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12 smartphones in PH with batteries bigger than 4,000mAh

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ODAY’s smartphones are monsters compared with what they were a few years ago. They take photos that can rival those shot with point-and-shoot cameras. Their screens are so sharp — maybe even sharper than that of your TV — thanks to the number of pixels crammed into them. Internal storage is huger than ever — the highest being 256GB, a capacity that is even bigger than many of today’s laptops’ memory. Processing power has gone through the roof. But battery life? That aspect hasn’t changed much, what a pity.

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Cherry Mobile Flare P1, P1 Plus dual-camera phones now official

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T was only a matter of time before leading Philippine smartphone brand Cherry Mobile offer dual-camera smartphones. Yesterday, the company finally released a TV commercial with actress and host Anne Curtis endorsing the Cherry Mobile Flare P1 (click for complete specs) and the Cherry Mobile Flare P1 Plus (click for full specs), which have long been teased at its concept stores.

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The affordable Cherry Mobile flagship you’ve been asking for is here

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HERRY Mobile has a new phone on the market — and it isn’t the dual-screen Taiji, which could unceremoniously launch this month or the next. The flavor of the week (or the next few weeks?) is the Cherry Mobile Cosmos Three (click for complete specs), a phone we played around with alongside the Defender and Taiji in mid-November. It’s currently rolling out to stores nationwide with a P9,999 price tag.

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Cherry Mobile Iris review: A peek into the future

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F you’ve seen the latest Cherry Mobile phones, we’re talking the more recent ones that made headlines after the 2016 Flare launch event, you’ll probably agree that the Philippines’ top smartphone brand is once again operating outside the box. The company seems to be willing to roll the dice to razzle and dazzle amid an industry-wide slowdown in technological development.

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The Cherry Mobile Defender is built for tough love

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HE Cherry Mobile Defender (click for complete specs) is the company’s first truly rugged smartphone featuring a metal frame and rubberized plastic bumpers. The battery is fixed into the assembly, and all ports are covered with rubber flaps to seal the body. It doesn’t look off-kilter to us — which is not what we expected when we first heard about it. (The list of fairly attractive rugged phones gets thin after Samsung’s Galaxy Active series.)

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When your phone will get Android Nougat

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ATA collected by Google on the first week of November tells us the sorry state of Android. It turns out that Android Nougat, the latest version of the mobile operating system released on August 22, is installed on less than 0.4 percent of all Android devices. Most are still stuck on Android Lollipop.

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Cherry Mobile Flare 5 review: incremental improvements

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HERRY Mobile, the leading mobile brand in the Philippines, unveiled six new Flare smartphones last month. Devices, it hopes, will carry the Flare label past the “5 million phones sold” mark in 2016. Much of that burden falls on the Cherry Mobile Flare 5, the cheapest of the bunch. Priced at P5,499 — a tad higher than the Flare 4 (pictured in the background above) that cost P4,999 at launch — it falls into the company’s most profitable demographic whose tastes are often ultimately swayed by price.

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2016 Cherry Mobile Flare phones: First impressions

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T’S been a while since Cherry Mobile gathered dealers and members of the media to launch a slew of devices. That day has finally come with the unveiling of six new phones from what is arguably its most successful series, Flare, and the timing couldn’t be any better — Christmas is just around the corner.