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Line 'em up
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 06/09/2017
» We've all used them at some point or another. Whether it be to accentuate a sentence or to act as a quick reply, the stickers of Line -- the ubiquitous Japanese social-messaging app -- have become a natural part of everyday interactions.
Looking through the P10 Plus
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 05/07/2017
» With its pair of Leica-developed cameras, speedy 6GB of Ram and beautiful QHD (2560x1440) screen, the Huawei P10 Plus is very possibly the best phone to be released by the Chinese brand so far, providing high-end quality features at a competitive price, with very minor caveats.
A cordless stream
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 15/03/2017
» Google Chromecast -- the tech-titan's digital streaming box -- has been around since 2015. But while the device has existed in the wild for quite some time, it has never supported any of the apps available in Thailand, making it largely useless for Thai consumers.
Dawn of a gaming dream
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 01/03/2017
» Much as it is with movies, it's increasingly rare these days for a wholly original video game -- one that's not a sequel, prequel, spin-off or remake/remastering of an existing game -- to find recognition in a market overflowing with familiar, tried-and-true rehashes of popular products. Horizon Zero Dawn, the latest Action-RPG from PlayStation-exclusive developer Guerrilla Games, is one such rarity, a wholly original game that deserves the highest praise for its gorgeous, meticulously-realised world and ambitious story, dealing with such themes as creation and artificial intelligence, even if much of its gameplay is admittedly derivative of many open-world games before it.
Nice cans
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 01/02/2017
» Wearing the Bowers and Wilkins P9 -- the latest release commemorating the 50th anniversary of the famed British company -- doesn't feel like wearing headphones at all. Thanks to the large cups that envelope your entire ear, the comfy memory-foam and decadent leather coverings, the actual weight of the mostly-metal pair of headphones is largely unnoticeable, while the angled audio-drivers give a sort of "surround-sound" quality to the headphones' output, making the sound seem like it's coming from an external source from the front rather than a device on top of or in your ear. The sound quality is also sublime, offering distinct depths of sound that somehow makes every separate part of a song even more distinct.
An alien encounter
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 18/01/2017
» While not exactly widely known by general consumers, Dell's Alienware has long been known among gamers as one of the premier providers of high-end dedicated gaming laptops in the market, providing desktop-level power in their sleek, stylish (and expensive at around 70,000 baht) products.
The mustachioed Italian plumber makes iOS debut
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 28/12/2016
» It's been a long time coming, but Mario -- the crimson-clad, mustachioed, Japanese/Nintendo-born Italian plumber -- has finally hopped his way onto smartphones in the form of Super Mario Run, the mushroom-chugging, fireball-flinging coin maniac's debut feature on touch-screen devices. Downloadable for free now on iOS and next year for Android, the game's simplistic touch-based platforming is great, losing none of the precision of control and inventive level design synonymous of Mario games.
Not yet final
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 21/12/2016
» Ever since its first title was released in 1987 for the Nintendo Entertainment System (known colloquially as the NES), the Final Fantasy franchise has been -- and arguably remains -- one of the best-selling franchises in the global gaming industry, with millions of players worldwide excitedly awaiting each new release. This year, after a decade-long wait, fans of the series were treated to the 15th main entry to the series, titled simply (and ironically, considering the franchise's name) as Final Fantasy XV, the first single-player, supposedly true-blood Final Fantasy game to be released since Final Fantasy XIII in 2009 (or even longer, depending on who you ask).
Light, powerful and skinny
Business, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 17/12/2016
» With a thickness and weight comparable to that of larger iPad models, the Spectre is without a doubt one of the thinnest and lightest laptops available on the market today. While laptops of this size and weight inevitably end up sacrificing power for portability, the HP Spectre brings us the best of both worlds, packing an Intel-Core i7 (or i5) processor along with up to 8GB of RAM in its slender, solidly built body, making it one of the most balanced laptops in terms of power, portability and design.
New, with a sci-fi paint job
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 23/11/2016
» Hardcore gamer or not, the name Call Of Duty -- publisher Activision's phenomenally popular first-person military shooter game franchise -- is one that you have most likely heard about. Released annually around the holiday season since 2005, Call Of Duty has been a household name for video games for the last decade, and is arguably one of the most influential titles of the modern video game era, despite having only minimal variations in its overall gameplay across the dozens of games with its name.