Smartphones
Keyboards are back in style with Blackberry’s KEYOne at MWC 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…
Read MoreSamsung C9 Pro phablet is official at price of RM2,299
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…
Read MoreOPPO’s Min Chen special edition R9s arriving in Malaysia
OPPO’s R9s camphone has recently made headlines of late as it’s one of the few sub-RM2000 phones that come with a cracking good rear camera with an F/1.7 aperture, PDAF and Sony’s new IMX398 sensor to serve up some brill shots. It has appeared in several different colour variants including a limited edition Valentine Red…
Read MoreHTC’s new flagship U Ultra offers ultra slick mirror finish, AI, secondary display and removes headphone jack
HTC’s eponymous HTC 10 phone last year was not only a looker, it was also quite a performer too and remains one of the few, if not the only phone that integrates optical image stabilisation for the front-facing selfie camera. This time around, HTC is offering a new spin on things with the rollout of…
Read MorePreorders begin for the Honor 6x phablet
The Honor 6X is Huawei’s latest budget offering that attempts to embody their philosophy of bringing in the most bang for the least buck. Having made its initial debut in China and the US, the Honor 6X is now making an appearance in Malaysia, one of the first regional markets to do so outside of…
Read MoreASUS wants to make it rain with the Zenfone 3 Max ’38 Days of Storm’ giveaway campaign!
[UPDATE] ASUS has updated the mechanics of how the ZenFone 3 Max ’38 Days of Storm’ giveaway is going to work. Essentially, you have to snap an outfit of the day with the theme of surviving a thunderstorm and post it on your Facebook or Instagram account with the hashtag #TakHabisHabis and #ZenFone3MaxMY. There’s some fine…
Read MoreSamsung’s waterproof A5 and A7 now come in Peach Cloud and Blue Mist for Valentine’s Day
A wise person once said that diamonds are forever but that person didn’t reckon that diamonds are unable to let you update your Facebook much less make calls which is where Samsung’s refreshed 2017 incarnations of their Galaxy A5 and A7 phones come in. Currently, both phones only come in Black Sky and Gold Sand…
Read MoreHuawei P10 and P10 Plus details leak
An alleged information leak in the form of a product information sheet has just turned up for Huawei’s next generation of phones: the P10 and its larger sibling the P10 Plus. The info sheet ought to be taken with a huge grain of salt until official verification appears but as far as the product sheet…
Read MoreFazura takes the stage as Neffos brand ambassador
TP-LINK’s smartphone spinoff Neffos has been making waves of late and they’ve just dropped a bombshell today as they announced that Malaysian celebrity Nur Fazura Sharifuddin, more popularly known as Fazura will take point as brand ambassador for their recently launched Neffos X series of smartphones. She is best known for her many roles on…
Read MoreHuawei’s best UI ever and Nougat 7.0 rolling out for their Honor 8 and P9 phones
Sometime in June last year, Huawei hired one Abigail Brody as Chief UX Designer to work on their next generation of their EMUI user interfaces. Working out of Huawei’s San Francisco hub, Brody was the top gun behind Apple’s design efforts. The former Apple creative director worked at Cupertino for almost a decade and had…
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