Honor’s first concept store opens at Lowyat Plaza

By Hitech Century | November 17, 2016 |

Honor opened its first concept store yesterday at Lowyat Plaza where users can experience their latest devices and purchase them too onsite. From November 15th to November 21st, the store will be having a special promotion where customers are entitled to receive a selection of free gifts like tempered glass, microSD cards and more with…

The new bespoke Huawei Mate 9 Porsche costs a whopping RM6500

By Hitech Century | November 6, 2016 |

If you think the mainstream Huawei Mate 9 phone that was launched recently in Munich, Germany is something a bit too pedestrian for your tastes and you’re looking for something a bit more, how shall we say, ostentatious, well you’re in luck as Huawei has an even more powerful, and sexier looking variant of the…

Huawei launches the Mate 9

By Hitech Century | November 4, 2016 |

Huawei’s latest successor to the Mate 8 that has just launched in Germany ticks off a sundry list of improvements that include a revamped user interface, an updated processor, a better camera and tweaks to the Mate 9’s charging ability to create a solid premium phone. Externally, the phone comes with Huawei’s usual aesthetic embellishments…

Huawei’s MediaPad M3 and Nova Plus arrive in Malaysia

By Hitech Century | October 14, 2016 |

Huawei’s Nova Plus smartphone and MediaPad M3 tablet that were glimpsed at IFA 2016 in Berlin are now finally available for sale in Malaysia. The MediaPad M3 is Huawei’s take on a slate that comes with an 8.4-inch, 2,560 x 1600 pixel resolution display. Running under the hood is Android 6.0 on a HiSilicon Kirin 950 processor paired with 4GB…

Huawei and Leica set up joint-lab at Wetzlar, Germany

By Hitech Century | September 25, 2016 |

Huawei and Leica announced their alliance earlier this year with the first fruits of their team-up being the P9 and P9 Plus smartphone. Now, both parties have taken the next step in their collaborative effort by pooling their R&D assets and establishing the ‘Max Berek Innovation Lab’ based at Leica’s global HQ in Wetzlar, Germany.…

The Honor 7 Enhanced is getting an RM200 price reduction, will soon be RM1299

By Hitech Century | September 24, 2016 |

Huawei’s spinoff midrange retail brand Honor has been making quite a few waves lately with their Honor 8 phone that incorporates hardware culled from their high-end P9 flagship phones, in particular their dual camera setup which has a single mono and a single colour sensor paired up together for better overall performance. The difference is…

IFA 2016 – Huawei announces new midrange Nova and Nova Plus phones

By Hitech Century | September 3, 2016 |

While Huawei’s P9 family of flagship phones are taking most of the limelight this year, they’re branching out with their unveiling of a new range of phones that they’ve dubbed the Nova series that’s angled for midrange buyers at IFA 2016. Rather than tacking on a ton of bells and whistles, the Nova along with…

Huawei’s P9 now comes in either Blue or Red

By Hitech Century | September 2, 2016 |

The original Huawei P9 launched earlier this year with a slew of metallic colours along with their rear dual Leica-certified camera setup that served up some excellent snaps as we can attest to in our prior review. The P9’s HiSilicon Kirin 955 processor was a solid performer as well that handled everything thrown at it…

[First Look] The Honor 8 is coming to Malaysia this September – behold its gorgeous mirror finish

By Hitech Century | August 26, 2016 |

If you harboured aspirations of owning the smartphone equivalent of a sports car at family sedan prices, you’ll likely have been eyeing the Honor 8 that has already been launched in China, the States and, recently, in a grand debut in Paris, France. The phone is a midrange workhorse that comes with some of Huawei’s best…

Huawei teases new ladies-oriented phone range, a new Mate series phone and more

By Hitech Century | August 23, 2016 |

On a balmy Tuesday, Huawei gave a glimpse of their plans for the future when Mr. Kevin Ho, President, Handset Product Line, Huawei Consumer Business Group took a few minutes out of his schedule to chat about the P9 phone series, how it is doing in Malaysia and beyond as well as what to expect…