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
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Huawei P40, P40 Pro, Pro Plus launched online CEO Richard Yu poses with the new Huawei P40 devices. Image: Huawei Amidst trying times, Huawei has announced its next generation of flagship mobile devices via live stream today. The Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro Plus follow up the groundbreaking
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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
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Promotional image of the Realme X50 Pro 5G in Moss Green. Image: Realme Realme, an offshoot of Chinese mobile manufacturing giant Oppo, has announced the Realme X50 Pro 5G in Madrid, Spain. The Realme X50 Pro 5G counts itself among the first smartphones in the world to be equipped with
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Samsung Electronics Singapore has announced that the Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone has been sold out in less than an hour after its announcement. At its Unpacked event, the Korean electronics giant also revealed the S20 family of flagship smartphones. Available in Mirror Purple and Mirror Black, the Galaxy Z
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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
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Huawei makes a mean smartphone. However, 2019 was an exceptionally tough year for the Chinese telecommunications company. US-led sanctions had barred it from accessing vital hardware and services vendors like Android, Intel and Broadcom. To add insult to injury, Huawei's headline-grabbing S$54 smartphone promotion last year in Singapore backfired spectacularly
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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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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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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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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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Owners of the Google Pixel 4 rejoice: the new update brings revolutionary new features to Singaporeans across different With the all new "next generation" Assistant, Google claims better response times to voice-based requests, with on-device speech processing eliminating the need to wait for processing to be done on the cloud.
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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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Oppo has demonstrated itself to be at the bleeding edge when it comes to full-screen, bezel-less smartphone experiences. First the Oppo Find X, and subsequently the Oppo Reno, which traded a sliding camera tray for a sharkfin-styled pivoting selfie camera assembly. The Oppo Reno2. Image: Ian Ling The Oppo Reno2
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I love Pixel. They've represented the loftiest of Google's ideals - from its pure distillation of stock Android to the pioneering of next-generation computational photography. This year, we've got ourselves the Pixel 4, and we've already covered some of our favourite and least favourite features. The Pixel 4 XL, in Oh So Orange. Image: Ian
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Adobe has announced Photoshop Camera for Android and iOS, available as a preview with planned availability in 2020. It utilises the power of the Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence platform to produce surreal, magical images, with the option for filters, lenses and composite effects. https://youtu.be/zRfG7cWqCG8 By putting the power of photoshop
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Bringing over top features from their flagship Xperia 1 smartphone (SGD 1,299), Sony has launched the Xperia 5. In a smaller footprint, the Xperia 5 (SGD 1,099) delivers the same cinematic display pedigree, camera performance and audio performance powered by Sony's ventures in cinema, television and camera technology. Keeping the
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We've covered the four top reasons to upgrade to a Pixel 4, but that wouldn't be fair if we didn't cover the four biggest issues with Google's Pixel 4 smartphones. Different colours of the Google Pixel 4 XL. Image: Ian Ling Every device has its shortcomings, but some have more
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