John Nieves

Netflix’s VPN Banhammer Starts Cracking Down In PH

Will you still keep your Netflix subscription? While Netflix has officially announced that they were now in the PH it was revealed that a large part of their content library is unavailable to us. We told you of a way to circumvent that via SmartFlix, a free VPN service that allowed you to view the streaming […]

Microsoft Announces Rollout Of Windows 10 Mobile Update For Older Phones

See if your phone is in the list After many delays and missed deadlines, Microsoft has announced that they are now rolling out the update of Windows 10 mobile to older Windows Phone 8.1 devices starting today. There’s a huge swath of phones that’s eligible to get the update, including a variety of Lumia devices. […]

OPPO Unveils Their New R9 And R9 Plus

Check out OPPO’s new phones OPPO has finally announced the newest members of their R family of smartphones in China. The two new devices, the R9 and R9 Plus, have taken major design inspiration from Apple judging from product photos from the Chinese company’s website. And by major design inspiration, we mean that they look […]

Report Confirms What We’ve Known All Along: Slow Internet Stresses You Out

Captain obvious to the rescue If you’re reading this from the Philippines, then chances are you struggle with slow internet speeds on a daily basis. But aside from annoying the heck out of you, dealing with slow loading web pages and videos aren’t really harmful, right? Not so, according to a report released by Ericsson. […]

Intel’s High-end Skull Canyon NUC Can Handle Hardcore Gaming

A high end NUC Remember Intel’s tiny desktop concept the NUC (Next Unit of Computing)? The company has taken that tiny computing concept and cranked it up a notch via the newest offering in their NUC family, Skull Canyon. This awesome-looking machine takes the small-computing concept to the next level by shoving a high-end, 2.6GHz […]

Huawei Band Wearable Officially Arrives in PH, Priced At Php 2,990

Sleep tracking and more Huawei wants you to keep track of how well you sleep and other important aspects of your life with their newest wearable, dubbed simply as the Huawei Band. The new wearable is aimed at the other end of the price spectrum compared to the company’s Android Wear offering, retailing at just […]

NTC Tests Reveal No ISP Hit 100% Promised Speeds

Check out the random speed tests conducted by NTC Remember the random speed tests that the National Telecommunications Commission is conducting to test the speeds of internet providers all over the PH? They just did another big one recently and guess what – their tests reveal that not a single ISP hit the 100% of the […]

Elephone Arriving in PH Via Lazada, brings P9000, P8000 And S1 Along

A big name from China is coming Lazada has given us a heads up that Elephone, a big-name Chinese brand is coming to the PH, and will be selling their phones through the e-commerce site. Elephone’s bringing three of its smartphones when it launches in Q2 this year, namely the extremely thin, Helio P10-equipped P9000, […]

Sony’s PlayStation VR Gets A Launch Date And Price: October 2016 For $400 (18.6K)

Sony’s own VR platform gets a street price It seems everyone is jumping on the VR bandwagon nowadays, and the latest company to fully embrace the new technology is Sony. The Japanese company has officially unveiled the pricing and release month of their own take on VR, the aptly named PlayStation VR. The PlayStation VR […]

Cherry Mobile’s New Explorer 2 Is An Android-powered Action Camera

Android inside! Aside from releasing the Alpha Prime 5, Cherry Mobile had another surprise up its sleeve in CeBit – the successor device to the Cherry Explorer Action Cam, dubbed the Explorer 2. Aside from the usual upgrade in optics and image sensor (both made by Sony) Cherry Mobile’s latest action cam has something that […]