When buying a phone, the very first thing I do is choose one that has an SD card slot. Whereas many people look at how much internal memory a phone has and then buy it. When I saw my friends buying phones, I asked them why they buy a phone just by being satisfied with high internal memory? Why do you buy a phone ignoring the utility of having your own storage room, meaning a memory card slot? Their response is that just having an abundance of internal memory is enough for their needs. So what is the need for a memory card slot! But after saying this and relying solely on internal memory, my friends who bought phones came to their senses as soon as their mobile broke down and shattered to pieces. That if their mobile had its own storage room, their files would have been safe, and they could have taken that memory card out of the damaged mobile, put it in another mobile, and used it! I bought a Samsung Galaxy A26 mobile last year on May 13, 2025, not just for its features, but by looking at the 2 TB memory slot it supports!
Yes, if a phone does not have a headphone jack and supports earbuds, then this new-age invention is acceptable! Anyway, I have seen mobiles and headphone pins get damaged due to having a headphone jack in the phone and the action of repeatedly plugging and unplugging the pin! Earbuds are a good alternative to get rid of wire problems! Earbuds are the result of a fairly good modern invention! But every phone must have an SD card slot! Because an SD card slot makes the consumer the master of their own choices!

Quote from: "AI+" but only 32 GB RAM? on Yesterday at 09:42:00This laptop doesn't really deserve any AI in its product name:
AI, both for traning and for the endconsumer/inferencing...

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So, in short for those who don't know: You can build a desktop PC for a fraction of the price and it will be upgradable, repairable, have a much faster GPU, run quieter, cooler and therefore probably also last longer.

I really have no idea why you keep spamming the exact same comment under every existing article around here. What you do is pretty much constantly complaining about every ball on the world not being suitable for bowling. "This ball doesn't really deserve any ball in its product name..."

40+ TOPS NPU is necessary to be branded as "Copilot+" and/or "AI+." It is comparable to "Ultrabook" back in the day.

QuoteWhat is a Copilot+ PC and what sets them apart?

Copilot+ PCs represent a cutting-edge category of AI-enhanced Windows 11 devices. In addition to the CPU and GPU available on conventional computers, Copilot+ PCs feature high performance neural processing units (NPUs). These NPUs—capable of executing over 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)—are designed to handle demanding AI workloads efficiently, enabling high-performance features such as real-time language translations. By handling certain AI tasks, the NPU frees up the CPU and GPU to focus on other operations, resulting in improved overall system performance and can deliver longer battery life 2 due to optimized power distribution.

40+ TOPS is here in this MSI. It's a dumb marketing name, but 40+ TOPS is certainly here. This is a thin and light laptop, not a dedicated local LLM machine (which you, for some reason, expect every existing laptop to be). That's all.

Btw, how long can you use that desktop PC you mentioned on battery? How quickly can you pack it in your backpack and go outside?

Quote from: Dan Zeigler on Yesterday at 15:45:42The hype surrounding Sony phones has always been a mystery to me.  I have literally never met anyone that has one.  And honestly, why would anyone want one?  The price is insane and the features are super niche.  Is a business model sustainable when your target market is seemingly a couple hundred people at the most? 

Because that's unlikely the actual price.
The price is exactly the cost of the VII + the headphones. And since this was a bundle offer on amazon take a guess.
News outlets saw the price of a listing with the xm6 which is usually the release bundle where you get the headphones for free and assumed a 300€/£ price increase.
They didn't care that the 300 bucks is the usual asking price for these headphones.