Cherry Mobile Blaze 2.0 REVIEW The Cherry Mobile Blaze 2.0 was exclusively showcased to the world on the Unbox Video Podcast last week and we’ve been testing it since then. We’ve pretty much abused the phone thoroughly including an accidental drop test (sorry Miguel and everyone from CM, hehe). Suffice to say we have enough […]
Alcatel’s Best Offering To Date When Alcatel announced their new smartphone offerings the Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD stood out the most. The 5-inch HD phablet packed a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, Android Jelly Bean, HSPA+ (3.5G) connectivity, and even a big 2,500 battery! The price also wasn’t too bad at just Php13,490. Here’s a quick […]
Review: Samsung Galaxy S4 It wasn’t easy for Samsung to reach the top. During the days when Apple’s iPhone was the sole ruler, Samsung was playing catch up. Everything changed though when the Korean tech company launched the venerable Galaxy S3. Sales were off the charts! The device racked praises left and right, earning thumbs […]
Review: Nokia Lumia 720 The good folks over at Nokia Philippines sent us a loaner review unit of the Nokia Lumia 720 a few weeks ago. We’ve used it as a substitute for our Nokia Lumia 920, the primary handset of this writer. We’ve spent well over two weeks already with it and we can […]
Nokia Lumia 920: A Solid Alternative to Android and the iPhone Choice. That is what the Nokia Lumia 920 embodies for us. It’s a welcome respite from the seemingly repetitive iPhone iterations and the non-stop flood of Android devices. The Nokia Lumia 920 offers a fresh and bold take on the smartphone both on the […]
Nokia Lumia 820 Review Most of the attention of the Nokia Lumia line-up went to the flagship, the Nokia Lumia 920. However the younger sibling, the Nokia Lumia 820, is quite a gem itself. It sports nearly identical internal specifications and comes with a smaller form factor at 4.3-inches. There’s no PureView camera but it […]
BlackBerry Z10: Best BlackBerry Ever Made We’ll jump the gun and say that the BlackBerry Z10 is the best BlackBerry ever made. It is lightyears ahead of it’s most recent batch of predecessors, the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9790. Thorsten Heins wasn’t kidding when he said that they re-engineered the BlackBerry experience both from the […]
Cherry Mobile Omega: Mega-success or Mega-flop? An “accident” on online shopping site Lazada set the bar very high for the Cherry Mobile Omega. The initial listing showed very competitive specifications at a reasonable price. However when it was officially announced it wasn’t the same device that was “leaked”. The RAM, display quality, and the camera […]
BlackBerry 10 Platform together with BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 Smartphones Launched The company formerly known as Research In Motion (they officially changed their company name to “BlackBerry”) just concluded the BlackBerry 10 launch and it was an event packed with a lot of major announcements. Some of which caught us completely off-guard but we’ll get […]
Starmobile reveals Engage 7HD Specifications and Price It’s official… the Starmobile Engage 7HD will sell for Php7,990. The tablet will run on a 1.2GHz dual-core processor (ARM Cortex A9), 1GB RAM, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. There’s no word yet if it will eventually get Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but the specs should be […]
Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 coming to the PH via Smart It’s interesting that product announcements now break on Instagram, lol. Anyway, Smart Communications posted on their Instagram and Twitter accounts that they will be offering the Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 soon. From what I heard they even had actual devices available for […]
Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Camera Samsung Philippines launched the Galaxy Camera last night and we were able to play around with the demo units on the floor for a couple of minutes. The device is a pretty impressive piece of tech since there’s literally nothing like it in the market today. Other than the […]