Lilbits: A phone with a MASSIVE battery, Arm to make its own server chips, and the PlayStation Portable picks up WPA2 support (unofficially)

Most modern smartphones have enough battery capacity to last a day or two between charges. The Oukital Titan WP100 can run longer… much, much longer. It allegedly supports up to 2 full days of video playback, 12 days of talk time, or 185 days of standby time.

How? Because it has a massive 33,000 mAh battery. Sure, that means the phone weighs 1.9 pounds. But at a time when it's hard to find phones that stand out from the crowd, this one certainly fits the bill… or does it?

Oukitel has actually been making big-battery phones since 2017. And the company isn't alone. In the past decade we've also seen phones with 15,500 mAh, 16,000 mAh, 18,000 mAh, 21,000 mAh, 23,800 mAh, and 28,000 mAh batteries.

Sure, the Titan WP100 has the biggest battery yet, but once you get past a certain point, is there really much difference?

Anyway, like most other phones in this category, the Titan WP100 isn't just a phone. It's also a power bank, portable projector, flash light, and rugged device meant to keep you connected and entertained when you go off-grid. Expected to ship in May, 2025 for a retail price of $899, the Oukitel Titan WP100 is currently crowdfunding through a Kickstarter campaign with reward levels starting at $599.

Here's a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.

This 1.9-pound smartphone's massive battery offers six months of standby [The Verge]

Chip designer Arm has historically licensed its designs to other companies without manufacturing any chips itself. But that could soon change: Arm reportedly plans to launch a server chip for Meta this year, putting it in direct competition with licensees. https://buff.ly/4gFacs3?

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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM

The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Networks [Wololo]

The Sony PlayStation Portable supports 802.11b WiFi, but when it first shipped it only supported WEP security. Sony added support for WPA-TKIP and WPA-PSK via firmware updates. But 20 years after launch, an *unofficial* firmware update adds WPA2 support.

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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM

Intel plans a big push into handheld gaming PCs to take on AMD [LaptopMag]

Intel says it wants a bigger piece of the handheld gaming PC pie and is hiring folks to help support handhelds, providing hardware dev kits to game makers, and expects Arrow Lake-H and Panther Lake powered handhelds in the future.

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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM

Arm is reportedly developing its own in-house chip [Engadget]

Chip designer Arm has historically licensed its designs to other companies without manufacturing any chips itself. But that could soon change: Arm reportedly plans to launch a server chip for Meta this year, putting it in direct competition with licensees. https://buff.ly/4gFacs3?

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— Liliputing (@liliputing.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM

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