Firefly Mobile’s cheap feature phone for the summer Next up is Firefly Mobile with their feature phone for the season, the Candy. What makes the Candy special, according to the company’s spiel, is its large (for a budget dumbphone) 1.8-inch Clear Crystal display, Internet capabilities and the touted Cleartech Camera “that lets you take quality […]
Why, Facebook, why? Facebook’s less resource hungry alternative to their messaging app, Messenger Lite, is the perfect fit for the Philippines. It’s, well, light, utilizes less hardware to run and is optimized for less than ideal data connections. It’s surprising then that the Philippines isn’t included in the wider roll-out of Messenger Lite, which sees […]
Typing with your brain and hearing with your skin At Facebook’s F8, the social media giant’s annual two-day dev conference, Regina Dugan, VP of Engineering and Building 8, unveiled that they were working on brain and skin-powered technologies. “So what if you could type directly from your brain?” Facebook is apparently working on a system […]
The Newest Members of the Surround 360 Family Unbox Editor-In-Chief, Carlo Ople, was at San Jose, California to experience Facebook’s developer conference, Facebook F8, first hand. While there was certainly a lot of learnings to be had about how the world’s social media platform of choice is changing the landscape of the digital game, it […]
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg didn’t get up the stage to deliver a keynote address at Facebook F8 but she did give a beautiful and inspiring speech for select Facebook partners and executives at an invite-only breakfast during the opening morning of the event. You can watch the full speech in our Facebook Live video which […]
Our Quick Take on Facebook Spaces Earlier today Facebook announced their newest Virtual Reality platform, Facebook Spaces. Facebook basically wants people to create virtual avatars of themselves and you can then interact with your friends using your avatars in a VR world called “Facebook Spaces”. In this space you can do art, play games, show […]
Facebook is Betting Big on Augmented Reality Today, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to deliver the keynote address at their biggest annual event, Facebook F8. While the bigger theme of the keynote was about “building communities”, the core technology focus was on augmented reality with your smartphone camera. They announced two […]
Facebook F8! We’re here in San Jose, California to attend Facebook’s annual developer conference, Facebook F8! The event officially starts tomorrow but we were able to drop by the convention center a day early to give you guys some photos of the event venue. Here are some of the photos that we shot for your […]
Is this Enough? Facebook’s anti Fake News features have started to make their way here in the Philippines. One of them is an education prompt which appears at the top of the News Feed. Upon clicking, it opens up to a quick article on how to find out if an article is “fake”. We definitely […]
Finally! After stubbornly refusing to embrace animated GIFs, Facebook is beginning testing of a dedicated button that lets users post GIFs from sites like Giphy and Tenor as comments. Facebook confirmed the upcoming feature in an email to Engadget. “Everyone loves a good GIF and we know that people want to be able to use […]
A feature desperately needed here Fake news is certainly one of the biggest problems today, and is one of the issues that need to be addressed by Zuckerberg and co. if they want to keep their numbers up. There’s a growing trend of people simply disconnecting from Facebook because of the toxicity that has […]
It’s no secret that Facebook is putting its sights on messaging service Snapchat, and have released several features to challenge the messenging platform on their own Messenger service. The social media juggernaut has added another feature to Messenger, dubbed Messenger Day. https://www.facebook.com/messenger/videos/1227636360689375/ In a nutshell Messenger Day allows you to post both videos and photos […]