Huawei Watch GT
I turned a year closer to 50 this month, and Ling surprised me with the newly released Samsung Galaxy Watch as a birthday gift just before we left for Taiwan. Ahhhh!! Only thing is that while I wouldn’t mind another
Category: Toys & Technology
Google Play Apps – 2018 Edition – Part 1
I do a post on useful Windows-based software and applications every couple of years, but realized that I haven’t done an equivalent for mobile operating systems. Picking up the new Samsung Note 9 last week also provided a much-needed opportunity
Samsung Note 9 – Part 2
Continued from the last post! Aside from the standard accessories in the box, the package also included a soft transparent case. The China-based phone manufacturers have been including this super useful freebie in their boxes for a while now, so
Samsung Note 9 – Part 1
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
Amazfit Bip – Part 2
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
Amazfit Bip – Part 1
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
Smartwatches – Oct 2018
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
iLIFE A6 Smart Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
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
Google Home
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
Notebooks through the years (2018 edition!)
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
Acer Swift 3 SF315
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
Sony A7 III – Part 5 – Reaccessorising
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
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