Almost a year after Huawei announced its first clamshell foldable in the form of the P50 Pocket, it’s back with a followup. The new device is called the Huawei Pocket S, and it maintains the same foldable form-factor as the P50 with circular notification display and camera bumps on its outside. But the new phone comes with one fewer external cameras, a lower-end processor, and a lower starting price of 5,988 (around $818) versus 8,988 (around $1,228) for the P50 Pocket.

That price means the Pocket S neatly undercuts its main foldable clamshell competitor, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 4 (which was priced at around ¥7,499, or $1,025, in China, according to Gizmochina). But continuing US sanctions against Huawei mean the Pocket S faces technical limitations including a lack of support for 5G networks. And if it ever gets a release outside China, don’t expect any Google apps or services to be natively available.

Otherwise, the basics of the Pocket S are the same as the P50 Pocket. There’s a 6.9-inch internal foldable display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 2790 x 1188. Huawei says this can survive 400,000 folds. It’s paired with a small circular 1.04-inch external display that can act as a camera viewfinder, show notifications, and more. But you only get two rear cameras this time around (a 40-megapixel main and 13-megapixel

This story is part of Gift Guideour year-round collection of the best gift ideas.

Giving someone a laptop gift can be challenging unless you know how they’re most likely to use it. For example, a student who is using their laptop for word processing or streaming has way different needs and expectations than a PC gamer. Our recommendations take many different laptop users into account and are designed to help make your decision easier.

Regardless of whom you’re shopping for, though, now is the best time of year to find a lower price on a new laptop or tablet. If you need more options than those listed below, check out our full best laptops of 2022 list where you’ll also find links to our top picks across all categories of laptops.

Most, if not all, of these laptops and tablets will be discounted through the holiday shopping season. The prices listed below are the available deals we’ve found. But, deals come and go, so we will continue to update this list with current sale prices as we spot them.

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Thanks to a new design, a larger display (13.6 inches versus the previous 13.3 inches), a faster M2 chip and a long-awaited upgrade to a higher-res webcam, the 2022 version of the MacBook Air remains our top choice for the most universally useful laptop in Apple’s lineup, with one caveat. At $1,199, the $200 increase over the traditional $999 MacBook Air starting price is a disappointment. That’s why

Pop punk band Blink-182 — the outfit behind such songs as All the Small Things and What’s My Age Again — is going back on tour with founding member and guitarist Tom DeLonge.

The band posted an innuendo-laden video to multiple platforms on Tuesday featuring members DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker. This marks their first tour together in about 10 years. The tour itself kicks off in March 2023 and runs through February 2024, with nearly 70 stops around the world.

DeLonge left the band in 2015. In the last few years, Hoppus was diagnosed with lymphoma (and is now cancer-free) and Barker married Kourtney Kardashian. Blink-182, whose 1999 album Enema of the State went platinum five times over, celebrated its 30th anniversary in July. The group also said it would release a new song called Edging on Oct. 14. Tickets go on sale Oct. 17.

On social media, fans were quick to cheer the reunion. “Tom rejoining Blink 182 means the world is healing,” one wrote.

Some fans cracked jokes about the passage of time. Elder millennial humor abounded. “Blink-182 reuniting is the biggest news for millennials since AOL shut down Instant Messenger,” one tweeted.

We are just over a week away from Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, but that didn’t stop the company from starting a huge sale with up to 59% off a bunch of its best hardware. Amazon recently hosted an event in which it announced a bunch of new devices like Fire TVs, the Kindle Scribe and more, but they are not yet available. If you’re looking to get your hands on some Amazon devices like the Echo, Fire TV, Ring doorbell and more, now is your chance to save big.

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With this sale you can get some of the year’s best prices on Amazon’s Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Echo hardware and much more.

The sale spans a lot of devices, so you’re going to want to take a few minutes and sort through them all to see which ones you may be most interested in. As we learned during its event, Amazon will be bringing some of its new features, like Eero support, to older devices like the 4th-Gen Echo Dot, making these discounts even better. We’ve highlighted some of our favorite deals from the sale below, so be sure to check them out now.

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If you’re looking to take the first step in equipping your home with smart devices and appliances, this is a deal you won’t want to miss. The second-gen Echo Show 5 is a compact smart display that allows you to easily check the weather, update your scheduled set timers, video