IFA 2016: Huawei Unveils Mid-range Nova and Nova Plus

While Huawei has managed to impress many with their flagship phones the past few months, it’s the mid-range market where the company truly excels. While we’ve seen the G9 Plus revealed in China a few weeks ago, we still don’t have an idea when that particular mid-range phone will arrive in markets outside of the […]

Huawei’s Honor 8 Arriving In Malaysia On September 6, Will It Ever Be Released Here?

Huawei has managed to impress many a tech outfit with their new dual-camera wielding Honor 8 in countries where it has officially been launched, including the US, Europe, Middle East and Russia. Now the smartphone is slated to arrive in neighboring Malaysia, where the company hopes to make a splash against entrenched players like Samsung […]

Huawei’s Honor V8 Official With QHD Display, Dual Cameras

Will this make its way to the PH? Huawei has officially unveiled its new Honor V8 smartphone. If you’re not familiar, the Honor sub-brand is Huawei’s attempt to combat the online-only efforts of Lenovo, Xiaomi, Meizu and other domestic rivals in China. Anyway, the V8 is the second phone in the sub-brand to sport a […]

Elephone P9000 Review: Missed Opportunity

We review the Elephone P9000! If you haven’t heard, Elephone, the newest Chinese brand to hit our market, has released three new phones. These phones are all exclusive to Lazada, and among the three, the P9000 is the top of the line device. We’ve spent quality time with the top-end model, which promises to give […]

Huawei’s Next Phones Will Have QHD Displays

Huawei’s finally looking to use QHD displays on its phones Huawei, the company that’s not afraid of trying out new designs and camera concepts, doesn’t seem to want to put QHD displays on their phones. If you discount the collaborative Nexus 6P made for Google, none of Huawei’s phones sport resolutions higher than full HD […]

Huawei To Unveil Another Dual-camera Phone, This Time It’s The V8

Huawei’s Honor lineup will get the dual-camera treatment Huawei’s not done releasing dual-camera equipped phones – the company has teased their upcoming Honor smartphone, the V8. And just like the recently released P9, the V8 is also supposed to come with two dual cameras on the rear of the device. Interestingly enough, unlike the P9, […]

Huawei Unveils Their Own VR Headset In China

Another player has joined the VR game VR is apparently the next hot vertical for companies to get into, and emerging giant Huawei isn’t going to let its rivals go at it without them. They’ve officially announced their own VR headset in China, and much like the offerings of its chief rival Samsung, it requires […]

Huawei Honor 4X Hands-on, Part Two: Heating Up The Mid-range

  We go hands-on (again) with Huawei’s Honor 4X! The first half of 2015 is shaping up to be a stellar one for people looking for bang-for-the-buck devices. There’s so many devices out right now that brings excellent value for money that wasn’t available last year. Meizu’s M1 Note started the ball rolling, while ASUS’ […]

Here’s a Partial list of Android Devices that will be receiving Android Oreo

Coming to your devices real soon   With much fanfare, Google did not troll the audience this time around, as Android O (8.0) is indeed Android Oreo. We got a peek at some of its features like Picture-in-Picture, Notification Dots, and Google Play Project. Read: It’s Official! Android O Is Oreo! Excitement aside, Android users are […]

PSA: You Don’t Need To Upgrade To The Latest Flagship

Unless your phone is severely underperforming, you can sit out one, even two upgrade cycles In the next few days we’ll be bombarded with a bunch of new phones from the likes of our favorite manufacturers. ASUS will be releasing their ZenFone 4 series of phones in the Philippines on August 19, Samsung will be […]

Alleged OnePlus 5 Camera Samples Surface Online

Boss dual cameras on the OnePlus 5 About a week back, OnePlus tweeted out the photo you see above. They asked which of the two was taken with their upcoming “flagship killer of 2017”, the OnePlus 5. While the clarity of the image on the right is a dead giveaway for the device, it may be […]

What is LTE-Advanced (LTE-A)? A Quick and Dirty Primer

LTE-A is crazy fast and reliable, and it’s now here in the Philippines. TL;DR: LTE-A wireless technology is the next step of 4G LTE, providing significantly faster, more robust and reliable connectivity than its predecessor. Most modern flagship handsets and certain mid-high mid-range smartphones have LTE-A support. With Smart having rolled out Long Term Evolution […]