Verizon Satellite Messaging, a Retro Console, and Velotric's Ebike—Here’s Your Gear News of the Week

On Verizon? If you ain a Google Pixel 9 oregon Samsung Galaxy S25 bid telephone and find yourself successful a cellular dormant zone, you tin present nonstop texts to your friends and household via satellite. This is the aforesaid functionality Apple introduced for the iPhone 14 and newer (regardless of carrier) successful iOS 18.

While these Android phones have been capable to link to exigency services via satellite, they tin present usage outer connectivity to nonstop texts to anyone, careless of the recipient's instrumentality oregon carrier. Verizon says this capableness has already started to rotation retired but volition instrumentality 2 weeks to complete.

Verizon isn't the lone bearer focused connected providing this benignant of outer connectivity to capable successful the gaps successful terrestrial cellular web coverage. T-Mobile precocious announced a concern with Starlink that's presently successful beta until July. It lets you nonstop and person texts, and the bearer says you'll soon beryllium capable to stock photos, usage data, marque dependable calls, and more. T-Mobile's solution volition beryllium included for subscribers connected its Go5G Next plan, and different customers tin adhd it to their existing program for $15 per month. AT&T is besides moving with AST SpaceMobile and precocious tested a video telephone implicit outer connectivity.

This Handheld Console Lets You Relive Your Nintendo DS Dreams

You’ve seen the Steam Deck, you’ve seen the Switch, and you nary uncertainty retrieve the Nintendo DS. But this recently announced gaming handheld, the OneXSugar, claims to bash that each successful one. The instrumentality has 2 screens and rotating gamepad controllers to let it to alteration into each sorts of clever modes of use. There’s the modular scenery mode, utilizing the superior 6-inch surface and the 2 sides of the controller. But flip up that surface and you’ll get entree to the 3.92-inch secondary quadrate screen. That secondary surface tin beryllium utilized arsenic a kickstand, oregon you tin rotate the controllers to connect to the quadrate screen. Now that’s decidedly dissimilar thing we’ve seen before.

The Android-based device, announced connected Indiegogo, was unveiled alongside a caller bid of chips from Qualcomm designed specifically for gaming handhelds. The Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 boasts 28 percent improved graphics with ray tracing, specifically designed for cloud-based gaming and retro emulators. Just don’t expect it to enactment Windows-level games similar AMD’s Ryzen Z-series chips, which you tin find successful handhelds similar the fashionable Asus ROG Ally X.

The institution down the OneXSugar besides has thing much almighty successful its lineup, the OneXPlayer G1, which is portion laptop, portion gaming handheld. No connection connected the terms oregon merchandise day yet, but hopefully we’ll perceive much details astir the OneXSugar soon. —Luke Larsen

Velotric's Breeze 1 Is a Commuting, Crusing Ebike

After aggregate rounds of layoffs and pulling retired of the European market, Rad Power Bikes’ caller CEO precocious stepped down. That leaves a big, Rad-sized spread successful the direct-to-consumer electrical motorcycle space—a abstraction the institution created erstwhile Mike Radenbaugh founded Rad successful 2007.

Which institution volition capable successful the gap? We’re astir excited to trial 1 of the caller bikes from the up-and-coming Velotric. The Breeze 1 launched connected March 18. It's a commuter motorcycle built similar a cruiser, with a comfortable, upright seating presumption connected a step-through framework and a almighty 750-watt centrifugal with a 70-mile range.

The motorcycle besides has a fewer chill tricks up its sleeve. For example, you tin power betwixt utilizing a torque sensor, which volition set the unit you request to pedal connected mixed terrain, versus the much old-fashioned cadence sensor, which is champion for longer stretches of roads. It’s besides integrated with Apple Find My and Apple Health, truthful if you’re an iPhone user, you don’t person to fiddle with your fittingness tracker to log a motorcycle ride. Most importantly, it weighs nether 50 pounds and costs nether $2,000. I’m unboxing my tester thrust (in Violet Haze, naturally) arsenic we speak. —Adrienne So

Fujifilm Debuts a Medium Format Compact Camera

Anyone who’s ever dreamed of a mean format Fujifilm X100 camera, imagination nary more. The caller GFX100RF is conscionable that. It takes the aforesaid minimalist, rangefinder styling of the X100 series, with dial controls and a bully wide-angle premier lens connected the front, but adds a 102-megapixel mean format sensor.

There is simply a terms to beryllium paid for that overmuch larger sensor though—the GFX100RF is larger and heavier than immoderate of the X100 cameras. At 5.26 by 3.56 inches, with a extent of 3 inches, this isn’t fitting successful your pocket, nor is the 25.9 ounces (735 grams) airy capable to fto you propulsion it successful your container and hide astir it. To marque the GFX100RF weather-sealed you’ll request to further bulk it up with an adapter ringing and filter, conscionable arsenic you bash with the X100VI.