The iPhone is 10 years old and still has a trick that others can’t replicate

In Business, Games, Apps, and OS, Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 9, 20172 Comments

IT’S been 10 years since Steve Jobs introduced the original iPhone. Yes, it has been that long. Today, the iPhone remains Apple’s most important product and its biggest cash cow, though it hasn’t been smooth-sailing for the Cupertino-based tech firm lately.

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OPPO A39 is a smaller, cheaper F1s minus the selfie camera we love

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 9, 2017Leave a Comment

THERE’S a new OPPO smartphone on the Philippine market, this time carrying a more affordable price tag than the one that came with the P12,990 ($262) OPPO F1s. In keeping with that comparison, we like to think of it as a smaller, cheaper version of the F1s sans a fingerprint sensor and the 16-megapixel front camera that made us do a double take.

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Nokia 6, the first Nokia-Android mash-up, is here. Should you care?

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 8, 2017Leave a Comment

THE cellphone pioneer from your childhood is back, albeit with a lot of help from a company you probably haven’t heard of. After months of speculation, the first true Android phone with the Nokia branding has surfaced.

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Confirmed: Huawei Mate 9, Honor 6x now available in PH

In Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroJanuary 7, 20171 Comment

WHAT do you know? Just when we were not looking at the Philippine market because of all the CES 2017-related news coming our way, Huawei has rolled two new smartphones to local stores, the Huawei Mate 9 (click for complete specs) and the Huawei GR5 2017, also known as the Honor 6x (click for full specs).

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Laptop with 3 screens is the gaming rig we’ve always wanted

In Laptops by Ramon LopezJanuary 7, 2017Leave a Comment

BEHOLD, the world’s first laptop with three (yes, three!) screens! This future case of technological wizardry comes courtesy of Razer — which, if you haven’t heard, is essentially the Apple of the PC gaming community.

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3 new Xiaomi products we wish were on their way to the rest of the world

In Business, Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroJanuary 6, 2017Leave a Comment

AND when we say “the rest of the world,” we meant outside Xiaomi’s native China. Because while we had initially thought that the company joining CES for the first time meant an announcement of a concrete roadmap for its entry to the U.S., it turned out that we had thought wrong.

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Is this the Samsung Galaxy S8?

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 6, 20172 Comments

IT’S early in the new year, which means the internet is again rife with rumors about the possible design, specs, features, and whatnot of the next Samsung Galaxy flagship. We’ve heard quite an earful about how different (and how important) the Samsung Galaxy S8 would be compared to its predecessors, but so far we haven’t seen anything in the wild to confirm or support those claims. Until now.

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BlackBerry with keyboard teased. Could this be the brand’s savior?

In Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroJanuary 5, 2017Leave a Comment

YOU have to give it to brands that just don’t give up no matter how many times they have been knocked down. Think Nokia. And this time, think BlackBerry. It seems that TCL, the Chinese electronics company that inked a deal with BlackBerry Limited to make smartphones under the BlackBerry brand, is hell-bent on reviving the once-iconic name.

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SKK will sell you a Huawei P9 clone for super cheap

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 5, 2017Leave a Comment

AFTER releasing an iPhone clone in the Philippines, SKK Mobile is at it again, this time coming out with a smartphone that apes the Huawei P9, intellectual property be damned.

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New ASUS ZenFone is ready for AR and VR and comes with 8GB RAM

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 5, 2017Leave a Comment

ASUS just finished taking the wraps off of the ZenFone 3 Zoom and the ZenFone AR during its press event at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, and there’s admittedly a lot to unpack after all the hoopla.

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ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom with 5,000mAh battery does an iPhone 7 Plus

In Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroJanuary 5, 2017Leave a Comment

IT’S finally official. The ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom (click for complete specs), which had been the subject of rumors since December, got its time in the limelight at the Zennovation event at CES 2017. And it looks better than the ZenFone Zoom, which we saw at CES 2015 in Las Vegas.

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Who needs a hard drive or SSD? Kingston has a 2TB USB flash drive

In Laptops, Phones, Tablets by Ramon LopezJanuary 4, 2017Leave a Comment

JUST how much space can a thumb drive accommodate before it is maxed out? Kingston set out to find the answer and came up with 2 terabytes (not a typo).

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Why you should care about Qualcomm’s new high-end processor

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 4, 2017Leave a Comment

AHEAD of the CES 2017 kickoff this week, Qualcomm today unwrapped the Snapdragon 835, the mobile processor that will run most of early-2017’s flagship smartphones, most likely including future releases from Samsung, LG, Sony, Xiaomi, and many other big-name brands.

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$250 Honor 6x’s dual-camera setup works like the iPhone 7’s

In Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroJanuary 4, 2017Leave a Comment

IT’S inevitable. With more and more smartphone companies riding the dual-camera wave, we’re also bound to see more, cheaper handsets with two rear cameras to go on sale. Honor, a sub-brand of China’s Huawei, will do exactly just that with its plan to release the Honor 6x (click for complete specs and prices) outside its home turf.

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ASUS ZenFone AR with support for Google Tango, Daydream leaked

In Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroJanuary 3, 2017Leave a Comment

SO it’s true: The ZenFone 3 Zoom may not be the only ASUS smartphone that will make an appearance at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, after all. Another device called the ASUS ZenFone AR will reportedly be launched at the annual tech show.

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Samsung’s new phones bring waterproofing and Type-C ports to the midrange

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 3, 2017Leave a Comment

SAMSUNG has kicked off the new year by announcing its revamped Galaxy A series of smartphones ahead of CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Initially tipped to debut in Malaysia on January 5, the lineup has been listed on Samsung’s global press site, and includes the Galaxy A3, A5, and A7.

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Vivo V5 Plus with two front cameras to debut January 23rd

In Phones by Ramon LopezJanuary 3, 2017Leave a Comment

SELFIE-CENTRIC smartphones have carved a niche for themselves in 2016, and the trend is likely to continue this year. Vivo’s opening salvo is the V5 Plus, which is slated to debut in India on January 23. The Chinese OEM has sent invites to the Indian media, telling them to save the date for “the biggest selfie camera revolution.”

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NBA app now lets you save games for offline viewing

In Games, Apps, and OS by Ramon LopezJanuary 1, 201718 Comments

THE NBA app for Android and iOS has improved dramatically over the previous months. In fact, it’s one of our favorite streaming apps across both ecosystems because it’s reliable and the interface is uncomplicated and easy to navigate. And because ever since we cut the cord on cable and went all-in on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and the like, it’s been our go-to app for watching NBA broadcasts.

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India next country to make iPhones after China, Brazil — report

In Phones by Alora Uy GuerreroDecember 30, 2016Leave a Comment

THE Apple iPhone may be designed in the U.S., but most of the units that you see on the market are manufactured in China. Only a small percentage of them are assembled in Brazil. However, a recent report by Times of India, if true, could bring the number of countries making the device to three.

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How to use free VPN to watch US movies, shows on Android or iOS

In Games, Apps, and OS by Ramon LopezDecember 29, 2016Leave a Comment

FOR a lot of us, the holidays are a chance to unwind and spend time with family and friends. It’s also the time to kick back and catch up on some quality programming with said family and friends, to “Netflix and chill,” so to speak.

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