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Ben Sin
Ben is an independent tech writer covering the latest gadgets - as well as reviewing the occasional film - for the South China Morning Post. Prior to this, he spent five years with the company, first as a culture writer, then as a sub-editor. He's also held staff writing positions with the Village Voice and Sports Illustrated in New York, and has been published in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
iPhone 16 Pro Max has amazing mics and video recording; coming AI features are useful but lag other brands’ AI; hardware upgrades are minor.
With an 8,999 yuan price tag, the Xiaomi Mix Fold 4 is the new thinnest foldable phone, but our review finds it still packs impressive specs, including six Leica-branded cameras and a large battery.
While Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 feature better hardware and design, it is in the software that the new foldable phones – priced US$100 more than last gen – look to challenge Chinese rivals.
A Gen Z gamer and a Gen Y gadget geek give their thoughts on the innovative but costly Apple Vision Pro as the mixed-reality headset hits shops in Hong Kong and mainland China.
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It may look just like the Apple Vision Pro, but the headset from Shanghai-based Play For Dream puts out higher-resolution visuals, feels more comfortable, and can run Android apps.
The new best camera phone, the Vivo X100 Ultra takes better photos than the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max thanks to a monster zoom lens and big sensors. Everything about it is top tier.
With its new M4 chip, thinner form factor, better screen and best tablet battery life, the 13-inch Apple iPad Pro 2024 is a fantastic device, albeit with a high price tag. Find out more in our review.
Huawei roars back to form with its flagship smartphone the Pura 70 Ultra, boasting an innovative 4-camera system and tremendous battery life. Its chip is inferior, but still fast, and software fine.
Adding Apple’s M3 chip to the MacBook Air, long popular with digital nomads, gives the laptop computer a spec bump – it is faster, more powerful and more efficient than any rival in its weight class.
The Samsung Galaxy S24 series of smartphones features generative AI that can translate spoken and written conversations and messages with almost zero lag, and a high-resolution periscope 5X zoom lens.
With two periscope zoom lenses – a world first – and a big Sony sensor, the Oppo Find X7 Ultra’s camera hardware blows rivals out of the water, producing better zoom photos than even the top iPhone.
We rank the five best smartphones released in 2023 – the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max and Google’s Pixel 8 Pro, two important foldable phone entrants and the best camera phone bar none.
The M3 Max MacBook Pro offers an upgrade on the Apple M2 Max’s already world-beating processing power, graphics, audio and battery life, and leads the market in laptop CPUs and GPUs.
Xiaomi’s 14 Pro smartphone has a powerful new Qualcomm chip, a stellar screen and top Leica camera system. It also runs on Xiaomi’s new HyperOS operating system, and for now, the price is good.
Chinese brand Oppo’s Find N3 foldable phone, selling globally as the OnePlus Open, has superior hardware to its Samsung and Google rivals, native Google app support and innovative multitasking software.
The Apple Watch 9 looks like its predecessor, but a powerful new chip improves Siri capability and facilitates a new finger-thumb tap feature. The best features, however, were already present in the Apple Watch 8.
First impressions of Apple’s new iPhone 15 series, from lighter, titanium frames in the iPhone Pro and Pro Max, to the latter’s 5X zoom camera, faster Airdrop transfers and USB-C charging ports instead of Lightning.
Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro has a groundbreaking ‘telemacro’ camera lens and excellent speakers. Its chip is behind the latest from Apple or Qualcomm, but an achievement given the US sanctions on its Chinese maker.
Samsung revealed its Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 phones at its 2023 flagship show in Seoul, as well as the Galaxy Tab S9 and Tab S9 Ultra, and Galaxy Watch 6.
It’s just a small metal box, but the Mac Studio packs Apple’s most advanced M2 Max/Ultra chips, is lightning fast and can connect to 8 displays at once. It far outperforms any other computer our reviewer has tested.
Apple’s Vision Pro is the best AR and VR headset on the market and represents the future of computing – even at US$3,499, says Ben Sin after testing the mixed-reality device.
The Xiaomi 13 Ultra’s Leica-branded camera is the best on a smartphone right now, while the phone comes with an optional camera grip case, 5,000mAh battery and a price that’s not too high.
Cutting-edge devices unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona show the direction the mobile tech industry is heading in. We pick the four most exciting.
Apple’s new 16-inch M2 Max MacBook Pro is an all-powerful machine for creatives who want to take their workstations on the go, with prices starting at US$2,499.
Samsung’s folding phone has met its match with the Oppo Find N2 Flip, which folds flatter and has a more powerful camera and battery. Samsung’s Flip 4 still has its strong points, though.
The Android phone market leader joins the megapixels arms race with the Galaxy S23 Ultra. So what can you do with all those pixels, and who should consider buying Samsung’s new flagship handset?
Asus’ foldable laptop is a super cool machine for digital nomads, with its versatile screen and software for multitasking, but its US$3,500 price tag and short battery life are turn-offs.
It was a year where good products got even better, from Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro and M2 MacBook Air to the best camera phone system bar none, from Vivo.
Successor to the Oppo Find N1 is lighter than that handset but feels sturdy, with top-notch OLED displays – but a screen that’s quite small when folded up.
Half the price of Apple’s standard AirPods, Nothing Ear Stick earbuds are comfortable and bright sounding, but lack the full bass of in-ear buds.
