At SGD 349, the ASUS ZenFone Max Pro (M2) pits itself against a whole field of entry-level smartphones like the Honor 8X (SGD 348), the Huawei Nova 3i (SGD 398) and the Samsung A7 (SGD 383). With such strong contenders, the ZenFone Max Pro (M2) pushes its edge in battery
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Ah, 2018. The year of notched smartphones, privacy scandals and artificial intelligence - you brought us plenty of political contention, healthy scepticism about our digital privacy, To close 2018, I've come up with my top three picks from this year's innings. These are personal choices, so they can be subjective.
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The long-awaited OnePlus 6T has finally launched 11 PM SGT today, 29th October 2018. The OnePlus 6T is wildly different from the OnePlus 6 launched in May earlier this year, both on the outside and within. The OnePlus 6 was wildly successful, selling 1 million units in three short weeks,
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Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer responsible for a swath of high-performing budget devices, has debuted its new 2018 flagship. The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 succeeds the Mi Mix 2s launched earlier this year. [caption id="attachment_134195" align="alignleft" width="650"] The manually-operated camera slide-out on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. Image: Xiaomi[/caption] Long
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At an event in Los Angeles, Razer has announced the sophomore release of its lauded Razer Phone mobile gaming device. Pioneering the gaming phone market category in 2017 with the original Razer Phone, Razer has gone on to champion mobile esports and mobile gaming entertainment. With the Razer Phone 2, Razer
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Just launched globally, Google has announced the availability of the Pixel 3 (SGD 1,249/USD 799/GBP 739) and Pixel 3 XL (SGD1,399/USD 899/GBP 839) smartphones here in Singapore at an event earlier today. The two new phones retain the characteristic two-tone finish but are a step up from the previous generation
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The OnePlus 6 has already been around for a couple of months and with its updated version, the OnePlus 6T rolling out sometime next month, let's take a look the tech enthusiast's favourite phone. [caption id="attachment_134026" align="alignleft" width="759"] The rumoured OnePlus 6T, image from Weibo[/caption] The OnePlus 6 has defined
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Full disclaimer: I've had the Samsung Note 9 for slightly more than a month now, but haven't had the chance to go hands-on with the newly-launched Apple iPhone Xs Max. Most publications have only had a limited hands-on with the phone, and I've based my conclusions in this piece on
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Just earlier, it was revealed that Google's upcoming Android update will be named Android Pie. It has, until now, been referred to as Android P due to the company's policy of using alphabetically sequential product name initials. [caption id="attachment_133492" align="alignleft" width="1371"] The Android Pie statue, unveiled at the Google Campus.
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It's that time in your phone's life when it starts to get considerably laggy and buggy, and you're trying to stretch your dollar. Fret not: you're not alone - smartphones can be quite a substantial investment, but they've fortunately grown more affordable and have become much better value propositions. This
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Huawei's brings the mobile flagship experience to an even lower price point with the Nova 3i. Retailing at SGD 398, the Nova 3i boasts features that would otherwise belong on the best smartphones in the category. With 128GB of internal storage, Kirin 710 octa-core processor, face unlock, and AI-enabled camera, the
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Downloading your favourite episodes on Netflix is a pretty manual process, especially if you follow multiple shows at the same time. To solve this pesky problem, Netflix has introduced a new Smart Downloads feature, limited to Android users at present. [caption id="attachment_133208" align="alignnone" width="1800"] The new Smart Downloads feature on
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It's an arms race in the mobile phone industry. First was the big push to dual-camera modules, first debuted on the HTC One M8 in 2014, and revived on the LG G5 in 2016. Today, virtually every flagship smartphone sports a dual-lens shooter on its rear (I'm looking at you,
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Just a week after the Vivo Nex was announced, Oppo's Find X has been announced. As yet another fully bezel-less smartphone, they both take after the vision first set out in Vivo's Apex concept phone. Boasting a 92.25% screen-to-body ratio, the Oppo Find X snuff's out the Vivo Nex's short-lived world-best
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So your Instagram posts are frankly boring and dull. You want to upload regularly, and multiple times a day but you don't know what to post so you end up with some half-baked selfies. Not to worry - with these apps, you might be able to transform your Instagram feed
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Incredibly futuristic, the Vivo Apex had captured the attention and imagination of everyone, when they unveiled it in an event in China earlier in March. Just three months later, Vivo has fleshed out this bezel-less beauty, and it's everything we imagined. Called the Vivo Nex, It has the defining features
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After a decisive showing from Google's current smartphone lineup, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the tech giant is expected to be preparing to release a new generation of mobile devices. Expected to be known as the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, the latest in Google's lineup of
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The ROG Phone is probably the most expected surprise we could have anticipated from ASUS. A leading hardware and electronics in Asia, ASUS boasts bleeding edge performance in computing and has a complete and successful range of smartphones. We've watched as mobile gaming has developed and got more attractive over
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