While my colleagues partied it up and scoured Suntec City for the Smart Home Tech Show 2024, I was sent on a solo mission to a different IT fair to suss out amazing consumer tech deals and gadgets. More specifically, it was The Tech Show 2024, located at Singapore Expo Convention Hall B6, which runs from 14 to 17 November 2024.
Does Singapore need two consumer technology fairs at the same time? Especially after the big 11.11 deals hurrah that will be closely followed by Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Our deals articles will show you the worthy finds that are popular and/or excellent to tech enthusiasts islandwide.
Note: While The Tech Show 2024 (Expo) has no shortage of consumer tech deals, the fair itself is more gaming-centric. We have another deals article hosting all those gaming goodies separately.
Catch all of our coverage from the two shows at the Tech Show Portal, where you’ll also find full brochure listings, reviews, guides, and more.
The Aqara M3 Hub (also called Hub M3 on its official website) is a platform-agnostic smart home hub that resolves your smart controls for your connected appliances across different brands.
It has Matter support, which means it’s compatible with just about every popular smart home ecosystem and its command-and-control app (Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, open-sourced Home Assistant, and Dutch-made Homey app).
The M3 Hub supports matter devices such as contact-based sensors, occupancy sensors, lights, switches, and Matter Bridge. It supports both Wi-Fi and wired Power Over Ethernet, has its device list locally stored and encrypted, comes with a built-in 95dB alert siren,and has emergency redundancy that ensures basic automation (such as door locks) still works without an Internet connection.
Aqara knows it has a good product on hand, so the Aqara M3 Hub is still going at its full retail price of S$209. However, if you buy an Aqara Smart Lock U300, you can get the M3 Hub as a purchase-with-purchase at S$168 instead. To find out more, visit Booth 6201.
Eight Telecom (stylised as Ei8ht), an MVNO using StarHub as its backbone network, is offering an irresistible SIM-only plan if your priority is massive mobile data caps at a low price.
For S$8 a month, you get 228GB of 4G mobile data, 10GB of APAC data roaming (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and Taiwan), 2GB of International Roaming (58 countries, list found here), 588 minutes of local talk time, 288 minutes of IDD talk time, and 88 local SMSes. This plan is also eligible for add-ons like more data, SMS, or talk-time, all at S$3.88 per recharge.
All this is on top of free incoming calls and Caller Number Display, with the option to get either physical SIM or eSIM versions. The bundled allotments are also meatier than its initial non-promotional S$8/month plan.
Eight Telecom knows it’s already running a good deal, so the booth only has one lucky draw chamber for you to try your luck with each new user sign-up. Find them at Booth 6608, right beside the Gaming Arena of The Tech Show 2024 (Expo).
Elonxtech is back with a product so new that it’s not even listed on its official online website. The Elonxtech 10,000mAh Gen4 powerbank has PD 3.0 support (USB-C, 40W0, and QC 3.0 (USB-A, 22.5W), featuring two in/out USB-C ports for juicing up or dispensing battery charge, and one USB-A output port for devices.
What sets the fourth-generation powerbank apart from its predecessors is the larger LCD panel that displays even more information. Besides showing a power status in percentage, the panel indicator now shows you the wattage and amperage the device is charging at, on top of an estimated total uptime provided by the powerbank to the device (e.g. the indicator shows you how long before the powerbank is completely drained).
To round off the total package, each Elonxtech 10,000mAh Gen4 powerbank comes with a 25cm USB cable that shows you the wattage passthrough, on top of its pleather carrying case.
It’s going at a promotional price of S$79 over at The Tech Show 2024 (Expo), Booth 6202.
Competing in the ultra-affordable segment is Heya, an MVNO by Singtel (and also backed by Singtel’s backbone network).
At The Tech Show 2024 (Expo), Heya’s 150GB plan is going for S$7.80 per month (instead of the usual S$10) for one month. It contains the abovementioned local 4G mobile data, an additional 1GB roaming data (Malaysia, Indonesia,Thailand), 300 local talk time minutes, 50 SMSes, and up to 100 minutes of IDD talk time for countries like China, India, and Malaysia.
To get that one-month discount, the user receives a S$2.20 cashback inside the Heya app’s wallet within three working days of new sign-ups. The cashback is also applicable to its S$13 plan.
Find them hidden in a corner at Singtel’s booth (Booth 6105) at The Tech Show 2024 (Expo).
The HoverAir X1 foldable drone is the cumulation of consumer drone advancements: lightweight, compact, and easy to use.
This HoverAir drone’s main feature is the autonomous fly-and-follow camera mode. The drone simply takes off from your hand and starts recording you, making it an excellent addition to vloggers who need a different perspective.
The camera records at QHD resolution (2.7K resolution) at 30 FPS, and has a flight speed of 16 miles per hour (25km/h), making it fast enough to keep up with hobby running groups. It also has a maximum flight time of 12 minute per charge, which can easily capture multiple clips of content for video editing later.
You can preview your clips after the camera completes a flight. While you can control the flight path via a connected smartphone (through its proprietary app), you can’t preview your shots while they’re mid-recording since the camera is confident of its automatic tracking capabilities.
Also, you can fold down its caged rotors to make it much more portable than it already is (125g).
HoverAir X1 retails at S$289 (down from U.P. S$479) at Booth 6303A, Lau International (where the Insta360 booth is also at).
In our review, we called the Logitech MX Master 3S the “king of productivity mice.” It improves on its already “peerless” predecessor by making its clicks 90% quieter, giving it a doubled (8,000) DPI sensor, and boasting an impressive 70-day battery life on a full charge. We hardly need to convince you that the mouse is worth buying at full retail price, and now, it’s at a discount. We must have been crazy not buying it at the show floor during our rounds.
Read our Logitech MX Master 3S review here.
Logitech MX Master 3S retails at S$139 (down from U.P. S$169) at Logitech’s booth (Booth 6605).
The Logitech Pro X TKL wireless gaming keyboard is compact, clean, and fuss-free, which are the main draws of the gaming-tier model. It offers multiple connectivity options (USB adapter, Bluetooth, and wired USB) in a ten-keyless form factor and up to 50 hours of battery life. Even if you’re not into gaming, the build quality, form factor, and wireless compatibility makes it a good pick for any desktop tasks.
Of course, it comes with optional LightSync RGB lighting, because it’s basic gamer science that a player suddenly becomes better when their equipment glows like a psychedelic hallucination.
You can find it at just S$249 (U.P. S$319) over at Logitech’s booth (Booth 6605).
The OSIM uDeluxe Max massage chair brings the brand’s highly coveted, third-generation V-Hand Massage Technology at a more palatable price point.
That said, it’s still packed with a host of other massage technologies, like Long Track Massage (head to bum coverage), on top of 155° reclination to recreate a zero-gravity feel, on top of a warming function for stiff muscles.
The chair can offer seven levels of shoulder detection, five levels of shoulder and lumbar massage intensity, three levels of posterior massage intensity (because those buttcheeks need love). When it’s not busy massaging, it still doubles up as a comfy one-person sofa or reclining lounge chair.
The OSIM uDeluxe Max retails at S$1,999 (lower than the online price of S$2,299, U.P. S$4,499), but this special price is only for its Purple and Black colourways. The new Beige version is still retailing at its online price. Find OSIM at The Tech Show 2024 (Expo), Booth 6309.
PRISM+ stands out as a best-value brand in Singapore, and its W280 Ultra monitor best embodies it.
This is a 28-inch IPS panel with true 4K resolution (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) and a sleek-looking profile, thanks to its thin bezels. It has a 60Hz refresh rate and 120% representation of the sRGB gamut, making it suitable for administrative work and video-based content.
Ports supported include one HDMI 1.4, one HDMI 2.0, and one DisplayPort 1.2, on top of 8ms response time and 178° viewing angles to round off its versatile uses. It also supports VESA mounting, and has built-in adjustable tilt and height.
That last point is crucial because it’s so affordable that you might consider getting two for a casual dual-monitor setup.
PRISM+ W280 Ultra retails at S$356 (down from U.P. S$391) at Booth 6101. The only catch is that you can’t cash-and-carry, and delivery to your home takes 5 to 7 days.
Singtel’s SIM-only plans need no introduction to regular readers of our website. The plans offered on the showfloor are the same ones it launched back in August 2024, with 5G local coverage, roaming data, talktime, and SMSes, and the option to get eSIM instead of physical SIM.
As an exclusive promotion at The Tech Show 2024 (Expo), each plan’s new sign-up now comes with an additional freebie. The Core Plan (S$40/month) gets a S$40 voucher, while the Plus Plan (S$55/month) and Ultra Plan (S$80/month) gets a free Jabra Elite 3 true wireless earbuds (although, it’s worth noting that the earbud’s product lineup is now defunct, so the support for these earbuds are questionable at best).
You can go to Booth 6105 and tell Singtel that Jabra is no longer making Elite earbuds to see if you can wrangle a better deal at The Tech Show 2024 (Expo).
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