePlus 16, which uses the same chip, and what is actually confirmed about GrapheneOS.

Cover card: 9,000mAh battery, 200MP main camera, up to 185Hz display, starts at CNY 5,999

Deep Dive · Smartphone · Global

OnePlus 16 Packs a 9,000mAh Battery, but Only China Gets It

OnePlus unveiled the OnePlus 16 in China on October 12. Here is how its battery, chip, cameras and per-configuration prices compare with the OnePlus 15, and what we know about availability.

Cover card: VIEWE ESP32-S31 4.3-inch board $38.99, 320 MHz dual-core RISC-V, 16 MB PSRAM, 7–24V DC input

Deep Dive · SBC · Global

The First ESP32-S31 Board Takes 5V — and Also 7–24V

Display maker VIEWE is selling a 4.3-inch touch dev board built on Espressif’s new ESP32-S31 for $38.99. We look at what changed from the ESP32-S3 and what matters when you wire it into equipment: power input, RS485 and CAN.

Cover card: starting price $2,599, up to 6,144 CUDA cores, up to 128GB memory, ships October 16

Deep Dive · Laptop · Global

Surface Laptop Ultra Is the First RTX Spark Laptop You Can Preorder, From $2,599

Microsoft opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra, among the first laptops built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark (N1X). Here are the two chip tiers, prices, ship date and what is still undisclosed.

Cover card: Epson AX6 with 6 kg payload, 900 mm reach, 17 kg arm weight and 48 V DC input

Deep Dive · Robot · Global

Epson AX6: a 6 kg cobot that takes 48 V straight

Epson’s first collaborative robot, the AX6, pairs a 6 kg payload and 900 mm reach with a 17 kg arm and 48 V DC input. We compare it with the UR5e and list what you still need to know before putting it on a battery-powered AMR.

Cover card: RAIDEN X4 delivers 3.36 PFLOPS FP4, 256GB memory, 548GB/s bandwidth, 1.6x Jetson Thor

Deep Dive · AI Device · Robot

RAIDEN beats Jetson Thor by 1.6x, minus the watts

EdgeCortix unveiled RAIDEN, a chiplet platform for robotics and physical AI. We compare its FP4 compute and memory bandwidth against NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor, and flag the power figure that’s still missing.

Cover card: SwitchBot K11+ Pro 12,000Pa suction, 24.8cm diameter, 45dB noise, $399.99 price

Deep Dive · Home Appliance · Global

SwitchBot K11+ Pro: Same Tiny Body, Four Times the Suction

SwitchBot launched the ultra-compact K11+ Pro robot vacuum at $399.99. Its body is almost the exact same size as the K10+ Pro from two generations back, but suction jumped from 3,000Pa to 12,000Pa.

Cover card: 2nm process, 5.11GHz peak clock, Qwen3.8-27B at 7.08M downloads, zero confirmed Korea launches

Weekly Brief · Smartphone · Hugging Face

Qualcomm Ships a New Chip, Korea Stays Quiet

No confirmed Korea product launches this week. Globally, Qualcomm unveiled the 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 at its Snapdragon Summit, and on the software side Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B topped Hugging Face’s weekly trending chart with over 16,000 likes.

Cover card: UNO Media Carrier $19.25, operating range -10 to 60C, 2 MIPI-CSI camera inputs, announced Sept 9

Deep Dive · SBC · Global

For a Camera Add-On, Skip the $299 VENTUNO Q

Arduino’s new $19.25 UNO Media Carrier bolts a camera, display, and audio onto both the UNO Q and the pricier VENTUNO Q. Since the same accessory fits either board, we looked at whether a vision project actually needs the expensive one.

Cover card: vivo X500 Pro, 6,510mAh battery, 90W charging, 144Hz refresh rate, China sales start September 29

Deep Dive · Smartphone · Global

vivo X500 Pro Wins on Battery, Not on Availability

vivo unveiled the X500 Pro in China on September 21. We lined its battery, charging speed and refresh rate against the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, which is already on sale in Korea — vivo isn’t.