Smartphones
Asus ZenFone 3 (ZE552KL) – Unboxing and hands-on
Asus has been making significant inroads into offering more premium hardware and their recent efforts have borne fruit with their recently launched ZenFone 3 series of phones. While Asus’ ZenFone series started out a couple of years back as budget workhorses, they’ve put their noses to the grindstone and the phones have seen a steady evolution…
Read MoreWant the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus? 11Street is offering preorders now from RM3,899
While Malaysia might not be in the first wave of countries to receive the iPhone 7, you can sod all that waiting around nonsense and chunk out your cash to get it right it at the same time as other countries in the first wave as online merchant 11street has just opened up a preorder storefront…
Read More5 Reasons the OPPO F1s phone is an awesome super selfie snapper
While most smartphones today emphasise attention on the imaging quality of the rear camera, OPPO’s new F1s phone bucks the trend as it sports a vastly more powerful front camera for pleasingly good selfies and wefie shots. That’s not all, though. Check out these five reasons just why the OPPO F1s is a bona fide super selfie…
Read MoreiPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus ditches headphone jack, are waterproof and cost from US$649 and US$769
Straight from the halls of Cupertino, Tim Cook revealed Apple’s latest iPhone in the form of the new iPhone 7 and its larger sibling the iPhone 7 Plus. Both phones are rated IP67 water resistant and come in five different colours – silver, gold, rose gold, a shiny Jet Black variant and a sandblasted matte…
Read MoreHonor officially announces Honor 8 for RM1699 and new budget Honor 5A for RM599
Honor today officially announced the price for their new Honor 8 flagship phone. We took a firsthand look at the Honor 8 earlier and it offers bespoke looks in the form of a glass backplate sheathed in 16 layers of glass to create a unique striated effect when light bounces off the phone. Aesthetics aside,…
Read MoreHuawei phone bites a bullet to save man’s life
While smartphones are usually lifesavers in the metaphorical sense of the word, one of Huawei’s phones did exactly that to save a man’s life. The incident took place recently in August in South Africa where one Siraaj Abrahams was mugged and was shot at close range by what seems to be a 9mm round from…
Read More[Review] Xiaomi Mi 5 – Time for a High Five!
![[Review] Xiaomi Mi 5 - Time for a High Five! 8](https://hitechcentury.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1-cover-mi-5-1024x576.jpg "[Review] Xiaomi Mi 5 - Time for a High Five! 42")
Known for making some seriously good phones that do not cost an arm and a leg, Xiaomi has enjoyed a popular following on account of the moderate price tag and decent quality of their devices. Their latest flagship phone for the local market follows their traditional game plan by cramming in a flagship-class Snapdragon 820…
Read MoreIFA 2016 – X Marks the spot with Neffos’ new X1 and X1 Max smartphones
Best known for making some seriously reliable networking hardware, TP-LINK has made forays into the smartphone market with the launch of their Neffos range of smartphones which debuted earlier this year in the form of their C5, C5 Max and C5l phones. Now, they’re upping the ante with two designs that were revealed at IFA…
Read MoreIFA 2016 – Huawei announces new midrange Nova and Nova Plus phones
While Huawei’s P9 family of flagship phones are taking most of the limelight this year, they’re branching out with their unveiling of a new range of phones that they’ve dubbed the Nova series that’s angled for midrange buyers at IFA 2016. Rather than tacking on a ton of bells and whistles, the Nova along with…
Read MoreSamsung takes proactive measures with general recall for Galaxy Note7 over alleged battery issues
While the news has been bandied about for the last few days, Samsung has made it official. 35 cases involving the battery of the new Galaxy Note 7 catching fire have occurred around the world. According to Samsung’s investigation of the incident, they’ve found the issue related to the battery of the Note7 though this…
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