Apple’s MacBook Pro has had a comfortable run as the default laptop for creative professionals. Video editors, photographers, 3D artists, and developers all converged on the device, both because of the performance and the exceptional connectivity and continuity with iPhones.
This is the NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip. A new beginning for personal computers.
Designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, RTX Spark brings over 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and small, ultra-efficient desktop PCs. pic.twitter.com/RmcamHTS4z
What does the XPS 16 Creator Edition actually offer?
The RTX Spark architecture at its core combines a high-performance Nvidia GPU with an efficient CPU. It also supports up to 128GB of unified memory, the same approach that made Apple silicon so effective for creative workflows.
For video editors specifically, Dell says this translates to smoother playback on 4:2:2 4K timelines, along with faster export times. For 3D artists, they should experience improved responsiveness when working across complex, multi-layered scenes. Developers working with AI-assisted tools get reduced reliance on cloud processing.
The XPS 16 Creator Edition comes with a tandem OLED panel with True Black HDR 600 certification, the same underlying technology that has made recent OLED laptops genuinely useful for outdoor usage and color-accurate professional work.
Excited for @NVIDIARTXSpark, reinventing Windows PCs for the era of personal agents.
Designed for creating and gaming, RTX Spark brings together 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and compact desktops.
Yes, and this deserves more credit than you’d think. The XPS 16 Creator Edition ships with a built-in SD card reader and an HDMI port, two ports that photographers and videographers have long had to add via dongles on competing premium laptops. Clearly, Dell isn’t being subtle about who it’s targeting.
Pricing and a launch date have not been confirmed, but even so, most RTX Spark laptops are expected to arrive in fall 2026.
Dell’s previous attempts at the creative professional market were hamstrung by the same problem every Windows laptop maker faced: Apple’s unified memory architecture. RTX Spark’s unified memory approach removes that structural disadvantage for good.
Samsung Galaxy devices have featured a lockdown mode for years – a manual option hidden in the power menu that turns off fingerprint and face unlock and forces a PIN entry. It served as a handy last‑resort when someone might try to coerce you into unlocking the phone with your face or finger. The issue was that many users were unaware of it or never used it. One UI 9 addresses this by eliminating the manual toggle altogether.
**What changed in the power menu?**
According to SammyFans and confirmed by members of the r/oneui subreddit, the One UI 9 Beta 2 (built on Android 17) modifies the behavior of lockdown mode. The dedicated lockdown button has vanished from the power menu. In its place, you now see medical information, which is a more context‑relevant option for first responders during emergencies.
Lockdown itself is still present, but it now activates automatically. As soon as you open the power menu and then dismiss it, One UI 9 triggers lockdown, locking the device and disabling fingerprint and face recognition. The only way to regain access is by entering your PIN, pattern, or password.
**Is this an improvement or just a nuisance?**
In my view, it’s a clear upgrade. The previous setup required you to stay calm under pressure, locate the correct button, and tap it before handing over your phone—or worse, having it snatched. The new approach removes that mental load entirely. Opening the power menu is already an instinctive reaction when something feels off, and reaching for the side button is second nature. Samsung has turned that reflex into a security measure without any extra steps.
For now, this behavior is live in One UI 9 Beta 2 and has not been confirmed for the stable release. Since Samsung has not officially announced the change, it could still be tweaked before the final One UI 9 version ships to consumers.
The fight for premium‑TV shoppers has lately been a showdown between OLED and Mini LED. OLED is praised for its deep blacks, strong contrast and wide viewing angles, while Mini LED pushes peak brightness to new levels. Buyers have often had to choose which compromise best fits their room and watching habits.
Sony thinks that balance may soon shift. At a private media briefing in New York, the company introduced a new display concept called True RGB, which re‑imagines the TV backlight and seeks to blend the strongest attributes of both OLED and Mini LED.
**Sony says most TVs are built for the wrong setting**
One of the more striking remarks from the briefing wasn’t about specs at all. Sony noted that only about 13 % of viewers watch TV in a pitch‑black environment like product demos, cinema rooms, or professional colour‑grading suites. The remaining 87 % are in living rooms, family rooms, or other spaces where ambient light is constantly changing.
Sony argues that many high‑end panels still struggle to keep brightness, colour accuracy and contrast in sync once they leave ideal lighting conditions. That, according to the company, is the problem True RGB is meant to solve.
**What sets True RGB apart?**
To see why Sony believes the technology matters, it helps to understand how most premium TVs currently generate colour. In a typical Mini LED or QLED panel, a blue or white backlight works with quantum dots, phosphor layers and LCD structures to produce the final image. In other words, most of the colour creation happens after the light leaves the backlight.
True RGB flips that approach. Instead of a single‑colour light source that is later filtered, Sony places individually controllable red, green and blue diodes directly inside the backlight. The desired colour is therefore produced at the source, before it even reaches the LCD layer.
To achieve this, Sony’s professional‑monitor engineers teamed up with the BRAVIA consumer group to create a new RGB Backlight Master Drive. Sony says the updated driver architecture can control millions of microscopic red, green and blue diodes in real time.
**Colour volume could be the biggest gain**
Sony staged side‑by‑side demos pitting True RGB against competing flagship panels, using both 100 % and 90 % raster windows. While several differences were highlighted, colour volume emerged as the most striking.
Because True RGB generates pure red, green and blue light at the source, Sony claims the system can express far more colour while still delivering high brightness. The company states that True RGB offers twice the colour volume of the BRAVIA 9 Mini LED and up to four times that of the BRAVIA 8 OLED.
The result is a screen that can get extremely bright without washing out colour saturation.
**Viewing angles get a boost**
Wide viewing angles have historically been OLED’s strong suit. Mini LED panels can lose colour fidelity when viewed from the side because much of the colour is formed through the LCD layer.
Sony says True RGB mitigates this issue by creating colour both in the LED layer and the LCD layer, rather than relying on a single stage. Demonstrations showed side‑by‑side comparisons where colours stayed more consistent even at extreme angles.
**Smoother gradation reduces banding**
The third major advantage Sony highlighted was gradation performance. Colour banding often appears in skies, sunsets and other scenes with subtle transitions, especially on bright screens.
By pairing its image‑processing tech with independent control of the red, green and blue backlight, Sony claims True RGB dramatically cuts visible banding and delivers smoother shade transitions.
**First flagship TVs to feature True RGB**
The inaugural True RGB model will sit at the top of Sony’s lineup as the BRAVIA 9 II, available in 65‑, 75‑, 85‑ and 115‑inch sizes and equipped with RGB Backlight Master Drive Pro and Luminance Booster Pro. Sony says the TV is engineered to match the creative intent and brightness of its professional BVM studio monitors.
The technology won’t be limited to the flagship tier. Sony also announced the BRAVIA 7 II, which brings True RGB to a broader size range from 50 inches to 98 inches. Below those will be the company’s OLED range, led by the BRAVIA 8 II and the standard BRAVIA 8.
**Tackling reflections**
Alongside True RGB, Sony unveiled an optional premium anti‑glare feature called Immersive Black Screen Pro for the BRAVIA 9 II. The patent‑pending nanostructure layer is designed to absorb reflections while preserving deep blacks, even in brightly lit rooms.
This focus on real‑world viewing conditions ties back to Sony’s broader message during the briefing: instead of optimizing displays solely for ideal, dark environments, True RGB is built around how most people actually watch TV at home.
After seeing the demos, it’s easy to understand why Sony believes True RGB could be the next major leap in premium display tech. Whether it lives up to the hype will only be clear once the retail units reach consumers, but Sony is clearly betting that the future of TV performance lies somewhere between what OLED and Mini LED currently deliver.
A scanned invoice arrives as an image‑only PDF. The text is pulled out via an OCR site, the layout is corrected manually in another editor, signatures are applied on a separate platform, and the finished file is exported again for approval or archiving. Each step is straightforward, but the overall process becomes needlessly fragmented when multiple browsers, desktop utilities, and cloud services are involved.
Wondershare PDFelement is more than a PDF editor – it’s a comprehensive workflow hub designed for genuine office productivity. OCR, editing, batch conversion, annotations, AI‑assisted handling, e‑signatures, and document organization all live under one roof. Whether you’re dealing with contracts, invoices, approvals, or collaborative reports that pass through several teams, keeping every action in a single environment cuts down on formatting glitches, repetitive file juggling, and the endless back‑and‑forth that slows document‑heavy workflows.
Created by Wondershare, a worldwide software firm known for productivity and creative tools, PDFelement aims to streamline everyday document workflows for businesses and teams.
OCR workflows cut manual cleanup after scanning
A scanned vendor invoice lands in the inbox looking fine – until someone needs to pull the text, tidy the layout, and send it back for sign‑off. What begins as a simple PDF quickly morphs into a chain of tiny manual tasks: OCR extraction in one browser tool, formatting fixes in another editor, followed by repairs to broken tables, spacing, or layout inconsistencies introduced during conversion.
Wondershare PDFelement consolidates most of that work by keeping OCR processing, editing, annotations, and export steps inside the same workspace. In our tests, scanned PDFs retained impressive structure after conversion, especially tables, paragraph hierarchy, and multi‑page layouts that usually demand extra cleanup before circulation or archiving.
This continuity proves valuable for teams handling large volumes of invoices, onboarding paperwork, archived records, or signed approvals throughout the day. Multilingual OCR, region‑specific text extraction, and batch OCR further reduce the repetitive handling that often plagues scanned‑document workflows in bigger offices.
Editing and conversion built for real office use
Formatting problems remain one of the most irritating aspects of working with PDFs. A tiny text edit can shift layouts, break spacing, misalign visual elements, or create compatibility issues once the file is shared across teams. Anyone who regularly works with proposals, contracts, onboarding docs, or collaborative reports has likely experienced the cycle of fixing one issue only to create another elsewhere in the document.
Wondershare PDFelement approaches editing like a productivity‑focused workspace rather than a lightweight PDF tweak tool. Text editing, annotations, hyperlinks, page rearrangement, watermarking, markup tools, and image insertion all happen within the same environment where OCR, conversion, and export already occur, making revisions far less disruptive during daily document work.
Collaborative review cycles also feel smoother when files stay in one place for repeated revisions before approval or distribution. Instead of hopping between separate tools for edits, comments, or formatting tweaks, the bulk of the workflow remains centralized.
The batch conversion feature shines in everyday use. Converting PDFs one‑by‑one is the kind of repetitive admin task that quietly drags teams down, especially when proposals, presentations, archived reports, or internal docs need to shift between formats regularly. Wondershare PDFelement can bulk‑convert PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, and other formats while preserving strong formatting consistency across most document types.
The conversion utilities fit naturally into collaborative office pipelines where documents are revised, exported, archived, and circulated across departments on a regular basis.
AI tools accelerate review and navigation
A lengthy contract lands minutes before a meeting, but locating the single relevant clause still means scrolling through dozens of pages. For many teams, digging through large PDFs under time pressure is a small yet maddening part of the workday – the exact friction Wondershare PDFelement aims to ease.
Instead of manually scanning lengthy contracts, reports, or research‑heavy PDFs page by page, users can summon the platform’s “Chat with PDF” feature to summarize documents, pinpoint sections, extract key data, and navigate large files more efficiently. This workflow is especially handy for teams that regularly review proposals, compliance papers, technical reports, or approval‑heavy paperwork.
The AI utilities operate alongside OCR, editing, annotations, conversion, and organization features rather than as isolated add‑ons. Keeping these capabilities together helps PDFelement serve as a streamlined alternative to fragmented PDF tools that scatter tasks across multiple platforms.
Wondershare’s AI PDF tools concentrate on summarization, navigation, and information retrieval workflows instead of offering standalone AI gimmicks.
A workflow‑centric take on PDF productivity
Most PDF solutions still target isolated tasks—editing, conversion, or signatures—forcing teams to shuffle documents between various browser utilities and desktop apps just to finish routine work. Wondershare PDFelement feels intentionally structured around workflow continuity by housing OCR, editing, conversion, annotations, AI‑assisted handling, and e‑signatures within a single environment.
Centralizing these steps makes a noticeable difference in document‑heavy office scenarios where contracts, approvals, onboarding files, archived records, proposals, and collaborative reports constantly move between teams. Cutting down on repetitive handling, formatting clean‑up, and workflow interruptions ultimately makes day‑to‑day document management faster, cleaner, and far less fragmented.
The full Wondershare PDFelement platform can be explored through the official product page.
A scanned invoice arrives as an image‑based PDF. The text is extracted via an OCR website, formatting is corrected manually in another editor, signatures are added through a separate platform, and the final file is exported again for approvals or archiving. Each step is simple, yet the workflow becomes needlessly fragmented when multiple browser tools, desktop applications, and cloud services are involved.
Wondershare PDFelement is more than a PDF editor—it is an all‑in‑one workflow hub for genuine office productivity. OCR, editing, batch conversion, annotations, AI‑assisted handling, e‑signatures, and document organization all coexist in a single workspace. Whether dealing with contracts, invoices, approvals, or collaborative reports that pass through several teams, keeping every stage in one environment cuts down on formatting glitches, repetitive file juggling, and the constant back‑and‑forth that slows document‑heavy processes.
Created by Wondershare, a global software firm known for productivity and creative tools, PDFelement is designed to simplify everyday document workflows for teams and businesses.
OCR workflows cut manual cleanup after scanning
A scanned vendor invoice lands in the inbox looking perfect—until someone needs to pull out the text, fix the layout, and resend it for approval. What begins as a simple PDF quickly morphs into a chain of tiny manual tasks: OCR extraction in one browser tool, formatting cleanup in another editor, followed by revisions to repair broken tables, spacing, or layout inconsistencies introduced during conversion.
Wondershare PDFelement streamlines much of that process by keeping OCR processing, editing, annotations, and export steps inside the same environment. In our tests, scanned PDFs stayed remarkably intact after conversion, especially tables, paragraph structures, and multi‑page layouts that usually demand extra cleanup before circulation or archiving.
This continuity is especially valuable for teams handling large volumes of invoices, onboarding paperwork, archived records, or signed approvals throughout the workday. Multilingual OCR recognition, region‑specific text extraction, and batch OCR processing further reduce the repetitive handling that often plagues scanned‑document workflows in bigger offices.
Editing and conversion designed for real‑world office use
Formatting problems remain one of the most irritating aspects of working with PDFs. A tiny text edit can shift layouts, break spacing, misalign visual elements, or create compatibility issues once the file is shared across teams. Anyone who regularly works with proposals, contracts, onboarding documents, or collaborative reports has likely experienced the cycle of fixing one issue only to create another elsewhere in the document.
Wondershare PDFelement treats editing like a productivity‑focused workspace rather than a lightweight PDF utility. Text editing, annotations, hyperlinks, page organization, watermarking, markup tools, and image insertion all operate within the same environment where OCR, conversion, and export tasks already happen, making revisions far less disruptive during everyday document work.
Collaborative review cycles also become more manageable when files are revised repeatedly before approval or distribution. Instead of constantly exporting documents to separate tools for edits, comments, or formatting tweaks, most of the workflow stays centralized in one workspace.
The batch conversion feature shines in day‑to‑day use. Converting PDFs one by one is the kind of repetitive admin work that silently slows teams down, especially when proposals, presentations, archived reports, or internal documents need to shift between formats regularly. Wondershare PDFelement can bulk‑convert PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, and other formats while preserving strong formatting consistency across most document types.
The conversion tools fit naturally into collaborative office workflows where documents are revised, exported, archived, and circulated across departments on a regular basis.
AI features accelerate document review and navigation
A lengthy contract arrives minutes before a meeting, but locating the crucial clause still means manually scrolling through dozens of pages. For many teams, digging through large PDFs under time pressure is one of those small yet frustrating workflow hiccups that Wondershare PDFelement aims to eliminate.
Instead of manually scanning long contracts, reports, or research‑heavy PDFs page by page, users can summarize documents, pinpoint relevant sections, extract key information, and navigate large files more efficiently via the platform’s “Chat with PDF” function. This workflow is especially handy for teams reviewing proposals, compliance documents, technical reports, or approval‑heavy paperwork throughout the day.
The AI tools operate alongside OCR processing, editing, annotations, conversion, and organization features rather than as isolated add‑ons. Keeping these capabilities together helps PDFelement serve as a streamlined alternative to fragmented PDF solutions that scatter tasks across multiple platforms.
Wondershare’s AI PDF utilities concentrate on summarization, navigation, and information retrieval workflows instead of offering standalone AI gimmicks.
A workflow‑first approach to PDF productivity
Most PDF applications still focus on isolated tasks—editing, conversion, or signatures—leaving teams shuffling documents between numerous browser utilities and desktop apps just to finish routine work. Wondershare PDFelement feels deliberately structured around workflow continuity by housing OCR processing, editing, conversion, annotations, AI‑assisted handling, and e‑signatures within a single environment.
Centralizing these workflows makes a tangible difference in document‑heavy office scenarios where contracts, approvals, onboarding files, archived records, proposals, and collaborative reports constantly move between teams. Cutting down repetitive handling, formatting clean‑up, and workflow interruptions ultimately makes daily document management feel faster, cleaner, and far less fragmented.
The full Wondershare PDFelement platform can be explored through the official product page.
Apple is reportedly gearing up to transform the iPhone into an even larger financial hub by adding a built‑in bill‑splitting tool for group meals, travel costs, and shared payments. According to Mark Gurman, the company intends to unveil the feature at WWDC next week as part of iOS 27.
The utility will let users snap a photo of a restaurant receipt, automatically work out each person’s share—including tax and tip—assign items to the right individuals, and send payment requests via Apple Cash. It should function inside both the Wallet app and Messages, with payment approvals also possible on the Apple Watch.
Apple is quietly expanding its financial ecosystem again
The bill‑splitting tool marks another significant stride in Apple’s ongoing push to deepen the iPhone’s role in personal finance. Since the launch of Apple Pay in 2014, Apple has steadily rolled out services such as Apple Card, Apple Cash, savings accounts, and Tap to Pay for merchants.
This latest addition appears aimed squarely at younger users who increasingly handle shared expenses digitally rather than with cash or traditional banking tools.
The system reportedly works by scanning a receipt with the iPhone camera, identifying individual items, calculating tax and tip allocations, and then automatically generating payment requests. Users can settle balances through Apple Cash without needing third‑party apps.
Apple is also said to be developing custom digital pass creation inside Wallet, enabling users to generate their own event passes, gym cards, and digital credentials directly on the device.
Apple’s move also puts it in direct competition with established expense‑sharing and peer‑to‑peer payment platforms. Splitwise, one of the most popular bill‑splitting apps worldwide, has topped 10 million monthly active users and helped manage more than $90 billion in shared expenses since 2011.
Meanwhile, Venmo processes over $275 billion in annual payment volume, and Cash App reports roughly 57 million monthly active users. By embedding bill splitting into Wallet, Messages, Apple Cash, and Apple Watch, Apple aims to eliminate the need for separate apps and keep more financial activity within its ecosystem.
Apple’s biggest advantage may be integration. Unlike standalone apps, the new feature would be deeply woven into iOS, Messages, Wallet, Apple Watch, and Apple Cash simultaneously.
Why this matters
Apple appears increasingly focused on making the iPhone central to everyday financial activity. Bill splitting may seem minor compared to AI announcements or hardware launches, but such ecosystem features often boost long‑term user retention more effectively than flashy upgrades.
The move could also pressure third‑party expense‑sharing apps that currently rely on convenience as their main selling point. If Apple can make payment splitting frictionless across iPhones, many casual users may stop downloading separate apps altogether.
At the same time, Apple’s financial expansion has faced challenges. The Apple Card partnership with Goldman Sachs has struggled financially, and Apple previously shut down its buy‑now‑pay‑later offering less than a year after launch.
What happens next
Apple is expected to officially reveal the new bill‑splitting feature during WWDC alongside broader iOS 27 announcements focused heavily on AI, Siri upgrades, and Apple Intelligence. The update is also slated to include AI‑powered photo editing tools, a redesigned Siri experience, and deeper Wallet integration across Apple devices.
If the feature works smoothly, Apple may once again turn a separate app category into a built‑in iPhone capability that millions adopt simply because it’s already there.
Verum has announced the official launch of Verum Finance, a standalone financial application now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, marking a further expansion of the company’s growing digital ecosystem.
The new application is designed to centralize core financial functions in a single mobile interface, allowing users to manage balances, send and receive funds, use debit cards, and exchange supported balance types without relying on traditional banking workflows.
According to Verum, the platform enables users to view account activity in real time, top up balances using supported payment methods including Apple Pay, and transfer funds to other users within the Verum ecosystem using a unique Verum ID. The system also supports multi-balance management, including specialized balance categories such as precious metals.
Debit card functionality is integrated directly into the app, allowing users to issue and manage cards linked to their balances, monitor transactions, and top up cards when needed. The company also emphasizes built-in exchange tools that allow users to convert between supported balance types within the application.
Security features include Face ID authentication, passcode protection, Sign in with Apple, and privacy-oriented account controls aimed at maintaining user confidentiality and data protection.
The launch of Verum Finance follows the company’s broader strategy of building an interconnected ecosystem of digital products. Alongside Verum Messenger, which combines secure communication tools, encrypted messaging, voice and video calls, VPN services, eSIM connectivity, AI features, anonymous email, and crypto-related functionality, the new financial app extends Verum’s positioning from communication technology into financial infrastructure.
Industry trends increasingly show demand for “all-in-one” digital environments that reduce dependency on multiple standalone apps. Verum’s approach reflects this shift by integrating communication and financial services within a unified ecosystem.
The AI PC race has mostly been about squeezing more neural processing power into thinner laptops. Asus is taking a different route. Its latest ProArt P16 and ProArt P14 creator laptops are built around Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform, a chip package that sounds like something you’d expect to find inside a workstation. And that’s exactly the point.
The new ProArt machines are targeting creators, developers, and power users who increasingly want desktop-class AI performance without being tethered to a desk.
A creator laptop that thinks like a workstation
The biggest story here isn’t the laptops themselves. It’s the hardware inside them. NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform combines an RTX GPU based on the Blackwell architecture with a 20-core Grace CPU, creating a package designed to handle AI workloads that would typically require a much larger machine. Asus claims users can work with enormous 3D scenes, edit ultra-high-resolution video, generate AI content locally, and even run massive language models without relying on cloud servers.
That matters because AI workflows are quickly becoming part of everyday creative work. Whether you’re generating concept art, cleaning up footage, creating visual effects, or experimenting with local AI assistants, performance is becoming just as important as battery life. The promise here is simple: fewer compromises between portability and raw compute power.
Thin, light, and surprisingly ambitious
Despite the workstation-like ambitions, Asus says both laptops are slimmer and lighter than the previous-generation ProArt models. That’s a notable achievement considering the amount of hardware packed inside. The displays are equally impressive on paper. The larger ProArt P16 features an OLED panel with a high refresh rate and variable refresh rate support, while the P14 focuses on delivering sharp visuals in a more compact form factor. Both are aimed squarely at photographers, video editors, designers, and anyone who spends their day staring at timelines and color palettes.
Asus is also leaning heavily into its broader creative ecosystem. Tools like Creator Hub, MuseTree, and StoryCube are designed to simplify AI-assisted workflows, while partnerships with popular creative software makers should help these machines feel useful from day one rather than serving as expensive tech demos. The challenge, of course, is convincing creators that they need this much AI horsepower in a laptop. But as generative AI tools continue to become part of mainstream creative software, that argument gets easier every month. For now, the new ProArt P16 and P14 look like Asus’ most ambitious creator laptops yet — thin enough to carry anywhere, but powerful enough to make many desktop PCs feel a little nervous.
E Ink and MediaTek have teamed up to bring something genuinely exciting to a product category that has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. Your next e-reader might just transcribe meetings, translate languages in real time, and finally show you colors that don’t look washed out.
The two companies announced an expanded collaboration built around MediaTek’s new generative AI e-reader chips, the MT8115 and MT8126. These support both Linux and Android, and pack a dedicated NPU that delivers up to 7.4 TOPS of AI computing performance.
What all that technical jargon actually means for you is useful stuff like multi-speaker voice recognition, meeting transcription, and real-time translation across more than 20 languages, all processed on the device itself.
What does this mean for your reading experience?
The display improvements are just as exciting. The new chips use a 7-level high-voltage oxide TFT driving technology that speeds up how ePaper particles move on screen. That means faster page turns, cleaner transitions, less ghosting, and a noticeably smoother experience overall.
The chipsets support screens up to 13.3 inches at 300 PPI, which is sharp enough to make text look great. For color, the chips pair with E Ink’s Gallery and Kaleido technologies to deliver better color depth and a wider color range.
Illustrated books and educational materials are the obvious beneficiaries here, and the improvement should be meaningful compared to what color e-readers have offered so far. To date, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft has delivered the best colors in my opinion. I cannot wait to see how far this new tech will push the color e-ink displays.
When will you get to use this?
MediaTek’s new chips are expected to debut in next-generation tablets from Linfiny, an E Ink subsidiary. Both companies will also be showing off the technology at Computex 2026 in Taipei later this year, so we should get a clearer picture of real-world performance soon.
If the results live up to the promises, e-readers are about to become a lot more capable and a lot harder to ignore.
The handheld gaming arena evolves quickly, which is why a newly surfaced Asus listing feels a bit underwhelming on paper. The listing hints that Asus is gearing up to launch another ROG Ally device, but rather than introducing a sweeping redesign, it appears the company may simply be updating the internals. The leak points to an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor at its core, indicating a mid‑cycle refresh instead of a full‑blown successor.
That isn’t necessarily a negative development. The Ryzen Z2 Extreme is projected to be a solid chip for portable gaming. The issue is that handheld gamers are increasingly seeking more than just a CPU bump.
A familiar formula with a new silicon
The listing reveals little beyond the processor. Crucial specs such as screen technology, battery size, RAM, storage configurations, and even the final chassis design remain hidden. This opens the door for speculation, but it also makes the device feel less thrilling than some enthusiasts might have hoped. If the leak is accurate, Asus seems to be following the path many laptop manufacturers take: refresh the silicon, keep most hardware unchanged, and extend the model’s lifespan.
For owners of the current ROG Ally, that may not be enough motivation to upgrade. The more intriguing rumor concerns what the new handheld does not include. Earlier chatter suggested Asus might experiment with Intel’s Arc‑based gaming silicon, yet the company appears to be sticking with AMD once again.
The display could make or break it
If Asus wants this refresh to stand out, the screen is its biggest opportunity. The handheld market has shifted considerably since the original ROG Ally debuted. The Steam Deck OLED raised the bar for visual quality, and larger‑screen devices are becoming more common. An OLED panel or a larger 8‑inch display would instantly make the new handheld more attractive.
Unfortunately, early clues hint that this may not happen. If the product identifier references are correct, Asus could be keeping the 7‑inch display for a second generation. That’s where disappointment may lie. A faster processor is always welcome, but gamers notice the screen every second they use a handheld. Delivering another LCD‑based 7‑inch model with only incremental upgrades could feel like a modest spec bump in a market that has already moved forward. One thing is clear: a new ROG Ally is on the horizon – whether it feels genuinely new is another question.
