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Author: Adam Z. Lein

Designer & web developer since the mid 1990's starting on the DEC intranet. User experience consultant since 1998. Photographer since 1995. Tech journalist since 2002.Fediverse Profile
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WhatsApp’s 2025 Ad Campaign is probably a lie. Here’s how to tell.

On July 3, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In News, Tech

In the years since WhatsApp launched, I haven’t seen any marketing at all in the U.S.A.  That’s changed in 2025 as Facebook/Meta has started promoting the messaging app with a new ad campaign (1) (2).  Personally, …

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BILD Expo 2025

B&H’s Bild Expo picks up where Photo Plus Expo left off

On July 2, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Event, Fashion, News, Tech

The Bild Expo first started in September of 2023 as a big 50th anniversary for the B&H Photography & Video super store. After attending that, I figured it was just a one-time event for the …

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Dynabook’s New Tecra A40-N, Tecra A60-N, and Portégé X40-N Laptops have Intel Ultra Series 2 chipsets

On May 7, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Dynabook today announces new versions of the Portégé® X40-M Series 2, Tecra® A40-M Series 2, and Tecra® A60-M Series 2 laptops powered by the Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 2 processors. They will also include Wi-Fi …

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Photo of the T-Mobile G1; the first Android Smartphone

T-Mobile G1 Review – The original Android smartphone

On April 24, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Originally published at Pocketnow on 11/8/2008  – 1, 2, 3 INTRODUCTION     As many of you may know, T-Mobile was the first carrier in the USA to release HTC’s first phone (the HTC Wallaby) which was also the first …

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Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra Review: The first ultra POCO phone

On March 27, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

The POCO F7 Ultra is the first “Ultra” model for the POCO brand and it’s the top-of-the-line for the F7 series of POCO phones. It’s very similar to the Redmi K80 Ultra in terms of …

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Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra unboxing

On March 20, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In News, Tech

The Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra and Pro smartphones have just been announced with their launch scheduled for March 27 and we got our hands on the Ultra version. The new design looks pretty great with …

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BMW MIni

A look at the new MINI BMW OS 9 in-car computer user experience

On February 26, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In News, Tech

I got to take a look at the new BMW Operating System 9 in some new Mini Countryman and Mini Cooper cars to learn about the new user experience. The most obvious and unique aspect …

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How to tell if it’s trustworthy

On February 2, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Philosophy, Tech

The best way to tell if something is trustworthy is if you’ve actually seen the proof and the proof is reproduceable. If there is no proof, then trust is a decision based on belief.  For …

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Redmi Buds 6 Pro

Redmi Buds 6 Pro Review: high-end features for a mid-range price

On January 25, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Featured, Tech

The Redmi Buds 6 Pro are the top-of-the-line wireless earbuds in the Redmi sub-brand of Xiaomi. Xiaomi also has some higher-end earbuds called the Xiaomi Buds and Xiaomi Buds Pro, so these are more like …

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Redmi Note 14

Redmi Note 14 Review: attractive budget friendly smartphone

On January 19, 2025 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Redmi’s Note 14 series for the global market was just released, and while we already took a look at the higher-end Redmi Note 14 Pro+ 5G model, now we’ve also got the regular Redmi Note …

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  • WhatsApp’s 2025 Ad Campaign is probably a lie. Here’s how to tell.
  • B&H’s Bild Expo picks up where Photo Plus Expo left off
  • Dynabook’s New Tecra A40-N, Tecra A60-N, and Portégé X40-N Laptops have Intel Ultra Series 2 chipsets
  • T-Mobile G1 Review – The original Android smartphone
  • Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra Review: The first ultra POCO phone
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