[ Review ] Asus Vivobook S15 S510UQ – Amazing bang for the buck

By Hitech Century | October 30, 2017 |

The Asus Vivobook series of notebooks has always been about offering as much value as possible at as low a price point as possible and their latest offering the Vivobook S15 excels in that in every way as it offers both hardware, looks and performance that wouldn’t have you hocking house and home or a…

Asus releases the Zenfone 4 in Malaysia for RM2099

By Hitech Century | October 27, 2017 |

Earlier this year in Taipei, Asus unveiled their entire range of Zenfone 4 series smartphones lead by their titular Zenfone 4 with star branding in the form of Korean celebrity Gong Yoo with various countries getting the phones in waves. For Malaysia, buyers were able to acquire the Zenfone 4 Selfie, the Zenfone 4 Selfie…

A first look at the Moto G5S Plus that is coming to Malaysia soon

By Hitech Century | October 26, 2017 |

Motorola looks set to conclude the year with a bang as they’re set to launch the successor to last year’s midrange G5 Plus that they’ve dubbed as the G5S Plus. The phone bears aesthetics akin to its immediate predecessor though it’s slightly larger and chunkier all around at 8mm thin and 168g versus its predecessor’s…

Acer’s launches revamped Spin 5 notebook and more

By Hitech Century | October 24, 2017 |

Acer just announced the debut of a refreshed, spiffy new incarnation of their Spin 5 convertible that’s slimmer than ever before while packing the latest 8th generation Intel processors. Also making an appearance is a revamped variant of their Swift 3 notebook that comes with an NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics card as well as the…

Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab A lands in Malaysia for RM1,199

By Hitech Century | October 23, 2017 |

If you’re looking to binge watch iFlix and Netflix on something larger than even a Galaxy Note8 but which can still be comfortably wielded one-handed, you’ll likely find Samsung’s newly launched Galaxy Tab A an appealing proposition. In terms of hardware, the Galaxy Tab A comes with an 8-inch WXGA touchscreen and comes with a…

LifeProof launches new casings to protect your pricey new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus

By Hitech Century | October 23, 2017 |

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are now officially available in Malaysia with prices that start at a substantial RM3,649 for the 64GB variant of the iPhone 8 all the way up to an eye-watering, impressive RM4,899 for the iPhone 8 Plus 256GB variant. To say that they are pricey investments is an understatement which…

Metal-hewn Honor 6A Pro lands in Malaysia at RM699

By Hitech Century | October 20, 2017 |

The sub RM-1000 smartphone market is a highly competitive one but honor’s latest honor 6A Pro aims to outdo its peers as it comes with quite a few interesting features for just under RM700. For the price of entry, you get a 5-inch HD display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor running Android 7.0 Nougat with…

Meet ZTE’s dual-display Axon M folding phone

By Hitech Century | October 20, 2017 |

ZTE’s newest phone follows the adage that you can’t have enough of a good thing which is why instead of just one display, it packs two. The ZTE Axon M comes with not one but two 5.2-inch Full HD displays with both connected together via a hinge mechanism that allows you to use it like…

vivo launches budget friendly Y69 phone with 16MP front selfie camera

By Hitech Century | October 17, 2017 |

Following on from the launch of their flagship vivo V7+ selfie camphone at Pavilion mall a few weeks ago, vivo has now announced that they are launching a more affordable workhorse selfie camphone dubbed the vivo Y69. The vivo Y69 is a budget friendly phone that comes with a 5.5-inch HD display with 267ppi and…

Sony’s ultra tough new RX0 offers pro-level optics in a crushproof and waterproof body for RM3,199

By Hitech Century | October 17, 2017 |

Durability and top-shelf image quality don’t usually go hand-in-hand when it comes to cameras though Sony’s impressive new RX0 camera aims to buck that trend as it combines both qualities into one very compact casing. The Sony RX0 comes with a 1.0-type stacked 15.3-MP Exmor RS CMOS Sensor along with a BIONZ X image processor…