Alcatel’s One Touch Pop S7 is the Future of MediaTek’s Low-Cost LTE Smartphones

Meet the budget-minded LTE capable Alcatel One Touch Pop S7, powered by MediaTek’s Meet the Alcatel OneTouch Pop S7, Alcatel’s budget friendly LTE equipped smartphone. While it looks relatively unremarkable compared to all the flagship devices that’s been launching left and right at MWC, it’s one of the most important smartphones for emerging markets that are […]

MediaTek Announces 64-Bit MT6732 Quad-core LTE Capable SOC

New SoC from MediaTek is aimed at the “super-mid market” Looks like MediaTek is bolstering its LTE armory. After announcing their new Octa-core chip with LTE, MediaTek has announced their newest SoC, the 64-bit quad-core MT6732 LTE. The SoC is aimed at the super-mid market according to the Taiwanese chipmaker, and features ARM’s 64-bit Cortex-A53 […]

Huawei’s New TalkBand B1 Wearable Can Be Used to Take Calls

Has a pop-out earpiece that you can use to call Huawei’s first wearable, the TalkBand B1, is an interesting piece of tech from the Chinese company. Aside from doing all the things that a wearable is supposed to do, like record number of steps taken, calories burned and distance travelled, it can also be used […]

Huawei Unveils Impossibly Slim MediaPad X1

Huawei’s latest tab is the slimmest one around Huawei has just kicked off its MWC party, and have unveiled a slew of devices. One of them is the extremely thin MediaPad X1, billed by the company as the lightest and slimmest Android tablet around today. We’re inclined to believe them – the MediaPad X1 is […]

Samsung Announces Gear 2 Smartwatches with Tizen OS

Samsung axes Android and drops Galaxy branding Samsung has just made their newest Smartwatch offering, the Gear 2, official ahead of MWC, less than six months after the company offered its predecessor, the Galaxy Gear. The frenetic pace of replacement meant that Samsung has acknowledged that the Galaxy Gear wasn’t performing the way they envisioned […]

ARCHOS Announces Octa-core 50c Oxygen

Another option for octa-core lovers ARCHOS has gone ahead and made a couple of its product offerrings official before MWC officially kicks off a few days from now, and one of the products that caught our eye was the octa-core 50c Oxygen. The 50c Octagen is powered by MediaTek’s latest octa-core processor, possibly the same […]

Desire 8 Leaks, Proof Positive of HTC’s Renewed Push Into Mid-Range Market

Could the Desire 8 be the breakthrough device that the fledgling mobile company needs? It’s a little known fact that while hi-end, premium devices get all the attention, it’s usually the low and mid-range market that makes a mobile company successful. Just ask Samsung. HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer that has always been known for their […]

LG G Pro 2 Becomes Official, Will Debut in February

G Pro 2 expected to debut during MWC, drops Optimus branding LG has officially confirmed that it will be launching the G Pro 2 in February, during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. In a short yet sweet blogpost in Korean, LG confirmed the device and its name, which coincidentally, dropped the Optimus branding that […]

LG Optimus G Pro Unboxing: LTE-powered Phablet with Gorgeous Display

LG Optimus G Pro officially unboxed! Our good friends from Kimstore sent over a review unit of the LG Optimus G Pro last week. Unfortunately given our crazy backlog of gadgets to review we only found time to unbox this bad boy last night. This 5.5-inch LTE-powered phablet was actually announced to the world way […]

LG Optimus G Pro: 5.5-inch Quad-core with LTE and 3,100mAh Battery (Php27,990)

LG Optimus G Pro Finally Lands in the PH The LG Optimus G Pro joins the high-end phablet battle in the Philippines brandishing its massive 5.5-inch Full HD LCD display (401 pixels per inch). It’s definitely an impressive device as it sports awesome internals, including a 1.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor. We first met […]

Unbox.ph’s Top 10 Phablets (Mid-2013)

There’s a lot of buzz right now for devices that we’ve come to call “phablets”. These are phones that have massive screens that they dangerously hover over the line that separates a big phone from a small tablet. Usually devices with displays bigger than 5.0-inches qualify for this category. If you’re in the market for […]

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Review: Can it Go Head-to-Head with the iPad?

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Review Sony’s first foray into Android tablets didn’t really make an impact in the market. Fortunately for Sony the second time’s a charm! We”ll jump the gun a bit and say up front that we believe that the Sony Xperia Tablet Z is one of the best Android tablets available in […]