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Google Wifi is now officially available in Singapore through a partnership with StarHub.

Singapore is the first country in Southeast Asia to introduce Google Wifi.

Finally jumped onto the Google Home bandwagon.

Last year, I decided not to buy it despite it being priced at US$99 (S$136) because the ecosystem was not very mature yet. Fast forward six months later, it has improved quite a bit.

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 have the first Chromecast back in 2013 and the second Chromecast back in 2015.

Chromecast Ultra is my third Chromecast. It retails for US$69 (S$99). It doesn’t ship to Singapore directly, so you have to go through a freight forwarder like HopShopgo.

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.

The Nexus 6P Official Case was out of stock for quite sometime on the Google Store. I have been trying to get it but to no avail.

I am surprised that it came back on Black Friday and this is where Google Store is having a 50% on all cases and selected accessories.

Bought the Google Universal 22.5W Dual Port USB Type-C Charger together with the Google USB Type-C to USB Standard-A Plug Cable for US$39.99 (S$57) and got it to ship through HopShopGo.

This is probably the only trustable USB Type-C Charger that I can find which has more than one USB Type-C port and is reasonably priced. Besides the charger, it also comes with a 1.8m USB Type-C to Type-C cable (USB 2.0 speed) which itself already cost US$19.99 (S$29).

The Google USB Type-C to USB Standard-A Plug Cable has been out of stock for quite some time. I managed to buy it when it just got back in stock on 9th November 2015. Because it doesn’t ship to Singapore directly, I have to ship it through a freight forwarder like HopShopGo.

The retail price is US$12.99 (S$19) excluding shipping fees from HopShopGo and comes in only one length which is 1m. It is a USB 2.0 cable and hence the data transfer speed will be capped at 480Mb/s.

Just to recap on my previous post about Nexus 6P availability & price in Singapore, the Nexus 6P is brought in by Huawei through Convergent Systems.

Only the 64GB and 128GB model will be available in Singapore. And each of the model will be available in two colors, Graphite and Aluminium.