Smartphones
Xiaomi has just announced their own chipset. Say hello to the Surge S1
Xiaomi has just joined a very exclusive club of phone vendors that have the mojo and the lucre to create their own chipsets. Today, they’ve announced their first in-house SoC, the Surge S1 along with the first phone that will be powered by it – the Mi 5C. The Surge S1 is an octacore processor…
Read MoreHuawei launches P10 and P10 Plus at MWC 2017
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group took to a packed stage at MWC in Barcelona and revealed their latest successors to last year’s P9: the new P10 and the P10 Plus. Both phones come in not one, not four but a whopping eight different colours with two of them specially created by Pantone…
Read MoreKeyboards are back in style with Blackberry’s KEYOne at MWC 2017
While beleaguered Blackberry has all but become a shadow of its former self in reach and influence with their phones now being made by Chinese smartphone manufacturer TCL, they’re still giving it the old college try with their KEYOne phone that was just announced a scant few hours ago ahead of Mobile World Congress in…
Read MoreSamsung C9 Pro phablet is official at price of RM2,299
If you’re hankering for a phablet that is larger than almost anything else in Samsung’s line-up, you’re in luck as they’ve just made their Galaxy C9 Pro official. Previously only meant for the Far East market and India, the phone is now available for sale in Malaysia. Paired with a massive 6-inch 1080P Super AMOLED touchscreen…
Read MoreOPPO’s Min Chen special edition R9s arriving in Malaysia
OPPO’s R9s camphone has recently made headlines of late as it’s one of the few sub-RM2000 phones that come with a cracking good rear camera with an F/1.7 aperture, PDAF and Sony’s new IMX398 sensor to serve up some brill shots. It has appeared in several different colour variants including a limited edition Valentine Red…
Read MoreHTC’s new flagship U Ultra offers ultra slick mirror finish, AI, secondary display and removes headphone jack
HTC’s eponymous HTC 10 phone last year was not only a looker, it was also quite a performer too and remains one of the few, if not the only phone that integrates optical image stabilisation for the front-facing selfie camera. This time around, HTC is offering a new spin on things with the rollout of…
Read MorePreorders begin for the Honor 6x phablet
The Honor 6X is Huawei’s latest budget offering that attempts to embody their philosophy of bringing in the most bang for the least buck. Having made its initial debut in China and the US, the Honor 6X is now making an appearance in Malaysia, one of the first regional markets to do so outside of…
Read MoreASUS wants to make it rain with the Zenfone 3 Max ’38 Days of Storm’ giveaway campaign!
[UPDATE] ASUS has updated the mechanics of how the ZenFone 3 Max ’38 Days of Storm’ giveaway is going to work. Essentially, you have to snap an outfit of the day with the theme of surviving a thunderstorm and post it on your Facebook or Instagram account with the hashtag #TakHabisHabis and #ZenFone3MaxMY. There’s some fine…
Read MoreSamsung’s waterproof A5 and A7 now come in Peach Cloud and Blue Mist for Valentine’s Day
A wise person once said that diamonds are forever but that person didn’t reckon that diamonds are unable to let you update your Facebook much less make calls which is where Samsung’s refreshed 2017 incarnations of their Galaxy A5 and A7 phones come in. Currently, both phones only come in Black Sky and Gold Sand…
Read MoreHuawei P10 and P10 Plus details leak
An alleged information leak in the form of a product information sheet has just turned up for Huawei’s next generation of phones: the P10 and its larger sibling the P10 Plus. The info sheet ought to be taken with a huge grain of salt until official verification appears but as far as the product sheet…
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