Check this out Waze users! Everybody who lives in Manila knows just horrible traffic is in the metro, especially with the holidays slowly approaching. Google-owned Waze, that awesome social navigation app that we use to try and escape the clutches of Manila’s gridlocked streets has pushed a new update that makes the slow crawl through […]
We Unbox the Cherry Mobile Flare 3! Cherry Mobile managed to change the game again when they officially unveiled the Flare 3 a few weeks back. Judging by the traffic that the initial announcement and hands-on have generated, a lot of you want to know more about CM’s latest, most affordable quad-core smartphone. Today the […]
It’s official! Get ready to start ordering starting 11 AM on July 4! If you haven’t caught it yet, Xiaomi will be having another flash sale tomorrow for their value packed Mi 3 flagship smartphone at Lazada. Xiaomi’s been asking their fans through their Facebook page on what time would be the best to conduct […]
The two can co-exist, to a degree When Xiaomi announced that they would be entering the Philippine market, we knew right then and there that they would disrupt the local marketplace with their landmark pricing. That’s exactly what they did when they finally announced the local price of their flagship Mi 3 smartphone, delivering world […]
Cherry Mobile’s octa-core smartphone scores big on some fronts, stumbles in others To call Cherry Mobile’s Cosmos Z2 as one of the most anticipated smartphone from the company is the understatement of the year. Our original announcement post and subsequent initial review received a lot of traffic, unfortunately it’s only now that we managed to […]
It’s no longer enough for you to just have your passport, VISA, and roundtrip ticket when you want to leave the Philippines for vacation, business, or work. The Bureau of Immigration now wants you to also PROVE YOUR FINANCIAL CAPABILITY TO TRAVEL. There will be a secondary inspection wherein you will have to provide documents […]
Meet the Bose QC20i! Bose has been making excellent noise-cancellation headphones for a while now, but they haven’t really made anything with the technology for the in-ear market. That changed when they released the Quiet Comfort QC20i. While the leap from over-ear to in-ear may not seem that big, it’s a pretty large technical challenge, […]
Five Android apps that go into every smartphone that we review Here in Unbox HQ we go through a lot of Android phones for review. One of our pre-review rituals is to download essential apps that we use on a daily basis which either helps us evaluate Android devices, manage our time and help us […]
And still the government does nothing Many of us commute using the MRT everyday to get to work. I personally use the MRT to go to events in Makati (I’m based in the North) because it allows me to avoid driving in perennially congested EDSA. I know how bad the lines can get sometimes, but […]
After the NTC issued a letter to Globe asking them to explain the multiple complaints brought about by the recent strict enforcement of their Fair Use Policy, we now have official statements from both telcos about the issue. Globe: We’ll Work Closely with NTC on Fair Use Policy Implementation Globe underwent a massive network modernization […]
Showbiz websites have Vhong Navarro to thank you for their traffic. For gadget and tech sites it’s definitely all about Globe’s recent announcement of their strict implementation of their Fair Use Policy. Our first post about the issue was shared over 13,000 on social networking sites in just a few days of publishing! The interest […]
Don’t call it unlimited if it’s not really unlimited Earlier this week we reported that Globe has been strictly enforcing their 1GB a day/3 GB a month data cap for their subscribers by sending them text alerts notifying them that they have gone over the limit and throttling them back to 2G speeds. The news […]