Samsung Galaxy S20 series price & pre-order details are here

The Samsung Galaxy S20 series was officially unveiled a few hours ago – and now we have all the details that we need to know about this brand new smartphone – including its price and pre-order bonuses.
The pre-order bonus is pretty straightforward. Both the Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra will receive the new Galaxy Buds+ that is worth RM599. Remember that this is on a first-come-first-serve basis. Samsung mentioned in the terms and conditions that there will only be 13,000 units nationwide across all participating outlets.

The pre-order starts from today, 12th February 2020 at 5pm until 26th February 2020. The participating outlets are as below:

Maxis
Celcom
Digi
YTL
U Mobile
Senheng
SenQ
Harvey Norman
Courts
Urban Republic
Best Denki
Samsung official Lazada store
Samsung official Shopee store

For more information regarding the pre-order of the Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra, visit https://s20preorder.mysamsungcampaign.com/.
By the way, all of the Galaxy S20 series comes with 128GB of internal storage. The prices are as such:

Galaxy S20 with 8GB RAM @ RM3,599. 4G only.
Galaxy S20+ with 8GB RAM @ RM3,999. 4G only.
Galaxy S20 Ultra with 12GB RAM @ RM4,999. 5G only.

I would have to say, the price is much lower than the US pricing counterpart. That is why we never directly convert the prices from USD to MYR, because the local pricing is vastly different.

Also, the Galaxy Buds+ is surprisingly affordable as its price is lower than the Sudio Fem that we have reviewed here. We’re particularly interested with the Galaxy Buds+ since there are leaks pointing to having the “gaming mode” but was not mentioned during the Unpacked event.
We will definitely be testing its audio latency when we get our hands on the review unit of the Galaxy Buds+.

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POCO joins Shopee Brand Day with 2 new smartphone launch alongside bunch of discounts for older models

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The two smartphones are the POCO M4 5G and C40. While both of them offer incredible value like what most POCO phones are about, the M4 5G is about the low entry barrier to 5G technology and 90Hz display while the C40 is going all in for the budget aspect with its large screen and monstrous battery capacity.
As they are just all about their specs, here they are.

Model

POCO M4 5G

POCO C40

Display

6.58-inch IPS LCD Dot Drop Display (1080p Resolution, Waterdrop Notch, 90Hz Refresh Rate. 240Hz Sampling Rate)

6.71-inch IPS LCD Dot Drop Display (720p Resolution, Waterdrop Notch)

Chipset

MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G

JLQ JR510

RAM

Up to 6GB

Up to 4GB

Storage

Up to 128GB

Up to 64GB

Rear Camera

Main: 13MP f/2.2 with PDAF
Depth Sensor

Main: 13MP f/2.2
Depth Sensor

Front Camera

5MP

Battery

5,000mAh (18W Fast Charge)

6,000mAh (18W Fast Charge)

Colors

Power Black, Cool Blue, POCO Yellow

Power Black, Coral Green, POCO Yellow

And without further ado, here are all the things going on the fast track shelf.

Product

Super Brand Day Price (RM)

POCO F4 GT (8+256)

RM 1,899

POCO F4 GT (12+256)

RM 2,199

POCO F4 (6+128)

RM 1,499

POCO F4 (8+256)

RM 1,599

POCO X4 GT (6+128)

RM 1,399

POCO X4 GT (8+256)

RM 1,499

[New] POCO M4 5G (4+64)

RM 649

[New] POCO M4 5G (6+128)

RM 799

[New] POCO C40 (3+32)

RM 449

[New] POCO C40 (4+64)

RM 549

The sale is exclusively on POCO’s official global store so be sure to get to the correct store by clicking here.

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Review – Samsung Galaxy Buds2: When “premium” can also be affordable

During Samsung’s August 2021 Unpacked event, they announced a bunch of stuff – and the Galaxy Buds2 was one of them. And finally, we get our hands on it.
This new Galaxy Buds2 is a rather weird product, honestly. It’s not Samsung’s “highest-end” wireless earbuds – that title goes to the Galaxy Buds Pro. But they are both very similar to the point that I’ll say they’re very… well, just blurring the lines between “premium” and “affordable”.

Let’s start with the packaging. The packaging shows what color of the Samsung Galaxy Buds2 you’re getting. I can confirm this because I have another unit – which is in black – shows black buds instead.

But, I personally prefer the olive color ones so I unboxed the olive color earbuds.
Opening up reveals the usual things we get – the earbuds themselves, some documentation, different eartip sizes, and also the USB-C charging cable. Pretty standard stuff.
                   The extra eartips are placed within the hollow center of the coiled cables.
We’ll leave everything aside and only talk about the Galaxy Buds2 itself. Starting off with the case of the Galaxy Buds2. Its shape and size are exactly the same as the Galaxy Buds Live from last year, and it’s also the same as the Galaxy Buds Pro from early this year.

What’s different here though, is the color and finish of the outermost layer of the Galaxy Buds2’s case. It’s white and glossy. In fact, all colors of the Galaxy Buds2 come with a white and glossy case shell.

Like what we mentioned in our Unpacked event summary – I think Samsung is trying to sell us accessories for the Galaxy Buds2. And I think I’m right.
You see, the Galaxy Buds Pro has a matte finish. I got a simple silicone case for it just to prevent it from scratching. But the case – especially the lid part – doesn’t stick to the case and it’s a nuisance. Every time I try to open the Galaxy Buds Pro, the case will need to be removed first.
Samsung Galaxy Buds2 “sticks” to the silicone case a lot better.
But because of the Galaxy Buds2’s super glossy finish, the case can create a hermetic seal and the lid sticks to the silicone case!
Other than that, we still have the USB-C charging port at the back of the case and an indicator LED at the front – that’s about it.

Opening up the case, we found a slightly different hinge. The Galaxy Buds Pro relies on some spring mechanism to keep the hinge at a 90° angle but the Galaxy Buds2 relies on some kind of locking mechanism instead. Honestly, either way works – I just thought it’s worth highlighting and I’m glad Samsung didn’t skimp on this.

The earbuds themselves are very different if we compare the shape and size with the Galaxy Buds Pro. The Galaxy Buds2 is smaller in size and honestly, I think it’s a bit more difficult for my big greasy fingers to handle the Galaxy Buds2.

The contour is different, but in terms of feel – I think they’re both very similar to each other. I do realize that the Buds2 is a little sleeker in the ear since it doesn’t have that much Z-axis.

The eartips on the Galaxy Buds2 though, returned back to the simple circular design but it does have a mesh to prevent earwax from going into the speaker diaphragm. That means it’s also easy to wash – which is great.

Now, the sound quality coming out of the Galaxy Buds2 is actually pretty good. I tested both the Galaxy Buds2 and the Buds Pro in standard equalizer and I honestly think they both sound very similar to each other.
The bass is punchy, and vocals are clear – the trebles are certainly there and it’s overall comfortable to listen to.
And let’s not forget about the microphone test too – which I think is surprisingly “high def” compared to other TWS earbud microphones that we’ve tested in the past. To listen to the microphone test, watch our video at the top of this review.

In terms of features though, they’re pretty much the same. Here is the comparison between features available on both these pairs of earbuds.
We still have ANC and ambient modes just like the Buds Pro – but heading into the “earbuds settings” menu, we can see that the Galaxy Buds2 comes with one extra, useful feature – earbud test fit. It’s a simple test that takes only a few seconds.

Getting a good test is important to get the best sound quality possible -and also to get the best ANC experience. I’m just glad that Samsung made these kinds of features and built them into the app.

And if you’re already using multiple Samsung devices, there’s also a feature to seamlessly pass the connection between different Samsung devices.
And there are other features in the app too – but I’m not going to talk about them here. These are things that we’ve already come across previously – so I’m just going to move forward to the battery life.

I tested Galaxy Buds2’s battery life with ANC turned off and I got about 6-7 hours. Turning on ANC will decrease the battery life down to about 5-ish hours.
The case holds another 3 additional charges for the earbuds – so in total, it’ll last for a long time. By the way, it still has wireless charging capabilities too.
Wireless charging works!
Should you buy the Samsung Galaxy Buds2?
Blimey! At RM499, I think the price is extremely worth it. I mean, you’re getting nearly everything that the Galaxy Buds Pro has but at a significantly lower price. And remember – these two products are coming from the same company and they both connect to the same app, uses the same accessories, and have more or less the same features.

You do have to remember though, the Galaxy Buds2 is not a replacement for the Galaxy Buds Pro. They both serve different segments in the TWS earbuds market but I think the Buds2 is an excellent choice for those who are looking for a new pair of TWS earbuds.
I’ll also argue that the Galaxy Buds2 is much more worth it compared to Nothing Ear (1), which has the price tag here in Malaysia.
I think it’s also worth mentioning again that we’re reviewing the Galaxy Buds2 with a Samsung phone – so might not get all the features mentioned here if you’re using a non-Samsung phone.

Where to buy? (Affiliate links)

Amazon
Lazada
Shopee

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New ASUS ProArt monitors and desktop prebuilt revealed at CES 2023 aim to provide one-stop solution to content creators

Ever wondered what sort of equipment a content creator needs? Well, ASUS’s got the answer for you through the reveal of a couple of new ProArt displays and a desktop rig so you can start off your journey with some classy and powerful computer parts.

Let’s start off with the display department as the first one is the ProArt Display OLED PA32DCM, a premium class 31.5-inch 4K pure RGB Stripe OLED monitor with 99% DCI-P3 color gamut and 700 nits of max brightness that is certified to meet the DisplayHDR True Black 500 standards. Packing a sleek aluminum chassis and compact stand, it both looks well and works well in a studio setting.
It also supports the ProArt Color Center ecosystem in terms of calibrating ProArt monitors simultaneously to ensure consistent color accuracy across multiple displays for different visual projects of images and videos.

On the other hand, the ProArt Display PA279CRV is also a 4K HDR monitor at 27-inch boasting 99% DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB color gamut so this is perfect for both cinematic production and digital visual creation. Quality-of-life features such as the USB-C ports supporting DisplayPort signal and 96W power delivery make it a must for professionals.
Additionally, one may get this monitor in sizes of 24-inch and 32-inch as well!

Last on the list is the ProArt Station PD5 packing the best computing parts to process all sorts of exquisite effects and large-scale images thanks to the 13th Gen Intel Core i9 CPU + up to NVIDIA RTX A4000 GPU doing all the heavy lifting. For memory-hungry apps, the system can be fitted with up to 128GB of DDR4 RAM when the situation rises.
Its superior performance is paired with a “modernized” design (dustbins, anyone?) that includes the ASUS Lumiwiz LED indicators and power button shield for preventing accidental shutdowns on top of rendering progress reporting emails, all the while keeping everything as quiet as possible during idle or low workload periods.
Availability
The ASUS ProArt Station and ProArt Display offerings announced at CES 2023 will be launched in Malaysia at a later date.

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Prevent yourself from becoming the next durian scam victim by buying through verified sellers on Shopee

With many scams involving durians happening on a daily basis, Shopee and FAMA have decided to step up and curb these problems by introducing official portals that offer the king of fruit legitimately.

With official backing from the government on top of Shopee’s own guarantee policy, durian farmers and sellers are currently offering delicious durians via the Durian e-Fiesta campaign. As this is one of the beginning steps of normalizing digital transactions involving agricultural goods, FAMA picked Shopee as the partner platform for the 2nd time due to their ability in protecting customer’s purchase confidence through layers of guarantees and policies.
The campaign is currently up and running until the end of July with attractive discount vouchers of up to 50%, flat RM15 off RM60 purchases, or RM30 off RM100 purchases that are claimable via the eFAMAPLACE website. On top of these, as the midnight clock strikes each day, a limited set of Musang King, D24, and Kampung durians can be obtained from as low as RM0.77. Now, this is the REAL “Too good to be true” deals you can get.
More info about the campaign and eFAMAM can be acquired here.

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Redmi Note 8 & Redmi Note 8 Pro comes to Malaysia; priced at RM599 & RM1,099

Introducing the highly-anticipated Redmi Note 8 series. Malaysia is the first country to have this device outside of China, and obviously we’re honored to hold these two smartphones on our hands too.
Let’s talk a little bit about these two smartphones. Links to buy are as follows:

Lazada
Shopee

Redmi Note 8

Firstly, the Redmi Note 8. It’s the direct successor of the Redmi Note 7 that was launched earlier this year. With it comes a few specs upgrade as well:

6.3-inch IPS LCD display with waterdrop notch

2340×1080 pixels in resolution

Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 chipset
Up to 4GB RAM
Up to 128GB internal storage
Quadruple rear-facing cameras

Main: 48MP f/1.79 with PDAF
Ultrawide angle: 8MP f/2.2
Macro: 2MP f/2.4 with AF (2-10cm)
Depth sensor

13MP f/2.0 selfie camera
4,00mAh battery with 18W fast charging support

Includes a 10W charger in the box
USB Type-C (!!!)

Okay, on paper, the Redmi Note 8 is actually quite decent. I am surprised that the Redmi Note 8 has a total of 3 usable cameras – and this is the first time I’m seeing a macro camera that has autofocus. Even the HONOR 20 (review) and HONOR 20 Pro (review) smartphones does not have it.

The Redmi Note 8 also comes with an IR blaster – enabling us to control our everyday household appliances with the phone only.
However, I am worried about that Snapdragon 665 chipset as its performance is actually worse than the Snapdragon 660, as shown in our review of the Mi A3.

There are a total of 3 different colors of the Redmi Note 8 – Space Black, Neptune Blue, and Moonlight White.
The Redmi Note 8 is also available in 3 different configurations:

3GB RAM + 32GB storage @ RM599
4GB RAM + 64GB storage @ RM799
4GB RAM + 128GB storage @ RM899

Pre-order starts today. If you order the 4GB RAM + 64GB storage now, you’ll also get the Mi True Wireless Earbuds Basic (worth RM99) for free! You can learn more about the Mi True Wireless Earbuds Basic here. It is also known as the Redmi AirDots in other regions.

Redmi Note 8 Pro
For the Pro variant, it’s Malaysia’s first-ever smartphone to be equipped with a large 64MP camera sensor in a smartphone, thanks to the Samsung. As for the specs, here they are:

6.53-inch IPS LCD display with waterdrop notch

2340×1080 pixels in resolution

MediaTek Helio G90T chipset
6GB LPDDR4X RAM
Up to 128GB storage (UFS 2.1)
Quadruple rear-facing cameras

Main: 64MP Samsung GW1 sensor with f/1.89
Ultrawide angle: 8MP f/2.2
Macro: 2MP f/2.4 with AF; 2cm
Depth sensor

20MP f/2.0 selfie camera
4,500mAh battery with 18W fast charging support

Honestly, the Redmi Note 8 Pro is an interesting smartphone. Firstly, this smartphone comes with a 64MP Samsung GW1 camera sensor. So far, we’ve not tried any smartphones with this sensor just yet – but from the pictures shown on stage, it looks fantastic. There’s this cool feature where we can “change” the weather of the picture taken, and that looks absolutely stunning.

As for the MediaTek chipset, we do know that MediaTek can make good chips, as we have experienced in other smartphones. We’ll definitely have to get our hands on the Redmi Note 8 Pro to know how this performs.
The Redmi Note 8 is available in 3 colors – Mineral Grey, Pearl White, and Forest Green. My personal favorite this time around is definitely the Forest Green.

It is also available in two different configurations:

6GB RAM + 64GB storage @ RM1,099 (early bird price at RM999)
6GB RAM + 128GB storage @ RM1,199

Pre-order also starts today. If you pre-order the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage variant today, you’ll be entitled to get the Black Shark gaming controller (left side only) too. It’s a bizarre gift bundle – but hey, it fits like a glove – literally!
There was one demo unit there and obviously, we have to go try it out on our own. It works just as expected, and it is just great.

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Apple pushes new Magic accessories into Malaysia and introduces new Mac Pro GPU modules

Apple has brought in the latest Magic series peripherals of 2021 together with brand new MPX modules tailored towards the Mac Pro.

First up is the all new Magic Keyboard that comes in 3 flavours of Full-Size with Touch ID, 65% with Touch ID, and 65% without Touch ID. Meanwhile, the Magic TrackPad now has even better sensitivity and sensing tech under the hood that fully enables Multi-Gesture and Force Touch with the Magic Mouse continues the traditional design but added with a new Multi-Touch feature that lets u use gesture to gain quick access to some of your most frequent actions.
To the wired side of things, all of these new Magic peripherals now include a USB-C to Lightning cable for quick and easy pairing or even charging when needed where the devices themselves are rated for averagely a month of use time between each round of full juice.

On the other hand, Apple also officially introduced the new AMD Radeon Pro W6000 series  MPX module that equips a pair of GPU per module with each machine capable of hosting 2, making it effective 4 GPUs in 1 machine with up to a total of 128GB of VRAM to satisfy some of the most intensive industrial tasks. These new units will be made available during order configurations or as individual units that served as upgrade options to the older Mac Pro models. As a result of introducing the W6000 series family, the de facto choice of Vega Pro II MPX modules will be retired completely from the machine’s lineup.
Availability
The new Apple Magic accessories and AMD Radeon Pro W6000-series MPX-equipped Mac Pro are available for purchase starting right now on the Apple Store.

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Pick your choice of becoming a healthy person through Garmin’s latest 11.11 sales

While most platforms just want people to spam as many purchases as possible, Garmin Malaysia is taking a different way of encouraging people to choose a healthy life as the theme of its 11.11 sales.

It’s nothing too complicated, just a bunch of fitness smartwatches going on sale in case you want a good digital companion to track your progress.

Product

Promo Price

Forerunner 245 (Black/Amp Yellow)

RM1,199

Forerunner 245 Music Edition (Black/Lava Red)

RM1,399

Venu Sq (Shadow Gray/Orchid)

RM799

Venu Sq Music (Black,Black & Rose Gold,Light Sand & Rose Gold)

RM999

Edge 530

RM1,250

Edge 830

RM1,740

The sales campaign lasts until November 28 and is accessible on Garmin’s official web store, Lazada, and Shopee.

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Dell Malaysia Website Hacked! [UPDATED]

Dell.com.my was hacked today by a group called “Tiger – [email protected], #Bangladeshi HackeR”. The motives are seems to be tied with something involving Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia.

Further investigation revealed that these hacking members are not Bangladeshi as they claimed. The first alias seemed to be pointing to Saudi Arabia hackers.

The second alias still points to somewhere in the middle east, Algeria.

My best guess is that this is tied to the recent General Election 13 in Malaysia where the opposition blindly accused of  the government flying 40,000 voters in to fake votes; up until now, there is still no evidence of mass Bangladeshi voters, voted during the GE13 and no petition has been filed by the opposition.
Maybe these people are just trying to help the “rakyat” but was blinded by the fact that it just a fabrication of lie instead and they are influenced, they think that they are doing the right thing.
Conclusion is that this hack has no tie to any Bangladeshi at all!
Update:
Further investigation shows that they are using DNS poisoning instead of defacing the website itself. How this works is that they somehow poisoned the DNS server to redirect several ‘.my’ domain to their own server.

Update:
More ‘.my’ domains are being redirected or unreachable at the moment including:
http://www.bing.com.my/ [unreachable]
http://google.com.my/ [unreachable]
http://www.msn.com.my/ [unreachable]
http://microsoft.com.my/ [redirected]
http://www.skype.com.my/ [redirected]
http://www.kaspersky.com.my/  [redirected]
Update:
Further investigation revealed that there are traces of “Bahasa” in their source code. Does this mean that we are attacking our own country posing as Bangladeshi and Middle East at the same time?

Update:
It seem that this attack is deeper than we initially thought. MYNIC has been compromised. Even if you use different DNS servers, the redirects has been hard hacked into MYNIC’s records.
–Update Via Evozi

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Yoodo announces PUBG Mobile add-on

We all know the mobile gaming scene is growing bigger by the day – and honestly speaking, PUBG Mobile is one of the biggest mobile games to this day. Yoodo wants all of us to experience PUBG Mobile for with 20GB of free data per month.
Yoodo is Malaysia’s first ever telco to offer a customizable plan. It offers a customized amount of mobile data per month, the number of SMS per month, and also the amount of minutes of call per month. There are other additions as well – like extra mobile data for Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and now – PUBG Mobile.

To celebrate this occasion, Yoodo is offering the PUBG Mobile add-on for free for all Yoodo users now. PUBG Mobile add-on is also Yoodo’s first ever mobile game to be offered through an add-on. Yoodo is also running on Celcom’s network – so you can expect top-notch coverage wherever you are seeking to have a chicken dinner.
Earlier last month, Yoodo announced its intention to increase focus towards gamers. Just a month later, we have delivered on the next phase of this plan with the launch of this exclusive PUBG MOBILE Add-on. Through the Add-on we are empowering gamers by giving them greater choice and control of how they purchase and consume data.
– Chow Tuck Mun, Head of Yoodo
From what we experienced though, PUBG Mobile isn’t exactly a data-heavy game to begin with. However, having a low ping is important as PUBG Mobile is heavily dependent on real-time data communication.

For existing Yoodo users, you can navigate to the add-on tab within the Yoodo app and then select the PUBG MOBILE Add-on from the add-on list. With this, users will be able to enjoy free 20GB of PUBG MOBILE specific data for the month. Not a bad offer, to be honest.

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Review – ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip: So close to perfection

This is the first time that we here in Malaysia to experience this ASUS flippy camera diddly thing. That is because of the ASUS Zenfone 5z back in 2018. Ever since then, ASUS was the only one who made phones with a flip camera.
So, the latest iteration – the Zenfone 8 Flip, how is it? Let us share our experience with you after using it for quite some time.

Firstly, I’m only going to focus on a few things that are unique to the Zenfone 8 Flip when compared to the Zenfone 8. Other parts are pretty much identical to the Zenfone 8 – like its software and performance.
So, check out our review of the Zenfone 8 to learn about those instead.
The phone looks pretty similar to its predecessors with a glossy curved back, and I really wish they’ve used the same type of matte finish like the Zenfone 8.

The main highlight of the Zenfone 8 Flip is – of course – in its name. Flip. Within this camera module, we have a total of 3 different cameras – an ultrawide angle camera, a main wide angle camera, and another telephoto.

This entire triple-camera module is hinged at the top of the phone and controlled via a motor. And essentially, you can use it in whatever angle you want from fully closed at 0° to completely open at 180°.
The camera app is also made to cater to this, so you hold the volume buttons to slowly make the camera go up or down and stop whenever you want – or you can also save a total of 3 different “favorite” angles that you can instantly tap and select.

There are some other weird features too – like taking panorama shots don’t require you to do anything – just stay still and hold it, then it’ll take the shot for you.
There’s also “motion tracking” which is essentially object tracking and it works… okay-ly but it’s weird.
Overall picture quality that comes out of the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip is actually pretty good out of all the 3 cameras. To have a look at all the pictures taken by the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip, watch our video at the top of this review.

But, ASUS highlighted to us multiple times that the Zenfone 8 Flip is the successor of the Zenfone 7, not the Zenfone 7 Pro. It’s an important distinction because the Zenfone 8 Flip doesn’t have OIS. It only has EIS.
What this essentially means that even if you’re using the rear-facing cameras to record the video, it’s going to either be shaky or looks weird because EIS is stabilized via software and it can have some weird artifacts like warping.

This really broke my heart. If the Zenfone 8 Flip has OIS for the main camera, it’ll be perfect for travels – both photography and vlogging.
And because this camera can rotate to become the selfie camera, there’s no need for a dedicated front-facing camera! That means no notch, no punch hole or whatever. It’s an uninterrupted 6.67-inch AMOLED display with 2400×1080 pixels in resolution, and it runs up to 90Hz refresh rate.
It’s weird that the ASUS Zenfone 8 compact comes with a 120Hz refresh rate screen but the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip only has 90Hz. Then again, I don’t really care about smartphone refresh rates.

Other than that, we’ll also need to highlight the battery about the Zenfone 8 Flip. It’s a 5,000mAh battery and it’ll last for a day, I’d say. Keep in mind that our battery life test is done while locking it at 90Hz refresh rate. ASUS does have an option to let the software itself dictate when to use 60Hz and when to use 90Hz.

There’s also a 30W charger in the box that supports USB-PD as well – which is great. However, as for the charging time, what we’re showing here is probably not something that you’ll be getting. We got this by literally disabling all battery protection options.

We highly recommend you turn on the Steady Charging feature that is built into ZenUI to prolong your battery’s health.
And as a quick mention – the performance is going to be the same as any other phone with the Snapdragon 888 chipset. It’s gonna run hot, of course.
Should you buy the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip?
And finally, the price at RM2999. Oof, I think it’s a pretty okay price but the price gap between the Zenfone 8 Flip and the compact Zenfone 8 is quite justifiable – just that I think ASUS placed too many eggs into the Zenfone 8 basket.
It’s still a good phone as it is right now – but having OIS could bring the ASUS Zenfone 8 Flip to perfection. I’m very salty that the fact that there’s no OIS.

Where to buy? (Affiliate links)

Amazon US
Lazada
Shopee

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Review – Edifier GM2SE: Affordable wired earphone for RM79

We’ve reviewed a lot of audio products, ranging from earphones to headphones to speakers, wired and wireless. Usually, all of them have a 3-digit price, else it would just sound meh. Today’s earphone is special – for the price of RM79, you can buy the Edifier GM2SE.
This is a very simple pair of earphones. Even the packaging is unassumingly simple. Inside the box, we only get the earphones itself alongside the typical eartip sizes. That’s it.

In terms of design, this pair of earphones come in two different colors – pink and this black/red color. Yet the overall size of the Edifier GM2SE is rather tiny too.

One thing I find interesting is the earphones with its semitransparent plastic housing for the buds. We can see the dual driver design with our own eyes.

The earbuds themselves are also smaller than its bass-heavier brethren, the GM3SE, as shown here. Because of its smaller size, the Edifier GM2SE is also much lighter and fits on many more people’s ears compared to the GM3SE.

The design of the Edifier GM2SE is also somewhat weird. For some reason, it has an in-line button and microphone – like many wired earphones out there – but the volume control is a slider.

Paying for RM79 means you can’t expect the best of the best quality. The overall sound quality is somewhat alright for its price. There is a heavy emphasis on bass while the treble is muffled. Similar to the GM3SE, by the way.
However, the GM2SE that we have here sounds like a part of the frequency spectrum is missing. That doesn’t happen on the GM3SE, though.
I do like the right-angled jack though.
Overall, for the price of RM79, the Edifier GM2SE is a very versatile pair of wired earphones for many different use cases. Consoles and smartphones, even laptops. Maybe not for a desktop, since we’ll need to get a splitter to get both audio and microphone working.
Works great with the Nintendo Switch!
It’s definitely worth the price of RM79 – but then again, be sure to know what you’re getting into. Just don’t expect top-notch quality for this price.

Where to buy?

Edifier Malaysia’s official Lazada store
Edifier Malaysia’s official Shopee store

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Huawei Unveils Mate 20; Mate 20 Pro; Mate 20 X & Huawei Watch GT

Huawei just had their keynote over at London where they announced and showed off the all new Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and unexpectedly, the Huawei Mate 20 X. Huawei also announced the new Huawei Watch GT which has some interesting technology in it.
Let’s talk about it one by one.

Huawei Mate 20
The all new Mate 20 has a 6.5-inch screen with 18.5:9 aspect ratio with 1080p resolution with a notch. The screen is actually reminiscent of the waterdrop notch that we’ve seen in the OPPO F9.

The all new Mate 20 also comes with a 4,000mAh battery but without wireless charging. Interestingly, Huawei’s SuperCharge charger is getting an upgrade and it will now output a total of 40W.
Obviously, the Mate series will also be the first smartphone in Huawei’s portfolio to use their latest and greatest chipset – this time the Kirin 980 with dual NPU. We’ll need that because…

… the Huawei Mate 20 also comes with a total of 3 cameras at the back. The configuration is rather intriguing as well. There’s a 12MP main camera, 8MP telephoto camera with 2x zoom, and one more 16MP ultra wide-angle camera.
With the new dual-NPU, Huawei’s Master AI can now recognize 24 scenes. Moreover, there’s a brand new “4D predictive focus” where it will “motion track” the subject and keep the subject in focus.

With the help of dual NPU, Huawei is also releasing the new app called HiVision – it’s essentially Google Lens but made by Huawei to utilize the dual NPU and to utilize the cameras to capture food, where it’ll automatically recognize the food and its calories. Then, this data is integrated into the health tracker.
It also comes with AI Cinema Mode where it will record the video in 21:9 cinematic aspect ratio and have real-time filters such as – fresh, nostalgia, hitchcock, portrait bokeh, AI portrait color. Of course, there’s something called AI video zoom as well.
The back glass of the Mate 20 is interesting as well – it has a glazed glass where Huawei claimed to provide an even better grip compared to the usual smooth glass back surfaces.
Huawei Mate 20 Pro
On top of what’s already found and built into the Huawei Mate 20, the Mate 20 Pro has a 6.5-inch screen – which is surprisingly smaller than the Mate 20 – but has a resolution of 3120×1440.

It comes packed with a 4,200mAh battery and has wireless charging of up to 15W as well. Not only that – the Mate 20 Pro can also do reverse wireless charge other devices. Not sure why they want to do this, but it’s there.
Other than that, the Mate 20 Pro also has an in-screen fingerprint sensor, which means the Mate 20 Pro’s display is indeed an AMOLED screen.

Of course, the Mate 20 Pro also has the same triple camera setup as the Mate 20 but the resolutions are different. The Mate 20 Pro has a 40MP main camera, a 20MP ultra wide-angle camera, and an 8MP telephoto camera with 3x zoom.
Obviously the Mate 20 Pro also has the aforementioned features in the Mate 20 – Huawei’s Master AI can now recognize 24 scenes. and the new “4D predictive focus” where it will “motion track” the subject and keep the subject in focus.

Huawei Mate 20 X
Unexpectedly, there’s one more device in the Mate 20 series – and that’s the Mate 20 X. This new phone is once again equipped with what the Mate 20 has, but with a few major differences.
The Mate 20 X is equipped with a 7.2-inch OLED display with a 18.7:9 aspect ratio and a waterdrop notch at the top. It also has a massive 5,000mAh battery built in, but that’s not all.

As for the triple camera on the Mate 20 X, it comes with a 40MP main camera, a 20MP wide-angle camera, and another 8MP telephoto camera.

Perhaps to rival with the Galaxy Note9, the Mate 20 X comes with another new feature – which Huawei is called the new M Pen. This new active stylus has a few features such as intelligent writing, double click, and also quick memo.

Apparently, the Huawei Mate 20 X is a gaming smartphone as well, since it has a new cooling technology. How well is this compared to the ASUS ROG Phone remains to be seen.
The Mate 20 X is available in glazed back as well.
Huawei Watch GT
The new iteration of Huawei Watch has arrived and it is packed with a 1.39-inch AMOLED screen and made out of 316L stainless steel. The new Huawei Watch GT has multi-activity mode, ranging from indoor/outdoor, trail running/climbing, cycling, swimming, sleep, and daily activity tracking.

The new Watch GT is equipped with Huawei TruSeen which is self-learning and improves itself for better tracking.
Not only that, but the new Huawei Watch GT will also be equipped with 3 location tracking systems – GPS, GLONASS, and GALILEO.

Huawei touts that the Huawei Watch GT can have its battery last for 2 weeks with 90 minutes of exercise per week. How do they achieve this? By having a dual chipset design.

It’s something similar to smartphone chipsets where there are 4 high-performance cores and 4 low-powered cores. For the Watch GT, Huawei implemented a high-speed chip and also another low-speed chip to segregate the tasks.

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Greenest Architecture I’ve seen In Malaysia

Last night I was coming back from Tesco Ampang using MRR II and onto Seremban Highway. Luckily the traffic was excellent which I assume everybody was out of the city to celebrate Deepavali. I decided to stop by Petronas Solaris which is also known as the Twin Stations because they share the same infrastructure with two major highways for reasons I believe is, cost saving and convenience.
Usually when talking about oil and gas related industries, we tend to think more about how rich they are and how they are the opposite of being green. Petronas and together with Tan Chong Group and GE(General Electric) are doing the opposite. This is actually the only green architecture  I’ve seen before with my own eyes. The building was designed to be more as efficient as possible and self sustaining by using renewable energy around it together with the natural resources. Not to mention, the place gives the ‘futuristic’ feel which reminds me The Town Of Eureka in the popular Syfy show, Eureka.

          Electric Vehicle charging station
Here you can see, YES! It is an Electric Vehicle(EV) rapid charging station.  I’ve inspected this station closely and it seems that it can only be used if you have an RFID access card. I guess they are not giving electricity for free here. They only have one of this charging station for the one heading to Seremban. The instructions was clearly visible on the station itself. It says that you will need to first verify your RFID card then connect your car to the station using a special charging cable. After it stops charging, you will need to swipe your card again before removing the cables. I guess this is to ‘de-authorize’ and stop all charging activity otherwise, people can use to charge something else using your account.
The educational poster says that by using EV, you can save up to 70% off your petrol spending and 50% off maintenance cost since EV does not require complicated maintenances such as engine oil, spark plugs, air filters, transmission fluids and that sort of stuff. The only problem now is that EV are too expensive for average consumers since imported cars are already expensive in Malaysia. I think the Malaysian government should launch an initiative to reduce tax for electric vehicles and further develop our local car, Proton. The potential of EV is too great of a loss for Proton not getting involved soon. However, there are words that Proton will release their first commercially available, national electric vehicles by 2014.
          The charging area
One of the most significant initiative to reduce energy consumption is LED lighting. LED is known for it’s high luminescence but low power consumption efficiency.  I myself have two LED bulbs at home. One is for my room and another one is in the dining area.
LED lights have longer life compared to traditional florescent lighting.  They are expected to last for almost 100,000 hours which sums up to 22 years of operation. Savings are estimated to be around 80% compared to florescent bulbs because LED does not heat up as much which translates into less heat as waste.
LED lighting solutions might be expensive now because of it is on the early phase of penetrating the consumer market but the saving returns are worth it. Cuts about 90% off your electricity bills for lighting purposes according to the wattage differences since LED have more illumination to power ratio.
This is where the real renewable energy takes place. The station uses solar energy to power certain equipments such as the coffee machine and other appliances. What’s more interesting is that the extra power collected from the sun will be fed back into the main power grid. Given the idea, the station is actually selling back extra energy that it has to the electric company, further reducing their monthly electricity bills. The solar panes was told to be able to generate 200 kilowatts of electricity per hour.
Water are recycled from rain water instead of feeding from the main water supply pipe. The water however are not used for cooking and consumption. Rather, it was used to supply water to the toilet and cleaning purposes where water does not have to be pure as you need it for consumption. After all, toilets are the main area that uses a lot of water. More savings there folks!
If you are a fan on nitrogen-pumped tyres or want to try it out,  you could just come to this station as they provide nitrogen air pumps. The charge per usage is RM 10 for cars and RM 5 for motorcycles. The benefit of using nitrogen instead of normal air is that nitrogen are lighter. Lighter means less fuel consumption; savings for you 🙂 Plus, nitrogen tyres usually last longer and so does the tyre pressure as it is doesn’t really change much when heated up – that is when you’re driving on a long journey and your tyres heat up.
If you are on the way, do drop by to this Petronas Twin Station(Solaris) which can be accessed by using the North-South highway heading towards Seremban. The station can also be access by using Lebuhraya Sg. Besi on KM 0,7. The station is not visible on Google Maps but it is at around this coordinates  [3° 0.291′, 101° 43.564′] which as you can see clearly, it is located in between two major highways which makes it possible to become a twin station.
There are a lot of major F&B outlets including KFC, Starbucks, Subway and many more!
My wish for this kind of station is that these stations can become a benchmark for future development for the green industry. Not only it benefits the planet but also the company behind it by getting to save more and more by using less energy and recycling. Green architecture are now I must say, very expensive. This station cost about 20 million Ringgits to complete. Green technologies are on the phase of infancy. Hopefully sooner, these green solutions will become common and widely available to attract more investors to give back to mother nature; bringing the peace of nature together with modern architecture.
Signing off, Aminpro

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2nd round of iQOO 11 5G is now live for preorder; Do it now and receive it before February 15

The iQOO 11 5G is selling like hotcakes with the first batch of stock getting booked in a flash. No worries though as the smartphone is once again opening up yet another round of preorders.

Currently live and lasting for not long, if you place your order through the Lazada, Shopee, and E-Store, then you’ll be able to receive the phone before February 15 with a high chance of making it in time for Valentine’s day so be quick!
As the earliest smartphone to debut in the country with the latest flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC with utmost performance and efficiency together with adequate temperature control, the iQOO 11 5G is one of the most budget options when it comes to gaming mobile device with a lot of performance.

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Review – Kingston Is With You Memory Gift Box: Simple yet wholesome

Folks at Kingston Malaysia have sent over a Is With You Memory Gift Box made for the campaign of the same name that revolves around the theme of reliving good memories. We actually have it lying around the office since May and I thought it will be fun taking it for a spin from a participant perspective. So without ado, let’s check out what’s inside!

First off, the box itself has a white base and brown print of title and abstract-style Kingston logo at the front. Simple but hey, sometimes simple is nice.

Opening up the box and you’ll be met by the usual core message convey style of greeting alongside a pack of face masks, a stack of cards, and a USB thumb drive.

Unpacking the face mask box and a set of 5 orange boys featuring the design of local talent Lilo Jong from the Kingston x CSD APAC Face Mask Competition can be found. The layering of the mask kinda messed up the graphics in a funny way though.

Taking a close inspection of the USB thumb drive and it is actually the DataTraveler Duo USB-A & USB-C Connector Flash Drive 64GB model. Double the ports, double the usefulness!

When we properly segregated the stacked cards, I assumed that these are the 7-day challenge cards that I am supposing to only take one out every single day and yes, they indeed are. Inking at the front is the main theme of the day.

The back, on the other hand, is an explanation in the form of asking you some questions alongside some simple tasks that you can do by yourself. And it is not a hassle, by the way as all of them are quite simple and straightforward.
Conclusion
The 7-day challenge is kinda fun and all but most importantly, I really do felt like good memories are indeed one of the most important things to help everyone drive forward into the future, be it as a source of encouragement or the desire to make more of them.
And yes, thanks for the useful thumb drive, Kingston.

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[UPDATE 3] OPPO R9s Min Chen Edition – Full Details

UPDATE: It has come to our knowledge that it has already been sold out!

UPDATE 2: OPPO Announced the OPPO R9s Min Chen Limited Edition!

UPDATE 3: OPPO R9s Min Chen edition details are here!

UPDATE 4: OPPO R9s Min Chen edition has sold out online! But you can still get it offline.

I’m sorry – what’s this? A deep red colour for a smartphone? That’s something that we don’t see everyday. It certainly is beautiful and absolutely special too. This RED colour is referred to as the “Valentine Red” for the OPPO R9s Valentine Red Edition, and they referred it as the symbolization of good luck and great fortune – which is pretty much in line with the ong-ness, as we Malaysians call it. Ever since the Valentine Red has been sold out, OPPO is trying to bring the Valentine Red back int othe market with a reason – and this time, they’re going to call it the OPPO R9s Min Chen edition.

Other than that, everything else is pretty much the same. The OPPO R9s Valentine Red Edition has the 16MP rear-facing camera with f/1.7 aperture, and another 16MP selfie camera but with f/2.0 aperture.
We’ve also done a review on the OPPO R9s too, which you can click here to check it out.

We also unboxed the OPPO R9s too – which to our surprise, was very well-designed overall. I wonder if the OPPO R9s Valentine Red edition will have a deep red colour instead of being white? If it does, it’ll be really cool.
Do check out our unboxing video below too.

[UPDATE 6th February 2017]: OPPO just released more details for the R9s Valentine Red!
This time, OPPO opted to go with the pre-order route again – but with a twist. You can actually get a custom laser print, for your limited edition Red R9s, but only for online pre-orders. The online pre-orders can only be done at http://www.oppostore.com.my/products/r9sred/, and requires full payment since it will be personalized with your words of choice.
Else, you can opt in for offline pre-order from any of OPPO’s Concept Store nationwide. For this option, you’ll only need RM100 deposit for the pre-order, and pay the remaining later.
Before I forget – the full price for the OPPO R9s Valentine Red edition is RM 1,798. Zero additional cost from the basic model!
Pre-order starts on the 7th of February at 10am  – so get ready to land you pre-orders quick!

[UPDATE 10th February 2017]: SOLD OUT!
Yes, the two dreaded words for those who are eyeing on limited edition goods. OPPO and I are really sorry to tell you that the limited edition OPPO R9s Valentine Red has sold out!
Did any of your friends get it? If so, do share us some pictures! Or are you too jealous of your friend’s brand new sexy smartphone? ?

[UPDATE 16th February 2017]: New R9s Min Chen Limited Edition!
From what we’ve seen, the OPPO R9s Valentine Red edition has been sold out pretty quickly – because everyone is literally fighting for one. I mean, I’d like to get one myself too, if I could.
So here comes OPPO’s latest announcement – they will have a limited number of the OPPO R9s Min Chen Limited Edition. Basically, they’re a re-run of the OPPO R9s Valentine Red edition, but this time with Min Chen’s signature engraved behind!

We have zero details on where or how to get it yet, but I highly suspect it’ll be a round of pre-orders again. You can read up on our full review of the OPPO R9s while waiting for the details.
Also, OPPO Has prepared some exclusive gifts for users who purchase the R9s Min Chen Limited Edition too!
We’ll definitely update you when we have all the information. Stay tuned!

[Update 3]: Details for the OPPO R9s Min Chen edition is here!
So you wanna get yourself an exclusive OPPO R9s Min Chen Limited Edition? Here are the full details.
You’ll get a special-designed box, a cartoonized caricature of Min Chen on the phone case, a bunch of Min Chen’s selfies and wallpapers, and even her alarm ringtone. You’ll need to have this if you’re calling yourself a fan of Min Chen!

The OPPO R9s Min Chen edition is priced at the usual RM 1,798 – which is good, since OPPO didn’t jack up the price at all. It’ll be available for purchase starting on the 22nd February 2017 at a total of 3 places:

OPPO Malaysia’s official online store
OPPO Concept Stores nationwide
Exclusively at Lazada

[UPDATE 4] OPPO R9s Min Chen edition has been sold out online!
Damn, I can’t believe Min Chen was sold out in just 20 minutes. Oh – I meant the online pre-orders for the OPPO R9s Min Chen edition were sold out, not her physically.
Fret not, as you can still order it in OPPO Concept Stores nationwide. Not a big deal – just that you’ll have to head on over to a physical store to pre-order. A little annoying, but loyal Min Chen fans will have absolutely ZERO complaints!

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Xiaomi ships 400 back-to-school kits to underprivileged kids in latest CSR initiative

Xiaomi Malaysia’s latest movement in giving back to society involves them hooking up with Suriana Welfare Society (or Suriana for short) to give some help to kids within the Klang Valley area.

A total of 400 underprivileged youngsters are blessed with a kit designed to help them get back into school and ready them for a better learning environment. The kit includes a Xiaomi backpack, Xiaomi Jumbo Gel Ink Pens, and a Xiaomi LCD Writing Tablet. By collaborating with Suriana which is a company that focuses on empowering the less fortunate group of people and community, Xiaomi is able to channel its help effort towards the people effectively.

Officiated by Xiaomi and joined by multiple parties including Suriana and management teams from Desa Mentari, they promised that any kits that are excessive for the initial targeted group will be redistributed to other communities that Suriana oversees so rest assured that the 400 kits will be fully delivered to 400 kids.
If you want to learn more about Suriana and perhaps contribute a little bit of help in terms of financial or industrial connections, you can visit their official website.

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The Force is Strong with AMD Radeon R9-Fury!

As per title said, the force is strong with AMD this year. Why you’d ask? Because now, you can get free Star Wars: Battlefront (RRP USD69.90) for free when you purchase either AMD Radeon R9-Fury or R9-Fury X. If you’re looking for a new graphic card for your PC, now is the time you grab this deal. Good deal won’t last long.
The bundle will be on sale from now till the 31st March 2016. There’s still plenty of time for you to save up and grab this deal. Good deals like this don’t come around often. If you’ve saved enough and wanted to grab one, you go to any of these store: Viewnet, Jayacom, Thundermatch, C zone & All IT.

Did we mention that the game is free? May the force be with you.

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Upgraded Vivo Y91i now available in Malaysia

The Vivo V91i just got an upgrade and it is now available in Malaysia! For the price of just RM599, you can get the 32GB storage version of the Vivo Y91i.
Starting from today, you can already purchase the Vivo Y91i with 32GB of internal storage for RM599. You may also receive a Vivo speaker for free when purchasing a brand new Y91i today. Of course, the free gift comes in a first come, first served basis.

The Vivo Y91i comes with a 6.22-inch Halo FullView display. That only means it has a small waterdrop notch at the top and that by itself raises the screen-to-body ratio to 88.6% for its IPS LCD display. It only comes with a resolution of 1520×720 pixels in resolution, though.
The Vivo Y91i is equipped with MediaTek Helio P22 chipset, a total of 2GB RAM with 32GB of internal storage, and a relatively massive 4,030mAh battery.
Vivo has also packed a 13MP main camera + 2MP depth sensor at the back of the phone with another 8MP selfie camera.
You can get it now over at Lazada right now.

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Galaxy Buds Live; Galaxy Watch 3; Tab S7 & S7+ are now official

Samsung’s big Unpacked announcement unveiled not only the Galaxy Note20 series of smartphones but more. We have the new Galaxy Buds Live, the Galaxy Watch 3, and also the Galaxy Tab S7 & Tab S7+. Let’s go through them one by one.
We’ll be referencing some parts of this article with the Galaxy Note20 announcement, so check that out too.

Galaxy Buds Live
Let’s start off with this weird little thing. It was first leaked and referred to as the “Galaxy Beans” but it turned out to be officially called the Galaxy Buds Live. It’s a refreshing approach to an existing category of products that is just flooded with AirPods copycats.

So, this uniquely-shaped pair of earbuds are available in a total of three different colors:

Bronze
White
Black

What particularly stood out to me was the finish. The bronze color has a super reflective shiny look whereby the white color has a pretty basic glossy finish.
The Galaxy Buds Live has a pretty tiny charging case, it supports wireless charging and can provide up to 29 hours while the buds themselves can provide 8 hours of listening time on a single charge.

What’s impressive here is that despite the buds being so tiny, Samsung managed to create air vents just like big sized speakers, so that you get richer, deeper bass. There’s also ANC but I don’t know how effective it is since it’s not an in-ear earbud.

One not-so-new feature is the ability to use two pairs of Galaxy Buds Live on a single device. The reason why I’m saying it’s not-so-new is that the Galaxy S10 series had this feature where we can connect and play from two different Bluetooth speakers at the same time.
Galaxy Watch 3
There are a few big upgrades here which I think justifies the reason to upgrade. It now has SpO2 monitoring, fall detection so that it can alert your contacts instantly when you fall down. That’s something very useful for the elderly.

Then, there are more than 120 fitness programs built into the watch so that you can just follow the Galaxy Watch 3 and do your exercises. This is especially useful since we’re mostly homebound.
The Galaxy Watch 3 can also now detect how you run so that it can tell you if you’re more left-biased or right-biased.

And like we mentioned in our other post about the Galaxy Note20 series, you can now control your camera, PowerPoint presentation, and music directly from the Galaxy Watch 3. We tried it out and it essentially made the Galaxy Watch 3 become a trackpad.

The bezel can still be rotated and the watch can still be used for Samsung Pay, which is pretty standard stuff at this point when it comes to Samsung products.
The Galaxy Watch 3 is also available for pre-order too. Click here to learn more.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 & Tab S7+
The new Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S7+ have the same S Pen upgrades as the Galaxy Note20 series – lower latency, Air Actions, all of that good stuff. The new Samsung Notes app update also works on the Tab S7 and Tab S7+ obviously, which is going to make this tablet a fantastic tablet for productivity.

There’s also the new multi-app view which is similar to the Galaxy Fold. The Galaxy Fold, when unfolded, has the ability to display 3 apps at once – and this new Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S7+ has that feature too.
And for artists out there, Samsung has an exclusive deal to get the Clip Studio Paint app on Android! You get 6 months for free with every purchase of the Galaxy Tab S7 or Tab S7+.

The keyboard + trackpad case seems to have been redesigned too, but I have no experience with the Tab S6 to make any judgment.
Pricing and availability?
No idea yet – but we’ll surely update you when we have the information.

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Find out what Malaysians have shopped on Shopee in anticipation of MCO 2.0

Another wave of active COVID-19 cases means yet another Movement Control Order. Compared to the first time, there’s a shift in how Malaysians respond to this 2 week lockdown.
According to Shopee by matching transaction data between pre MCO 1.0 (March 16 to 20) and 2.0 (Jan 11 to 15), while an increase in traffic to the platform and shopping activities is well expected, there are no signs of panic buying as no heavy spikes are detected around the 5 day period. Additional patterns also revealed that Malaysians already adopted tech items and home improvement tools to aid remote education and workforce, these are on top of the usual food and beverage, face masks, cleaning, and health products.

Here are some more key findings with interesting numbers.

Over 550,000 units of tech items including laptops, smartphones, tablets, network components, keyboards, printers, and audio systems; a 4.5x increase
Close to 20,000 YEs Kasi up SIM cards purchased to bump up home-based internet connections with a budget
Massive 8x increase in home decor products sold, coming close to 900,000 units
Half a million units of dry consumables such as biscuits, chocolates, dried fruits and nuts, and keropok bought by snack loving Malaysians
Fresh products like meat, fish, vegetables, and fruits had demand spikes to 85,000 units sold
Sales achieved for pet food and treat for the woofs and meows tripled to over 330,000 units

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Starting right now until February 13, get daily 88% off discount vouchers, minimum RM10 spent free shipping, 8 sen Flash Deals, 50% Shopee Coins cashback throughout the entire event. Shopee also amps up the angpao luck with Fortune Box as users stand a chance to cash out real money ranging from RM0.88, RM8.88, RM88.88, RM888.88 all the way too RM8,888. How do you win? Just tune in to Shopee Live every day at 10 p.m with additional sessions happening on January 25 and February 2 at 1 p.m.
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Review – Xiaomi Mi Note 10

This is a smartphone that was announced unexpectedly. While we know 64MP smartphones were coming, we didn’t know that 108MP smartphones were going to be released this quickly. Today, we got to review the world’s first smartphone with a 108MP camera sensor – the Xiaomi Mi Note 10.
We’re going to change things up in this review as we’ll be focusing on the cameras. The Mi Note 10 is not meant to be topping benchmarks, although it is still perfectly fine for gaming and everything else.

To demonstrate the capabilities of all of the five cameras’ capabilities, I suggest you to watch our review video here as we highlight both the photography and videography capabilities of the Xiaomi Mi Note 10.

Unboxing
These are the things you’ll get. It’s nothing out of the ordinary in terms of the things included in the box.

However, the charger is something interesting here as Xiaomi included a 30W charger. We have the charging test benchmark at the later part of this review.
Design
The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 is available in a few different color options – green, white, and black. We have the one in white obviously – but I personally will prefer the green color. It’s a brighter green compared to the one we saw on the Redmi Note 8 Pro, which is one of my instant favorites.

The Mi Note 10 has a relatively thick body but the smooth curvatures on both edges of the phone make it feel good to hold. I quite like the design overall, since it does pack a massive battery inside.
Connectivity & Ports
The Mi Note 10 comes with commonly-found connectivity options on a smartphone these days. Yes, it does have all WiFi-AC and even NFC. It even has an IR blaster at the top!

At the bottom of the phone is where we can find the usual loudspeaker, USB-C, and also the headphone jack.

All of the buttons are also shifted to the right side of the phone. Personally, I’m okay with this decision since I am a left-handed user and I can press all the buttons with my fingers.

However, the Mi Note 10 lacks a microSD card slot. It only has two dedicated nano SIM card slots. We talked more about this in our review video.

Display
The Mi Note 10 is a rather huge phone. It has a 6.47-inch AMOLED display with 2340×1080 pixels in resolution. It also comes with waterdrop notch, which is surprising as I can see many smartphone manufacturers are moving away from the popup selfie camera trend. I wonder what happened?

Anyway, the colors are quite saturated on the Mi Note 10, which the display can be really bright as well. It also supports HDR10, which also looks stunning to the eyes.
Cameras
This is the most important part of the Xiaomi Mi Note 10. It’s the world’s first smartphone to be using a 108MP sensor on a smartphone, and it also has 4 other cameras that make use of itself in different situations. From top to bottom, it has these cameras:

5x optical zoom telephoto: 5MP (upscaled to 8MP) f/2.0; PDAF, Laser AF, OIS, 5x optical zoom
2x optical zoom telephoto: 12MP f/2.0; Dual Pixel PDAF, Laser AF, 2x optical zoom
Main: 108MP f/1.7 with 8P lens; PDAF, Laser AF, OIS
Ultrawide angle: 20MP f/2.2; Laser AF
Macro: 2MP f/2.4

Now that’s a lot of cameras and also lots of pixels – but is the camera actually good? As usual, check out our full album of pictures in our Shutterfly album.
For the full breakdown of these images and our thoughts about the cameras on the Mi Note 10, please do watch our video review at the top of this page. We’ll just show a few pictures here.
Main 108MP camera
By default, the Mi Note 10 takes pictures in 27MP. That makes sense as it bins 4 pixels into a big one like the 48MP and 64MP sensors. But we think since we’re playing the resolution game here, we’ll take all pictures in 108MP.

By looking at these pictures as is, the colors, details, and sharpness are just fantastic. I absolutely love the images that come out of the Mi Note 10. Then, we started pixel-peeping and we start to see the finer details.

Within a single shot, we get to see the subject in whole, and zoomed in to see its texture. What impressed me the most is the pink flower. It was a blotch of pink at first, but we were able to see its hair-like structure when we zoomed in.
When we started taking close-up shots using the 108MP camera is when we can start to see something funny. The lens is unable to keep the field of view in focus even though the plane is flat. There’s a visible lens blur around the center of the frame. When I took the picture and looked at it, it reminded me of Samsung phone cameras.
That lens distortion is familiar…
I’ve been using the Galaxy S10+ (review) for months as one of my daily driver – and took many pictures of it, so I am familiar with its cameras – both the sensor and lens characteristics. I realized that the color saturation and the lens blur on the Galaxy S10+ is very similar to the Mi Note 10 – and that wouldn’t be a surprise as both Xiaomi and Samsung partnered up to bring us the Mi Note 10.

When shooting in night mode, the main camera performed great – but only for social media. Zooming in, the shots are very noisy as Xiaomi raised the ISO to beyond 8000 for quick shutter speed. I guess it’s a good trade-off since many users are only taking pictures and posting it to social media anyway. To take breathtaking night shots, it’s always great to use a tripod.

And then we took the same picture in 108MP. That’s when I found out that Xiaomi is compressing the 108MP by a lot. The night shot was at 27MP and resulted in around 24MB in size, but the 108MP resulted in only 14MB in size. That’s the reason why we lose details in our pictures – even the Redmi Note 8 Pro (review) takes 64MP pictures with larger file size.
I understand why Xiaomi did this – to conserve on storage, obviously. But then again – wouldn’t it be solved by adding a microSD card slot in the first place?

I also used the pro mode and took this picture. You can take it in RAW as well.
Also, we should highlight the time it takes to shoot a 108MP camera. To put it bluntly, it’s real slow. And I completely understand why. There are no chipsets that are readily available in the market that is able to process 108MP pictures natively. Hence, the Mi Note 10 does it via the CPU – hence the slowness.
By doing it via the CPU means it is also inefficient, hence that is why the Mi Note 10 does get warm after a couple of minutes of 108MP photoshoot. To further explain how all of these works, that’s another topic for another day.
The telephoto cameras
This is a weird one. Xiaomi included two different telephoto cameras – one with a 2x optical zoom with a 50mm lens coupling a 12MP sensor, and another 5x optical zoom lens coupled with a 5MP sensor, with pictures upscaled to 8MP.
2x optical zoom.
I think both of these cameras perform well in the colors, details, and also the sharpness. The 5x optical zoom is a little softer since it is upscaled, but it still looks great for social media.
5x optical zoom.
Software – Android 9.0 Pie with MIUI 11.0.11
Yeah, you read that right. As of the time of this review is being prepared, the Mi Note 10 is using MIUI 11 but on Android 9.0 Pie. This actually happened to other Xiaomi phones that we have too.
Not that much of a difference overall, honestly.
Performance & Gaming
The Mi Note 10 is obviously meant to be a smartphone for photographers, not for gaming. But to process all of those photos, that means the Mi Note 10 also comes packed with some powerful hardware:

6.47-inch AMOLED display with 2340×1080 pixels in resolution
Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset
6GB RAM
128GB internal storage (no microSD slot)
5,260mAh battery

It’s not going to break records in its performance, but it’s a formidable performer in the smartphone market right now. And yes, it’s going to run games just fine with the performance that it has.

Battery & Charger
Let’s not forget that it comes with a 5,260mAh battery. Now that’s a large battery – and it can last for more than 15 hours in our battery life test. That is astonishing, to say the least.

Charger
The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 is also pretty interesting as it comes with a 30W charger – the highest wattage charger from Xiaomi that we’ve tested thus far. This 30W can charge this large battery in about an hour. Pretty good since the battery life is crazily long.

Wrapping up the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 review
Now, I’ve seen many arguments about the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 being an “expensive smartphone” that has “mid-range specs”. This is the world’s first 108MP camera smartphone, and lots of R&D went into making this phone possible.

And I just want to say – that’s because this phone is not meant to be topping benchmarks. Its core specs aren’t meant to compete with other “flagship killers” in the market. The Snapdragon 730G can still play PUBG Mobile and COD Mobile at the highest graphical settings without an issue – just the benchmark numbers aren’t that high. If you want a smartphone killer, then get the Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro (review) instead.
For the price of RM2,099, I see this as a concept device that showcases what a 108MP sensor in a smartphone can do. For those who want to live in the bleeding edge of camera smartphone technology, then yes – this smartphone is for you.

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Garmin Malaysia invites fans to celebrate its 2021 birthday with a couple of nice fitness smartwatch deals

Garmin Malaysia is currently hosting a birthday sale on Lazada and Shopee right now until September 19.

The sale is super simple and straightforward as the Forerunner 745 will have its price dropped to RM1,999 while the Lily will go down to RM999 temporarily. Despite having the same promo price as the last sales event, I guess they just needed a reason to continue giving back to its fans and community and in the meantime probably a permanent price cut is still not feasible to them for now.
You can get more information about the 2 fitness smartwatches through the links down below.

Garmin Forerunner 745
Garmin Lily

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Samsung introduces GALAXY Note 4, GALAXY Note Edge, Gear VR and GALAXY Tab Active.

Certainly Samsung doesn’t want to lose its share of market to Xiaomi. On September 3, 2014, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that new members will be joining its flagship GALAXY Note series – the new GALAXY Note 4 and GALAXY Note Edge.
The new GALAXY Note 4 combines all the latest technology from the GALAXY series. GALAXY Note 4 inherits its predecessor’s characteristic – big screen and the iconic S Pen. The screen size grows even larger, it is 5.7 inch now.

GALAXY Note 4  Bronze Gold
Featuring 5.7 inch Quad HD (2560×1440) Super AMOLED display, producing better images with deep contrast and response faster. To utilize the big screen it has, the useful Multi Window feature is enhanced further. Users now can choose how they want to access the applications, wither with full, split or pop-up screens! With just an intuitive swipe, the size and positioning of apps can be adjusted. Owh, how convenient is that~ I myself own a GALAXY Note 2. Even though the screen size is big, just two applications are allowed to show together, sometimes that’s just not enough. How I wish I have this feature in my Note 2…
So, what else is improved in this new GALAXY Note 4? Let’s take a look on the camera system. Rear camera is a 16 MP camera featuring a Smart Optical Image Stabilizer which designed to prevent camera shake and automatically increase exposure time in dark environment. Now, you can take usfie with the 3.7 megapixel front camera with f1.9 which offers a 90-degree shooting angle and up to 120-degree wide angle. Pretty fancy to stay in trend now, huh? Not working for me though.
In terms of power consumption, the GALAXY Note 4 implements the Fast Charging feature that allows the GALAXY Note 4 to charge faster and also Ultra Power Saving Mode which helps you to save the battery juices. Using multiple microphones and improved speaker-phone to enhance the noise-cancellation when speaking in noisy environments. The new add on is a built-in Voice Recorder. It offers eight different directional voice tagging and allows users to filter and listen to specific voices in a group conversation. Hmm, this is quite interesting. Well, now the security has been secured with an improved Fingerprint Scanner. GALAXY Note 4 also comes with the world’s first UV sensor in a mobile device. I wonder what is the function of that? To detect whether I will get sunburn?
S Pen and S Note are a must to have in GALAXY Note series. The new S Pen is improved to give a more natural brush effect as if you are scribbling on paper. The Air Command has been improved and a new function is added – Smart Select, allows user to joint information collected from different source and share it with ease. As for the S Note, a new feature called Snap Note is added which turns the capture picture of a paper or classroom board into S Note. Amazing huh? Perfect tools for students, I would say. Voice memo is also introduced. The name says it, it means taking down a memo with voice input.
The design of the GALAXY Note 4 is similar to its predecessor – premium metal frame and soft-textured back cover.
GALAXY Note Edge is a phone that features a curve Edge screen which provides quick access to frequently used apps, alerts and device functionality. Notification will show up on the Edge screen if you are watching video without disturbing you.

GALAXY Edge Charcoal Black
The GALAXY Note 4 will have four colours available: Charcoal Black, Frost White, Bronze Gold and Blossom Pink. This new flagship phone will be available starting in October. On the other hand, the GALAXY Note Edge will be available in only Charcoal Black and Frost White in selected markers through Samsung’s retail channels, e-commerce and carriers later this year. Make sure to stay with us. We will update you all if we got more information.
Remember the Gear 2 that goes hand-in-hand with GALAXY Note 3?
This time, Gear VR is introduced on the same day in Berlin, Germany.
Samsung Gear VR

Partnered with Oculus, a leader in virtual reality technology, Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition opens up the world of mobile virtual reality. This is a virtual reality headset that works on a mobile platform. Gear VR Innovator Edition is completely wireless, built with soft and flexible cushioning and lightweight materials, hence it is comfortable to wear. Having a huge collection of optimized virtual reality from a wide range of top-tier creators, users can enjoy a wide range of film, gaming, 360-degree video and also educational content.

GALAXY Tab Active
GALAXY Tab Active
On September 4, 2014, Samsung has announced its first tablet built specifically for business – GALAXY Tab Active. This tablet has a anti-shock covering that can withstand a 1.2m drop. With the protective cover on, it is water and dust resistance. GALAXY Tab Active comes with a 3.1MP auto focus camera and NFC technology.
GALAXY Tab Active with C Pen
Wearing glove and not convenient to use your finger? Samsung has introduced a “C-Pen” which is installed at the top of the protective cover of the GALAXY Tab Active to ease the professional without sacrificing the protection. This business tablet’s battery can last for 10 hours, even if it has run out of juice, you can just easily replace the battery with a fresh battery. The built-in POGO pin charging protects the micro-USB connector from damage in the meantime allowing multi-device charging.
Samsung has given an extended basic warranty that covers damage caused by accidents up to three years. Remote Smart Tutor Service provides users a easy way to access technical support at anywhere, anytime.
Well, Samsung is trying hard to stand firmly in the market. Let’s see does it work or not.

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Samsung commits to 4 generations of OS updates + 5 years of security patches

It’s quite insane, honestly. Last time, Samsung made an announcement a while back that they’re providing 3 generations of OS updates and 4 years of security patches. Now, Samsung is giving yet another year for both, totaling 4 generations of OS updates and 5 years of security patches. This new update policy is literally the best for Android smartphones currently.

The devices that are eligible for this new update policy are:

Galaxy S Series: Galaxy S22, S22+, S22 Ultra as well as Galaxy S21, S21+, S21 Ultra, S21 FE and upcoming S series devices
Galaxy Z Series: Galaxy Z Fold3, Galaxy Z Flip3 and upcoming Z series devices
Galaxy A Series: upcoming select A series devices
Galaxy Tablets: Galaxy TabS8, S8+, S8 Ultra and upcoming Tab S series devices

It’s interesting to know that even select Galaxy A series of smartphones are also eligible for this new update policy.

But, Samsung isn’t stopping there. The company wants to further expand this update policy to their smartwatches running One UI Watch and Wear OS (meaning the Galaxy Watch4 series):

Galaxy Watch: Galaxy Watch4, Galaxy Watch4 Classic and upcoming Galaxy Watch series devices

I really do commend Samsung for doing this as releasing a device into the market and also providing long-term support over the course of half a decade is not a small feat. There is a lot of costs involved in both time and money, which I think makes the premium prices of their flagship devices even more justifiable now.

Also, this new update policy goes hand-in-hand with the company’s vow to be green. Having long-term support for their products means that there will be less e-waste in the landfill, and that’s good for the environment.

There’s another industry-wide effect ripple effect too. For Samsung to come up and commit to such an update policy means that they will set a precedent on how many years Android updates can be. Heck, Samsung came up with their previous commitment and many other Android brands followed suit. So I don’t expect anything less from this new and improved policy with 4 generations of OS updates and 5 years of security patches.

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New Kingston DataTraveler 80M and Exodia Onyx make their way into the market

Kingston’s line of USB flash drives has gotten two new add-ons over the last week which belong to the DataTraveler family. Let’s see who’s in the block.

Starting off the list is the DataTraveler Exodia Onyx coming in a big matte black casing with a slick design to make your style points go up while you carry it around. Fitted with USB 3.2 Gen 1 protocol, you can assure that this little thing will transfer all your files in quick succession to keep your workflow as smooth as possible.

The other kid is the DataTraveler 80 M which has been outfitted with a native USB-C port to solve the annoying issues of selected modern laptops that don’t come with USB-A anymore.
Providing speeds of up to 200MB/s, one can move even large single files such as high-res videos and images just within minutes and thanks to the connector, smartphones these days with USB-C charging port and also take it in and use it as USB OTG mass storage device as well, therefore its portability and wide compatibility are its main game.
Availability
The Kingston DataTraveler Exodia Onyx and 80 M is available worldwide right now with varying capacities and for Malaysians, you can get them over at the official Shopee store.

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A RM400 voucher is yours to claim when you buy Samsung Galaxy devices starting tomorrow for 48 hours

‘Stop going outdoors just to get a smartphone and please stay in your house.’, Samsung said as they launched a limited-time sale for you to do just that.

All you need to do is just buy 1 or more selected Galaxy products and reach a minimum of RM4,000 per receipt, head over to this link (Sign up for a Samsung Account if you don’t have one) and fill in your details alongside your proof of purchase. Once the application is done, the RM400 e-voucher will be sent to you via email.
The campaign is based on a first come first serve basis and only lasts for the upcoming weekends so you’ll need to move fast before the quota for claiming the e-voucher finishes up before your eyes. And you’ll need to be buying them from one of the following participating outlets/websites but to save you the hassle, placing your order on Samsung Malaysia‘s website is the way to go.
For all info regarding eligible products or terms and conditions, click here.

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Jabra welcomes latest member of the Talk series, the Talk 65 at RM459 while refreshing older entries

Jabra Malaysia has announced that the wait is over as the Talk lineup is getting a brand new model called the Talk 65.

Designed to be worn comfortably for those who need to always be on-call while on the go, the mono headset does its job with a high degree thanks to the 2-microphone technology achieving 80% noise cancellation to make sure the other side listens to none other than your voice only.
Sporting a wireless range of up to 100m, you can have your mobile one at one side to do something elsewhere while keeping a smooth and low-latency call. Packed with 14 hours of juice off a single charge, just keep talking, if you can for 14 hours straight, yes.
And if needed, users can stream GPS information, media sources and access selected functions with a single touch via Siri or Google Assistant. Rated at IP54, don’t be scared to get some sweat or dusty stuff smeared over it. Lightweight, carefully designed ear hook, and secure fit is what make the Talk 65 great.
Price and Availability
The fresh new Jabra Talk 65 can be acquired at the price of RM459 over at Jabra’s Shopee and Lazada stores.
Meanwhile, the existing Talk 15 SE is now at RM179 and the Talk 25 SE is at RM219 so no matter whether you’re the trend chaser for the new stuff or aiming for some good and budget mono earphones, the choices are here for you.

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Laptops, display, projector – all announced by ASUS during CES 2021

During ASUS’s Be Ahead launch event at CES 2021, a barrage of new products has been revealed and announced that includes several laptops, a portable monitor, and a mini projector that seeks to enhance remote work and entertainment.
VivoBook S14

The all-new VivoBook S14 fits the latest and greatest all into a stylish, ultralight form factor. Designed for full performance and great accessibility, as long as it is not graphically intensive, you can’t go wrong with a machine of this caliber.

CPU: Up to 11th Gen Intel Core i7
GPU: Up to Intel Iris Xe
RAM: Up to 16GB LPDDR4X
Display: 14-inch NanoEdge
Storage: Intel Optane H10 + Up to 1TB NVMe
I/O: Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, USB 2.0, microSD
Battery: Up to 66Whr
Miscellaneous: TÜV Rheinland Low-Light, Intel Wi-Fi 6, ASUS Intelligent Performance

ExpertBook B9

Next, the ExpertBook B9 comes in as the lightest 14-inch business laptop and is Intel vPRO certified where features enterprise-class security features, long-lasting batteries while maintaining the famous 880g weight.

CPU: Up to Intel Core i7-1185G7
GPU: Up to Intel Iris Xe
RAM: Up to 32GB LPDDR4X
Display: 14-inch IPS LCD, Anti-glare, sRGB 100%
Storage: Up to 2TB NVMe or Up to 2TB + 2TB NVMe RAID0 / RAID1
I/O: Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C  with display and power delivery, HDMI 2.0b, Universal Audio Jack
Battery: Up to 66Whr
Miscellaneous: 720p HD camera with shutter and infrared, Array Microphone, Intel Wi-Fi 6, Proximity Sensor

Chromebook CX9

Meanwhile, the Chromebook CX9 is the latest premium Chromebook built with magnesium-alloy through CNC-milling and MIL-STD 810H durability standards that can greatly protect your important files physically. Businesses that involve frequent outdoor tasks will appreciate this lightweight yet strong notebook.

CPU: Up to 11th Gen Intel Core i7
GPU: Up to Intel Iris Xe
Display: 14-inch NanoEdge display
I/O: Thunderbolt 4, USB 2.0 Type-A, HDMI
Miscellaneous: 720p HD camera with shutter, Array Microphone, Intel Wi-Fi 6, Google Titan-C Encryption, Fingerprint Sensor

Chromebook CX5

As a surprise and in contrast with CX9, the 15.6inch Chromebook CX5 focuses on cloud entertainment as the main purpose of the machine that primarily serves the needs of Google Stadia and GeForce NOW for streaming gameplay with minimum computing performance. Sporting a white ceramic external chassis, the younger generation of users will enjoy the value brought by this Chromebook.

CPU: Up to 11th Gen Intel Core
GPU: Up to Intel Iris Xe
RAM: Up to 16GB
Storage: Up to 512GB SSD
Display: 14-inch NanoEdge display
I/O: Thunderbolt 4, USB 2.0 Type-A, HDMI, microSD
Battery: 57Whr
Miscellaneous: Intel Wi-Fi 6, ASUS Wi-Fi Stabilizer, dual Harmon-Kardon speakers

ProArt Display PA148CTV

The ASUS ProArt Display PA148CTV is an external or portable 14-inch FHD IPS monitor designed to smoothen the workflows of fellow content creators. Delivering exceptional 100% sRGB and Rec.709 color spaces with Calman verification and pre-calibration of Delta E <2 color accuracy, it features the Virtual Control Panel that shows an interactable adjustment dial, sliders, buttons, and wheels to simulate programmable hotkeys and functions for quick access and precision enhancement while ASUS Dial is a physical knob situated at the back of the display control compatible Adobe software and Microsoft Surface Dial features, enabling adjustments while staying focused on the task at hand.
Content creators need to hook up a bunch of external peripherals as well therefore the 2 SB-C ports deliver audio, video, and power input over a single cable, while the micro HDMI port provides connectivity to a wide variety of input sources. If you need to set it up on a tripod, there is a socket for you just for mounting, and an adjustable metal kickstand props the display up to deliver ideal viewing and working positions, making it perfect for work on the go.

ZenBeam Latte L1

The new miniature ZenBeam Latte L1 projector lets you take your music and movies to anywhere you go. Sporting a cylindrical mug shape design (because it’s a latte cup yeah), the top is slotted with control buttons while the fabric exterior wrap around the device for texture and also artistically representing the speaker grill. You can use this for a maximum of 3 hours in 1 full charge that displays images at 300-LED-lumens light and with a projection range of 40 to 120 inches.
Connectivity-wise, Aptoide TV users can directly stream content natively, or mirroring a smartphone’s screen is as easy as well. The audio department will be handled by the Harman Kardon 10-watt speaker and BlueTooth which delivers up to 12 hours of usage with 3 available profiles to choose from: Movie, Music, and Gaming.
Availability
ASUS Malaysia will be announcing these goodies for our market at a later date since these are fresh off CES 2021 so let’s wait a bit and see what the prices are.

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[UPDATED] HONOR 20 leaked (now with real pictures); teases HONOR 20 Pro

While we are here anticipating for the HONOR 20 to be launched on 21st May 2019, we are already seeing leaks left and right. Today, we discovered that there is a new leak from WinFuture.de and with it comes a very detailed analysis on its features and aesthetic.
This leak goes in-depth with the HONOR 20 and found out that the HONOR 20 is sporting a 6.26-inch IPS LCD display. That means the HONOR 20 is not using an under-display fingerprint scanner, but using a side fingerprint scanner instead. Great idea!

As for the notch, the HONOR 20 is using something similar to the HONOR View20 that we loved as well. The cutout is small and positioned at the top left corner.
The leak goes in deeper by also specifying the specs of the phone. The HONOR 20 will allegedly come with at least 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, but unsure if there is a microSD card available for expansion.
Allegedly, the HONOR 20 has virtual 9.1 as well, according to the leak. I do know the 7.1 surround sound arrangement but for 9.1 sound system, I have no idea where and how the other 2 channels are positioned.
On another note, the leak also specified the same camera specs as we covered another leak earlier. It seems that while Huawei focuses on zooming far away, HONOR is focusing on the smaller things with its new 2MP macro camera.

The leak also specified that the HONOR 20 has a 3,750mAh battery and comes with SuperCharge charger. It is a 22.5W. Also just like the View20, it will be using Magic UI 2.1 instead of EMUI.
The alleged leaked HONOR 20 also stated that the phone will come in “at least two colors”, namely the Sapphire Blue and Midnight Black.
That is all the information that was specified in the leak. We pretty much know everything about the HONOR 20 now, although we are still waiting for more information on the elusive HONOR 20 Pro which is stated to have a telephoto lens.

UPDATE: HONOR Malaysia also published a teaser unboxing video of the HONOR 20 Pro. Yes, they censored how the phone looks on the box, but did not censor the word “Pro” on the packaging.
This confirms that HONOR is indeed releasing two smartphones on 21st May at London, namely the 20 and also the 20 Pro.

What’s interesting is that at the end of the unboxing teaser video, all of the contents are laid out on the table and we can see something that polarizes many of us.

I’m obviously talking about… the dongle. That’s the one thing that caught my eye. This might be the first ever HONOR smartphone that does not have a 3.5mm audio jack. At least HONOR included a dongle for you.
If the HONOR 20 series really does not have a headphone jack, then it makes sense since only digital audio can bring more than 2.1 channel audio with a single, tiny cable.

UPDATE 2: Yes, another update – because we have a big development here.

Someone just leaked images of the phone, claiming that it is the HONOR 20 Pro. Here we can confirm a few details – there is a punch hole at the top left corner like the View20, missing headphone jack, surprisingly – a fingerprint scanner at the side.

Here is also where we can see the see that the alleged HONOR 20 Pro also has a quadruple camera setup. We are unable to confirm its camera types yet, but there are 4 cameras for sure. If the earlier leak is true, then we’ll be seeing a main camera, telephoto, ultrawide angle, and another macro camera.

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Review – PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD

SSDs are getting more and more abundant these days, but there still remain a lot of smaller niche criteria that we consumers have when it comes to custom PCs. Take this SSD for example. The PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD is catered towards those who want a SATA III-based M.2 2280 SSD with larger capacities but on a tight budget.
Unboxing
The packaging itself is sealed, so if you’re trying to take out the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD from within, the packaging will have to be destroyed. The overall design language is dark in color with texts debossed in gold on the sealed packaging.

My first complaint is the lack of a proper name for the series of product. This SSD is now called by what it has – M.2 2280 form factor, SATA III interface, and has 256GB of storage. A proper name to refer to PenDrive’s M.2 2280 SATA III SSDs would be better than how it’s referred to now.

Anyway, at the back is where some of the other specs are listed. Comes with a 3-year limited warranty too, as per written behind the packaging itself.
One thing I find it rather odd is how the speeds are specified on the packaging of the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD. It’s also debossed in gold on the packaging itself, but instead of stating its theoretical maximum read and write speeds, it’s written as “less than or equal to” a number.

Hmmm… interesting.
Specs
When it comes to specs, the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD is quite secretive, if you may. There isn’t much information disclosed other than what is listed below:

PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD

Specification

Model
SSD-128GB
SSD-256GB
SSD-512GB

Capacity
128 GB
256 GB
512 GB

Performance

Read Speed (MB/s)
Up to 560

Write Speed (MB/s)
Up to 465

Environment and Reliability

Temperature
0°C ~ 70°C

Warranty
3 years

Form Factor and Connectors

Form Factor
M.2 2280

Data Connector
M.2 Connector

Dimension and Weight

Dimension (L/W/H)
80 x 22 x 2.3 mm

Weight (Max.)
10g / 0.35oz

Design
When it comes to the design of M.2 SSDs, it seems like there’s nothing to talk about – but there are a few points to highlight.
As stated, the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD has an M.2 2280 form factor – that is to say, it is 22x80mm in dimensions. As for thickness, it’s 2.3mm – though barebones PCB-only M.2 SSDs aren’t thick anyway, so it shouldn’t matter.

In terms of PCB footprint utilization, PenDrive did a decent job by making use of the full length of the PCB with components and traces filling up many of the gaps on both the front and back side.
This time around, PenDrive used a dark blue colored PCB. Looks decent, as it can blend along with the motherboard and other color schemes pretty well – especially when it’s hidden behind the dGPU.

Testing Setup

Test hardware configuration

CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-D15

CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 1700

GPU
MSI GEFORCE GTX 1060 3GT OC

Motherboard
ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4

Memory
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 16GB

Primary Hard Drive
Plextor M8SeGN

Power Supply
SilverStone ET-650B 650W

Chassis
BitFenix Aurora

Fans
Noctua NF-F12

Others
SilverStone LS02 RGB LED Strip

Benchmarks
For all we can say, the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD’s performance is a bit all over the place. We tried using CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD only to find out that its write speeds were higher than the read speeds… which do not happen, usually. We tried re-running the test a couple of times and the results were the same.
By looking at these results, I can say for sure that the scores through benchmark isn’t exactly within the range that’s stated on the packaging itself – and that’s somewhat of a good thing, at least in this context.
In terms of raw performance, the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD is a decent SATA III SSD. It’s not the slowest that we’ve tested, but definitely not the fastest too.
CrystalDiskMark

AS SSD
ATTO Disk Benchmark

Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Wrapping up the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD review
I want to say a few things about the SSD. Firstly, as mentioned earlier, the naming scheme is an issue. I really hope that PenDrive gives this series of M.2 SATA III SSDs a proper name within the company’s product line – that makes things more elegant – at least in my opinion.

As for its performance, I have to say – it’s actually pretty good for an SSD. The main benefit of SSDs is the rapid fast access times compared to a hard disk anyway. As more and more laptops are using M.2 SSDs instead of SATA-based ones, the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD is a compelling option.
The price is right too, as the PenDrive M.2 SATA III SSD has a prices as listed below:

128GB – RM299 (On Lazada for RM254.40)
256GB – RM499 (On Lazada for RM429)
512GB – RM995

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