@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta reveals more information about its research glasses Aria Gen 2, including their form factor, computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679707/meta-aria-gen-2-upgrades-specs-ai
@heiseonline@social.heise.deSnap kündigt echte AR-Brille für Konsumenten an
Snap hat neue Specs vorgestellt. Die leichte AR-Brille mit KI-Funktionen ist ab 2026 für Verbraucher erhältlich.
https://www.heise.…
@stf@chaos.socialwooohooo, just tagged, signed and released liboprf v0.8.0 https://github.com/stef/liboprf/releases/tag/v0.8.0
this one comes with a updatable threshold OPRF, including specs and fuzzer. there is a few todos still outstanding, but for a first taste and tests this sho…
@luana@wetdry.worldFound the specs sheet.
The front camera and ultrawide camera seem to be considerably worse.
The normal wide camera seems to be better, except it lost the electronic stabilisation (not sure how important that is tbh).
The battery is better, but it needs a screwdriver to be changed so no more switch during the day if you don’t have a screwdriver always on you. This comes with no added water resistance, which makes me wonder why they did this.
The display seems to be worse? The resolution is smaller which makes sense since the size is smaller, but also it seems to have less PPI than the Fairphone 5. The refresh rate is higher tho.
It has worse USB-C connectivity as well, the Fairphone 6 has just USB 2.0 (!!!!) compared to 3.0 on the Fairphone 5.
They also got rid of the sky blue color (which was the prettiest imo) and of the transparent option.
I don’t really understand Qualcomm processors, but at least the new GPU seems to have a better benchmark score?
#Fairphone #Fairphone5 #Fairphone6
@compfu@mograph.socialIt’s only „pixel fucking“ if your client feedback is about chromatic aberration on pixel-sized specs of fairy dust. Everything else is just client feedback.
#VFXlife
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGarmin unveils the $799 Venu X1 smartwatch with a 2" square AMOLED screen, a titanium body, an eight-day battery, and a blood oxygen monitor, coming on June 18 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686325/garmin-venu-x1-smart…
@luana@wetdry.worldWait is it just me or are there multiple downgrades on the Fairphone Gen 6 specs compared to the Fairphone 5?
I can’t really find a detailed spec sheet for the 6 on their website, but it seems that the front and ultrawide cameras are worse?
#Fairphone #Fairphone6 #Fairphone5
@isonno@mastodon.socialJust noticed the $25 pencil soldering iron has higher specs than the computer workstations I used in college.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPurism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-t…
@luana@wetdry.worldHonestly I’m really disappointed. Why releasing a new model if it’s worse than the previous one?
Fairphone 5 always seemed like a miracle, a phone that actually cared about being fair and that had good postmarketOS support while still having good modern specs compared to other companies phones out there. Fairphone 6 had me excited since the obvious assumption would be even better hardware, but then that’s what we got? Damn, is the dream of a fair phone with good specs over?
As it is today, I’d probably buy a Fairphone 5 over a Fairphone 6. But then once that became outdated, which will happen eventually, it seems that I’d just be orphaned without a phone to upgrade to…
I hope they revert this when they make the Fairphone 7.
Please tell me that the dream of a postmarketOS phone with great specs isn’t over… 
#Fairphone #Fairphone5 #Fairphone6 #postmarketOS
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-s…
@NathanALV@social.linux.pizzaFun fact about #data transfer speeds, Mbps and MB/s are not the same, shouldn't me treated as such, as in terms of numbers, they are different by a factor of 8.
Simply
**multiply by 8 when MB/s to Mbps**
or
**divide by 8 when Mbps to MB/s**
Companies seemingly use Mbps to mislead consumers about the specs about data transfer speeds on products for those uninfor…
@luana@wetdry.worldAlso I really hope postmarketOS support for Fairphone 5 doesn’t stop evolving now that the gen 6 was released
It’s really nice that the 6 already has preliminary support on pmOS, but its specs are worse so I’m actually considering buying a Fairphone 5. Tho the 5 isn’t available on sky blue anymore which is really sad bc it was super pretty.
#Fairphone #Fairphone5 #Fairphone6 #postmarketOS
