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Dell’s newest stylus features Tile tracking tech to help you find it

Dell has a fancy new stylus with built-in finding tech powered by Tile.

As spotted by The Verge, the new ‘Premier Rechargeable Active Pen‘ works with the Tile app to help users find it when it goes missing. People can open the Tile app, tap ‘find’ and the Premier stylus will flash its LED lights and buzz.

This sounds like a pretty handy feature for something like a stylus, which could be easily misplaced. Of course, for a stylus that costs $139.99 in Canada, I would hope it could light up and alert me to its location.

As The Verge points out, Tile is working hard to expand its finding tech into just about everything. The company has worked with Intel to help track lost laptops, and the feature is now available on compatible HP, MSI, and Fujitsu PCs.

Moreover, Tile tracking can be found in headphones from Sennheiser and Skullcandy, Fitbit wearables, and even a dog tag.

Of course, all this is on top of Tile’s wide range of tracking products to help find things like keys and wallets.

However, it’s important to keep in mind that there are downsides to Tile’s tracking tech too. For example, the company recently added a tool to its app so people can scan for nearby, unfamiliar trackers that might be used to stalk them. Additionally, the new owners of Tile have a penchant for selling user location data, which isn’t great considering Tile’s ability to vacuum up that data to help you find missing items.

You can check out Dell’s new Premier Rechargeable Active Pen here.

Header image credit: Dell

Source: Dell Via: The Verge

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Leaked Motorola Edge 30 Pro could sport a stylus, 50-megapixel camera

Motorola may have a new smartphone on the way aimed at the same productivity space Samsung’s Note series previously occupied.

Dubbed the ‘Edge 30 Pro,’ this Motorola flagship prominently featured a stylus in leaked materials posted by Evan Blass earlier this week. A follow-up post from WinFuture also provided details about the specifications for the device.

Starting with Blass, the leaker shared a few images on Twitter, including a GIF showing a stylus writing the word ‘Edge’ on the phone, and a picture of the phone, stylus and folio case. The phone itself doesn’t depart significantly from the aesthetic Motorola established for its flagship ‘Edge’ phones.

Further, as 9to5Google pointed out, this would mark the first time Motorola has sought to include a stylus with a flagship-tier device (although the company has made stylus-equipped devices before). However, the stylus shown in the leaked material appears rather large and, so far, there’s been no indication that the stylus would fit in the phone Galaxy Note-style. Instead, it appears the folio case shown in the images will store the stylus.

Moving on to the WinFuture post, the publication suggests the Edge 30 Pro is merely a rebranded Motorola X30, which is currently available in China.

According to WinFuture, the Edge 30 Pro boasts a 6.7-inch 1080p display, 144Hz refresh rate, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 5,000mAh battery. It will reportedly run Android 12 out of the box and have a 50-megapixel primary camera, 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera and a two-megapixel depth camera. Around the front, the phone will have a 60-megapixel selfie camera.

Overall, the leaked details of the Edge 30 Pro make it seem like a fairly decent smartphone, but we’ll likely learn more when Motorola reveals the phone, supposedly happening February 24th at MWC. However, it remains to be seen whether Motorola will make the phone available in Canada. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s unlikely we’ll see the phone come to Canada since previous versions have not, but only time will tell.

Images credit: Evan Blass

Source: @evleaks, WinFuture Via: 9to5Google