Tech launches, conferences, and media events I have attended, around Singapore and beyond.
I was invited to the SingTel Blogger Race on the F1 simulators, currently at SingTel's Pickering Operations Complex, moving to Suntec City next week. I even got to wear the F1 race suit, which felt like a built-in sauna!
Li Xiang and I attended the Tampines 1 blogger mall tour and meet-up. We met at 2pm at the level 6 management office. Reaching level 5, we realised there was no way up to level 6 from there.
I'm a Canon fan and prefer it over any other brand. I was invited to Canon's first blogger event at Screening Room, where they unveiled updated IXUS and PowerShot ranges plus new camcorders.
Nokia today launched the XpressMusic 5800 and the Comes With Music service at Velvet Underground. Comes With Music is now live, with Singapore the first country in Asia to get it.
SingTel today launches the HTC Dream, aka the G1, available at all SingTel and Hello shops tomorrow. Alongside it, SingTel announces three new Flexi plans aimed at the Dream, which runs a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A processor.
My first invitation to a Samsung event, courtesy of PR manager Daniel, after previously reviewing the YP-K3 and VP-MX10. The Samsung Touch Event let us get hands-on with a range of Samsung products in a relaxed, try-it-yourself setting.
I was invited to Showcase Nokia 2009 at ZIRCA, Clarke Quay, where Nokia launched the E55, E75, N86 8MP, 6710 Navigator and 6720 Classic. The E75 is essentially an E51 clone with an added slide-out full QWERTY keypad.
I was invited to a one-hour Nokia Comes With Music session at Nokia's Singapore office. The service arrives here soon, and the much-anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic lands before month's end. Comes With Music bundles unlimited track downloads with the phone.
Derrick invited me to the first Lenovo Blogger Night at 7atenine in the Esplanade Mall. The food and drinks were good, with no big crowd, around 20 of us, roughly half bloggers and the rest from Text 100.
Ivy invited me to SingTel's new flagship shop at JP2, B1-98/99. We got a store tour and an introduction to its unique features, including four external interactive displays, two on each side, for browsing on the go.
Just back from the Intel Core i7 launch at Equinox, Swissotel The Stamford, my second visit after an OCBC Chinese New Year dinner with my mom. Equinox sits on the 70th floor, so as you'd expect the view is stunning.
This is the second part of the Nokia Remix 2008 event, a party from 7pm at the Red Dot Design Museum, where I went with Li Xiang. A blogger meet at Pacific Coffee let us try the XpressMusic 5800.
Nokia Remix 2008 Singapore was held this morning at 9am at Supper Club, Odeon Towers, a beautiful space whose huge, comfy sofas nearly put me to sleep. Thanks to yesterday's pre-media briefing, I already knew most of what Nokia announced.
It's now 1am Singapore time and my NDA has ended, so I can finally talk about the Nokia XpressMusic 5800, aka The Tube. Thanks to Text 100, and Supriya, I attended the Nokia Remix 2008 pre-media briefing at Marina Mandarin.
Nokia held a media event at House @ 8D Dempsey Road at 2pm to officially launch the N79, N85 and N96. Sadly I had my first tutorial then. The N79 succeeds the N78 and the N85 succeeds the N81.
I was invited to Nokia Connection 2008, the annual event, this year on 16th and 17th June. The first day was at the Singapore Recreation Club, the second at Mandarin Oriental, with plenty of new Nokia announcements.
My dad's 10am Singapore Airlines flight to Vietnam departs today; he'll be there six months, returning around 17th December 2008, though he may pop back briefly after three. We reached the airport at 8am to see him off.
I was invited to Nokia Sharing Experience, held yesterday at MILK Studio on Mount Sophia. The RSVP only said Nokia would introduce their latest devices and Share on Ovi, leaving me curious.
I went to Adobe's Singapore office at Suntec City Tower Three for an hour of Photoshop CS3 tips. The workshop, Exploit Photoshop CS3, was run by Shirley Tan, an Adobe Evangelist, and covered six handy tips in total.
I got three videos from Dinesh that were played at the press conference and, with his permission, uploaded them to YouTube. They came encoded in MPEG2, so I compressed them with DivX to meet YouTube's 100MB limit.
The second and final day of Nokia: Go Play was held in Ballroom 1 of The Oriental Singapore. There was an introductory speech, followed by two panel discussions, one on the Nokia N-Gage platform with senior Nokia multimedia representatives.
I nearly missed the opening speech, expecting it to run late around 5.30pm, but it began punctually at 5.15pm as scheduled. The night split into three parts: the speech, a live demo of phones, and dinner.