Here’s how Huawei XD Optics and XD Fusion Pro True Chroma cameras in the P50 Pro and P50 Pocket offer superior photography performance

By Hitech Century | February 7, 2022 |

Smartphones have come a long way from their first humble beginnings when they were installed as little more than a novelty on early generation feature phones sometime in the early 2000s. Evolving from camera quality barely better than a vague pixel-smeared blur, smartphone cameras today have become so powerful and so ubiquitous the humble compact…

Huawei’s best UI ever and Nougat 7.0 rolling out for their Honor 8 and P9 phones

By Hitech Century | February 4, 2017 |

Sometime in June last year, Huawei hired one Abigail Brody as Chief UX Designer to work on their next generation of their EMUI user interfaces. Working out of Huawei’s San Francisco hub, Brody was the top gun behind Apple’s design efforts. The former Apple creative director worked at Cupertino for almost a decade and had…

Huawei has shipped over 10 million P9 and P9 Plus phones in 2016

By Hitech Century | January 21, 2017 |

Huawei recently released a report on their overall performance in 2016 and by all indications, they’ve done exceptionally well even in a bearish market. Globally, Huawei has shipped over 139 million phones and the numbers are going up, with 29% year-on-year growth despite a tough market with International Data Corporation (IDC), stating that global smartphone…

Olympian Azizulhasni Awang graces Huawei P9 roadshow at Pyramid mall

By Hitech Century | September 24, 2016 |

Huawei’s P9 roadshow at the Sunway Pyramid mall today was graced by the presence of national Olympic medallist Azizulhasni Awang who snagged the bronze in the Men’s Keirin finals at the Rio Velodrome. The Olympian took to the stage to share his experiences using the Huawei P9 Plus as well as his time in Rio…

Tips & Tricks – Hitting the streets with street photographer Nic Chung and the Huawei P9

By Hitech Century | August 30, 2016 |

One of Malaysia’s most accomplished wedding photographers, Nic Chung has captured the magic from behind the lens for over a decade. In between travelling the world to the most scenic wedding venues on the planet, he indulges in street photography and portraiture. When given the Huawei P9, he took to it like a duck to water.…

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] 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

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…

Huawei’s P9 Lite and P9 ready for preorders, hits stores in Malaysia on 28 May

By Hitech Century | May 22, 2016 |

Huawei’s alliance with Leica has finally borne fruit in the form of their P9 series of smartphones that were unveiled to the world in London first and recently in Bali for the Southeast Asia region. The P9 series comes in three different flavours, the P9 Lite, the flagship P9 and the P9 Plus. For those…