Report: Budget Smartphones are Sending Users’ Personal Data to Chinese Servers

According to a New York Times report, certain budget smartphones in the US have been found to be secretly sending users’ personal data to a third-party company in China. The discovery was made by security firm Kryptowire, a Homeland Security contractor who analyzed phones outside of their contract. The culprit, according to the security firm, […]

South Korean Traffic Signs Warn Against the Perils of Being Glued to Your Smartphone

Is our smartphone use getting out of hand? It could very well be. Do you guys remember the video of the Chinese woman who fell into a lake because she was too engrossed with her smartphone? We can’t even count how many times people have bumped into us because they were texting or how many […]

Waze Outs Version 4.0: Newer Layout, Less Battery Consumption

Check out the new Waze Waze has officially announced the newest version of their app. Version 4.0 slightly changes how the layout of the app looks, and promises to consume less battery, which is always a good thing. Waze has always been our go-to navigation app for the traffic-clogged streets of the metro, and we’re […]

Sony’s New 4K, Android TVs Can Understand Tagalog

They’re also pretty sweet looking Sony has officially unveiled their newest lineup of new 4K Bravia TVs yesterday. Aside from sporting 4K resolution, the new TVs sport Android TV, a customized version of Android specifically built for TVs. While other “smart” TVs typically use a slightly modified build of Android that’s clunky, slow and hard […]

LG G3 Beat Review: A Shadow of the Original

We review the LG G3 Beat You know the drill – a company makes a successful flagship device, a few months later they make a smaller, slower, “mini” version of it to sell to the mid-range. It’s gotten so bad that companies are now avoiding calling new mid-range smartphones mini or lite since the general […]

ZTE Apologizes for Chaotic Sale Yesterday, Asks for Understanding and Compassion

ZTE issues official apology for the sale yesterday If you haven’t heard, ZTE’s sale for their Grand X2 L smartphone didn’t go as well as they’d hoped. In fact, it was a downright disaster, with hundreds and hundreds of people lining up in stores and kiosks who later went home empty handed. We’re still getting […]

ZTE Sale: How Many Units Were Really Up For Grabs?

Many angry, disappointed consumers are complaining about the sale A few days ago we reported that ZTE was drastically cutting the price of their Grand X2 L smartphone from Php 11,999, to just Php 1,999. Because of the drastic price cut, many people were interested in getting the new smartphone from the branches that the […]

ZTE Outs Blade Vec Pro Octa-core Phone, Priced at Php Php 8,990

ZTE is getting in on the affordable octa-core game ZTE has announced through their local distributor MSI-ECS that the Blade Vec Pro has now hit the PH. The Blade Vec Pro is the company’s octa-core smartphone, with MSI announcing that it’s the “most affordable true octa-core phone in the market today”. ZTE Blade Vec Pro […]

NVIDIA Officially Launches GeForce GTX 980M and 970M GPUs, Promises Desktop Gaming Performance on Notebooks

Now you can game properly wherever you are NVIDIA has announced their newest GPUs based on their Maxwell GPU architecture aimed at notebooks: the GeForce GTX 980M and 970M. NVIDIA is promising around 80% parity when it comes to performance for the 980M compared to its burlier desktop brother, a big improvement over the previous […]

ZeroLemon’s New Case Gives Your LG G3 9000mAh of Extra Juice

No more charging, forever If you’re the type of person that treats your LG G3 less as a smartphone and more like a portable game console and are tired of making repeated trips to the charger, then ZeroLemon has something for you. Their newest case not only gives you shock protection when you clumsily drop […]