Huawei P40 Pro review and comparison The Huawei P40 Pro was launched just days ago, alongside the P40 and P40 Pro Plus. It’s a chaotic time to launch a phone, amidst a growing COVID-19 pandemic, and in spite of almost a full year of Trump-led sanctions. With all odds against Huawei, let’s
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Apple has lowered the price of the MacBook Air while boosting its performance and storage. It boasts twice the CPU performance and up to 80% faster graphics performance and now starts with a base 256GB storage. The new MacBook Air 2020. Image: Apple Starting at SGD 1,449, the Apple is targetting students
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Oppo has announced its Find X2 series of flagship smartphones about a week after its planned launch date at Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona that has been cancelled due to Covid-19 concerns. The Find X2, which continues Oppo's vanguard Find X branding that was last seen in 2018, sports top-notch
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Oppo Find X2 Finally Finds a Launch Date Foiled by the cancellation of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain due to COVID-19 fears, Chinese mobile manufacturing giant Oppo has set its sights on Friday, March 6th for its hotly-anticipated flagship Find X2 launch, to take place just in just days. The sophomore
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Adidas FWD-01 Singapore Review The Adidas FWD-01 in all its chunky glory. Image: Adidas It's now possible to be adorned from top to toe with your favourite brand (the one with three stripes). In partnership with Zound Industries, the Swedish audio muscle behind brands like Urbanears and Marshall, Adidas has introduced the
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Covid-19 contagion fears spark tech event cancellations, factory closures Previously known as the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) or the racially-charged "Wuhan virus", the extremely contagious Covid-19 has wreaked havoc across its start point in the Chinese city of Wuhan and beyond. Nothing is spared - even the innocuous world of technology has
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Samsung has announced its S20 family of smartphones at its annual Unpacked launch event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco earlier today. The trio of devices, the Galaxy S20, S20+ and S20 Ultra deliver notable performance boosts across the board. Image: Screengrab from Samsung Unpacked live stream Galaxy S20,
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Venerable street photography icon and the brand's maiden X-series camera, the Fujifilm X100 has just received its latest update in the X100V. The film-inspired design, similar to its four predecessors belies the X100V's modern updates including a whole new lens, borrowed from the Fujifilm X-Pro 3, The all-new Fujifilm
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The smartphone industry is at a crossroads. Good phones have become cheaper and there is less of an incentive to upgrade your thousand-dollar phone each year. With a few tradeoffs, smartphones like the Google Pixel 3a and the Huawei Nova 5T deliver some kind of flagship performance at a fraction
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In 2012, Leica's inaugural Monochrom turned heads all around with its "limited" black-and-white functionality and astronomic price point. For a digital camera that was limited to black-and-white shooting, the Monochrom cost an astronomical USD 10,000. The Leica M10 Monochrom. Image: Leica This year, the Monochrom gets a redo based on the winning
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Massachusetts-based upscale audio manufacturer Bose has announced plans to permanently shut down brick-and-mortar stores in Australia, Europe, Japan and North America. Most widely known for its popular QC-series of noise cancelling headphones, Bose has also eked out a solid reputation for hi-fi audio components like CD players and speakers. More
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Remember 2010? You might, but I don't think you do. Let's jog your memory: the birth of life-changing apps Instagram, Kickstarter and Flipboard. The very first iPad unveiled alongside the iPhone 4, and Team Android gets its very first Nexus smartphone - the precursor to today's Pixel smartphones. 4G starts
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MINDEF has announced a potential data breach affecting the Institute of Health Sciences (HMI Institute) and ST Logistics. Caused by separate malware attacks, the possible data breaches affecting the two vendors affect more than 140,000 MINDEF and SAF personnel. Affecting about 2,400 MINDEF and SAF staff, the data breach at ST
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Key manufacturing partner Foxconn has been embroiled in an Apple-led investigation after defrauding the Cupertino tech giant of NTD 1.3 billion (USD 43M) over a three-year-long scam. Though based in Taiwan, Foxconn's Chinese facility at Zhengzhou had allegedly sold iPhones manufactuered from rejected parts to a Taiwanese mastermind. According to a Taiwanese
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It's comfortable at the top, and Apple's 2019 releases reflect that much. While the iPhone 11 Pro showcased huge leaps in display, camera and battery performance, the A13 chipset within had uncharacteristically single-digit improvements over its predecessor the A12. Image: Qualcomm Anecdotally, Qualcomm's best chipsets have been about two years behind Apple's
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The holiday season has beset us yet again - the endless jingle of Christmas tunes a constant reminder that we've got limited time and a long list of friends and family to snag gifts for. Fret not: here's a comprehensive guide, arranged by category and price-points so you don't emerge from
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Six months after their announcement at WWDC 2019, Apple's highly anticipated Mac Pro desktop and Pro Display XDR will be available for preorder come December 10th. Prices will still be an astronomical USD 5,999 for the base configuration of the Mac Pro, which is the same starting price of the
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HP has announced the availability of the Elite Dragonfly ultralight premium PC in Singapore. Targeted at on-the-go business professionals, the Elite Dragonfly delivers an ultra-long battery life, powerful performance and great connectivity in an ultra-light, ultra-portable package - the world's lightest compact business convertible. For mobility, the Elite Dragonfly's convertible form-factor
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Megapixels don't equal quality, but Xiaomi begs to differ with the Mi Note 10. Unabashedly camera-centric, the Xiaomi Mi Note 10 and Mi Note 10 Pro packs an incredible 108-megapixel camera, the main shooter in an array of five lenses. A curved AMOLED display, astonishingly large battery and a smattering
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We stress test the AirPods Pro in our ultimate review: including a 34-hour return flight & long distance running in tropical weather About a month ago, we published our Day 1 Review of the AirPods Pro, where we established that they're one of the best true wireless options in the wild
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