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• Adata T7P5 SSD brings 15.36TB and blistering Gen 5 speed to enterprise storage
• Trusta isn’t just fast, it’s built for AI, virtualization, and high-efficiency data environments
• With 13,500MB/s read speeds, the T7P5 crushes most consumer and prosumer storage options

With enterprise demand for AI servers and high-performance storage infrastructure booming, Adata is making a bold move into the data center and AI markets with the launch of its new enterprise brand, Trusta.

Revealed ahead of Computex 2025, Trusta promises to deliver advanced PCIe Gen 5 SSDs in massive capacities, blurring the line between performance and practicality.

Trusta’s flagship model, the T7P5 SSD, leads the new T7 Series and is built to handle demanding workloads such as AI training, vector databases, and virtual desktops.

T7P5 SSD delivers extreme speeds

This SSD offers blazing-fast read and write speeds of up to 13,500 MB/s and 10,400 MB/s, respectively, with capacities ranging from 1.92TB up to a staggering 15.36TB, making it one of the fastest enterprise SSDs introduced to date.

Unlike consumer models, the T7P5 is built in enterprise form factors like U.2, E1.S, and E3.S, ensuring compatibility with server and cloud hardware. However, it’s a large SSD, and it won’t fit inside a typical business desktop.

For enterprises with less intensive needs, Adata also offers the T7P4 PCIe Gen 4 SSD, which delivers up to 7,400 MB/s read and 5,050 MB/s write speeds, in capacities up to 7.68TB.

The entry-level T5 Series, which includes the T5P4B, T5S3B, and T5S3, supports both PCIe Gen 4 and SATA III interfaces. These drives are targeted at system boot operations and applications requiring data reliability over raw speed.

Still, performance isn’t just about headline numbers. Trusta integrates Flexible Data Placement (FDP) technology to optimize data flow, particularly under high-load conditions where latency and efficiency matter most.

For enterprise IT buyers and planners, Trusta’s lineup offers a compelling look at next-gen storage. But for average consumers in search of the best external SSD or a high-capacity Gen 5 upgrade, these drives are out of reach, both in terms of form factor and intended use case.

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Audiobooks have saved my sanity on many long commutes and have been great company while I'm cleaning or doing other chores. When the performance is good, it's easy to fall into the story. Audible wants authors and their readers to embrace AI as an alternative to human narration, but I am skeptical. Audible is offering publishers access to a fully integrated AI production pipeline. That includes auto-generating entire audiobooks with synthetic voices.

Their pitch is appealing on the surface: there are millions of books out there, and only a sliver of them ever make it into audio. Making audiobooks is expensive, time-consuming, and involves real people who need to be paid fairly for their time. An AI narrator is faster, cheaper, and a lot of people might not even notice it's not a human performing.

But "good enough" shouldn't be the standard for art, and audiobooks are very much an art form. Great narration adds depth, color, rhythm, and even new meaning to a text. It transforms reading aloud from words on a page you can hear to a real performance. Even if AI gets close in a technical sense, and I've heard AI audio that matches a human performance for at least a few minutes, we’ll still know the difference.

Human narration has nuance because it has context. The narrator understands not just the definition of the words they're saying, but the emotion and history behind them. They know the difference between a sigh of relief and a sigh of resignation. AI can approximate those sounds, sometimes amazingly so, but it's like a pet trick. A dog can cover its eyes, but that's not actually the dog feeling embarrassed.

The more AI voices fill our earbuds, the more we risk turning one of the most intimate forms of storytelling into something that feels robotic, flat, and eerily lifeless. It’s like auto-tuning a lullaby. It might hit the right notes, but it doesn’t sing.

AI narration needs

All of that said, I'm not against using AI for audiobooks in the right setting. Like any technology, it's about how AI narration is deployed, not whether it exists. There are so many books and new ones emerging all the time. If you’re an independent author with no budget to hire a narrator, or a publisher with a shelf of titles no one has touched in a decade, AI narration could breathe life into your books.

Synthetic voices don’t replace anything in those contexts; they just provide access. And an AI voice could supplement human readers with a multi-voice performance if you use the self-service version of Audible's AI narration platform. Using AI to supplement rather than replace all human voices feels like a better option to me.

One area I'm all in on for AI voices is translating texts. Audible has a beta test for AI-powered translation tools that could bring books to people unable to understand them in their original language. If there’s anything worse than a great book not having an audiobook, it’s a great book not being accessible in your language. Audible is starting the program by offering to translate English books into Spanish, French, German, and Italian.

The translation service can simply translate text and then give the new work an AI narrator, but what is more interesting to me is the speech-to-speech mode. That means an audiobook performed by a human in English could be replicated in a different language while sounding like the original performer.

The narrator of a bestselling English audiobook could now “speak” fluent Spanish in their own voice, introducing that story to new listeners around the world. That’s my favorite way to think about how to use AI. It can expand the reach of art without diluting its heart.

It's not quite the same as original, human narration, but it's a solution to a problem. That's how Audible should pitch AI audiobooks. We should absolutely use AI narration to make books accessible. But if it's possible to give it a human touch, that should be the first thought.

It's important not to lose sight of how this AI audiobook shift affects the performers who often build careers lending their voices to other people’s stories. If AI starts gobbling up midlist titles, budget-conscious publishers might see no reason to hire real readers anymore. AI doesn’t have to be the enemy. But it shouldn’t be the default.

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• AI data centers overwhelm air cooling with rising power and heat
• Liquid cooling is becoming essential as server density surges with AI growth
• New hybrid cooling cuts power and water but faces adoption hesitance

As AI transforms everything from search engines to logistics, its hidden costs are becoming harder and harder to ignore, especially in the data center. The power needed to run generative AI is pushing infrastructure beyond what traditional air cooling can handle.

To explore the scale of the challenge, I spoke with Daren Shumate, founder of Shumate Engineering, and Stephen Spinazzola, the firm’s Director of Mission Critical Services.

With decades of experience building major data centers, they’re now focused on solving AI’s energy and cooling demands. From failing air systems to the promise of new hybrid cooling, they explained why AI is forcing data centers into a new era.

What are the biggest challenges in cooling a data center?

Stephen Spinazzola: The biggest challenges in cooling data centers are power, water and space. With high-density computing, like the data centers that run artificial intelligence, comes immense heat that cannot be cooled with a conventional air-cooling system.

The typical cabinet loads have doubled and tripled with the deployment of AI. An air-cooling system simply cannot capture the heat generated by the high KW/ cabinet loads generated by AI cabinet clusters.

We have performed computational fluid dynamic (CFD) on numerous data center halls and an air-cooling system shows high temperatures above acceptable levels. The air flows we map with CFD show temperature levels above 115 degrees F. This can result in servers shutting down.

Water cooling can be done in a smaller space with less power, but it requires enormous amount of water. A recent study determined that a single hyper-scaled facility would need 1.5 million liters of water per day to provide cooling and humidification.

These limitations pose great challenges to engineers while planning the new generation of data centers that can support the unprecedented demand we’re seeing for AI.

How is AI changing the norm when it comes to data center heat dissipation?

Stephen Spinazzola: With CFS modeling showing potential servers shutting down with conventional air-cooling within AI cabinet clusters, the need for direct liquid cooling (DLC) is required. AI is typically deployed in 20-30 cabinet clusters at or above 40 KW per cabinet. This represents a fourfold increase in KW/ cabinet with the deployment of AI. The difference is staggering.

A typical Chat-GPT query uses about 10 times more energy than a Google search – and that’s just for a basic generative AI function. More advanced queries require substantially more power that have to go through an AI Cluster Farm to process large-scale computing between multiple machines.

It changes the way we think about power. Consequently, the energy demands are shifting the industry to utilize more liquid-cooling techniques than traditional air cooling.

We talk a lot about cooling, what about delivering actual power?

Daren Shumate: There are two overarching new challenges to deliver power to AI computing: how to move power from UPS output boards to high-density racks, and how to creatively deliver high densities of UPS power from utility.

Power to racks is still accomplished with either branch circuits from distribution PDUs to rack PDUs (plug strips) or with plug-in busway over the racks with the in-rack PDUs plugging into the busway at each rack. The nuance now is what ampacity of busway makes sense with the striping and what is commercially available.

Even with plug-in busway available at an ampacity of 1,200 A, the density of power is forcing the deployment of a larger quantity of separate busway circuits to meet density and the striping requirements. Further complicating power distribution are specific and varying requirement of individual data center end users from branch circuit monitoring or preferences of distribution.

Depending upon site constraints, data center cooling designs can feature medium voltage UPS. Driven by voltage drop concerns, the MV UPS solves concerns for the need to have very large feeder duct banks but also introduces new medium voltage/utilization voltage substations into the program. And when considering medium voltage UPS, another consideration is the applicability of MV rotary UPS systems vs. static MV solutions.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of the various cooling techniques?

Stephen Spinazzola: There are two types of DLC in the market today. Emersion Cooling and cold plate. Emersion Cooling uses large tanks of a non-conducing fluid with the servers positioned vertically and fully emersed in the liquid.

The heat generated by the servers is transferred to the fluid and then transferred to the buildings chilled water system with a closed loop heat exchanger. Emersion tanks take up less space but require servers that are configured for this type of cooling.

Cold-plated cooling uses a heat sink attached to the bottom of the chip stack that transfers the energy from the chip stack to a fluid that is piped throughout the cabinet. The fluid is then piped to an end of row Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU) that transfers the energy to the building chilled water system.

The CDU contains a heat exchanger to transfer energy and 2N pumps on the secondary side of the heat exchanger to ensure continuous fluid flow to the servers. Cold plate cooling is effective at server cooling but it requires a huge amount of fluid pipe connecters that must have disconnect leak stop technology.

Air cooling is proven technique for cooling data centers, which has been around for decades; however, it is inefficient for the high-density racks that are needed to cool AI data centers. As the loads increase, it becomes harder to failure-proof it using CFD modeling.

You're presenting a different cooler, how does it work and what are the current challenges to adoption?

Stephen Spinazzola: Our patent pending Hybrid-Dry/AdiabaticCooling (HDAC) design solution uniquely provides two temperatures of cooling fluid from a single closed loop, allowing for a higher temperature fluid to cool DLC servers and a lower temperature fluid for conventional air cooling.

Because HDAC simultaneously uses 90 percent less water than a chiller-cooling tower system and 50 percent less energy than an air-cooled chiller system, we’ve managed to get the all-important Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) figure all the way down to about 1.1 annualized for the type of hyperscale data center that is needed to process AI. Typical AI data centers produce a PUE ranging from 1.2 to 1.4.

With the lower PUE, HDAC provides an approximate 12% more usable IT power from the same size utility power sized feed. Both economic and environmental benefits are significant. With a system that provides both an economic and environmental benefit, HDAC requires only “a sip of water”.

The challenge to adoption is simple: nobody wants to go first.

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• Hygon’s C86-5G breaks free from AMD Zen, unleashing 128 cores of homegrown muscle
• SMT4 powers each core to run four threads, stacking up to 512 threads total
• AVX-512 instructions make it a strong fit for AI, analytics, and scientific computing

Hygon, a key player in China’s semiconductor industry, is advancing its server processor lineup with the upcoming C86-5G, a flagship, high-performance CPU featuring 128 cores and 512 threads, positioning it to compete directly with AMD’s EPYC and Intel’s Xeon platforms.

According to TechPowerUp, this marks Hygon’s complete break from AMD’s Zen architecture and the introduction of its first fully homegrown design, the result of five years of domestic R&D in CPU development.

The new lineup is made possible through four-way simultaneous multithreading (SMT4), allowing each core to handle four threads.

Built for parallel workloads and high throughput

While SMT4 is not a new concept - it has appeared in processors like Intel’s Xeon Phi and IBM’s Power8 - its use in a modern, domestically developed Chinese processor is a notable milestone.

The 128-core configuration in the C86-5G represents a major leap from its predecessor, the C86-4G, which had 64 cores and 128 threads using traditional SMT2.

Designed for enterprise and server workloads, the C86-5G features 16 channels of DDR5-5600 memory, potentially supporting up to 1TB using 64GB DDR5 modules. This is a step up from the previous model’s 12 channels of DDR5-4800.

On the connectivity front, while Hygon has not yet disclosed the exact PCIe 5.0 lane count, it has confirmed support for Compute Express Link 2.0 (CXL 2.0), aligning the chip with industry standards used by AMD’s EPYC 9005 (Turin) and Intel’s 5th Gen Xeon (Emerald Rapids). The earlier C86-4G already offered 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0, so similar or better support is expected.

Although the specific microarchitecture has not been detailed, Hygon states it is based on an "enhanced self-developed microarchitecture" that follows the Zen-based Dhyana design of the first generation.

According to the company, the architecture delivers a 17% improvement in instructions per cycle (IPC), though this remains unverified in the absence of benchmark testing.

The chip also supports AVX-512 instructions for high-performance computing tasks and is built to handle physical stress in demanding environments. It is expected to support standard server memory modules like RDIMMs and is intended for large-scale data center deployments.

While Hygon still trails AMD and Intel in overall performance, the C86-5G's technical specifications, including I/O capabilities, memory bandwidth, threading, and core count, place it in a competitive position.

Although there is no official launch date yet, development is likely well underway, given that the C86-4G has been on the market since 2024.

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• Communication devices have been found in Chinese made solar inverters
• These have the potential to destabilase the power grid
• It's unknown how many were found or the intent behind them

Rogue communication devices have been discovered in Chinese made solar inverters, devices which play a ‘critical role’ in renewable energy infrastructure, Reuters reports. This has prompted US energy officials to re-assess the risks of emerging technologies produced in China.

Power inverters are primarily produced in China, but used globally to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids, as well as being used in heat pumps, batteries, and electric vehicle chargers.

It’s reported that over the last nine months, some batteries bought from Chinese suppliers have been discovered with hidden communication devices like cellular radios - according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Experts have warned that communication devices could evade firewalls and switch inverters off remotely, posing a huge risk to power grids, as they could change settings, damage energy infrastructure, destabilize the grid, and cause widespread blackouts.

It’s not yet clear how many of these communication devices were found, nor the nature of the devices themselves - and the intent behind the planting of these is unknown. That being said, the US Department of Energy has confirmed it continually assesses risks associated “with emerging technologies and that there were significant challenges with manufacturers disclosing and documenting functionalities.”

This isn't the first time solar grids have been targeted - and security flaws leaving them vulnerable to being hijacked and even disabled. 46 vulnerabilities discovered by Forescout were found to allow hackers to deploy remote code execution, denial of service, device takeover, and access cloud platforms or sensitive information.

It seems likely, given recent events and rising geopolitical tensions, that the US will look to move production to domestic manufacturing plants for a more secure supply chain, It’s worth noting though, that Huawei is currently the world’s largest supplier of inverters, accounting for 29% of shipments around the world in 2022.

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• Folds up small, opens wide, Uperfect's Omega series is screen real estate on the go
• 3K OLED with 100% DCI-P3 makes this portable monitor a visual powerhouse
• Uperfect’s hinge tech handles 30,000 folds with no creases, no shadows, just clean visuals

Uperfect recently announced its new Omega Series, a line of portable displays that includes the 22-inch Omega and the 17.3-inch Omega Mini.

These devices feature a foldable and flexible design, allowing them to compress into a compact 16-inch and 12.5-inch form factor, respectively, for easier storage.

The OLED panel can fold flat or bend at any angle up to 180°, thanks to a hinge system and flexible substrate capable of withstanding 30,000 folding cycles without developing creases or shadows, common issues in other foldable displays.

A good companion for mobile business

When unfolded, the device measures just 7mm thick and 14mm when folded, yet still delivers ample screen real estate with a 3K resolution.

The display supports a wide color gamut with 100% DCI-P3 coverage, a 100,000:1 contrast ratio, and a peak brightness of 500 cd/m².

It also features touchscreen functionality, supporting tap, swipe, and zoom inputs, along with a 120Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time.

Despite its slim profile, Uperfect has integrated built-in speakers, contributing to a clean, cable-free design. A magnetic stand is included, allowing users to adjust both viewing angles and height.

Targeted at business professionals, the monitor includes low blue light technology and offers a 178-degree viewing angle to reduce eye strain during extended use.

For connectivity, it includes both USB Type-C and Mini HDMI ports, enabling compatibility with a wide range of devices including laptops, game consoles, smartphones, and cameras. It is also fully compatible with macOS, making it a potential companion for Mac mini users.

This device could be ideal for mobile users looking to set up a large display on the go. However, with a price tag of $2,499.99, it’s hard to justify the cost, especially when even the most premium portable monitors are priced at less than half that amount.

For connectivity, it comes with a USB Type-C and Mini HDMI ports, enabling compatibility with a wide range of devices, including laptops, game consoles, smartphones, and cameras. It is also fully compatible with macOS devices, a potential choice for Mac mini users.

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Some of the best Max shows have been showcased at the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfronts 2025, alongside what’s to come from across the media giant’s studios and networks.

There’s been plenty of new info across the board, with news on both shows and WBD streaming and broadcast platforms as the company bigwigs take to the stage.

With announcements coming thick and fast, the big news can be easy to miss, but here we break down the five most intriguing pieces of news from the day, featuring Westeros returns, baffling rebrands, new streaming services and more.

1. Superman gets a brand new trailer

Top of the bill is the Man of Steel himself with a brand new trailer — which you can watch above — for James Gunn’s upcoming Superman.

Starring David Corenswet as Supes, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, the new movie is an entirely new take on the Big Blue Boy Scout, although with all the multiverse shenanigans happening across superhero cinema lately, we wouldn't rule out some connection to the supposedly dead DCEU.

The latest trailer showcases much of what we’ve seen before, including the Fortress of Solitude and the big screen debut of super-cainine Krypto and further showcases the themes Gunn seems to be playing with around Kal-El’s status as an immigrant and vigilante.

Gunn has absolutely nailed every superhero story he’s turned his hand to thus far, and I'll be there as a new dawn breaks on DC’s cinematic offerings on July 11.

2. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms pushed to 2026

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It's bad news for fans of the Song of Ice and Fire saga as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has its release window moved to 2026.

Based on George R. R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight novella, the new show follows the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and s squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) as they travel the fictional land in the time between Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.

Widely expected to land this year, the third Westeros-set show will instead arrive in “winter” 2026, leaving us sweet summer children hoping that winter is coming sooner rather than later.

3. TNT's High Value Target leads network TV lineup

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WBD also announced a whole host of shows due to land across their networks in the coming year, among which is High Value Target, formerly known as Debriefing the President.

The series, based on John Nixon’s book detailing the interrogation of Saddam Hussein, stars Joel Kinnaman as Nixon, a CIA analyst who became the first American to positively identify the dictator in the wake of his capture.

Other new shows teased during the Upfront included Guy’s Flavortown Games hosted by Guy Fieri, HGTV’s Renovating the Bachelor Mansion and Discovery’s ludicrously titled Shark Week special Dancing With Sharks. Murder doc They Know What They Did winks to narrator Jennifer Love Hewitt’s soon-to-be-returning slasher franchise, while TLC’s 90 Day franchise continues to expand with 90 Day: Hunt for Love.

Returning shows include Rick and Morty, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and My Adventures with Superman, while Max hit The Pitt will receive a linear broadcast on TNT ahead of its second season.

4. Max rebrands back to HBO Max

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Perhaps the most surprising piece of news coming out of the upfronts was the announcement that WBD’s flagship streaming service would be adding the HBO moniker back into its name.

The streamer initially went by HBO Max when it was launched in 2020, trading on the reputation HBO had as the home of the best US TV had to offer. In 2023, WBD dropped the prefix, rebranding the streamer to simply, Max, moving away from the focus on prestige TV and introducing more varied programming, even going so far as to drop some of HBO’s biggest hits, such as Westworld, from its library.

But now those three letters are due a comeback, with the service once again set to be known as HBO Max after a relaunch this summer. Seemingly realising that a quality over quantity approach might be the way forward, WBD said: “No consumer today is saying they want more content, but most consumers are saying they want better content.” This seems to imply a shift for WBD, with the readdition of HBO to the name implying a refocus to the sort of prestige television that made the network be able to boldly state “It’s not TV. It’s HBO” in the first place.

5. CNN unveils new streaming service

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Following the ill fated CNN+, the news network are once again entering the streaming world with a brand new service set to arrive in the fall.

After an initial US launch, the platform will be available globally with CEO Mark Thompson call it “the first true new streaming service.” The streamer will also bundle CNN.com, which recently went behind a paywall, and will include live channels, news feeds and exclusive programming.

Current cable and satellite subscribers will be able to access the service at no extra cost, and CNN will, for now at least, continue to have a presence on Max after its rebrand.

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If you've ever wondered why you'd want a bezel-less display, LG Display just provided a visual and eye-opening answer.

The display technology company, which supplies panels to, among others, LG Electronics, is busy showing off a raft of screen technologies at SID Display Week in San Jose, California. Among them are a 4,000-nit, next-gen OLED (it uses Tandem RGB elements to achieve this brightness), Blue Phosphorescent OLED, stretchable displays, and this new Micro LED architecture.

Using a pair of 22-inch Micro LED screens, LG Display showed how they could operate separately or be slid together to make one, visually seamless ultra-wide display.

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In addition to a truly bezel-free design, Micro LED technology, according to LG Display, brings several other visual benefits. This non-organic, self-emissive technology offers pixel-level control and higher color accuracy and better ("perfect") blacks than other screen technologies.

Still, it's the "Zero Bezel" tech that opens up possibilities for modular displays that could be almost any shape or size. LG Display notes that these kinds of displays are especially useful in commercial scenarios, but could also be useful for making your own ultra-large desktop monitor.

Micro LED technology is also more attractive than OLED because of its lack of burn-in and longer lifespan. But, as we reported late last year, "production costs needed to be slashed by 90% to make Micro-LED competitive in today’s TV market."

We also noted, however, that LG looked like it might be "pulling back" on Micro LED investment. If these Zeo Bezel Micro LEDs are any indication, that couldn't be further from the truth.

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• Oukitel WP300's battery can power other devices for days
• Not your average rugged phone - it's part powerbank, part fitness tracker, all survival tool
• This rugged phone has 108MP camera and 36GB of RAM for $399

The upcoming Oukitel WP300 takes an unconventional approach to rugged smartphone design - it's so over-the-top it’s already being called one of the most outrageous phones of 2025.

Built to endure harsh conditions while offering a feature set that rivals many flagship devices, the WP300 rugged smartphone comes equipped with a massive 16,000mAh battery, a capacity more commonly found in power banks.

The battery supports 45W fast charging and 18W reverse charging, meaning it can double as a battery pack for other gadgets like speakers, fans, or even rugged tablets.

Mobile phone and power bank for just $399

Even more surprising is the price. The WP300 will launch at just $399 - yes, $399 - when it debuts on Kickstarter at the end of May 2025. The original retail price is $599, but an early-bird offer includes a $200 discount.

Two key attachments transform this rugged business smartphone into a survival companion. One is a detachable LED camping light, perfect for nighttime use or emergencies. The other is a wireless earbud that docks into the phone and converts into a compact smartwatch.

This hybrid accessory features a display for alerts and an optical heart rate sensor, allowing it to function independently of the main device.

The WP300 is no fragile flagship. It meets IP69, IP69K, and MIL-STD-810H standards, offering protection against dust, water, drops, and vibration.

The rugged chassis is reinforced, and the 6.78-inch display is shielded by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The screen delivers a resolution of 2460 x 1080 pixels, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 650 nits of brightness.

Under the hood, a 5G-capable MediaTek Dimensity 7050 processor powers the device, supported by 12GB of RAM (expandable virtually to 36GB) and 512GB of internal storage.

Despite its rugged build, the WP300 doesn’t skimp on photography. It features a 108MP AI main camera and a 32MP front-facing selfie lens.

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