OPPO announces red R9s for Valentine’s Day

OPPO announces red R9s for Valentine's Day 1

OPPO’s R9s camphone is one of the more interesting devices in the market of late seeing as it comes with a rear 16-MP camera with a Sony IMX 398 sensor that packs a bright F/1.7 aperture lens along with dual PDAF tech for better performance and faster autofocus, making it one of the more powerful…

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Chinese New Year with the OPPO R9s

Chinese New Year with the OPPO R9s 4

When Chinese New Year rolls in every year, it acts is an ironman triathlon of sorts for people and phones alike. On the first three days of Chinese New Year, it is considered customary to visit the homes of family, friends and relatives to wish them well for the lunar new year. Wellwishers wake up…

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Hands-on with the ASUS Zenfone 3 Zoom camphone

Hands-on with the ASUS Zenfone 3 Zoom camphone 11

While CES 2017 was happening a continent away, ASUS Malaysia managed to score samples of their upcoming camphone, the Zenfone 3 Zoom. The device we had was mostly finished though the firmware was still being finalised and a more thorough review of a retail sample will be needed to ascertain its full capabilities. The successor…

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8 Reasons why the Honor 8 will make your Chinese New Year awesome

8 Reasons why the Honor 8 will make your Chinese New Year awesome 17

The Honor 8 is one of the most powerful midrange flagships seen in ages, packing an array of hardware and a spiffy camera that allows it to punch way above its weight class. It ships in four different colours: black, white, a midnight blue and an ostentatious shade of gold which is ideal for the…

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Samsung’s Galaxy S8: Rumour Roundup

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All eyes are on Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S8 phone. Short of a few major players in the smartphone industry, few phones have had as illustrious or as long a lineage barring the boys from Cupertino. The current generation S7 and its sibling the S7 edge had a lot going for it: an industry leading 12-MP…

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Samsung pushes out tasty Nougat 7.0 update to Galaxy S7 edge phones in Malaysia

Samsung pushes out tasty Nougat 7.0 update to Galaxy S7 edge phones in Malaysia 28

If you’ve been feeling left out of all the fun, fret not as Samsung has just rolled out the Nougat 7.0 update for Galaxy S7 edge phones in Malaysia. The Nougat 7.0 update features a slew of improvements though it’ll take up a 1.3GB chunk of storage beforehand. Overall, the menu icons have been standardised…

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Huawei’s Mate 9 wins award on the prestigious Hurun Report

Huawei’s Mate 9 wins award on the prestigious Hurun Report 30

Somewhat akin to the Forbes list, the Hurun Report is a who’s who list of China’s richest elite along with the stuff that they prefer spending their mountains of dosh on. Their latest report, the Hurun Best of the Best Awards 2017 lists the recently launched Huawei Mate 9 smartphone as winning the “Smartphone Best…

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Samsung releases details of Galaxy Note 7 battery mishap

Samsung releases details of Galaxy Note 7 battery mishap 33

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was just on the verge of a victory parade. Preorders numbered in the millions. The Note 7 had everything a power user wanted:  a huge Super AMOLED display paired with an improved stylus, the same powerful rear camera akin to the Galaxy S7 edge, water resistance and expandable memory. It would…

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Huawei has shipped over 10 million P9 and P9 Plus phones in 2016

Huawei has shipped over 10 million P9 and P9 Plus phones in 2016 39

Huawei recently released a report on their overall performance in 2016 and by all indications, they’ve done exceptionally well even in a bearish market. Globally, Huawei has shipped over 139 million phones and the numbers are going up, with 29% year-on-year growth despite a tough market with International Data Corporation (IDC), stating that global smartphone…

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