6 Amazing Valentine’s Day Gadget Gift Ideas
Love is in the air and that special day is just around the corner. Rather than a chunk of shrubbery, a slab of boring old processed cocoa byproduct or a piece of carbon, why not give them something else of far more value instead? There’s no better way show you care than to profer the wonderful gift of tech to that special someone in your life. If you’re hard up for gift ideas, check out our handy tech gift guide where we have something for everyone.
The ideal Valentine’s Day gift for…
The Active Go-Getter
Samsung Gear S3
RM1,399
11street | Lazada.
When one mentions a smartwatch, you’d usually conjure up an image of a hunk of plastic beeping away on your wrist with a garishly blinged up strap. Samsung’s Gear S3 smartwatch dispels that image and trounces it soundly as it’s designed and hewn by a master Swiss watchmaker. It comes in either the rugged looking Gear S3 Frontier or the eminently posh looking Gear S3 Classic and lets you make and take calls straight off a paired smartphone and comes with the full monty for fitness tracking functionality that include a heart rate tracker, calories burned and exercise tracking too. Better yet, the Gear S3 accepts any third party watchstrap and combined with the changeable watch faces and active fitness tracking, you have quite a capable – and good looking – package indeed.
The ideal Valentine’s Day gift for…
The Power User
Huawei Mate 9 Pro
RM3,399
Vmall | 11street | Lazada
For that special someone who rocks with the suit and tie crowd, you’ll need something that has the looks to suit that designer power suit, the performance to match it and the endurance to last through a day of conference calls and e-mails. Huawei’s new Mate 9 Pro is quite literally all business as it crams a 5.5-inch 2K curved display, a nippy Kirin 960 octacore processor running Android 7.0 with their new EMUI 5.0 and 128GB of expandable storage too. The rear camera is their most potent yet – a dual camera with one 20-MP mono sensor and a 12-MP colour rear sensor beefed up with OIS and hybrid autofocus; both work in tandem to deliver colour and monochrome stills as well as 4K video with equal capability. Keeping the whole thing juiced up is a 4,000mAh battery with phenomenal endurance and fast charge support. Oh, and a fingerprint reader makes sure all that important stuff is safe and secure too.
The ideal Valentine’s Day gift for…
The Guy/Girl Who Wants It All
Moto Z with Moto Mods
Moto Z RM2,699 | Moto InstaShare Projector RM1,399 | Hasselblad True Zoom Camera RM1,299 | JBL SoundBoost Speaker RM599 | Incipio offGRID Power Pack RM499
Is your special guy or gal someone who can end up spending an hour making up their mind what to order on the menu? Or are they the sort who want everything possible in a phone? Well, you’re in luck as the Moto Z lets you customise it in a way no other phone can. The phone itself has pretty respectable hardware – a 5.5-inch 1,440 x 2,560 pixel display, the latest Android Nougat 7.0 running on a Snapdragon 820 processor and a rear 13-MP camera with an F/1.8 aperture and OIS.
What knocks it out of the ballpark is that you can add on a series of Moto Mod backplates to vastly expand the functionality of the Moto Z. The backplates latch on securely via magnets and depending on what you bolt on, adds additional capabilities to the phone. A pico projector lets you serve up movies on the go while the JBL SoundBoost speaker turns it into a portable boombox. The Hasselblad True Zoom camera mod adds in 10x optical zoom and the famous brand’s optics to turn it into a bona fide compact camera.
The ideal Valentine’s Day gift for…
The fashionista
Limited edition Valentine Red OPPO R9s RM1,798
OPPO | 11street
If you’re looking to snag something that stands out and shows that you love the fashionista in your life to bits, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more stand-out phone than this. The OPPO R9s comes in a variety of colours but this limited edition Valentine Red variant is shipping for Valentine’s Day and if you preorder on the Oppo website, you’ll be able to engrave up to fifteen characters on the back of the phone for a personalised message. Aesthetics aside, the OPPO R9s has been hewn from the ground up to be a potent camphone with a rear 16-MP camera that has an F/1.7 aperture, phase detection autofocus and an LED flash. The display is a generous 5.5-inch 1080P display paired with 64GB of expandable storage, a midrange Snapdragon processor and a 3,010mAh battery with their VOOC fast charging tech.
The ideal Valentine’s Day gift for…
The music lover
Klipsch R6 Neckband
RM945
TCACoustic |
A bard once said that,”if music be the food of love, play on!” If you count an audiophile as your significant other, you’ll find that they’ll appreciate what the R6 Neckband can offer. It’s wireless, with the battery cunningly stored in the stitched leather neckpiece to offer 18 hours of wireless playback and it also allows you to take calls as well as pipe music off a paired smartphone. The clincher here is their uniquely designed earbuds that are seriously one of the most comfortable ever designed on the planet that allow for hours and hours of comfortable wear and solid, detailed music via the dual-moving coil drivers.
The ideal Valentine’s Day gift for…
The Gamer
PlayStation 4 Uncharted Adventure Pack
RM1,419
Sony Asia | 11street | Lazada
If there’s a gamer in your life, you’ll show the ultimate gift of love and care with this humongous PlayStation 4 bundle. Not only does it throw in the latest slim 500GB PS4, it also throws in a ton of other goodies too including all the Uncharted games on top of a one-year extended PS4 warranty service voucher card and a free three-month subscription to Playstation Plus too. You’ll have to pry them off the controller occasionally to communicate with them but they’ll love you to bits.
