Smart introduces the Rocket Chic and lowers Rocket Plug-it price The HSPA+ wars here in the Philippines are booming and the obvious winners aren’t from the telco side, it’s really the consumers. Because of the stiff competition we’re getting better products and even better marketing, hehe. Anyway, Smart just relaunched their Smart Bro Rocket line-up […]
Jays a-JAYS One+ Review Swedish company Jays came out with another amazing product with the a-JAYS One+ In-Ear Headphones. It’s like the a-JAYS Four (designed for the iPhone) but this one is optimized for Android smartphones. It has a one button in-line remote control and microphone making it an all-in-one solution for people who love […]
Review: Divoom iTour-Omni Portable Speakers At first the Divoom iTour-Omni looks like your usual bar-type portable speakers. However this baby produces pretty good sound and it actually has several cool extra features. There are a variety of ways you can use this and the fact that it’s compact makes it very easy to just bring […]
Smart Communications just sent a press release stating that they will be “LTE ready” by the middle of 2012. To do this they will be installing Single Radio Base Stations on all of their cell sites. This technology allows them to activate LTE or HSPA+ at any of their existing 13,000+ stations. We’ve been part […]
PLDT TelPad S7 SLIM Unboxed! The PLDT TelPad is a landline/Android tablet/DSL bundle that was launched in 2010. They started offering new tablets as part of the package late last year. There are two variants you can choose from now: the PLDT TelPad S7 SLIM (running Android 2.2 Froyo) and the PLDT TelPad AD-1000A (running […]
One of the best free apps in the Android Market We rarely feature apps here at Unbox but this one definitely needs attention. AirDroid is a free Android App that lets you use your Android smartphone using your browser on your laptop or desktop (regardless if it’s a Mac or Windows-based PC). The main benefit […]
Unboxing the Divoom iTour-omni portable speakers Divoom Philippines sent us a loaner review unit of their newest product, the Divoom iTour-omni speakers. We just did the unboxing this afternoon and the device is pretty sweet! Check out our photos below. Don’t forget to read the captions! Full review coming very soon We’ll spend a few […]
The Anaconda of Universal Mobile Chargers The MiPow Power Tube 6600 mAh is one of the most juiced up universal mobile chargers in the market today. As the name implies it has a Li-Ion battery (6600 mAh) with output voltage of 5.0V.This is one of the very few mobile chargers that can power up tablets […]
HTC Sensation XL (with Beats) Review The challenge for Android handset makers is for them to innovate and differentiate as much as they can with the hardware because essentially they’re all using one operating system. I understand this 100% after trying out several Android handsets in the last few months. Essentially they’re all just the […]
iPhone 4S Review It’s 8:25PM, December 15, 2011 as I start writing this review. Normally there would be nothing special about this day but for today the Philippines Twitterverse is getting flooded with tweets about Apple’s iPhone 4S. Why? In just a few hours both Smart Communications and Globe Telecom will give out the iPhone […]
iStand We’ve been looking for a universal stand that we could use for gadgets when we take photos here for Unbox. Fortunately we found a rather cool and affordable alternative with iStand. We found this being sold in one of the computer shops at the SM Megamall Cyberzone. It was selling for Php550. It can […]
HTC Sensation XL Initial Impressions When HTC bought into Beats by Dr. Dre, they announced two smartphones that were integrated and bundled with Beats earphones. The first was the HTC Sensation XE and the second one was a bigger (and whiter) HTC Sensation XL which has a massive 4.7″ screen. We currently have a review […]