Samsung confirms stylus support for upcoming foldable smartphones

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co, the world’s largest smartphone vendor, said Tuesday that its S-Pen stylus will be coming to its foldable smartphones as the tech giant prepares to unveil the new devices next month. Samsung is scheduled to introduce its new Galaxy Z foldable devices — the Galaxy Z Fold3 and the Galaxy Z Flip3 […]

Food, drinks, smartphones for Bintulu Hospital

BINTULU: Serba Dinamik Sdn Bhd has donated food, drinks and ten smartphones worth RM10,000 to Bintulu Hospital. The items were presented by the company’s senior vice president (Sarawak and Labuan Operations) Zainulabidin Ismail to the Bintulu Hospital director Dr Davis Johnraj. The food was for the staff and patients at the Covid-19 Quarantine and Treatment […]

LG says it is quitting smartphone business

SEOUL: The South Korean LG Electronics Inc says it is halting production of its smartphones in order to focus on other areas, such as electric cars, the company said in a statement, reported Sputnik. “The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier today,” the Monday statement says, adding that “LG’s strategic decision to […]

Samsung to reclaim No 1 spot in Q1 smartphone production

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co is expected to recapture the top spot in global smartphone production in the first quarter of the year, a report showed Tuesday, with the release of its new flagship smartphone. The South Korean tech giant is estimated to produce 62 million smartphones in the January-March period and accounts for 18.1 per […]

Sk Che Deris contributes smartphones to assist poor pupils with PdPR classes

KOTA BHARU: Not wanting poor students to continue to be left out of home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) online, drove Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Che Deris, here to launch an initiative to provide needy pupils with smartphones. SK Che Deris headmaster Mohammad Fadzil Mat Il (il) said almost 30 per cent of the students in the […]

Freeing myself from smartphones

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana, writer of thought-provoking aphorisms My first handphone was the Motorola MicroTAC 1950, which I bought in 1993 for a whopping RM3,600. It could only make and receive phone […]

Smartphone overtakes braille reading

KUALA NERUS:  The revolution of smartphone has led to a decrease in the number of visually impaired people who still possess Braille reading skills. Malaysia Blind Muslim Association (Pertis) Terengganu branch chairman Mohd Fauzi Mansor said the situation occurred because many of visually impaired individuals suffered from eyesight problems as an adult. “For people with […]