Acer also offering P700 gift card for Windows 8 upgrades

It seems Acer is also feeling generous for their customers holiday Windows 8 season and is now handing out gift cards to cover the Windows 8 upgrade for recent buyers. Customers who buy an eligible Acer notebook or desktop from October 10 to November 30, 2012 will receive a gift card worth P700, just enough for the $14.99 (approximately P630.00) Windows 8 upgrade. Just...

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Nokia Asha 309 now available in stores

Nokia Philippines just announced that the Nokia Asha 309 is now available for purchase at retail stores. The Nokia Asha 309 is the newest member of their affordable touchscreen phones lineup. As with every other Asha phone, it comes with the Nokia Xpress browser which compresses data by up to 90% to help save in data costs. It has a fluid ‘swipe’ user interface which is...

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HP offering P1,000 gift card for eligible notebooks towards Windows 8 upgrade

Do you recently purchased an HP notebook that came preinstalled with Windows 7 and felt bummed to find out that you have to shell out $14.99 just to upgrade it to Windows 8? Well, get happy now as HP is offering a P1,000 gift card to buyers of eligible notebooks from October 23 until November 30, 2012 to cover the amount. If your notebook happen to belong to the eligible...

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HTC One X Jelly Bean update now rolling out

HTC has started rolling-out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the One X users. The update is now gradually rolling out to customers in Taiwan and Singapore and will be also available in other countries. The build number is 3.14.709.16 which of course brings Android 4.1.1 with it. The OTA update weighs a hefty 350Mb, so make sure you hook up to a Wi-Fi network if you...

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Part deux: Alleged iPad mini pricing for the Philippines surfaces again

Five days after we published the alleged pricing of the iPad mini for the Philippines, the same tipster has sent us another photo again. The tipster went ahead and took a photo, this time, of the Philippine online Apple Store showing the same selection page as before. The alleged pricing is still the same, which starts at P16,990 for the 16GB Wi-FI model and goes for as...

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Rockstar announces Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for iOS & Android

Rockstar Games will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The company will be releasing never-before-seen artworks of the game and a new anniversary trailer as well, which will highlight the iconic scenes and music from the game. Moreover, they will be selling commemorative items at their website for a limited time, with...

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Review: Windows Phone 8

Microsoft unveiled the Windows Phone 7 in 2010, which was a huge move away from the then-aging Windows Mobile. It was considered a big reboot of Microsoft in the mobile space. Fast forward to 2012, they ultimately did a reboot again, this time with the Windows Phone 8. “Existing Windows Phone 7 devices won’t be able to update to Windows Phone 8.” Windows Phone 8 breaks away...

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Apple announces the iPad mini and 4th generation iPad

Several hours ago, Apple announced the long-rumored iPad mini. They have also released the 4th generation iPad. iPad mini The iPad mini features a smaller 7.9-inch display than the iPad with a 1024x768 resolution, which is the same as the iPad 2. It’s also 23% thinner than the iPad, just 7.2mm thin and 53% lighter at 0.68 pounds. Powering the iPad mini is the dual-core...

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Nokia introduces the Lumia 510 — the most affordable Windows Phone

Nokia recently announced the Lumia 510, obviously their most affordable Windows Phone to date. The Nokia Lumia 510 maybe the cheapest Windows Phone, but it’s no slouch. It’s running on the old but robust Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system, features a 4-inch display with a WVGA (800x480) resolution, a 5 Megapixels autofocus camera, 4GB of non-expandable storage and...

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ASUS outs touch-powered VivoBook series with Windows 8

ASUS just announced two new notebooks belonging to their VivoBook series — the X202E and S400. The Asus VivoBooks are all full-featured notebooks with a slim form-factor and is also optimized for the mostly touch-based Windows 8 while still retaining the good ol’ keyboard. They feature 2-second instant on, 32GB of WebStorage for 3 years, and the ASUS SonicMaster audio....

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Get free Epson LabelWorks Printers

Epson, a world leader in digital imaging solutions and also an established OEM stationery label printer maker, will give away their stylish and well-designed LabelWorks label printers to customers who will buy a set of LabelWorks tape cartridges. From October 12 to November 30 this year, customers who buy five (5) tape cartridges will get the Epson LW-300; customers who...

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Alleged iPad mini pricing for the Philippines leaks

Take this thing with a truck of salts — what you’re looking at is Apple’s alleged pricing of the upcoming iPad mini for the Philippines. The leak came in the form of a screenshot of the Philippine online Apple Store showing the selection page for the iPad mini. The pricing starts at P16,990 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and ends up at P32,990 for the 64GB Wi-Fi + Cellular model....

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Hands-on with the upcoming Samsung GALAXY Camera

Samsung also launched the Samsung GALAXY Camera last night and I had a chance to try it out real quick, as in super quick! The Samsung GALAXY Camera is an Android-powered digital compact camera that boasts of a 16 Megapixels BSI CMOS sensor with a 21x optical zoom. It makes capturing photos easy with the Smart Pro feature that lets anyone choose pre-defined modes or scenes...

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