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DJI Mini 2: Now with 4x zoom and 4K, plus more tech news you need to know today
July 30, 2025
1. Best new drone: The DJI Mini 2 does it again
The newDJI Mini 2has stolen the crown as the best drone you can buy for under $500 …from DJI itself, Jonathan Feist over atDroneRush.comtells me. He’d know, he has one already.
The just-announced new Drone had a few leaks in advance but now we know that this is the perfect successor to theDJI Mavic Mini, remaining a sub-250 gram drone for those FAA reasons (ie, you don’t need toregister the Mini 2 with the FAAbefore you fly) and well-priced. Plus, it flies 150% further and now shoots 4K.
The quick details:
And here’s what Feisty wrote to me to get you, our beloved readers, up to speed:
2.Apple A14 Bionic test: Is the latest 5nm iPhone 12 silicon still more powerful than Android SoCs? Short answer is that it boils down to yes, but there are interesting differences in how Apple approaches CPU, GPU, and memory performance targets (Android Authority).
3.Xiaomi’s new telescopic lenscould make its smartphone cameras much better by… looking just like an old point-and-shoot style camera setup! As long as Xiaomi doesn’t call this innovation… (Android Authority).
- Samsung’s next value phonecould pack a 7,000mAh battery. Samsung’s following its own successes here in having mid-range or budget phones with comparatively huge batteries, without smartphones looking alien (Android Authority).
5.Philips SmartSleep Wake-Up Light review: Rise and shine, and buy it when it goes on sale (Android Authority).
6.Apple reportedly faces a shortage of power management chips for iPhone, and other devices. Its notable suppliers are likely prioritizing Apple orders, which may be leading to shortages for other manufacturers too (AppleInsider).
- Future smartwatchesmight be powered by your movement. Watches have had similar tech to this in the past, but powering a ticking clock vs a whole device is a new breakthrough, should it come to fruition (Android Authority).
8.FCC fines T-Mobile $200Mover Sprint’s alleged abuse of low-income subsidies (FCC filing).
It’s not that I keep up with the monthly directions from the Pope, but this month the Pope has asked for Catholics to pray “that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind.” (Twitter).
Someone has transferred~$1 billion from a bitcoin walletin the last 24 hours that was dormant since 2013. Probably Silk Road related? (Ars Technica).
ASTROnomerstrace mysterious space radio wavesto a source within our galaxy (The Verge).
12.The future tech of Back to the Future II, ranked (Gizmodo).
- “If I took a cat from Germany and put it in Japan, would it understand local cats?” A sweet story about a horse in the comments, too. (r/nostupidquestions)
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