Meizu MX 4-core Review: Best Bang for Your Buck Quad-core Smartphone

Meizu MX 4-core Review If I were to sum up the Meizu MX 4-core in a sentence, it would be this: It is a delightful affordable quad-core Android device that’s inspired by the Apple iPhone. The focus, of course, is on the fact that it is a quad-core device and that it only sells for […]

Cherry Mobile Blaze Review: A Good Deal for Php6,499

Cherry Mobile Blaze Review: A Good Deal at Php6,499! The Cherry Mobile Blaze was introduced to the Philippines last December 24 on the Facebook Page of Cherry Mobile. The phone, as pointed out by some of our readers, is actually a rebranded smartphone from China called the Ming Ren A2 (they have the same design […]

Cherry Mobile Blaze Unboxing and Initial Review

Cherry Mobile Blaze: Unboxing and Initial Review! The announcement of the Cherry Mobile Blaze caught lot of tech bloggers and reporters by surprise. It was revealed a day before Christmas day on the Facebook Page of Cherry Mobile Philippines. The device, priced comfortably at Php6,499, was definitely made to offer value for money as it […]

Starmobile Bright Initial Review: Light, Compact, Affordable, Gingerbread

Initial Impressions of the Starmobile Bright The Starmobile Bright is the “bunso” of the Android smartphone offerings of Starmobile. Priced at Php4,700, Starmobile positioned the Bright as their entry-level smartphone device. When you compare the specifications to the entry level models offered by international brands, the Bright is a runaway winner. Our only major misgiving […]

Google Nexus 4 Hands-on: Fast, Furious, Gorgeous, and Smudgey

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 […]

5 Alternatives to the iPhone 5

5 Alternatives to the iPhone 5 If you’re not liking the iPhone 5 and you’re in the market for a high-end smartphone, you actually have several good options available here in the Philippines. These devices are all awesome and offer great value for your money so you might want to take a look at them. […]

Holiday Gift and Shopping Guide: Accessories and Peripherals

Unbox Holiday Shopping and Gift Guide: Accessories and Peripherals There are also a lot of great accessories and peripherals (aka “cool stuff”) available today that you can buy for yourself or give as gifts this December. Some of them are actually just as expensive (or even more) than smartphones and tablets. The list we’ve compiled […]

Holiday Shopping Guide: Smartphones

Unbox Holiday Shopping and Gift Guide: Smartphones With all the new gadgets out in the market today it’s hard to find which one best deserves your hard earned cash. That’s why we’re putting together a series of articles that will cut through the clutter and just feature some of the very best stuff we’ve reviewed […]

Swing Ball: One of the Funkiest Docks Ever

Swing Ball: Funky Dock for your Android Smartphone GLOTOP Corp. sent us a bunch of cool stuff to review and feature here on Unbox. One of them is called the Swing Ball, a rotating dock for Android, BlackBerry, or Windows devices (microUSB). At first I was thinking it was just your ordinary dock but it […]

Lenovo Mobile offers Free Battery Pack and Case with the P700i

It looks like Lenovo is focusing on the battery life of the P700i to differentiate them from local brands who are offering low-cost Android devices. First they launched a new TVC which harps on the extended battery life of the P700i. I can definitely attest to their claim that the P700i is one of the […]

Cherry Mobile Omega is a 5.3-inch Android Jelly Bean Smartphone?

Cherry Mobile Omega to sport Dual-Core Processor, 8MP Camera, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean? As we reported earlier, Cherry Mobile teased three new handsets for December. One of them, the Cherry Mobile Omega, sports a 5.3-inch and is rumored to have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box. This was validated when Cherry Mobile […]

Cherry Mobile Flare Goes On Sale November 17

Cherry Mobile Flare Finally Goes on Sale on November 17 In all my years of writing about gaming, gadgets, and tech, I’ve never seen as much interest about a local smartphone brand than the Cherry Mobile Flare. In fact if you compute all the views Unbox has gotten about the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy […]