Opple Smart Desk Lamp now in PH, up for pre-order

Surprising Filipinos with more products they need to experience comfort and convenience this year, the OPPLE Lighting offers Filipino users a better choice of lighting with its high quality elegant smart desk lamp called OPPLE Smart Desk Lamp. This smart lamp works with Huawei HiLink to ensure that this new device can smarten up life from the comfort of your homes.

And in collaboration with OPPLE Lighting, Huawei announces the pre-order availability of OPPLE Smart Desk Lamp, as they also set to innovate more AIoT products this year for Filipinos.

The OPPLE Smart Desk Lamp is worth PhP 1999. For online pre-orders, consumers can secure a slot from February 15 until February 18. FREE Huawei Band 4 worth PhP 1890 also awaits lucky consumers of Huawei Store, Lazada and Shopee. Grab this chance because this will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Get yours via Huawei Store, Lazada or Shopee.

OPPLE Lighting have collaborated with Huawei to promote and develop the intelligent home. Huawei HiLink is the IoT eco-platform for Huawei to connect with excellent appliance manufacturers and other partners in the industry. Meanwhile, OPPLE is a professional lighting brand with more than 2,400 patents developed over the years.

OPPLE Lighting has been deeply engaged in the field of lighting for more than 20 years, and has been committed to bringing healthy life to users with advanced lighting technology; Huawei HiLink is the IoT eco-platform for Huawei to connect with excellent appliance manufacturers and other partners in the industry.

The joint launch of OPPLE this time has corroborated and furthered the cooperation between OPPLE and Huawei HiLink. At the same time, it also brings users more high-quality products and more comfortable and humanized intelligent lighting experience.

In fact, as early as 2016, OPPLE Lighting and Huawei HiLink had jointly launched a very bright Huawei HiLink ecological solutions of intelligent home, which attracted a lot of attention through the advanced intelligent concept; in 2018 AWE and Huawei Hi-Link Intelligent Home Ecological Forum, OPPLE Lighting join Huawei’s “10 billion plan” as a strategic partner.

This further reflects the key status of intelligent lighting equipment in the field of intelligent home; in 2019, OPPLE Lighting was awarded the “Huawei HiLink Best Strategic Partner Award”.

This smart desk lamp joint launched by the two companies, not only has a healthier and safer illuminant but also can simulate dynamically the sunbeams at the same time, balancing daily routine.

After paired with HiLink, OPPLE Smart Desk Lamp achieves the linkage with other intelligent home appliances, so that users can experience smart at any time and enjoy the convenience and happiness it brings in their daily work, learning needs, and life.

With OPPLE Smart Desk Lamp, consumers can choose appropriate light in different environments for reading, writing, computer and more or from warm color to cold color and dim the brightness to meet personal requirements. It also has a smart control that makes it easy to connect to the internet and be fully controlled via the Huawei AI Life APP.

It can connect to all smart devices in the house, bringing you a complete smart life experience because of the Huawei HiLink.

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Vintage Electric Tracker Review

02/14/2020

The past decade alone has seen a lot of technological advancements when it comes to mobility or transportation. Electrification of vehicles is one thing — ditching the traditional petrol-guzzling engine in favor of a motor and packs of batteries. It has been transforming the automotive space since it offers power without the need to burn fuel. 

Using the same technology, it has now come in smaller forms like electric scooters and e-bikes and there’s actually a wide selection in the market right now. 

Although for those who want something that has a lot of character in it, something that will make passersby give a second look, and something that channels that classic pursuit of speed, then Vintage Electric might have something for you.

This is the Tracker. 

Design

Let’s not kid ourselves. You’ll get this primarily for its design. That overall retro vibe with its cruiser-style frame and classic headlamp brings so much character and attitude that it already says a lot about the owner.

You have a hydroformed aluminum frame that supports its nicely styled battery in between your knees, hub motor at the rear wheel, leather seat, rise handlebar, and pedals for when you run out of juice, for example.

The Tracker stands on 26-inch wheels which easily let you pick up speed and are nimble enough to worm your way through traffic when needed. On the other hand, reliably slowing you down are hydraulic disc brakes. 

Vintage Electric calls this color Indy Red which also has that vintage vibe going on. There’s also Graphite Blue as an alternative. 

As a helpful tool , it comes with a small digital counter on the left handlebar that displays all the needed information. Details for speedometer, odometer, battery life, and its five power modes are all compiled in one easy-to-read panel. 

Plus, it’s LED headlamp automatically turns on when it gets dark. That’s pretty cool but I think I’d personally prefer to have a dedicated switch for the headlamp.  

Performance

Alongside the right grip is a thumb throttle that makes the bike launch and is pressure-sensitive so it’s basically like a regular accelerator. 

Both levers control the front and rear hydraulic disc brakes and what’s noteworthy is that the rear employs regenerative braking. This means whenever you brake, unused power is returned back to the battery so you conserve more energy to take you further. 

The five power modes that range from 1-5 are basically your transmission and dictate how fast its 750W hub motor will propel you — the greater the number, the faster you go. I’ve had it set at Race Mode (Level 5) on open roads and it can really push you forward in almost an instant. 

The company says it can go up to 36mph (60kph) and I was able to sustain a speed of exactly 50kph during my ride. 

Okay, numbers aside.

Riding the Tracker in an urban setting is what it’s made for and you can feel it as soon as you get on. It’s very convenient to use, feels like an ordinary bicycle without the sweat from having to pedal, and gives you a bit of a confidence boost because, well, you’re riding a nice-looking bike!

I’ve even had a guy come up beside me just to confirm that it runs on battery and commented that it can even accelerate faster than his own underbone. 

Battery Life

The 720-watt hour battery can go up to 50 miles (80km) in one single charge. This is, of course, depending on your riding style. If you’re always on Race Mode, your distance will be cut shorter. Riding conservatively, on the other hand, will yield more mileage. 

Once the battery has been exhausted, plugging it to a regular wall socket for three hours will be enough to fully charge the bike and bring it out for another ride. 

Creature Feature

Here in The Modern Creatures, we’d like to present a Creature Feature highlight for our reviews to focus on something particular that makes the product more desirable — something that makes it stand out from its competition and worth buying. 

Now, the Vintage Electric Tracker doesn’t come cheap with what it offers, but what makes it worth buying, for me, is the experience when you ride it. Apart from being just a regular electric bike, you feel like you’re riding a piece of history — a fusion of past design and technology of the future sort of thing. 

On top of that, it’s reliable and can reach decent speeds when you need want it.

Conclusion

While it’s true that for the price of almost PhP 400K you can buy a decent motorbike with a lot more power, the Vintage Electric Tracker is for someone who just likes to go for that casual, laid-back cruise downtown and look great while doing so. This electric bicycle from the California-based company basically lets you relive the time when motorcycle racing was at its purest and offers a great amount of fun to bring around. 

If I were to compare it to movies, it’s not the best film that’s showing on the block, but it’s definitely a feel-good movie that will leave a smile on your face during and even after watching it. 

 

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