Review: Sony Xperia ZR The Sony Xperia ZR was announced a few months after the launch of the highly successful Sony Xperia Z. While the Sony Xperia Z was “water-resistant”, you couldn’t actually operate it underwater since the display wasn’t optimized for usage in that environment. The Sony Xperia ZR, on the other hand, was […]
The One that got away Encased in cool solid metal and smooth Gorilla Glass II, the HTC One is arguably the most premium looking smartphone in the flagship category to date. It has the monstrous internals to back up the word “flagship” as well as it sports a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor and 2GB […]
Review: Starmobile Diamond V3 Starmobile’s first quad-core offering, the Starmobile Diamond V3, debuted a few days ago and we actually did a quick unboxing post and initial hands-on post already. The timing of the review unit was actually awesome as one of our main phones died so we ended up using the Diamond V3 as […]
HTC has officially announced the entry level HTC Desire 200 and the top of the line HTC Butterfly S. The HTC Desire 200 is obviously for buyers who are on a budget. Because of its entry level specs you will get a 3.5 inch HVGA display with 480 x 320 resolution, an old 1 GHz […]
Google Nexus 4 down to Php14,990 via Widget City Fresh off the Google I/O announcement that the Galaxy S4 is the new Nexus, local online gadget shop Widget City revealed a massive price cut for the LG Google Nexus 4. Starting tomorrow, May 17, Widget City will be selling the quad-core Google phone for just […]
Countdown to the HTC One If you’re not happy with the Samsung Galaxy S4 or the Sony Xperia Z, you have one more solid premium Android smartphone option — the HTC One. The good news is that it’s coming soon to the Philippines already! While we don’t have an exact date yet or pricing, the HTC One has […]
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 […]
Unbox MWC 2013 MTV~! We received a bunch of request on our Facebook Page for any videos that we took during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. We were able to get a couple of clips and we put them together in a short MTV featuring Quest’s “Sige Lang” song. The video basically shows […]
HTC 8X Windows Phone Review We’ve reviewed a lot of smartphones and tablets here on Unbox. The device that got the most number of comments when we took it out (next to the iPhone 5 prior to local launch) wasn’t an Android phone. It was actually a Windows Phone — the HTC 8X. Why does […]
Unboxing and Initial Review: Asus Padfone 2 To be totally honest we weren’t too excited about the Asus Padfone 2. However after using it for well over a week now we can say without a doubt that this is one of the best Android machines in the market today. First, let’s go over what’s under […]
Sharp Aquos Phone SH930W (Php19,990) I never thought I’d by saying this but it looks like Sharp, a company that we all know more for their TVs, came out with one of the sexiest smartphones in the market. Dubbed the Sharp Aquos Phone SH930W, the device boasts of a full HD (1920×1080) 5-inch display. That […]
Why hello there Google Nexus 4! Smart Communications gave us a preview of the Google Nexus 4 smartphone (manufactured by LG) during the most recent Unbox Video Podcast Episode. This is a very special device seeing as this is the latest “pure Android” smartphone following the Galaxy Nexus last year. You can definitely see that […]