Meet the Lenovo A690 With a wallet-friendly price tag of Php5,299, the Lenovo A690 stands as the new entry level Android smartphone of Lenovo Mobile. The specifications are modest at best but it does have chasis with a striking design. Just like the Lenovo A800 which we called the “Sexy Back” phone, the A690 also […]
Nvidia just announced their latest product under development, Project Shield. The thing looks so hot that it has a lot of gamers worldwide smiling from ear to ear, lol. The device has a gorgeous 5-inch (720p) multitouch display, a very familiar looking game pad, and it runs on Android. Powering this is the newly unveiled […]
Initial Impressions of the Starmobile Bright The Starmobile Bright is the “bunso” of the Android smartphone offerings of Starmobile. Priced at Php4,700, Starmobile positioned the Bright as their entry-level smartphone device. When you compare the specifications to the entry level models offered by international brands, the Bright is a runaway winner. Our only major misgiving […]
Hello there Nokia Lumia 920! We stumbled upon a demo unit of the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone at Electrworld in SM North Edsa Annex (Cyberzone) last night. It was definitely a pleasant surprise since we’ve taken a keen interest in Windows Phone devices lately mainly due to our fascination with the HTC 8X. We […]
HTC 8X Windows Phone Unboxed! As we reported earlier, we trooped to SM City North Edsa for the special HTC One-day sale for the HTC 8X and 8S Windows Phones. We were initially gunning for just the 8S but we ended up getting the bigger brother because of the much better specifications and display. The […]
iPhone 5 Review: Refined, Mastered, and Perfected The iPhone 5 is set to officially launch here in the Philippines on December 14, 2012. Both telcos, Smart and Globe, will be offering it via postpaid plans (they have pre-registration pages up) and prepaid kits. We’ve had an iPhone 5 with us for over two months now […]
Why hello there Google Nexus 4! Smart Communications gave us a preview of the Google Nexus 4 smartphone (manufactured by LG) during the most recent Unbox Video Podcast Episode. This is a very special device seeing as this is the latest “pure Android” smartphone following the Galaxy Nexus last year. You can definitely see that […]
Holiday Shopping and Gift Guide: Tablets I was walking around SM Megamall during the weekend and I was shocked to find a lot of people buying low-cost but crappy tablets. They were forking out good hard-earned cash for overpriced Android tablets that were running Ice Cream Sandwich but had crappy specs which led to compromised […]
Ainol Novo 7 Crystal: Jelly Bean Tablet for a Friendly Price! The march of affordable Android devices continues! We just found out that the Ainol Novo 7 Crystal is now available here in the Philippines for just Php6,700. What’s kinda mind-blowing about the price is that you already get a dual-core, 1GB, Android 4.1 Jelly […]
Unbox Holiday Shopping and Gift Guide: Smartphones With all the new gadgets out in the market today it’s hard to find which one best deserves your hard earned cash. That’s why we’re putting together a series of articles that will cut through the clutter and just feature some of the very best stuff we’ve reviewed […]
UNBOXED: The Lenovo S560 Marketed as a music-lover’s smartphone, the Lenovo S560 features almost the same specifications as the popular Lenovo P700i save for the different body design, Dolby Digital Audio technology, enhanced speakers, and slightly lower (but still good) battery life. Lenovo Mobile Philippines sent us a loaner review unit to test and we […]
Huawei Ascend D1 and P1 LTE Smartphones coming to the Philippines In their announcement yesterday, Huawei revealed that the LTE-enabled Ascend D1 and P1 are both coming to the Philippines soon via telco networks (probably via LTE postpaid plans). Both handsets were announced earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and it’s […]