Amazon goes all-in on Vega OS for Fire TV devices (Android based Fire OS media streamer’s days are numbered)

Amazon has released two new Fire TV Sticks in the past two years… and both have shipped with a Linux-based operating system called Vega OS rather than the Android-based Fire OS that Amazon had been using since the company released the first Fire TV Stick more than a decade ago.

While Amazon says the Fire TV Stick 4K Select (2025) and Fire TV HD (2026) are small, cost-effective devices that […]

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Lilbits: Lenovo’s new gaming phone & tablets, Walmart’s new media streamers, and Microsoft Surface price hikes

Two bits of Microsoft Surface news broke this week. The company is discontinuing its large-screen Surface Hub products. And Microsoft is raising prices across the board for its current line of Surface laptops and tablets. That’s… not particularly surprising. Given the impact of rising RAM & storage costs, soon it’s going to be more newsworthy when companies don’t raise prices than when they […]

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Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick HD is faster, thinner, runs a more locked down operating system

The new Amazon Fire TV Stick HD is a $35 media streamer that plugs directly into the HDMI port of your TV, allowing you to stream video from Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and a bunch of other sources.

Compared with the previous-gen model, Amazon says the new Fire TV Stick HD (2026) is 30 percent faster and 30 percent slimmer. It also now supports WiFi 6 (up from WiFi 5) and has a USB-C port […]

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Walmart’s $30 Onn 4K Streaming Stick shows unexpectedly in at least one store

Walmart makes some of the cheapest Google TV media streamers worth buying, including the $20 Onn FHD Streaming Stick. But up until now, if you’ve wanted a 4K-ready model, you’ve had to opt for a “box” shaped model like the $25 Onn 4K media streaming box, $40 Onn 4K Plus box, and $45 Onn 4K Pro.

Now Walmart is preparing to launch its first Onn 4K media streamer that comes as a stick that plugs […]

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The first Onn TV Stick with support for 4K video is on the way. These line drawings show a stick that's said to have a 1.7 GHz quad-core Realtek RTD1325 processor with Mai-G57 graphics, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage. https://www.aftvnews.com/this-new-leak-looks-to-be-walmarts-first-onn-4k-streaming-stick/ #onn #Walmart #Onn4KStick #MediaStreamer #TVStick #GoogleTV

Lilbits: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, Razer Blade 16, and more fallout from Chuwi’s processor mixup

Two recent laptops from Chinese PC maker Chuwi that were supposed to ship with AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processors actually had Ryzen 5 5500U chips inside. That means instead of getting a processor with a Zen 3 CPU, customers were getting notebooks with chips featuring AMD’s older Zen 2 architecture.

But the only way to prove this was to actually open up the computer and remove the CPU cooler to look […]

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Leaked images suggest the 2nd-gen Onn 4K Pro media streamer will be an oval-shaped device (kind of like the Google TV Streamer) with Ethernet, HDMI, and USB ports and built-in mics. https://www.aftvnews.com/new-images-of-the-2nd-gen-onn-4k-pro-leak-out-with-a-clear-view-of-the-ports/ #Onn4KPro #Onn #MediaStreamer #GoogleTV

Lilbits: Arm’s first silicon, Chuwi’s not-quite-apology, and Pebble’s Time 2 smartwatch ships soon

Arm has just introduced a new processor for data centers. There’s nothing too unusual in that statement… except that for the first time the chip designer is actually making its own processor. The company has been licensing its designs to third party chip makers for decades, but the new Arm AGI CPU is an Arm-branded processor that Meta plans to use in data centers.

In other recent tech news […]

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Walmart's dirt cheap Google TV media streamers are a little less cheap now that prices have been raised by $5 to $10. But the Onn HD Stick, Onn 4K Box, and Onn 4K Plus are still *pretty* cheap at $20, $25, and $40, respectively. #Onn #OnnHDStick #Onn4K #Onn4KPlus #MediaStreamer #GoogleTV https://www.aftvnews.com/walmart-raises-its-onn-streaming-device-prices-by-5-10/

Compare Amazon Fire TV device specs (Fire TV Stick HD, Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max, and Fire TV Cube)

Amazon’s Fire TV line of media streaming devices now includes three different Fire TV Stick models with list prices ranging from $35 to $60. The good, better, best lineup includes an entry-level model with support for 1080p video at up to 60 frames per second, while the top-of-the-line model supports 4K video and features faster WiFi, among other things.

And for folks that want the best of the […]

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