It’s amazing how fast Unbox has grown in just 10 months. We’d like to thank all of our readers for your support. Just this December and January we made another set of milestones for the site. We were able to participate in a TV segment, a print ad, and an online year-ender video! Check out […]
Despite all the negative talk about Research In Motion (makers of BlackBerry) and how their stock has taken a serious beating in the last few months, they still decided to help out with relief and rescue efforts for Sendong here in the Philippines. They donated Php1,000,000 and 30 BlackBerry smartphones to the Philippine Red Cross. […]
Unboxing the SMART Evolution (4G LTE) Closed Beta Testing Kit I’m happy to say that Unbox was chosen as one of the few sites that will be able to do the first round of closed beta testing for SMART Evolution (4G LTE). We dropped by the Smart-PLDT Jump Experience Center earlier this afternoon to get […]
SMART LTE (4G) enters Closed Beta Phase We first wrote about this a few months ago when Smart decided to give a sneak peek to a few bloggers for their LTE dongle in Boracay. They followed this up by having another demo in stockholder’s meeting of PLDT in Dusit Hotel. Fast forward a few more […]
Unboxing the AKG K3003 Reference Class 3-Way Earphones We currently have a review unit of the AKG K3003 Reference Class 3-Way Earphones courtesy of AKG Philippines. This is probably one of the best universal earphones ever made in the world. Like what we said in our previous post, what makes the AKG K3003 special are […]
iPhone 4S in the Philippines Siri just spoke her first few words in the Philippines! Manila Bulletin Tech Editor and Gadgeteer Supreme Art Samaniego just posted on his Facebook page a photo of the first iPhone 4S in the country. Art has always been one of the first people to get the latest gadgets in […]
Congressman Golez, the “House Techie”, files resolution to honor Jobs I just read this article saying that Congressman Roilo Golez filed a resolution at the House of Representatives honoring and paying tribute to Apple Inc. Founder and Chairman, Steve Jobs. I knew Cong. Golez to be a techie because I’ve met him before in our […]
A lot has been written already about the recent death of Apple Inc. Founder and Chairman Steve Jobs. We’ll just keep it simple here at Unbox. Steve, you changed the world several times, touched the lives of millions (including ours), and kept a lot of other companies on their toes which gave way to better […]
BlackBerry 7 Philippines Event BlackBerry unveiled the BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9860, and Curve 9360 tonight at an event at the Ayala Museum. The venue was packed with the crowd a mix of reporters, bloggers, BlackBerry fans, and celebrities. The two main presenters were top executives from Research In Motion (RIM): VP for South Asia, […]
iPhone 5 coming to the Philippines SOON Ultimate Tech Blogger Abe Olandres of Yugatech just dropped a bomb on his blog. According to Abe, one major newspaper editor here in the Philippines will be getting a preview of Apple’s latest baby – the iPhone 5. I find this fascinating because Apple isn’t the type that […]
Nope, he wasn’t drunk when he did this, hehe. During one of our road trips to Tagaytay we passed by the Hulk statue along Sta. Rosa. Being the fun people that we were, we hopped out and took some photos. Dodge Ronquillo, one of our writers here, decided to try his Street Fighter skills against […]
In case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard about the news yet, several NBA players including Kobe Bryant and Chris Paul, played against PBA All-Stars and Smart Gilas over the weekend. I was able to watch both shows and it was pretty obvious that the PBA and Smart Gilas players were all […]