Nokia Lumia 520 Unboxing and Initial Review: Entry Level Windows Phone

Unboxing the Nokia Lumia 520 Nokia Philippines sent us a review/loaner unit of their entry-level Windows Phone 8 offering, the Nokia Lumia 520. This budget-friendly smartphone sells for Php7,990 which makes it one of the most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphones you can get in the Philippines. By the way, we actually first saw this […]

Smart Offers iPhone 4 Free at All In Plan 800 For Limited Time

Limited Offer: iPhone 4 from Smart free under Plan 800 Smart is now offering the 3-year old Apple iPhone 4 free at Smart’s Postpaid All-In Plan 800! This is perfect for parents who want to give their kids a back-to-school gift. The plan can be used for Flexibundles where you can mix and match calls, […]

Arc Mobile Nitro 450QD: Quad-core Android 4.2 Smartphone for Php5,800

Arc Mobile Nitro 450QD: Most Affordable Quad-core Yet? We originally reported that the Arc Mobile Nitro 450QD would have an SRP of Php6,200. They gave it a quick price cut though (maybe in reaction to the Cherry Mobile Thunder 2.0?) and it will now retail for Php5,800 either on the last week of June or […]

Neo Omnipad: Dual-core, Dual SIM, 3G Android 4.1 7-inch Tablet for Php6,999

Meet the Neo Omnipad Android Tablet We were pleasantly surprised to find out earlier today that Neo, a local brand of laptops, has expanded into the Android tablet space. Their first offering is the Neo Omnipad, a 7-inch Android Jelly Bean tablet running on a dual-core processor and has dual-SIM capabilities. What’s interesting about the […]

Cherry Mobile Omega HD vs Cherry Mobile Skyfire 2.0

The Cherry Mobile SkyFire 2.0 hit shelves late May, and the Cherry Mobile Omega HD has been in stores long before that. They each have their own advantages/disadvantages and, theoretically, should appeal to a different pocket of users. Except they probably won’t. Not while they occupy the same price point at least. Priced equally (and […]

Bamboo Laptop Stand

All Natural Laptop Stand! We were in the market for a laptop stand since the desk in our office was a bit low and our chair was high which kinda made it hard to type for extended periods of time. We were initially thinking of getting one of those Belkin stands with built-in fans but […]

Huawei Ascend P6: World’s Thinnest Smartphone at 6.18mm Thick!

Meet the Huawei Ascend P6!!! At an event in London, Huawei unveiled the Ascend P6 which they claimed to be the thinnest smartphone in the world at just 6.18mm thick. The phone is running Android 4.2.2 Jellybean with Huawei’s own Emotion UI. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support LTE (only up to HSPA+) which is probably the […]

Toshiba Portege Z10t Announced: 11.6-inch Hybrid Ultrabook/Tablet

Meet the Toshiba Portege Z10t In a press briefing earlier Toshiba Philippines has announced 8 new notebook PCs: Toshiba Satellite S40t/S40Dt, Portege Z10t, Satellite P50/P50t, Satellite L40/L50 and Qosmio X70. One device stood out the most for us though — the Toshiba Portege Z10t. What made is fascinating was that it was a hybrid Ultrabook-Tablet. […]

Smart completes LTE rollout in Luzon

Smart LTE As its rival continues to play catch-up, Smart Communications has finally completed the rollout of its high-speed broadband long-term evolution (LTE) network in the subscriber-rich Luzon area. In a statement, Ericsson, which is Smart’s contractor for its LTE rollout in Luzon, said it had completed the installation around 250 LTE sites in North […]

HTC Butterfly S: 1.9GHz Quad-core 5-inch Full HD with 3,200mAh Battery

HTC has officially announced the entry level HTC Desire 200 and the top of the line HTC Butterfly S. The HTC Desire 200 is obviously for buyers who are on a budget. Because of its entry level specs you will get a 3.5 inch HVGA display with 480 x 320 resolution, an old 1 GHz […]

Cherry Mobile Blade: 7.7mm thin Quad-core Android 4.2 Smartphone

Meet the Cherry Mobile Blade Cherry Mobile teased a 7.7mm thin smartphone last week and it got a lot of people guessing and wondering what would be the specs. We’ve actually been trying to research about it ourselves but we couldn’t find any information. Fortunately several of our readers here sent us e-mails with links […]

Man of Steel Review

Unbox Rating: 4/5 The most anticipated film of the year zoomed in Philippine cinemas last June 12 with soaring record breaking numbers. In a day, it was able to rack up almost 70Million Pesos, a couple of millions past Iron Man 3. A great feat considering this is a rebooted franchise.  An impressive cast and […]