From smartphones to notebooks and wearables. Its all about the gear you want
Fujifilm has announced the X-T200, their latest APS-C crop sensor mirrorless camera that replaces the X-T100 that was launched mid-2018. It boasts improvements from its predecessor across the board, including an enhanced EVF, fully articulating LCD, upgraded AF, HDR and video stabilisation. The Fujifilm X-T200. Image: Fujifilm At the centre
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What’s not to love about the Chinese New Year? From traditional decorations and reunion dinners to bucket loads of gifts and fireworks, the festivity in the air is unmatchable! As far as gifts like new tech gadgets are concerned, it’s important to keep them secure online to avoid the possibility
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Tucked in the corner of the sprawling Oxley Biz Hub at Ubi is Chai Yee Wei's brainchild - his film lab, Mocha Chai Laboratories (MCL). A post-production house fully certified as a Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos facility, MCL works with clients like MediaCorp, Golden Village and Discovery Network. He
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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
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Samsung co-CEO DJ Koh has been replaced by Roh Tae-moon, the company's youngest president yet. Koh will continue to helm the IT & Mobile Communication (IM) division of the Korean electronics giant. This comes amidst gathering momentum for Samsung's 2020 smartphone launches - four of which were previewed at CES
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Lift the Great Firewall of China and behold - the weird, wonderful world of Mandarin neologisms. Coined amidst the swathe of multi-camera smartphones launched in the past years, Chinese online, social and traditional media have humorously used "yuba" refer to the neat clusters of cameras arranged into shapes, but mainly
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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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Debuting at CES 2020, the Jabra Elite Active 75t has been announced in Singapore, months after the classic Jabra Elite 75t was launched. Updated models of the wildly popular Jabra Elite Active 65t true wireless in-ear headphones that we loved, the Jabra Elite 75t features a revamped form-factor and increased
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We're still reeling from the sensory overload of CES 2020, attendants were swarmed by headline exhibits and launches. This year, we saw Sony's self-driving prototype that catapulted them into the automotive space, Nikon's new D780 DSLR, Withing's new wearable that would undercut and outdo Apple, and Shure's Aonic line that
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the mainstay and cornerstone of the consumer technology world since its inception in 1967, some 52 years ago. Today at CES 2020, CTA President Gary Shapiro shared insights into the show and its future with journalists and analysts from the world over. Despite
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Nikon has just launched the D780 at CES 2020, a follow-up to the Nikon D750 of 2014. Similarly situated at the more accessible end of the full-frame DSLR offerings, the D780 seems to be the culmination of lessons learnt by Nikon on the Z series mirrorless cameras. The Nikon D780.
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Sony is one of the world's largest consumer electronics companies in both scale and scope. With a product portfolio encompassing everything from hi-fi audio, television, photography, videography and smartphones, the last thing you'd expect is for the company to expand into... automobiles. The Sony Vision-S prototype self-driving car. Image: Ian
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Withings, a health wearable company based in France, has announced the ScanWatch at CES 2020. Stylish and refined on the outside, the Withings ScanWatch is the first wearable to combine medical-grade single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) readouts with sleep apnea detection - a health condition that affects about a billion people worldwide.
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American professional audio heavyweight Shure has announced a brand-new line of premium wireless consumer products at CES 2020. Dubbed Aonic, the line premieres with the Aonic 50 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones and the Aonic 215 True Wireless Sound Isolating Earphones. "The biggest legends in music - Elvis, The Beatles, Jimi
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Ask anyone for their favourite iOS feature and AirDrop would top most lists. This seamless method of sharing of images, documents and other files between iPhones and even to iPad and Mac is made even better with the technology behind it - enabling files to be shared even without Wi-Fi
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We're gearing up to attend CES 2020 at Las Vegas this coming week - the biggest, baddest event on the tech calendar every year. It's a new decade, and after all is said, done and reminisced about the decade of the 2010s, we're ready for the next one. 1. Artificial
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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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This year's iPhone 11 (SGD 1,149/USD 699) and iPhone 11 Pro (SGD 1,649/USD 999) devices have performed admirably in tests at VR Zone, and across a wide swathe of other tech sites. Though they dominated the headlines, many might have missed Apple's act of retaining this venerable 2018 device on
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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
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Despite Motorola's nostalgic #throwback Razr 2019, Samsung and Huawei still rule the roost when it comes to headlines about foldable phones. The three companies have interestingly adopted very different approaches with their foldables - Huawei screen-out, Samsung screen-in, and Motorola folding a regular-shaped phone screen-in to form a square. Neat.
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