Lazada celebrates its fifth anniversary this year and to date, according to their bean counters, they’ve sold over 12 million phones – enough to total up to 2,100 vertically stacked Petronas Twin Towers end to end – since they’ve opened their virtual doors. The online e-tailer has also sold over 5.3 million diapers – enough…
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…
In a press conference today, Cenviro announced that will be deploying a fully-integrated ERP (enterprise resource planning) system from enterprise application software leader SAP to digitally transform their organisation. The flagship of Khazanah Nasional Berhad’s investment in sustainable development, Cenviro owns and operates Malaysia’s first integrated waste management centre that meets international standards. With over…
Samsung’s new QLED TVs made their debut at CES and at SEA Forum 2017, wowing pundits with their ability to display breathtakingly vivid hues and pin-sharp imagery onscreen. The key behind the QLED TVs is their eponymous Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diode (QLED) tech that serves up deeper richer colours along with enhanced screen longevity…
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…
The number of phone companies that make their own SoC chips in-house is an elusively elite club that Xiaomi has just joined when they began production on their 28nm Surge S1 octacore processor that combined eight Cortex A53 cores, with four of them clocked at 2.2GHz and another at 1.4GHz with the ability to handle…
Cramming in the most bang for the least buck has become an art form for Xiaomi and their latest sub RM800 phone is a testament to the fact that they are seriously good at what they do. After a launch in Vietnam yesterday and a preorder in Malaysia that begun on 10 March, Xiaomi’s eponymous…
![[Review] Hasselblad True Zoom Moto Mod 34](https://hitechcentury.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/hasselblad-300x169.jpg "[Review] Hasselblad True Zoom Moto Mod 34")
A modification that turns your Moto series phone into a potent compact with impressive zoom capabilities though it veers on the bulky side and is reliant on your smartphone for juice, limiting its endurance.
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Sturdily built with an innovative, semi-modular design, the Moto Z Play is an affordable entry point into the Moto Mod ecosystem. On its own the Moto Z Play is a serviceable sub RM1.8K phone with decent performance and great battery life but combined with its Moto Mods, it’s a potent camphone/portable pico projector/ghetto blaster.
Everyone is jumping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon and a local outfit in Malaysia has decided to take the lead in that regard by launching Malaysia’s first crowdsourcing app for medical bills dubbed Life Engineering. The app relies on the fellow goodwill of participants who all pay an annual participation fee of RM100 and an additional RM100…