Igloohome Smart Deadbolt Lock 02 or igloobolt 02 in short is the second generation Igloohome Smart Lock or igloobolt 01 in short.
The product name has been changed to be more accurate to cater for more Igloohome products like Igloohome Smart Keybox and Igloohome Smart Mortise Lock (coming soon).
Beseye is a Taiwanese company that does home cameras and cloud services.
Its first product is Beseye Pro. Beseye Pro is a wi-fi monitoring camera that has won the reddot award 2015 because of its smooth design and clever magnetic mounting.
Synology Router RT2600ac was officially launched in Singapore on the 12th January 2017. It is retailing for S$365.
The RT2600ac is Synology second router. The first being the RT1900ac.
Blink started out as a Kickstarter project where it raised a total of US$1,069,386 from 6,879 backers out of the initial goal of US$200,000.
It was shipped to backers in May 2015.
eero is a home wi-fi system that is based on wireless mesh network (WMN). Accordingly to Wikipedia, A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. It is also a form of wireless ad hoc network.
eero is not cheap. A single eero retails for US$199 (S$285), a 2-pack eero retails for US$349 (S$500) and a 3-pack eero retails for US$499 (S$714).
The Linksys Max-Stream AC5400 MU-MIMO Gigabit Router (EA9500) has been available in Singapore since 1st August 2016. It is retailing for S$539.
The EA9500 is the highest-end router of the Linksys Max-Stream family. I did a review of the mid-range model which is the Linksys EA8500 Max-Stream AC2600 Router back in October 2015.
I have been using my Huawei Mate 9 instead of my Nexus 6P ever since I unboxed it.
The UI/UX have been very snappy. It scored 120,794 points on AnTuTu Benchmark whereas the Nexus 6P got 71,576 points. To be fair to the Nexus 6P, the phone has been out for almost a year.
The Huawei Mate 9 comes in a square brown box printed with soy ink.
It is made in China. To be precise, it is made in Shenzhen, China.
*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.
Do check out my post on tado Smart AC Control – Unboxing & Setup before reading this review.
I have been using the tado Smart AC Control for almost two weeks now and it has sort of taken control over my air conditioner from Ambi Climate. I doubt I will move back to Ambi Climate unless they have third-party integrations like IFTTT.
