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Meizu Pro 7 review: Excellent from front to back

In Phones by Ramon Lopez3 Comments

MEIZU took the tech community by storm when it put a secondary display on the back of its latest flagship smartphones. And while most other smartphone makers are locked in a race to see which company can fit as much screen as possible onto the front of their devices, the challenger brand from China has found another way to push boundaries — without pushing out bezels to the fringes.

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HTC is back in PH! These are the phones it brought here

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IT has taken the company longer than expected to find its footing, but HTC is finally — and officially! — back in the Philippines after years of absence in the smartphone race. (We were able to talk to its Philippine representative about its comeback on May 28.) Better yet, the flagship HTC U11, the phone with the highest-rated camera, at least according to DxOMark, is included in the Taiwanese phone maker’s local lineup.

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Initial review: Samsung Galaxy Book, an iPad Pro rival and laptop replacement

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SAMSUNG is aiming to give Apple’s iPad Pro a serious run for its money; hence, the release of the new Samsung Galaxy Book in the Philippines. It is priced at P44,990 (around $890) locally, which isn’t cheap, but neither is the hardware it is going up against. The 10.5-inch iPad Pro with 64GB of storage, and sans the accessories, sells from P36,990 ($732) in authorized stores.

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Meizu Pro 7 and Pro 7 Plus are your new two-screen flagships

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AFTER being out of the spotlight for quite some time, Chinese phone-maker Meizu is once again drawing interest from the international tech community after launching the Meizu Pro 7 (click this for the full specs) and the Meizu Pro 7 Plus (click this for the complete specs) smartphones with a pair of touchscreens. There’s one on the front and another one on the back, unlike the LG V20 and other models with ticker-type displays above their screens.

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