Android Pay is now available in Singapore and it is the first country outside of US and UK to have Android Pay! It is the first Asian country to have Android Pay as well.
Android Pay works with VISA and MasterCard issued by the following banks in Singapore: DBS, OCBC, POSB, Standard Chartered and UOB.
Bought the Aeon Labs Aeotec Z-Wave Smart Switch 6 (Gen5) from Automate Asia for S$110. The product is pretty new and it is not listed on their website yet.
After getting my hands on the Fibaro Starter Kit which includes a wall plug, I got kinda addicted to monitor my energy usage of my always-on switches like the television switch, Internet switch and computer switch.
OnePlus 3 will be available in Singapore from 4th July 2016. It will be available exclusively online on Lazada Singapore from 4th July till 30th July 2016. The exclusive price is to be confirmed (TBC).
For retail stores and telcos, it will be available from 30th July 2016 at a recommended retail price (RRP) of S$699.
I think I came across Automate Asia in the local news. So when I needed to make my house “smarter”, I decided to engage their services.
Note that this is not a sponsored post, I paid for their services. Just wanted to do a shout out to Mike and the team at Automate Asia for the awesome service with the answers to my noob questions.
Thanks to Sudio, I will be giving out one Sudio Vasa Bla worth S$165 to one lucky winner. He/she will be getting his/her preferred color of the Sudio Vasa Bla.
Do checkout my Sudio Vasa Bla Review at lesterchan.net/blog/2016/06/03/sudio-vasa-bla/ if you are interested in knowing more about Sudio Vasa Bla.
Samsung Pay will be available for use in Singapore from next Thursday, 16th June 2016 on Samsung Galaxy Note 5 4G+, S6 edge+ 4G+, S7 4G+ and S7 edge 4G+.
Singapore is the 5th country after Spain, China, US and South Korea to have Samsung Pay.
*UPDATE* An updated version of Igloohome Smart Lock is now available, check out my review of Igloohome Smart Deadbolt Lock 02 .
Igloohome is a smart-home startup that is based in Singapore. They raised a total of US$1.25 million in seed funding which is led by Wavemaker Partners with participation from Singtel Innov8, and DreamIt Ventures.
Sudio is a brand of earphones that not many people have heard of. It is a Swedish company that is based in the Stockholm, Sweden. They have four series of earphones: TVÃ , KLANG, VASA, VASA BLÃ .
TVÃ is their lower-end range and the remote comes with only one button remote without microphone. It is retailing for S$65.
I backed the MOGICS Power Donut/Bagel project on Kickstarter on 14th February 2016. The project was funded on 29th February 2016 after raising a total of US$437,738 out of their initial goal of US$15,000 from 9,882 backers.
Both the Power Donut and Power Bagel are travel power strips which is shaped like a circle for space saving.
