Aloysius Low

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X-mini is best known for its capsule speakers, but the Singaporean company took a new approach last year with new wireless and wired earphones. I’ve previously tried out the Evolve speaker headphones and liked them, but I wasn’t too sure how the company would fare outside of its comfort zone. Tuning a pair of tiny …

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Insta360 Evo is a foldable 3D camera

Shenzhen-based Insta360 makes pretty darn good and affordable 360-degree cameras. Its latest Insta360 Evo is no different, but with a clever twist. Instead of being a just a 360-degree camera, the Evo’s default mode places both cameras side by side to take 3D pictures. To convert it into a 3D camera, you just need to unlock the catch and fold …

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Samsung begins production on new 12GB RAM chips for phones

If you always want more RAM on your phone, Samsung has some good news for you. The Korean electronics giant on Thursday announced it has started production of its new 12GB LPDDR4X RAM chips. Most Android phones come with 4GB RAM, like the Google Pixel 3, or 8GB RAM, as with Samsung’s Galaxy S10.  While the ceramic edition of Samsung Galaxy …

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Vivo’s Apex 2019 lets you can scan your fingerprints anywhere on the screen

If I told you the phones of tomorrow will be a slab of glass with no buttons, no ports and a full-display underscreen fingerprint sensor, you’d probably tell me I was dreaming. But I’m not. Chinese phone-maker Vivo’s Apex 2019 concept is all that and more. I’ve just had the chance to try out this 5G phone, and I’m pretty much blown …

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Muzen Audio’s retro

Bluetooth speakers are a dime a dozen these days, but Chinese brand Muzen Audio has added something extra to help its OTR speaker stand out: Radio. The Muzen OTR (or “On The Road”) series comes in a retro-inspired wood or metal finish with tiny analog gold dials. And unlike many other speakers, it can pick up radio broadcasts. The throwback …

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Oppo F11 Pro takes to India with a 48

The latest phone in Oppo’s F series lineup is promising to dazzle you with beautiful photos. And its 48-megapixel rear camera lives up to that promise. That rear camera is paired with a 5-megapixel depth sensor. And together the F11 Pro’s cameras do a great job of capturing images with plenty of detail, letting you zoom right down to the pixels. …

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Vivo partners Energous for wireless over

Phones from Chinese phone maker Vivo will soon have a pretty cool feature. Powered by Energous’ WattUp wireless charging tech, Vivo phones could soon tap onto radio frequency to recharge their batteries, and there’s no need to place them on a charging mat to do so, as WattUp is able to do over-the-air charging.  While there’s no word on when …

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Vivo’s new V15 Pro is a mixed bag of mostly good tricks

In a bold move, Vivo’s introducing its newest flagship, the Vivo V15 Pro just hours before Samsung will officially unveil its highly anticipated Galaxy S10. Based in China, Vivo is hoping to one-up the Korean giant, and from where I stand, there’s a chance it’ll actually do it, maybe not in sales, but in terms of making a more covetable …

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Xiaomi Mi 9 comes with three rear cameras and a teardrop front camera

Chinese phone maker Xiaomi’s latest flagship will stand out from the competition thanks to a few cool tricks. The phone will come with a triple rear-camera set up, for starters, and its specs already show a lot of promise. Now playing: Watch this: Xiaomi Mi 9 hands-on 2:51 The rear triple-camera set up includes a 48-megapixel main camera, a 12-megapixel …

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This connected campus makes me wish I was back in school

I grew up before computers were common in classrooms — the most you could expect to get in my school was a CD-ROM encyclopedia to mess around with. (And if you don’t even know what a CD-ROM is, don’t sweat it. We’ve come a long way since then). So imagine my surprise when I popped by the latest campus of …

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