HWM Singapore May 2022

Tech Awards season is here for us at HWM Singapore and Hardwarezone.com, and that means releasing our Editor’s Choice results for what we consider to be the best tech gadgets that we’ve reviewed over the past year. In this issue of HWM, you’ll find a consolidated feature showcasing all the winners for each award category and our reason they were the pick of the crop among its competitors. And then stay tuned next month as we try to make sense of your votes for the best tech brands in the Readers’ Choice results. Now, within the Editor’s Choice awards, there is a section we like to call our Innovation Awards. And let me share a little insider view as this generates the most heated discussion in the HWZ team - one…

Yik Keat may only be 26 years old, but he has already worked with global brands like Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Adidas, and Porsche, to create stunning photos. He is also one of the youngest judges of this year’s “Shot on iPhone” challenge. Announced in January earlier this year, this year’s contest is all about macro photography – a new feature that’s only found on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Thanks to the phones’ new ultra wide camera, users can take photos from as close as 2cm, opening up all sorts of possibilities for new perspectives. We spoke to Yik Keat to find out his thoughts about this year’s contest and also asked him for some tips on how to improve our macro photography. Firstly, how do you feel about…

At last year’s Intel InnovatiON, Pat Gelsinger realigned Intel back towards a developer-first approach. What does that mean? Steve In recent years, we have been focused on producing leading innovations in hardware but admittedly, we have not done as good a good job in staying connected with the developer community – and that’s where we have committed to do better at. At the heart of Intel software is our broad set of world-class tools, frameworks and libraries, such as oneAPI and our compilers to platform solutions like Intel Bridge Technology - which allows native Android apps to run on Windows 11 systems. Additionally, what many in the industry don’t know is that we have over 19,000 technical staff working on software alone. Developers today are also looking for open alternatives, and Intel is…

We are back with the 13th edition of our annual HardwareZone+HWM Tech Awards. Kicking off with the Editor’s Choice segments, we tested a whopping 69 products in 2021 up till February 2022. Because of the ongoing pandemic, which has led to parts shortages and shipping delays, product release/refresh lifecycles have been thoroughly disrupted. To accommodate for these, we have lengthened our qualification period to ensure every tested product category is accurately presented and evaluated. Here are the winners: BY TEAM HWM BEST MOBILE GADGETS BEST GADGETS FOR THE HOME BEST DEVICES FOR WORK BEST GADGETS FOR GAMING INNOVATION AWARDS BEST MOBILE GADGETS Best Premium Smartphone The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 revived genuine interest in the future of smartphones by delivering on a combination of its palatable price tag, leading processor choices (for Singapore), its unique-yet-practical folding form factor, and…

Intel 12th Gen Core (Alder Lake architecture) In late 2021, Intel finally unleashed a brand new processor architecture that’s totally reworked from the ground up, moving on from the DNA laid out in the Skylake architecture since 2015.. With so much engineering at various levels to make the Alder Lake architecture a reality, we’re gladly awarding the 12th Gen Core our Innovation Award to recognise the immense steps that Intel has taken, and we look forward to more systems championing the new processor series this year.…

You’ve got to give ASUS props for upping the ante in product design. This time, it’s the ROG Flow Z13, which the company has touted as the “world’s most powerful gaming tablet”. That’s right, a gaming tablet. While the ROG Flow Z13 is essentially a 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrid that looks akin to a souped-up Microsoft Surface Pro, in many ways, it’s built more like a notebook than a tablet. For one, it’s running on Windows 11. My review unit also comes with an RTX 3050 Laptop discrete GPU and Intel’s 12th Gen Core i7-12700H processor. Lastly, and here’s the best part: it can even be hooked up to the ROG XG Mobile external GPU with an RTX 3080! The downside? $2,998 is not exactly cheap for an RTX 3050-based gaming device. But…