News & Reviews:   iOS

A sad day in the world of wearable technology – Pebble has confirmed that they will be bought over by Fitbit. This will result in the closure of the brand, company and product line as Fitbit is only buying the software side of the company – not the hardware.

If you are currently subscribing to Netflix, and wished you can bring your favourite show or movie along with you while you are travelling – good news. Netflix now allows users to download shows onto your smart devices for offline viewing. This feature is now live for both the Android and iOS apps, and regardless of the subscription tier.

While most people uses the Facebook Messenger as a chat service to talk with friends, Facebook thinks that it can be more than just for words. They have now rolled out an update for Android and iOS that will allow users to play a number of classic and current games directly in Messenger.

If you are a constant user of Waze – this will be a treat for you. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are now on Waze as a voice pack that you can download to give you navigation on the road.

If you are a Hotlink customer – head’s up. Maxis’s prepaid brand is launching the Biggest Internet Pass package that offers free calls to all networks and two times more YouTube streaming quota than ever before. With just RM50 per month, you will get 17GBs of high-speed Internet.

Look out for MWC 2017, as Sony is set to launch two new smartphones during that event. The two new devices will have the model label G at the back of the name, but they may follow current convention and use the X instead.

If you are getting tired topping up your prepaid service every week due to the validity period, TuneTalk is here to the rescue. They have just introduced a new prepaid plan that is valid for a year! Better yet, it comes with 36GB of data, or around 3GB a month. 

While the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 shows what curved displays can be like to own, we are still plagued with the limitation of smartphones – both phones still have bezels around the display, albeit a very tiny one. Sharp, one of the premier manufacturers of displays, has reveal a display that is without bezels, and spans from corner to corner.

The next time you are busy lining up at your local Maybank, check if they have WiFi on offer. Selected branches around Malaysia now gives out free WiFi access to their customer while waiting in line.

The top messaging-app has been updated to make it a bit more, well, fun. With the latest version of WhatsApp, users will be able to customize and improve the photos and video they want to share with friends and family. There's a set of new camera features that have been implemented in the Android version of WhatsApp, which enable users to write or draw on photos and videos.