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I have been trying out the Singtel Smart Car for more than a month and no, this is not a sponsored post.

This service uses Modus to track your car location, trips, driving habits and monitor your vehicle’s health.

Yubico FIDO U2F Security Key is a USB device that uses the FIDO U2F protocol. It will work with websites that support the FIDO U2F protocol like Facebook, Google, Google Apps, GitHub, BitBucket, and Dropbox.

FIDO Alliance, or just FIDO, in short, is an open authentication industry consortium.

I was seeded with Vitastiq, a device that tracks your vitamin and mineral levels in your body.

Vitastiq started on Indiegogo back in December 2014. It raised a total of US$264,937 out of their initial goal of US$49,000 from 900+ backers on 8th February 2015. It got shipped to the backers in March 2015.

I got my hands on the Freefly VR thanks to my friend, Stephen. Freefly VR is a mobile VR headset that uses your mobile phone for the VR experience. The screen as the VR screen and your phone’s speaker for the audio.

This differs from normal VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and Razer OSVR because both of them have an in-built screen and audio system but relies on your computer for the VR experience.

Logitech will now be known as Logi, dropping the word “tech”. The Logi label will appear in Logitech’s new product categories.

The name Logitech still remains as the official company name and on core Logitech products like it’s PC peripherals and gaming gears.

iblazr is a LED flash that can be attached to the 3.5mm audio jack of any devices, not just smartphones. It is extremely compact and lightweight, measuring 27 x 32 x 9 (mm) and weights only 10g.

I bought the iblazr in Hong Kong from Life Digital located inside ifc mall for HK$388 (S$67).

Sony recently opened its largest flagship store in Southeast Asia at 313@Somerset #02-28 to 37 (directly opposite Starbucks). It occupies 9,902 square feet (920sqm) of floor area and its opening hours are from 10am to 10pm daily.

As a Sony member, we are given S$50 to spend at that store and surprisingly when I went there, there is nothing interesting for me to buy. Instead it is my mom who used the voucher and bought the Sony Digital Voice Recorder – ICD-UX543F for S$189 so that she can record meeting minutes.

Derrick Koh who is the Head of Communications for Lenovo in the Asia Pacific drop me a message on Facebook and ask me whether I am free to attend the Lenovo’s booth media tour. Since I am available, I pop by the Lenovo booth together with Jason Goh.

We previewed some of the new phones like the Lenovo S860, Lenovo S850, Lenovo S660, and a new tablet which is the Lenovo Tablet HD+.

Tuesday, 25th February 2014
The day started with breakfast and then a 30 minute talk by Dean Patrick, Nokia Entertainment Evangelist, on Nokia Mix Radio.

We proceed on to MWC later for two blogger session with Dirk Didascalou, SVP Mobile Phones R&D at Nokia and Stefan Pannenbecker, VP Industrial Design at Nokia.