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Prices commencement astatine $325 for nan carry-on version, $375 for nan checked size, $395 for a larger checked version, aliases $995 for nan full family set. I americium readying connected utilizing nan carry-on type this weekend, and it easy paired pinch my iPhone. In each different respect, it’s a normal bag—it has your modular polycarbonate ammunition pinch a (I person to say) garish embossed July logo connected nan side; smooth-rolling wheels, bumpers, and leather finishes. There’s besides an inset ejectable USB-C battery.

July's CaseSafe makes it truthful you don't person to fuss pinch AirTags, but that still doesn't extremity maine from saying you tin upgrade your existent carry-on likewise pinch an AirTag and a powerfulness bank, and it won't costs you anyplace adjacent $300. —Adrienne So

Fujifilm’s New Instax Has Two Cameras

Fujifilm announced nan Instax Mini LiPlay+ this week, an update to its 2019 Mini LiPlay camera. The LiPlay+ is, for illustration its predecessor, a hybrid camera and Instax printer. In fact, small astir nan main camera seems to person changed. It still has a 28-mm balanced f/2 lens that records astir 5-MP photos to nan sensor.

Fujifilm has added a 2nd camera connected nan back, though, for taking selfies. It's a 23-mm balanced f/2.2 lens, but what is benignant of nosy is nan expertise to create what Fujifilm calls "layered photos," shooting some lenses astatine nan aforesaid time, superimposing, for example, a circle of a selfie connected apical of a background. Alas, location does not look to beryllium a measurement to make this an existent double-exposure image, which feels for illustration a missed opportunity (especially since Fujifilm's different cameras, for illustration nan X100 series, person agelong had a double-exposure mode).

The different caller characteristic present expands connected nan original LiPlay's expertise to grounds audio and connect it to a people via a QR code. Now it's not conscionable audio but an animated video pinch sound and music. The Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay+ will beryllium disposable later this period for $235. —Scott Gilbertson

GrapheneOS Will Come to Another Phone

The security-focused, Android replacement operating strategy GrapheneOS has announced it will soon beryllium disposable connected phones different than nan Google Pixel. The developers said successful a post connected Reddit that a "major OEM" will soon beryllium added to GrapheneOS’s database of supported phones. No brands were mentioned, but galore users are guessing it will beryllium OnePlus, fixed nan company's past support for CyanogenMod, different Android alternative. The GrapheneOS developers do opportunity that whichever telephone it turns retired to be, it will beryllium likewise priced.

In a follow-up post, nan developers clarified that nan telephone shaper is "definitely superior astir moving pinch us. That's really we person information partner access." They besides explicitly opportunity it is not Fairphone, which sells a abstracted type moving different Android alternative, e/OS. —Scott Gilbertson

Roku Leans Into AI for Its TV Interface

Roku has announced immoderate nifty package upgrades coming soon to its celebrated streaming devices and TVs, and they thin heavy connected artificial intelligence. Roku Voice now features AI searches, allowing you to inquire things for illustration “What’s Barbie about?” aliases “How scary is The Shining?” and get a adjuvant answer. Roku is besides adding easier entree to movie trailers, amended searching for shows to watch, and a simpler interface to thief you understand what is streaming where.