Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
I’ve been taking a hard look to see whether the current crop of recently released flagship and mid-range smartphones are good enough for me to replace the coming to 1.5 year+ Samsung S8+. What’s available on shelves here of course
Continued from the last post and covering more early impressions of the Amazfit Bip! I prefer traditional round-face than square-face watches. But there’s one advantage of the latter on devices like the Bip or the Apple Watches: I get more
I got lucky on the Huami’s Amazfit Bip smartwatch. The reference US price – on Amazon at least – is USD81/SGD111, and the suggested retail price for it locally here is SGD129. After the usual scouting around for the best
One would think that deciding which smartwatch to get would be rather similar to smartphones: as in out of three things – low price, features, and battery life – but you can only have two of these three. But there
We’ve been exploring getting a robot cleaner for our Minton home since moving in 4.5 years now, but kept putting it off on account that these devices were pretty expensive back then. The branded ones from LG, Samsung and Roomba
The new category of devices – Smart Speakers – seems pretty much like a natural amalgamation of several technologies that have surfaced over the last decade or two: voice recognition, natural language processing, and integrated services. Oddly, most of the
Continuing from my last post about the new Acer Swift 3, here’s my fourth and 2018 edition of a long running series on notebooks: with the previous editions in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Things move so quickly in the technological
The Dell XPS 13 that I bought 3.5 years ago experienced a critical component failure 6 months ago in January this year – right at about the three year mark. Specifically, its battery could no longer be detected, and the
Not sure if there’s such a word as ‘reaccessorising’. But basically, whenever one moves to a different camera system, you’re not just changing the most obvious pieces – i.e. body, lenses, flash units – across formats. Depending on proprietary the
Continuing from the last post on first lenses. The Sony sure seems to be having a windfall with the Sony A7 Mark III. Sony Alpha Rumors reports that several large stores in the US have sold out their April 10
Continuing in my series of posts on moving from m4/3 to the Sony Alpha FE as my principal system for photography. What lens to acquire first? The m4/3 standard is a pretty mature system, with a huge range of high
It’s been about 8 years now since my move to the m4/3 standard – and starting April 2018, I’ll be moving again – and this time to the Sony Alpha FE system. This decision to move to a full-frame system
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