Mavic Pro drone and Osmo Mobile gimbal launched in Malaysia

By Hitech Century | October 12, 2016 |

ECS ICT Berhad today took the wraps off two new devices from DJI – the Mavic Pro drone and the Osmo Mobile smartphone gimbal in a launch today in Malaysia. The Mavic Pro has a range of 7km with a maximum speed of 40mph. The Drone has a nose-mounted 12.35-MP camera that captures snaps in…

[Review] ASUS ZenFone 3 (ZE552KL) – Zen and the art of the premium workhorse smartphone

By Hitech Century | October 10, 2016 |

ASUS’s latest successor to their ZenFone line is a significant step up for them in many ways. Rather than the plasticky designs of its predecessors, the ZenFone 3 sports a flagship-class, bespoke glass and metal build which looks and feels exceptionally classy. It is also one of the first ZenFones in their line-up to sport…

OPPO’s F1s shows its stuff at KLPF with photo exhibition

By Hitech Century | October 10, 2016 |

The Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival (KLPF) at the Kenanga Wholesale City mall is an annual affair that offers shutterbugs a chance to talk shop, check out the latest hardware and admire the work of their fellow peers. OPPO was there in force with a booth showcasing their latest F1s selfie phone which bucks the trend…

Red Hat hosts sixth annual forum in Kuala Lumpur

By Hitech Century | October 9, 2016 |

Running for six concurrent years, the Red Hat Forum showcases the best ideas in open source innovation and the enterprise space. The annual circuit covers a dozen cities across the globe and this time around, Malaysia was sixth in the circuit just after Red Hat concluded their proceedings in Tokyo the day before and which…

Sony’s Signature Series audio gear has landed in Malaysia

By Hitech Century | October 9, 2016 |

Sony’s ultra premium Signature Series headphones that debuted at IFA 2016 have finally made it to Malaysia. Befitting the name, the Signature Series is all class with a classy black finish across the line-up which consists of a pair of plush closed-back noise cancelling headphones, a desktop amplifier and a Walkman that acts as the…

Google debuts Daydream View VR headset, looks like a (comfy) dream

By Hitech Century | October 5, 2016 |

Announced at the same time as the Pixel, the Daydream View is akin to the Samsung Gear VR in that it needs a smartphone to act as the display itself though the first phone slated to be compatible with it is, naturally, the Google Pixel. While the idea behind its inception isn’t new, the Daydream…

Google launches their own Pixel phone

By Hitech Century | October 5, 2016 |

Inadvertently leaked by several vendors days before its launch, the Google Pixel phone finally made its official debut yesterday at Google’s grand launch in San Francisco. Departing from previous efforts like the Nexus 6P, the Pixel comes only with Google’s logo emblazoned on top. It aesthetically takes a few cues off HTC’s design language; no…

[Review] MSI GE62VR Apache Pro Review – On the warpath

By Hitech Century | October 5, 2016 |

MSI’s latest refresh of the GE62 series dubbed the GE62VR notably sports NVIDIA’s latest GTX1060 graphics card with an Intel Skylake processor and subtle refinements to MSI’s Dragon Center control app while retaining the features that made it a solid gaming rig like its SteelSeries keyboard and relatively sturdy build quality. The MSI GE62VR is…

Alienware’s new VR-ready gaming rigs have landed

By Hitech Century | October 4, 2016 |

Alienware has just officially launched their latest array of gaming hardware that comes with NVIDIA’s latest GTX-10 series GPUs that enable them to support VR gaming out of the box with the the likes of HTC’s Vive or the Oculus Rift. The new line-up consists of a trio of gaming rigs and a gaming desktop :…

Facebook launches Messenger Lite app for Android

By Hitech Century | October 3, 2016 |

The next piece of Facebook’s puzzle in regards to catering for users with low quota data plans and lower powered, older Android phones has just been revealed in the form of the Facebook Messenger Lite app. The app is a slimmed down version of Messenger for Android for those with slower internet speeds and, how…