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

On Verizon? If you have a Google Pixel 9 or Samsung Galaxy S25 phone and you find in a cell death area, you can now send sms to your friends and family via satellite. This is the same feature that Apple has introduced for the iPhone 14 and more recent (regardless of the carrier) in iOS 18.

Although these Android phones have been able to connect to emergency services via satellite, they can now use satellite connectivity to send SMS to anyone, regardless of the recipient’s device or carrier. Verizon says that this capacity has already started to take place, but will take two weeks.

Verizon is not the only carrier focused on the supply of this type of satellite connectivity to fill the gaps in the coverage of the terrestrial cellular network. T-Mobile recently announced a partnership with Starlink who is currently in beta version until July. It allows you to send and receive SMS, and the carrier says that you can soon share photos, use data, make voice calls, etc. The T-Mobile solution will be included for subscribers on its GO5G Next plan, and other customers can add it to their existing plan for $ 15 per month. AT&T also works with AST Spacemobile and recently tested a video call on satellite connectivity.

This portable console allows you to relive your Nintendo DS dreams

You have seen the steam game, you saw the switch, and you no doubt remember the Nintendo DS. But this newly announced game man, The Onexsugar, claims to do all of this in one. The device has two screens and GamePad rotary controllers to allow it to transform into all kinds of smart user modes. There is the standard landscape mode, using the 6 inch main screen and both sides of the controller. But turn over this screen and you will have access to the 3.92 inch secondary square screen. This secondary screen can be used as a crutch, or you can Rotate the controllers to fix on the square screen. Now it’s really different from everything we have seen before.

The device based on Android, Announced on IndiegogoWas unveiled alongside a new series of Qualcomm chips designed specifically for gaming laptops. The Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 has 28% of improved graphics with rays tracing, specially designed for cloud -based games and retro emulators. Do not expect it to take care of the games in Windows as the Ryzen Z-Series chips of AMD, which you can find in pocket computers like the popular Asus Rog Ally X.

The company behind the Onexsugar also has something more powerful in its range, the Onxplayer G1which is part of the laptop, part of the laptop games. No word yet on the price or the release date, but I hope that we will soon hear more details on the ONEXSUGAR. –Luke Larsen

Velotric’s Breeze 1 is an evacuation navigation and grinding vehicle

After several layoff cycles and withdrawn from the European market, The new CEO of Rad Power Bikes Recently resigned. This leaves a large RAD size hole in the electric bicycle space directly to consumers – a space created by the company when Mike Radenbaugh founded RAD in 2007.

Which company will the gap? We are very delighted to test one of the new bikes in the extended poison. THE Breeze 1 Launched on March 18. It is a suburban bike built like a cruiser, with a comfortable and vertical seat position on a step frame and a powerful 750 Watts engine with a range of 70 miles.

The bike also has some nice things in its sleeve. For example, you can switch between the use of a torque sensor, which will adjust the pressure you need to pedal on mixed terrain, compared to the older rate sensor, which is the best for longer road stretching. It is also integrated into Apple finds my And Apple Health, so if you are an iPhone user, you don’t have to play with your fitness tracker to save a bicycle ride. Most importantly, it weighs less than 50 pounds and costs less than $ 2,000. I unpacked my stroll to test (in Violet Haze, naturally) as we are talking about. —Adrienne so

Fujifilm launches a compact camera in medium format

Anyone who has already dreamed of a Fujifilm X100 camera in medium format, no longer dreams. The new GFX100RF is only that. It takes the same minimalist style in the remote meter of the X100 series, with dial controls and a nice first order goal at the front, but adds an average format sensor of 102 megapixels.

However, there is a price to pay for this much larger sensor – the GFX100RF is larger and heavier than any X100 camera. At 5.26 per 3.56 inches, with a 3 -inch depth, this does not correspond in your pocket, any more than the 25.9 ounces (735 grams) are light enough to let you throw it in your bag and forget it. To make the GFX100RF weather, you must strengthen it more with an adapter ring and a filter, as you do with the X100VI.