From smartphones to notebooks and wearables. Its all about the gear you want
At 64 megapixels, the Leica S3 is a behemoth of a medium format DSLR. It was first announced two years ago at Photokina 2018, but now hits the shelves with an equally hefty USD 18,995/GBP 16,500 (~SGD 29,668) price tag. Image: Leica Leica's digital medium format chops began in 2008
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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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Fujifilm X-T4 now packs IBIS Vloggers and videographers rejoice - Fujifilm has finally brought over IBIS and a flip-out display to its X-T flagship series of mirrorless cameras. The Fujifilm X-T4 comes two years after the launch of its predecessor, bringing changes and upgrades big and small. In-body image stabilisation
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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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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.
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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
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Two years after their first entry into the mirrorless full-frame category with its EOS R, Canon has announced the EOS R5 alongside additional mirrorless lenses. With this update, Canon resolves a slew of complaints that bugged the EOS R and EOS RP. The Canon EOS R5 with RF24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS
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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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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 X100V.
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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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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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