The Nokia Store will shut down by mid-2015. Screenshot by CNET As Microsoft continues sloughing off the Nokia brand name on phones, the Nokia Store for feature phones will cease to exist. Having already dropped the Nokia branding for its latest smartphone — the Microsoft Lumia 535 — Microsoft is set to shut down the …

Screenshot by Aloysius Low/CNET Viddsee, the Singapore-based online video company has just released the Viddsee iOS app for the iPhone, which lets users watch any of the 700 films hosted on its website, with weekly rotations of curated movies, so you’ll never be bored on your commute. If you’re on a Wi-Fi connection, the app will intelligently download queued films …

As Opera Mini hits the 50 million mark in India, CEO Lars Boilesen celebrates the event with a Bollywood dance skit in New Delhi. Karin Greve-Isdahl/Opera Opera CEO Lars Boilesen took to the stage yesterday to celebrate his company’s Opera Mini mobile browser hitting the 50 million user mark in India. The CEO put on a show with a Bollywood …

Josh Miller/CNET As someone who has been using the various versions of the iPad since the original, the Google Nexus 9 comes across as a breath of fresh air. Made by HTC, the Nexus 9 showcases the quality build and design prowess of the Taiwanese company while running on a powerful Nvidia Tegra K1 processor. I spent a week with …

A recent launch in Singapore saw Chinese smartphone maker Oppo launching the super slim R5. Aloysius Low/CNET Chinese phone maker Oppo may not have the global brand recognition of its compatriot Xiaomi, but the company is working on it. Oppo recently held the launch event for its new N3 and R5 smartphones in Singapore, flying in partners, distributors and journalists …

Epson’s Kenichi Yamamoto and Junichi Watanabe. Aloysius Low/CNET With prices falling and screen sizes increasing, large-screen TVs have become quite the affordable commodity. In Singapore, a Toshiba 58-inch LED TV can be bought for as low as S$1,649 ($1,320), about half what a freshly minted graduate makes per month in the island state. So it’s interesting to note how bullish …

Gumi If you can’t wait to watch Disney’s upcoming Big Hero 6 movie (set to hit theaters in the US on November 7) you can get a sneak peek of the action with the Big Hero 6 Bot Fight mobile tie-in game, set a year after the events of the movie. Made by Gumi Asia, a Singapore-based gaming studio, the …

Sarah Tew/CNET Onkyo’s latest range of AV receivers may not be the sleekest of devices, but they come loaded with impressive features. Most exciting is the latest Dolby Atmos support, allowing users to experience an immersive sound experience — including audio from above and below. If you’ve sat in a Dolby Atmos-equipped theatre before, you can expect a similar experience …

Aloysius Low/CNET One of the best things about living in Singapore is the mobile network infrastructure. Over the past few years, the Singapore government has invested heavily in making the island state as fibered up as possible. That result of that effort was more than evident as I tested the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 , which supports LTE-Advanced data networks. …

Aloysius Low/CNET October 21, 1.45 a.m.: Updated to fix incorrect links to images in portrait and low-light sections. Some captions were also updated. Samsung’s latest Galaxy Note 4 sports a new design, but it sticks with a well-tested formula that has defined the phablet range of smartphones since its debut three years ago. Packing a Quad HD Super AMOLED display …