Huawei parts the veil on their Kirin 955 processors

By Hitech Century | July 3, 2016 |

The intricate, painstakingly precise manufacturing process along with the R&D that goes into making smartphone processors is something that’s rarely elaborated on by their makers. For many, a phone simply works; every single bit of plastic, metal, silicon and glass crammed into a handheld chunk of metal that’s often little thicker than a deck of…

[Review] BackPack Galaxy S7 Edge casing: Juicing the pocket rocket

By Hitech Century | June 24, 2016 |

The use case (pun aside) for Samsung’s official BackPack battery casing is fairly obvious. If you drive your phone hard, like we do, without the opportunity to recharge it when out and about, you’ll often have to resort to a snake pit of cables and a plethora of spare power banks jingling about in your…

[REVIEW] Huawei P9 – The Magical Monochrome Marvel

By Hitech Century | June 20, 2016 |

Huawei’s P9 flagship that comes with a dual camera setup co-engineered with Leica gets put to the test

The Galaxy S7 Edge Injustice Edition is coming to town

By Hitech Century | June 11, 2016 |

If you’ve ever wanted a closer connection to the Caped Crusader, you’re in luck as Malaysia will be getting a small production run of the limited edition Galaxy S7 Edge Injustice edition phone that prominently features Batman’s famous iconography all over it. For the price of entry of RM4,099 inclusive of GST, you get a…

The Samsung S7 Edge is looking pretty in Pink Gold

By Hitech Century | May 30, 2016 |

If you’ve been balking at acquiring one of the hottest Android phones of the year because you weren’t too fond of the lack of, how shall we say, more feminine oriented colours in their line-up, wait no longer as Samsung has just issued the Galaxy S7 Edge for Malaysia in a shade of Pink Gold.…

The new Hello Kitty Grace 10 Light convertible dials up the cuteness into overdrive

By Hitech Century | May 25, 2016 |

If you’re keen on a cute looking convertible, you can’t get cuter than this 10.1-inch slate dubbed the Hello Kitty Grace 10 Light that comes with a detachable keyboard from SNS Network that is liberally emblazoned with Hello Kitty imagery and comes complete in a rather eye catching shade of black with pink trim on…

Forget team Cap or team Iron Man – Superman and the Black Widow have joined team Huawei

By Hitech Century | May 22, 2016 |

While the launch of any flagship smartphone these days is usually greeted with the sort of pomp and glitter that you’d expect on a fashion runway in Milan, it’s been repeated to the point that people are desensitised to the whole affair. There’s only so many waifishly slim models and shiny presentation decks to go…

[REVIEW] Samsung Galaxy S7 edge – The edge of perfection

By Hitech Century | May 8, 2016 |

If there’s something to be said for Samsung, it’s the fact that they aren’t afraid to experiment with new ideas. When they introduced the Galaxy S5, it came with water resistance which was a novelty for the time. The following year, the Galaxy S6 edge removed expandable storage but introduced an innovative curved edge screen,…