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…
When you have a movie with the implausible premise that extreme sports enthusiasts are more badass than Special Forces operators, you’re going to need a lot of explosions to suspend that sense of disbelief. Fortunately, this third outing in the XxX series delivers that and quite a bit more. Rather than being an euphemism…
Apple’s mandate that testicular fortitude is needed to omit the headphone jack in their iPhone 7 has seen the proliferation of a slew of wireless buds and cans that aim to top Apple’s AirPods. Erato’s wireless Apollo 7 headphone is the latest contender and it looks like the coolest thing on the audio front so far…
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…
The Samsung Gear S3 is one of the poshest looking smartwatches in eons. Coming in two aesthetic variants – the S3 Classic and the S3 Frontier that are designed by a master Swiss watchmaker and then packing some serious customisability, the Gear S3 is as fetching as it is functional. Check out how one of…
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…
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…
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…
It’s the season for giving with the coming Year of the Rooster and Uber has just opened up a website where you can share free virtual ‘angpaus’ to friends and family. Each angpau entitles recipients to two free rides worth RM5. All you have to do is to swing by the site, write in the…
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…