Meizu MX6 Initial Review: Lost In The Crowd

The MX6 looks promising, but has a lot of competition to beat Before Meizu released their Pro line of devices, the MX series of phones was their go-to high-end device. And just like rival Xiaomi in China, Meizu priced the MX line aggressively relative to their specifications, and quickly gathered a small, hardcore group of […]

Infinix S2 Pro Initial Review: Wild, Wide Selfie

A Different Kind of Selfie Game There have been a lot of selfie-centric smartphones coming out recently. You’ve got the selfie experts from OPPO — and the soon to be released OPPO F3, the current holder of the dual front cam crown — the Vivo V5 Plus, Sony has the Xperia XA Ultra, and Samsung […]

Meizu M5, M5S, M5 Note Initial Review: Meet Meizu’s Budget Devices

Meizu’s back! Novo7 Tech’s closure around a year ago meant that many interesting brands were taken off of the market. That included rising Chinese company Meizu, who released a few solid budget devices that had good value for the money. For the past few months a few Meizu phones trickled into the market, but they […]

ASUS ROG Strix GL753VE Unboxing, Initial Review: Kaby Lake, GTX 1050Ti Goodness!

Another Capable Gaming Laptop from the Republic of Gamers! While people of the PC master race may prefer powerful desktop rigs to experience games the way they should be played, there are others who need something with a little bit of mobility if they find themselves out of the house for most of the day […]

Acer Predator 21 X Unboxing, Initial Review: The Craziest Gaming Notebook We’ve Ever Used

If you’re Taiwanese notebook brand Acer, how do you create hype around your relatively new gaming notebook line when faced with stiff opposition from the likes of ASUS, MSI, Razer and the like that already have cult followings? Easy – just make the most insane gaming notebook that has features that your competitors don’t have. […]

Vivo V5 Lite Unboxing, Initial Review: Affordable Selfie Phone

It’s no secret that Vivo has its sights on rival Chinese company Oppo. Their smartphone lineup more or less is geared to go up against the green giant from China, and just like their biggest rival they’re banking hard on the selfie craze to sell smartphones in the mid-range market. While the V5 is a […]

Lenovo K6 Note Initial Review: Stiff Competition

Today Lenovo has officially released their K6 Note, the latest entry into their supposedly budget/mid-range K series of smartphones. We say supposedly because the phone line has successively become more expensive with each entry, with the K6 Note being the most expensive of them all at Php 11,999. It’s unavoidable really – the competition has […]

LG G6 Hands-on, Initial Review: Back To Basics

LG has finally unveiled their latest flagship in Barcelona, Spain for Mobile World Congress yesterday, and it couldn’t be more different from last year’s model. Instead of making a phone centered around something new and risky like modular accessories, the Korean company instead focused on iteration, settling for a safe (and relatively boring) phone with […]

Alcatel A5 LED Hands-On, Initial Review: Mid-Ranged Spectacle?

Despite the hustle and bustle of Hall 3 of the Fira Barcelona Gran Via, it would be hard to miss Alcatel’s booth at Mobile World Congress. All the pomp is, of course, due to their introduction of their newest mobile device the Alcatel A5 LED; their modular entrant into the mid-ranged segment. We were able […]

Nokia 3310 Initial Review: A Modern Classic

Despite the high-profile launches in Barcelona yesterday, the biggest star of Mobile World Congress isn’t a flagship Android smartphone. Rather, it’s HMD Oy’s revival of an old Nokia staple, the 3310. HMD Oy is heavily banking on nostalgia and the near indestructible reputation of Nokia’s previous dumbphone to sell the modernized 3310 to millennials and […]

Huawei P10 Initial Review: The Dual-camera Refined

Huawei previously flirted with the idea of putting two cameras in a phone via their Honor-branded 6 Plus, but it was the P9 that the company really went all in with the new camera tech. And while the Leica-branded P9 and P9 Plus weren’t perfect, they were good enough to capture a sizable portion of […]

Motorola Moto M Unboxing, Initial Review: Missing Piece Of The Puzzle

Motorola, the Lenovo-owned subsidiary has officially launched a brand new mid-ranged smartphone in the PH today. Dubbed the Moto M, the new phone is poised to take on other mid-range smartphones already in the market. It’s the missing piece of the puzzle for Motorola’s lineup, as their previous supposedly mid-range phones pale in comparison to […]