Fancy a big-screen cinema experience at home? Get ready to be thrilled by LUMOS’ new AURO V2 home cinema projector. It’s a powerful, compact, projector with many smart capabilities perfectly suited for home use. LUMOS, a Singapore brand specialising in projectors, already has a great line-up of projectors for different use cases. This latest LUMOS AURO V2 is an upgrade of their original AURO which was launched a few years ago. There have been some important improvements since then. Here’s some quick specs about the LUMOS AURO V2 projector. It’s a short-throw projector that features native Ful ..read more

If you’re somehow looking for an alternative to the usual flagship smartphones from Apple, Samsung, or Google, perhaps you can take a look at the OPPO Reno10 Pro+ 5G. It’s not OPPO’s latest, but the Reno10 Pro+ 5G is quite affordably priced for somewhat capable hardware specifications. The OPPO Reno10 Pro+ falls into the budget premium smartphone category. It has much of the hardware specifications you’d expect from a premium flagship, but with some cutbacks to keep costs down. In fact, that “plus” designation puts the Reno10 Pro+ 5G in a higher-tier category than the newer Reno11 Pro 5G just ..read more

Google launched their 2nd generation Pixel Watch 2 in October. I’ve used one for over a week. It’s a great smartwatch, excellent companion to an Android smartphone, and I can see some people who will love it. However, it isn’t something I’d want for myself. This post isn’t written to be a review of the Pixel Watch 2 per se. If you’re looking for reviews, I recommend checking out the excellent write ups from The Verge, Digital Trends, Wired, or DC Rainmaker. Instead, I want to share about how the Pixel Watch 2, as well as smartwatches in general, would work for casual users. Or not. People who ..read more

Google’s Pixel 8, the smaller of their two flagships that launched this year, is great. It’s very much like the larger Pixel 8 Pro, just in a smaller package. Does that make the Pixel 8 a good choice for those who prefer something smaller? I’ll share my thoughts. First up, let me just start off by saying Google offered my review unit in the Rose colourway. It is an absolutely beautiful colour. This colourway is not offered for the Pixel 8 Pro, and it’s arguably more attractive than the Bay (i.e. blue) colourway that is unique to the larger Pixel. In my Pixel 8 Pro review, I said that the Goo ..read more

I used the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 for a while earlier this month, and I’ve come away liking the foldable smartphone more than I had expected to. This post is especially for those who’ve not used a foldable smartphone before, and want to consider if the Galaxy Z Fold5 might work for you. Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold5 in July this year. This is the 5th generation of their Z Fold series of foldable smartphones which first came to market in 2019. Samsung also has another foldable smartphone design, the Z Flip, which launched in tandem with the Z Fold every year. The main difference is that ..read more

Dell’s new Inspiron 16 Plus is a big laptop that is positioned at creators. It’s powerful, performance-focused laptop capable of replacing a desktop PC, yet still something you can pack in your bag to go places with. Here’s my review of the Dell Inspiron 16 Plus 7630. Despite packing NVIDIA GeForce discrete graphics, 120 Hz 16-inch display, and other performance features, the Inspiron 16 Plus remains surprisingly affordable. There are certainly some places where Dell had to cut some corners, but these may not be deal-breakers for many people. Dell hasn’t changed the Inspiron design much over ..read more

The bigger of Google’s 2023 flagship smartphone, the Pixel 8 Pro, is great. Although it may seem like there can only be small incremental upgrades from the last Pixel 7 Pro, Google manages to surprise us. Some are meaningfully awesome, others are lesser so. I’m not going to write this post like a regular review of the Pixel 8 Pro. For full reviews, may I recommend those from TheVerge, AndroidPolice, GSM Arena, ZDNet, or any of your favourite source of Android news. Instead, this is going to be my thoughts on the Pixel 8 Pro. Needless to say, Google has made some headway with their Pixel line ..read more

All the headphones and earbuds you’ve seen out there? They all seem to look somewhat the same. Until now. JLAB’s Work Buds manages to bring something unique to the table, and I’m loving these earbuds that are made for work. Let me cut to the chase. The JLAB Work Buds are true wireless earbuds. Its standout feature is this flexible boom microphone that you can attach to, get that, either earbud, bringing the microphone much closer to your mouth so it can more clearly pick up your voice. That the boom microphone can be detached is great, because who wants to walk around with this appendage sti ..read more

On Saturday, 14th Oct 2023, the aircon in a somewhat innocuous building in an unpretentious locality in Singapore broke down. It shouldn’t be a big deal. Afterall, it’s a non-working day. There’re probably few people around, if at all, in most commercial buildings. But this was different. This aircon caused a blip in our digital economy. DBS suffered its 3rd outage of its digital banking services this year. The earlier incident happened on 29th March 2023. There was also another incident on 5th May 2023 where capacity issues caused problems with internet and mobile banking, electronic payment ..read more

Google didn’t announce a brand new Pixel Buds alongside the Pixel 8 smartphones last week. But they did announce a new colourway, as well as some cool new software features. It’s almost like we’re getting a renewed Pixel Buds Pro. If you’re an existing Pixel Buds Pro owner, you’ll be happy to know today begins the main rollout of firmware version 5.9 which carries all the new features that Google had promised. First up, there’s new clearer voice calling. Pixel Buds Pro now supports Bluetooth Super Wideband with Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. This doubles the bandwidth for voices, which makes you so ..read more