We’re barreling towards Lazada’s hotly-anticipated 11/11 sale and if you’re a Samsung fan, you should get your wallet and cards ready. The Korean chaebol is putting several phones on sale, and as with our other articles for 11/11, we’ll be adding more items to this list as soon as they become available. Samsung Galaxy Z […]
Samsung is making interesting moves with its Exynos chips. Aside from making it available to other brands like Meizu and vivo, Samsung even debuted some of its later chips with vivo, which was the case with the Exynos 980 and Exynos 880. With the upcoming Exynos 1080 expected to debut on a vivo phone, Samsung […]
If you are looking for a great audio upgrade (whether it may be speakers or headphones), Marshall will have really, really good deals this coming 11/11 in their official Lazada store. While a big chunk of those on sale are previous-generation models, they are still worth considering especially if you are on a budget and […]
If you find Xiaomi’s very affordable 20w USB-C charger boring (because it literally looks like Apple’s own offering sans the price tag), Anker’s response is cute: why not create a collection of Doraemon-themed iPhone 12 (and MacBook accessories)? Anker’s adorable collection consists of its Nano 20w USB-C charger, PowerPort III 60w dual-port charger, and PowerPort […]
While the Realme C15 is a relatively new phone, which became official at our shores around two months ago, the brand made a surprise move in India by announcing a model with a Snapdragon 460 processor. The move to introduce the same phone with a different processor is not entirely new, as Xiaomi did a […]
Verdict: The vivo V20 and V20 Pro leans heavily on the company’s established selfie dominance to woo consumers, though there’s plenty to like here aside from that. They’re the prettiest phones we’ve seen yet in the mid-range market, and there’s enough performance under the hood to satisfy all but the ardent speedsters. It’ll be facing […]
As markets start to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been changes in global smartphone share. In Counterpoint’s Market Pulse report for August 2020, Samsung reclaims the top spot with 22% of the market share, while Huawei falls to second place with 16% market share. Xiaomi has grown its market share […]
During the unveiling of the iPhone 12 series, Apple announced that it is no longer including the charger and earphones in the box as part of reducing their carbon footprint and environmental waste. This meant that every iPhone 12 sold only comes with the unit and a Lightning to USB-C cable. A lot of people […]
With Huawei facing immense pressure for its smartphone business due to the sanctions imposed by the US’ trade ban, the Chinese brand is considering various options to stay afloat. One of these options is selling part of HONOR’s smartphone business. This move was initially revealed by TF International Securities analyst Kuo Ming-chi, explaining that such […]
Budget mobile gaming has never been as easy to get into as it is now, and despite the crappy year we’ve been having thanks to human malware, this year is probably the best year ever in terms of budget phones that are capable of gaming. To prove that, we’ve put together a list of phones […]
While POCO made a big disruption to the mid-range market with the POCO X3 NFC, there’s no denying that Redmi is going to make a comeback with its Redmi Note series. As of this writing, it is a little over 7 months since the Redmi Note 9 series was introduced in India, and the brand […]
Pop-up cameras are going out of trend, as brands are inching closer to pulling off the under-display camera concept. ZTE now has an actual commercial device with the said tech, while other brands like Xiaomi are in the process of perfecting it. That does not necessarily mean that pop-up modules will be gone forever. vivo—whose […]