Have you ever experience where the AC power plugs provided in hotel is not enough to charge all your electronic devices during holiday? I face it every time while I travelling for jobs or holidays, therefore I always prepared a power extension with me so that my devices can be charge at the sametime. Innergie understand us and therefore the LifeHub is here to solve the charging problem.
With Innergie LifeHub, you now have one convenient way to charge tablets, smartphones, MP3 players, portable game consoles and more. So you can just sit back on your sofa and let the LifeHub charge all your portable devices.
No more nonsense and let's dive into how impressive is the Innergie LifeHub!
Huawei had released their flagship smartphone, the Huawei Mate 8 in Malaysia this back in March at the retail price from RM 2,099 to RM 2,399 (including GST). Huawei Mate 8 is powered by Kirin 950 processor, 3GB/4GB RAM and also 32GB/64GB ROM. The rear camera equipped is a 16MP Sony IMX298 sensor. The Huawei Mate 8 aims at creating a new style for business.
No more nonsense and let's dive into how impressive the new astonishing look and stylish Huawei Mate 8 gives!
the [A]ppearance
After waiting for more than a year, Huawei finally launched Mate 8. The Huawei
Mate 8 remains at the size of 6 inches but is known to be the
successor on top of the Ascend Mate 7. While comparing both devices side by
side, looking from the front, I assume most of you will get confused between the
Mate 7 and Mate 8. The front camera and sensor of Huawei Mate 8's
has been moved from the left to the right. Other than that, the percentage of
the screen-to-body ratio increases slightly from 77.6% to 78% whereas both
remain borderless. Moving to the back view, a big difference can be easily
realized. First of all, you might have already found that the shapes of
the camera lens and fingerprint sensor has been changed from rounded square to
circular form. Huawei is truly putting in effort this time, re-designing the
fingerprint sensor to provide users easier and faster unlocked experience. It
is impressive when you can always have your phone unlocked before you placed it
before your eyes. Additionally, the flashlight is upgraded to dual tone type to
produce more vivid and solid image. Furthermore, the speaker has been migrated
from the back (on Ascend Mate 7) to the current position, neighboring the mini-USB port. This would surely produce better sound
effect and greater volume no matter how or where you place your phone. Last but
not least, the antenna line for NFC above the rear camera lens (refer to
Ascend Mate 7 backview) which looks a bit like a crack seeing from far was
omitted on the Mate 8,
creating a simpler but more classy look.
I just couldn't describe how nice the feeling is of owning a 6 inches screen for gaming!
the [B]rain
The brain of Huawei Mate 8 is powered by their latest Kirin 950 processor together with 3GB or 4GB
RAM depending on the specifications you prefer. Kirin 950 is their brand new processor
with the ability to provide fast and long-lasting performance without any stutter. With the
joining of the 4000mAh capacity non-removable battery, enhancing the great and long-lasting performance on the Mate 8. Surprisingly, Mate 8 is able
to survive up to 2 days or more with moderate usage. Somehow, no worries even if you are a heavy user or having 2 SIMS running at the same time, the Mate 8 can still
lasts up to a day. No more hassles bringing any adapter, cable or a heavy power-bank along! How nice to hear that for a businessman who needs to travel a lot, no matter on the road, in the air or on the sea. As per mentioned above, with Huawei Mate 8, you no longer need a powerbank for outing, moreover, it can actually act as a powerbank to jump start or share some "lives" with your other device. What if you are packed with
meetings and appointments? The best solution Huawei has provided us: just feed the Huawei Mate 8 with 30 minutes of charging, that may last the device for one whole day.
the [C]amera
Huawei uses Sony latest 16 MP f2.0 camera sensor
on Mate 8 which produces better images. Photo shooting becomes a simple task with Huawei Mate 8 auto mode that what you need to do is to flip out your
device, launch the camera application and "ta-dah!" you will then get a lots of great images. The result do meet my
standard even I work as a professional photographer and mainly shooting for lots of weddings and
events. However, in my opinion, Huawei Mate 8 can be improved by enhancing their autofocus technology, that would then avoid easy blurred-out photo that caused by movement. Not to forget to give a big round of applause to Huawei who added
professional mode to their camera that makes photo snapping more fun on Huawei
Mate 8. Anyhow, thanks to the built-in optical image stabilization as well, that allows me to
take some nice photos during night time. Overall, I am quite satisfied with the performance obtained from the Mate 8's camera besides food photography. It is sad to say food images taken with Mate 8 is not that attractive, lacking of saturation and details. Future improvements can still be done by Huawei to fulfil the needs and to serve the user with better yet convenient functions.
the [D]enouement
In short, Huawei Mate 8 does attract me with the premium and glory feel it has been giving me, more than what I have expected from the very young brand, Huawei. As Huawei slimming down the bezel on both side, users will obtain a larger screen experience. With the improvise fingerprint sensor from design to performance, keeping the device on all the time and taking only 0.2 seconds to unlock the screen, considering pretty fast as compared to other android smartphones. This really leads Huawei Mate 8 to score higher in the range, pushing Huawei brand to a higher end in the smartphone market as well. Battery life is always another vital aspects to user on smartphone purchasing. I am truly impressed by the battery life of
Huawei Mate 8 and has been leaving my powerbanks at home when I am out for events or any important meet-ups. I guess they have already collected some dusts on them! Furthermore, the EMUI 4.0 has updated from the previous version with few features added in (refer to photos below), like name card scanning, knuckle gesture to screenshot (even for longer pages), documents
readjustment, different recording mode (where you can choose either you are in a meeting, interview or daily use) as well as ultimate in-car experience. Name card scanning is a very
useful feature to businessman where they can save the contact info via name
card they received in a faster way. I will say Huawei Mate 8 is the smartphone that
comes with good hardware, great performance, special features and definitely worth-for-money. I will stick to Huawei Mate 8 for a longer period!
New features added in:
Below are some sample shots taken with Huawei Mate 8, do give us some feedback in the comment box below.
taken @ Eco Sanctuary
taken @ Eco Sanctuary
taken @ the Parque Cafe
taken @ MISS Paris Cafe
taken @ Whup Whup Cafe
taken @ Malacca Riverside
taken @ amei Utopia concert 2016
taken @ Luminox / Edox / Claude Bernard event
taken @ Luminox / Edox / Claude Bernard event
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Asus had released their latest mobile photography smartphone, the Asus Zenfone Zoom in Malaysia this early January at the retail price of RM 2,099 (included GST). Asus Zenfone Zoom is powered by Intel Quad Core processor, 4GB RAM and also 128GB ROM. The rear camera is a 13MP PixelMaster camera with 10-element lens with built-in laser auto-focus. The appearance of Asus Zenfone Zoom creates a new era of mobile photography with sleek design, thinner body yet with a feel of owning a DSLR.
So let's go on a tour looking at how powerful Asus Zenfone Zoom is in creating a new era for mobile photography!
the [A]ppearance
During mid of 2014, Samsung did launch a smartphone that comes with optical zoom, literally being named as Samsung K Zoom. It was one of the hottest model in the market previously, however it is too bulky to bring around as a phone. It is an honor to say that Asus managed to keep the thinness of Zenfone Zoom, making it as the world's thinnest optical zoom smartphone. Unlike the other Zenfone models, Zenfone Zoom is covered with a premium leather back casing. It boosts up the whole look and the classiness in both the milky white or piano black. A shutter button is equipped at the same side of power and volume button, lead to easier and more time-saving photo capturing or video recording session. No longer losing any special scene! Additionally, the volume button is customized to work as the optical zoom function that zooms up to 3X without any noise.
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| The shutter button is very useful for photo capturing especially selfies! |
the [B]rain
The brain of Asus Zenfone Zoom is powered by the latest Intel 64 bit Super Quad-Core processor together with 4GB RAM. If 128GB storage is not sufficient, you may add on extra storage through the Micro SD card slot available, up to another 128GB. The 3000mAh capacity non-removable battery is common in the market that makes no difference among Zenfone Zoom and other smartphone. Somehow, Zenfone Zoom can still lasts up to almost a day for moderate usage. No hassles charging Zenfone Zoom in the middle of your work and/or battery dying on the way back home after work. Does it sound great to you? ZenUI is one of my favourite OS as it offers smart grouping, knock-to-wake feature, customized gesture to open the app directly when phone is sleeping and many mores.
the [C]amera
Asus has underlined Zenfone Zoom as a new era of mobile photography with its hoya 10-element lens as well as the 3X optical zoom. However, the aperture will be adjusted automatically between f2.7 and 4.8 depends on the focus length used. The built in Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) is able to eliminate shaky and blurry shot, but it does not helps during night time photography as the photo taken still shaky or blurred. Although Low Light mode (mode specially designed for users to take photo when the light source is not sufficient) is available on device, but photo only captured at 3 megapixel which will destroy the image quality .
I do enjoy taking photo using Zenfone Zoom's auto white balance as it brings out more accurate environment tone and save up my time from doing any editing before posting on social media. The 3X optical zoom works better than post-cropping your photo. You can #ZoomToMax to #SeeTheWorldUpClose yet with awesome and sharp photos. It will be better if the aperture stays at f2.7 to create greater bokeh feel even after applying the 3X optical zoom.
Below are some sample shots taken with Asus Zenfone Zoom
Taken @ BBCC Ecoworld
Taken @ product seminar
Taken @ Huat The Fish live show 2016
Taken @ Amei Utopia 2016 Concert
Taken @ Korean Cafe
the [D]enouement
It is a shame to say that Zenfone Zoom heats up much more faster and consumes much more battery with the boosted Intel processor. I found that it can easily eats up 30% of battery after shooting continuously for 2 hours. From the perception of a professional photographer, who will be using gears for at least 6 hours for an event, a powerbank is needed in hand if you plan to snap photo using Zenfone Zoom as the spare battery tricks will not be working on this device for the nondetachable battery. Furthermore, Asus should improve low-light mode or night time photography to make it more like a DSLR smartphone. Other than that, RAW image format should be included in the camera software to work alike to a DSLR. If Asus is able to overcome all these limitations, it is for sure Asus Zenfone Zoom will become the new era of mobile photography!
