They claim that it is unbreakable In the pursuit of creating a foldable smartphone, Samsung unveiled a new flexible OLED display that can withstand drops from as high as 1.8 meters. Samsung used “an unbreakable substrate and an overlay window securely adhered” to make the “unbreakable” display a reality. Aside from drops, Samsung’s new flexible […]
Patents for the said tech have recently surfaced While Vivo has formally introduced in-display fingerprint scanning tech, Samsung is trying to up their game by developing an in-display front camera, in efforts of ditching the notch entirely. In a recent patent filing, the diagrams reveal an earpiece, front camera, and other sensors found underneath the […]
A different way we use displays? Last year, we got hyped up with the thought of foldable display smartphones, starting with the ZTE Axon M. with various brands developing their own take to the foldable display smartphone, Samsung has something different on mind, innovation-wise. Just like LG, Samsung is currently working on rollable OLED displays. […]
Here’s what you can expect in phones next year It’s the last day of the year today as we close out 2017 with a bang. 2017 turned out to be a banner year for smartphones, with brands releasing interesting new technologies and design trends that not only showed up in flagship phones but trickled down […]
We have the Mi Mix 2 at the Unbox HQ and it is Glorious The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 sold out in less than 1 minute (58 seconds to be exact) and because of that we didn’t have high hopes of actually landing a unit here in the Philippines. However thanks to a good friend […]
Earlier this September, Samsung unwrapped their newest flip phone in China, the Galaxy Folder 2. That was a budget tier clamshell phone. This one leaked through live images is apparently Samsung’s premium level flipper, codenamed “Veyron”, and is packing some serious hardware. We covered the “Veyron” in an article early June, but now more specs […]
Mi Pad: Is it Worth Your Hard-Earned Cash? We’ve spent the last two weeks using the Xiaomi Mi Pad as our main portable entertainment machine. We’d take it out each time we had free time on our hands for web browsing, reading, watching pre-loaded videos (TV series/movies), and heavy gaming. Admittedly there have been a […]
We review the KingCom S!gma Evo! Today we’ll be reviewing the KingCom’s S!gma Evo, a budget smartphone that has some really top-end features. The S!gma Evo is one of the few phones out in the market today that uses a fingerprint scanner for security, joining the ranks of higher profile (and more expensive) phones like […]
Lenovo brings their A game with the Vibe Z Today we’ll be unboxing a device that was announced by Chinese brand Lenovo back in CES: the Lenovo Vibe Z. Aside from being the company’s current flagship, this is also their first ever LTE equipped handset to come out, at least outside China. The Vibe Z […]
THL W8S Review At Php12,495, the THL W8S pretty much slays a lot of the flagships offered by local brands. There’s no going around the power that they were able to pack into this device combined with the ridiculously generous 32GB internal storage expandable with an additional 32GB via micro SD card. As expected the […]