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The MWC 2017 Roundup – Our Fave Offerings on the Showroom Floor
Mobile World Congress 2017 has come and gone. In the short space of 96 hours under one roof and multiple halls in Barcelona that spanned the length of several football fields, the world’s greatest manufacturers of tech across the spectrum for smartphones and the ancillary services and technologies that support them showcased their latest and…
Read MoreThe Wishlist
It has become something of a tradition of sorts. Part work and part tech-fuelled passion, tech journos like me pencil in dates when the world’s latest phone vendors showcase their latest smartphones for the year with the sort of fervour that a fashion journo pencils in the dates for Paris Fashion Week. These global smartphone launches…
Read MoreAcer’s Swift 5 notebook arrives in Malaysia starting from RM3,499
Weighing a light 1.3kg, Acer’s new Swift 5 notebook is their latest offering to the ultraportable market alongside their Swift 3 and Swift 7 that were launched earlier. Crammed into a metal casing that’s 14.58mm thin, the Acer Swift 5 comes with a 14-inch Full HD display with 8mm thin bezels on the edges, an…
Read MoreOPPO’s newly launched camera tech at MWC may just kill the point-and-shoot for good
While most smartphone vendors announce their latest phones for the year at Mobile World Congress, up and comer OPPO’s modus operandi is rather different. Last year, they announced their take on fast charging tech dubbed Super VOOC Flash Charge that sought to address the perpetual problem facing every smartphone on the planet – charging it…
Read MoreAttack of the Titan: Unboxing the Massively Powerful Galaxy C9 Pro
Bordering the edge into tablet territory, the Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro straddles an interesting demarcation of form and function as it logically extends the size and potential of a phablet form factor to its logical conclusion beyond that of their Galaxy Note series but paring down some features to keep it within the more affordable circa-RM2K…
Read MoreOPPO’s R9s camera and the tech behind it explained
Smartphone cameras today are approaching a level of sophistication and performance that have put left all but the most powerful point-and-shoot compacts in the dust. A piece by Petapixel derived camera production data from CIPA for 2016 and while photography is more popular than ever, most of the sales on the chart was derived from…
Read MoreSamsung Pay is now live in Malaysia
Samsung Pay is now officially launched in Malaysia with a host of local banks. For the uninitiated, Samsung Pay is a device-based mobile payment platform that allows users with a compatible Samsung phone to conduct mobile payments at any credit card terminal be it MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) or NFC (Near Field Communication) based terminals,…
Read MoreThe Samsung Pay roadshow at KLCC is coming soon – here are the deals you can score
The Samsung Pay roadshow is about to take place on 24 February to 28 February 2017 at the KLCC main concourse where they will kick off their payment solution in style. While it was in open beta last time we field tested it, it’s now going to roll out in an official fashion and they’re…
Read MoreThe latest IDC smartphone market share figures are in – here’s the top five biggest smartphone vendors in Malaysia for 2016
The International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report which covers smartphone shipments in Malaysia recorded about 2.7 million units across the range from entry level to flagship phones shipped in Malaysia in quarter 4 of 2016. This brings the year to a close with 8.8 million or so phones shipped which is, according…
Read MoreTech and Golf meet at Maybank Championship 2017
This year’s Maybank Championship 2017 will see the likes of US Masters reigning champion Danny Willett, former Masters winner Charl Schwartzel and some of the world’s finest golfers tee off at the Saujana Golf and Country club from 9 to 12 February. While the pros are getting their shots in, Maybank is also serving up…
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