I would say this year is a great start for me. Good things been pouring like craze and been doing things nonstop since after Chinese New Year. Friends coming over, food review but not until recently that I have got an email from Mei Yee asking to do an Advertorial. I have seen a lot of people blog an advertorial but not me. I got even more excited when I read through the email it mention that we will be sponsor all the way down to Singapore to cover Xacti Lauching event! Ding Ding Ding..for me I seldom say no and this would be a great opportunity to learn and go down.

Waiting the day to cover this event is killing me by putting a countdown of 2 weeks but time really flies with lots of things to do and here am I already back and writing on this post.

I was very energetic, in the early morning yet excited like a little small kid enjoying my 50 mins flight with Air Asia. I was one of the lucky person that the flight I took under Air Asia never got delayed not until the flight back because of tight flight schedule that Changi Air port have.

We reached and quickly hurried to the exit area as we have a tight schedule for the first session with Coco showcase her latest bling bling camera.

Not until we are about to walk off the exit and we felt like celebrity, so many fans of don know what celebrity were waiting for their idol.

We were standing there waiting for Nick to get clearence from the custome and this guy came off, and all the girls shouting, shooting and filiming him like crazee but, they should just get the new Xacti camcorder which is slim, comes with Dual Camera (photo & video) which need not them jumping around and take a peek. What they need to do is put their hands up and move the screen of that device.

Then we head to our bunk house.

All the imported media from Malaysia, with Stuff, Click, NST and others are here to cover the event.

This is their grand stand area for their F1 grand prix that I would most likely to come for this year that will be held around end of Aug.

We were pampered by the organiser to stay such a great place, Grand Park City Hall which is located strategically in the heart of the city.

With their interior of a bit English cross over with Italian feel.

and we were seriously pampered that I did not expect we get room each by ourself as I thought we would be sharing.

As we are running late and we were given a short period of time to grab our lunch. The lunch is good!

Then we rush to the location of the event which is now one of the signature place in Singapore, Genting World Resort area as is held at Resort World Convention Center. Seriously, this convention is hugeeeeeee, we got lost in finding the room that we suppose to go. There are like, ermmm…just many rooms that we came accross, up and downs.

In this event, Sanyo which is one of the leading Japanese companies for energy and environment, providing solutions for energy to its brand vision Think GAIA’. With their innovations and creativity to go long in electronic world, they have launch a new product to provide customers with holistic solutions in capturing both photo and video as like saw your idol in airport, daily life in high quality video to cater for the growing market of camera users.

Kick start with speech of their CEO, Mr. Yoshinori Nakatani which had been with SANYO many many years. With the new launch of their new range is not only about slim and stylish design but also to tab on the fashionable consumers they have come out with colors like hot pink and silver which they are lauching 5 new sleek Xacti models offering tech-savvy users the best both image-capturing worlds and easy to use functions of compact cameras and advanced capabilities of Full-HD camcorders.

The new collection series with aim to go with convenience and portable that comes in handy, you can point and shoot anytime, anywhere! The portability and user friendly of Dual Cameras Xacti makes filming in HD as easy as 1,2,3 and video format that highly compatible with most of the computer and internet that allows most of the people to show it to their love ones even from far by sharing online portal.

and for being first time in the official press conference hall, all of us trying to capture the best moment with our gear.

With all the media and the management of SANYO company presence.

Followed by a brief speech by Mr.Vishinu Metharam which is the Director of Emjay Enterprises Pte Ltd and Emjay Enterprises Sdn Bhd which is responsible for both Singapore and Malaysia market by bringing in the latest electronic lifestyle products.

Follow by a Q&A section.

Moments after the Q&A, here comes the model parade with the latest gadets by SANYO.

We were really impress how slim this gadget is under the slim hand of the model.

A group picture of the Model, CEO and Product manager International Sales & Marketing.

One of the device that idea for point and shoot photograph which is the Xacti VPC-CS1 consider as Daily Uber Chic Dual Camera, comes in handy that can just slide in our pocket with the design measuring slim 27mm in thickness and weighing just 142grams ready for on-the-go photographers that gives them outstanding performance.

The world’s smallest, thinnest and lightest Dual Camera fully equipped with Full-HD capabilities, ultra wide angle lens, 8 megapixel resolutions and 2.7-inch wide LCD screen also comes with Sound Zoom function for clear sound recording.

Chicks in style would definitely love their new vibrant colors as in comes in Silver and Hot Pink.

If you are a person who loves capturing all moment on video, create your own movie then Xacti VPC-SH1, would be your latest wish list. The world’s first Dual Camera featuring SANYO’s original high power 30x Advance zoom, 35mm wide-angle lens to give the user experience their shot in Full-HD. The incredible zoom gives the advantage in close-up shot in or far that still gives you the clear images.

The new Xacti comes in handy functions that the original Double Sub REC button is on the upper-front part of the camera to ensure the user are able to achieve easily capture low-angle images giving you the freedom of view.

With their new video format that had been design to be compatible with most of the format had comes in handy for most of the media, easily import and share in the net to ensure every one can enjoy it.

Available in 2 colours, Stylish Black and Red.

In the launch, comes with VPC-CG100, VPC-GH1, VPC-CG20 Xacti Full-HD Dual Cameras combine both of the functionality and style into one sleekly gadget that give you high-quality performance. With its small in size, able to chuck in your handbag even your pocket that enable you to capture in full photographic with its resolution of 14 megapixels. With a touch of a button the user can switch to landscape mode even a zoom of Double zoom 12x can be recorded impressively.

If you are looking for something small, VPC-CG 100 shots at 1080i HD that had takes SANYO pistol look gadget packs in better and nicer imaging compare than before, also shot in 14 megapixel, with packs of 5x optical zoom, comes with various shooting modes, digital filters and CMos center on its images.

What I feel it looks more like a mobile phone.

Their VPC-CG 20 series is the midrange in their series. That containts Image Stabalizer (IS) that enable to low-noise, low blur pictures and video captures, it is also easily play back on the HDTV and comes in the mode of :

– 1080i HD video, 60 fps
– MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format
– 10 megapixel still photos
– 5x optical zoom
– 2.7-inch LCD monitor
– Burst shooting
– Optical image stabilization
– Mini HDMI output
– Captures to SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards
– Rechargeable lithium-ion battery

If you are a MP3 lover, SANYO had released a new stylish-designed Xacti Sound Recorder, with its ultra slim design, only 9.1mm in depth that makes them the world thinnest recorder. Had a touch panel control, operation time of 40 hours, touch sensor switch function, WMA/MP3 data playback with FM tuner comes in very handy who travels a lot.

If you need to blast some of your favourite music, then you can get their slim cradle active speaker which is design to be a perfect combination.

We also trying to be model wanna be with the sleekly product. Me and the Models. . . .

Me, Witch and Saucer.

Through the whole launching, now, the people out there can expect the gadget to be out on the market on 20th March 2010. Get a glimpse of yourself in your nearest electronic store. For further details, you can log on to www.sanyo.com/xacti.

It was a great experience and of course thanks to Witch for the invitation, great hospitality provided by Nick and his company Emjay Enterprises.

Just wait patiently for more post on this~