Huawei releases Mate 9 Black Edition and launch date for P10 and P10 Plus

By Hitech Century | March 2, 2017 |

If the current crop of colours for Huawei’s Mate 9 phablet don’t pique your interest and your wallet, you’ll be glad to know that they’re launching it in a new shade of black. Currently, the only Mate 9 you can get in black is the Mate 9 Porsche edition that retails for a whopping RM6,999.…

SNS releases JOI 11 and two Avengers themed two-in-one hybrids

By Hitech Century | March 2, 2017 |

Local outfit SNS Malaysia has just launched a trio of Windows-10-toting two-in-ones, two of which have Marvel’s Avenger team iconography all over them. The AVRT10T has an Iron Man theme going about it with a light-up arc reactor on the rear, the AVR116T has a light-up Avengers team logo while the JOI 11 eschews such…

TP-LINK outs massive quad-core router at MWC 2017

By Hitech Century | March 1, 2017 |

While everyone’s eye is on the latest smartphones to grace the coming year, TP-LINK has outed their behemoth C5400X 1.8GHz 65-bit quad-core router. Resembling as much an art deco sculpture that you’d usually see on the wide avenues of Las Ramblas in Barcelona where it was unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2017, the Archer C5400X…

OPPO launches R9s Plus today for RM2,498

By Hitech Century | March 1, 2017 |

Most of the limelight on OPPO globally is on their new camera system that was launched at MWC 2017. In Malaysia, they are focusing most of the fuss on the upgunned R9s Plus phablet that has just been announced for sale today. The R9s Plus is aesthetically similar to the R9s but has an improved…

Xiaomi has just announced their own chipset. Say hello to the Surge S1

By Hitech Century | March 1, 2017 |

Xiaomi has just joined a very exclusive club of phone vendors that have the mojo and the lucre to create their own chipsets. Today, they’ve announced their first in-house SoC, the Surge S1 along with the first phone that will be powered by it – the Mi 5C. The Surge S1 is an octacore processor…

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab S3 and Galaxy Book at MWC 2017

By Hitech Century | February 27, 2017 |

While the Galaxy S8 will not make an appearance at MWC 2017, they still had something to show: the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and a productivity-oriented Galaxy Book. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 only comes in one size variant but in two different colours – silver or black – along with two different variants –…

Huawei launches P10 and P10 Plus at MWC 2017

By Hitech Century | February 26, 2017 |

Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group took to a packed stage at MWC in Barcelona and revealed their latest successors to last year’s P9: the new P10 and the P10 Plus. Both phones come in not one, not four but a whopping eight different colours with two of them specially created by Pantone…

[Review] Otterbox Defender Casing for Galaxy S7 edge

By Hitech Century | February 26, 2017 |

If you need absolute peace of mind and the ultimate protection for your smartphone from drops and dents, this is it. It may cost a pretty penny but it’s money saved from chunking out for repairs.

Keyboards are back in style with Blackberry’s KEYOne at MWC 2017

By Hitech Century | February 26, 2017 |

While beleaguered Blackberry has all but become a shadow of its former self in reach and influence with their phones now being made by Chinese smartphone manufacturer TCL, they’re still giving it the old college try with their KEYOne phone that was just announced a scant few hours ago ahead of Mobile World Congress in…

Samsung C9 Pro phablet is official at price of RM2,299

By Hitech Century | February 25, 2017 |

If you’re hankering for a phablet that is larger than almost anything else in Samsung’s line-up, you’re in luck as they’ve just made their Galaxy C9 Pro official. Previously only meant for the Far East market and India, the phone is now available for sale in Malaysia. Paired with a massive 6-inch 1080P Super AMOLED touchscreen…