Subscribers of Globe Telecom will be charged P5.00 on top of regular voice charges when calling the new 911 emergency hotline, according to a report by GMA News on Wednesday. Globe General Counsel Froilan Castelo confirmed the news: “We would also like to inform our customers that those calling the hotlines will incur regular voice […]
During their latest product launch event in Beijing, Xiaomi unveiled two upcoming high-spec devices for consumers: the Redmi Pro and the Mi Notebook Air. The 5.5-inch Redmi Pro, positioned to be the new Redmi flagship smartphone, packs an Helio X20 or X25 deca-core processor across three variants with varying RAM and internal storage options. Here […]
We here at Unbox are bonafide geeks. A lot of us are into geeky hobbies like gaming, movies, and comics. As such, it’s always a pleasure for us to hear (and tell, of course) news about local businesses catering to the culture. This particular news item takes the cake, though! Victoria Court, one of the […]
Senator Cynthia Villar filed a bill on Wednesday seeking the extension of the passport’s validity from 5 years to 10 years, according to a report by the Philippines News Agency. In response to President Duterte’s call to improve the passport system in his recent State of the Nation Address, Senator Villar said: “This amendment is […]
The Court of Appeals (CA) upheld the government’s mandated phaseout of 15-year-old buses, Rappler confirmed in a report on Tuesday. The Court of Appeals’ 12th Division, spearheaded by Associate Justice Maria Elisa Sempio Diy, with Associate Justices Ramon Bato Jr and Manuel Barrios concurring, rejected a petition filed by the National Confederation of Transport Workers and […]
Here’s some good news for aspiring Philippine Pokémon Go trainers on budget mobile data packages. It turns out that the Pokémon Go app isn’t as bandwidth intensive compared to the Facebook and Spotify app. A California-based networking company called Procera Networks dug into data and analyzed the stats of the popular monster-catching app on one […]
In his recent State of the Nation Address on Monday, President Duterte vowed to improve the country’s aging railway systems and pursue new rail and mass transit projects in the country. Duterte outlined his administration’s plans for Metro Manila’s railway systems: “Passenger capacity congestion shall be addressed by increasing the number of running trains from […]
The official Twitter account of Pokémon Go has just confirmed that the game is now available for Hong Kong players. Pokémon trainers in the region can now roam the busy thoroughfares of Yee Wo Street and Nathan Road and start catching Pokémon native to the area. According to Eurogamer, the region-exclusive Pokémon for Asia is […]
At the Pokémon Go exhibit in the recent San Diego Comic-Con, Niantic Labs CEO John Hanke outlined ideas for a feature that will allow players to customize PokéStops, with an option to transform them into Pokémon Centers. For the uninitiated, Pokémon Centers are basically hospitals for Pokémon in the game universe. Trainers can get their […]
The Pokémon Go app doesn’t have a built-in chat system, at least for now, and that seems somewhat counter-intuitive for a social game that has brought together a lot of people all in the name of Pokémon catching. Enter RazerGo, gaming hardware company Razer’s answer to the dilemma. Currently available for iOS devices, with an […]