News & Reviews:   Mobile

As fast-charging becomes increasingly better, the need for standards become more important. There are too many companies developing fast chargers, so it's important for there to be a unified standard. Fortunately, the big companies are well ahead of us.

These days, everything sounds more impressive if you tag the word 'gamer' to it. That's marketing at its best, but even then there comes a point where it feels silly. Specifically, what if there was a browser for gamers? That's what Opera GX Mobile is meant to be.

It seems that Tencent recently unveiled a new mobile game called Project: Fighter, which is a fighting game that’s set in the One Piece universe. As far as we know, the game will most likely be available in the Chinese market while there is no information on the global availability date for now.

Huawei has been working hard to develop HarmonyOS 2.0 and some results are starting to show. As it's still in beta, only selected Huawei devices to have access to it. But now the company is expanding the list of devices in the second beta phase so that more developers can test the OS.

Last week, we reported that LG Electronics would quit the smartphone industry and it is now official. As posted in the company's newsroom, their mobile business unit will shut down and the decision was approved by its board of directors just earlier today.

If you grew up with the series in the late 90s, chances are you might have played Final Fantasy VIII. You can still get the game these days on platforms like Steam or the PlayStation store. But what if you wanted to play it on your phone?

Based on a study done by speedtest.net, Malaysia is currently in 3rd place when it comes to the national average download speed with Thailand and Singapore coming in at 2nd and 1st place respectively. To go into more detail, Malaysia’s download speed averaged around 90.88Mbps while upload speed is somewhere around the ballpark of 50Mbps in H2 2020.

Today, a fellow Malaysian from Twitter just found out that Netflix Malaysia is testing out a new subscribing plan called Mobile+. From the screenshots, it seems like the plan is between the Mobile and Basic plan at RM25 per month. It's also only found in the phone browser instead of the desktop.

For many people, the smartphone is now their go-to for casual photography. As a result, smartphones with good camera sensors tend to become popular options. Samsung is a key provider in this area and now has a new upgrade with the ISOCELL 2.0 announced yesterday.

If you bought a phone with a 4K screen, like the Sony Xperia 1 II, then you're going to get more use out of it. YouTube has had 4K videos for quite some time, but HDR was never available on mobile devices. However, it looks like that's about to change with an update for Android.