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Motorola has announced a multi-year deal with Danish audio maker Bang & Olufsen to co-engineer sound hardware for its flagship smartphones. B&O's acoustic engineers will work alongside Motorola's design teams to define, test and tune audio components across upcoming devices, with the first model expected to launch soon in the US and other markets.
Motorola is rolling out its Qira AI experience to additional devices in its Signature, Edge, and Razr lineups as part of the ongoing Android 17 update. Qira, first unveiled at CES 2026, merges Moto AI, Lenovo AI Now, Creator Zone, and Learning Zone into one assistant with shared memory across devices. Users can access it by saying 'Hey Qira,' tapping on-screen prompts, or pressing a dedicated AI key.
New renders of ASUS's upcoming Googlebook laptop have surfaced just ahead of pre-orders opening on September 21, showing design details including a rainbow glowbar on the lid and a dedicated Google key. The images also include rare X-ray and chassis frame views, adding to a summer of leaks about the new Google-branded laptop line from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
Best Buy is offering a limited-time deal on Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7X, a 14-inch laptop with a 2K OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon X2 Elite 12-core processor, 16GB RAM, and 1TB storage, for $1,000. The deal undercuts comparable Windows machines like Microsoft's Surface Laptop, which costs significantly more for less storage.
A hobbyist documents replacing ChromeOS on a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet tablet, first with postmarketOS and later with a custom Ubuntu build after postmarketOS broke unexpectedly. The process involved entering ChromeOS 'developer mode,' booting from a USB image, and installing a full Linux distribution with a GNOME desktop onto the device's eMMC storage.
Engadget published a recap covering recent product reviews, including the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop and the Insta360 Luna Pro camera. Senior writer Devindra Hardawar praised the ThinkPad's speed, light weight and OLED display, while noting it sticks to a familiar, utilitarian design rather than chasing a more stylish look.
A newly leaked specifications sheet, sourced from MacObserver, details Lenovo's upcoming Googlebook 15, revealing it as a high-end machine rather than a budget Chromebook. The leak points to an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 chip, up to 32GB of RAM, a 15.3-inch 120Hz OLED touchscreen, and a lightweight 2.84-pound chassis, though pricing and launch timing remain unconfirmed.
A new leak reported by MacObserver reveals specifications for the Lenovo Googlebook 15, one of the first Android-based laptops arriving under Google's upcoming Googlebook platform. The device reportedly includes a 15.3-inch 120Hz OLED screen with 2,880 x 1,800 resolution, an Intel Core Ultra 5 processor, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 512GB of storage. It also carries a distinctive LED accent called a 'glowbar' and support for Gemini AI features like Magic Cursor.
A Hacker News poster argues that AI-related submissions have come to dominate the site's feed over the past couple of months, crowding out other hacker-relevant stories. They cite two recent examples—a Lenovo solid-state cooling laptop and Brax Industries' open-source smart home devices—that received little engagement despite being technically interesting. The poster suggests YC could curate underexposed posts or add tagging so users can filter content by topic.
At IFA 2026, laptop makers showed a market polarizing into cheap machines under $800 with 8GB of RAM and premium AI-oriented systems costing thousands with up to 192GB of memory, leaving little in the middle tier. Companies including Lenovo, Dell and Acer unveiled colorful budget models like the IdeaPad Vibe, Dell 14S and a 16-inch Swift Air, directly responding to Apple's MacBook Neo with varied chip choices from Qualcomm, AMD and Intel.
Lenovo's Legion 9i Gen 10 pairs a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an RTX 5080 GPU capable of drawing up to 175W, 64GB of DDR5-4800 memory, a 2TB Gen 5 SSD, and a nearly 100Wh battery. The reviewer calls it the best laptop they've tested, noting it performs almost identically to a desktop PC despite weighing 7.7 pounds and requiring a bulky 400W charger.
Lenovo demonstrated Project AeroBlade, a ThinkBook-based concept laptop that replaces traditional cooling fans with four solid-state AirJet modules from Frore Systems. The result is a 14-inch laptop just 11mm thick and weighing 1.8 pounds, cooled through ultrasonic vibrations that pull in cool air and expel heat without any moving fan parts.