Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
Honor published a battery spec sheet this week that reads like a typo. The Magic9 Super Edition, arriving September 28, carries an 11,000mAh battery in a body 8.1mm thick that weighs 227 grams. The standard Magic9 gets 8,000mAh. The Pro Max gets 8,800mAh. For comparison, the biggest battery Apple or Samsung sells in the United … Read more
Xiaomi just held the most revealing phone launch of the year, and the interesting part wasn’t the phone. It was the apology. Lei Jun, the company’s founder, stood on stage and pre-explained the price before anyone could complain. Memory has gotten very expensive, he said, so the new Xiaomi 18 Fold starts at $1,540, and … Read more
In March, Canada started taking Chinese electric cars at a 6.1% tariff, with room for 49,000 of them a year. The US rate is still 100%, stacked on a 2.5% base duty. Same cars. Same continent. One open door. Start with where these cars already are. BYD sold 557,000 battery electric passenger vehicles worldwide in … Read more
What “in-house” actually means here The Huawei Mate 90 series launched in China this September. The line everyone repeats is that it is the most self-contained flagship on the market. That sounds like marketing until you look at what is actually inside. The processor is Huawei’s own Kirin 9050. The operating system is HarmonyOS 7, … Read more