Sony announces the Xperia SP, comes with HD screen, LTE, and Jelly Bean

A few days ago, Sony Mobile announced the Sony Xperia SP, which seems to be an upper mid-range smartphone with a not-so-high price point. Design-wise, the Sony Xperia SP has quite the same premium looks as its bigger brothers, the Xperia Z and ZL. It’s made of precision-crafted aluminum, and boasts of the translucent bar (first seen on the Xperia S) at the bottom which...

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Cherry Mobile lets out the Omega HD 5-inch smartphone for P7,999

Cherry Mobile has just launched their newest and greatest smartphone yet, the Cherry Mobile Omega HD. The Cherry Mobile Omega HD, as you may have already guess by its name, packs a 720p HD IPS screen spread on a 5-inch Dragontrail glass panel. It runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and is powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor backed by 1GB of RAM. A 4GB internal memory comes...

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Samsung officially announces the Galaxy S4

Earlier this morning, Samsung has finally taken the wraps off its latest flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S 4. As what we’ve already seen on the leaked photos, the Galaxy S 4 is pretty much the same as the Galaxy S III when it comes to design standpoint. There’s the familiar curvy corners and the textured coating....

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Sun Cellular offers the BlackBerry Z10 at Plan 1,799, coming March 19

Sun Cellular has officially acknowledged that they will be having the BlackBerry Z10 too, and it looks like they have some nice deals up their sleeve. The BlackBerry Z10 will be offered at Plan 1,799 without any cash-outs at all. It will include unlimited calls and texts to Sun, unlimited data, unlimited local landline calls, 250 texts to other networks, and 60 international...

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Nokia unveils a dust-and-water-resistant shell for the Lumia 620

Nokia just announced a new shell for the Lumia 620 with IP54 certification, providing the device a protection from dust and water splashes. As opposed to most rugged cases available on the market, the CC-3061 makes use of the removable back cover on the Lumia 620. As such, it easily clips on to the device without making it bulkier. Harri Vuolle, Lumia Product Manager at...

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Samsung teases the Galaxy S 4, also caught leaked in a video and photos

Yesterday, Samsung posted and teased on its social media accounts an image of what could be the much-awaited Galaxy S 4. There’s little to be seen on the image although it shows that the next flagship Galaxy smartphone could have the same design as the Galaxy S III. A day before Samsung posted the images, a couple of images showing the dual-SIM version of the yet-to-be-announced...

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The ASUS Transformer AiO is a Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean tablet and desktop in one

Color me surprised, but ASUS recently pulled the curtains and revealed their newest product, the ASUS Transformer AiO. The ASUS Transformer AiO is essentially a Windows 8 desktop and an Android Jelly Bean tablet in one with a humongous 18.4-inch display that is detachable. You read that right, a Windows 8 and Android combo machine. They managed to build this thing by putting...

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Globe offers the BlackBerry Z10 with LTE at Plan 1,799

Globe has announced that they will be offering the BlackBerry Z10 with their postpaid plans. The Z10 will be available for free at Plan 1,799 under a 30-month contract or with a P4,800 cash-out if you want to sign-up for the normal 24-month contract. You can also get it for free at Plan 2,499 and up or with a P13,100 cash-out at Plan 999. Globe’s Plan 999 includes unlimited...

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Smart adds the BlackBerry Z10 on it’s postpaid lineup, available on Unlimited Data Plan 2000

As previously announced by BlackBerry, Smart will be among the three carriers that will bring the BlackBerry Z10 in the country. Smart has already announced that the Z10 will be offered for free for the first 200 customers at Unlimited Data Plan 2,000. The cash-out fee has not been revealed as of yet. There’s also no indications whether the Z10 on Smart will sport LTE....

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BlackBerry Z10 arrives in the Philippines for P29,990

BlackBerry Philippines announced on March 6 the local availability of the Z10 in the country. It features a 1.5GHz dual core processor with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a microSD card slot that supports up to 32GB of additional storage. The BlackBerry Z10 will have an SRP of P29,990 and will come in black and white colors. You can reserve yours now by going...

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Globe introduces own community forum

Globe Telecom earlier today announced the launch of their new online forum called Globe Community, wherein users and employees alike can post and share their own questions or tips & tricks about their various products and services. Globe and non-Globe customers can use the forum to inquire about anything related to Globe; be it about postpaid, prepaid, broadband, their...

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Instagram coming to Windows Phone 8?

Rumors broke out a few days ago suggesting that Instagram might really launch on Windows Phone. It started when the Instagram icon was spotted plastered on the screen on a carrier promotion banner at Portugal. The icon could just be erroneously Photoshopped on the render, as with many other cases. But today, another news surfaced from Chinese website WPDang, which has...

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That Samsung Galaxy S IV image circulating on the Internet is fake

You may have seen an article or two about an alleged leaked photo of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S IV today. The so-called ‘leaked photos’ comes from the ever infamous Twitter user @evleaks, which has been accurate most of the time before. But before you judge the photo and say anything, good or bad, about the device, I just want to let you know that those images are fake....

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Asphalt 7: Heat debuts on Windows Phone

Gameloft announced that the Asphalt 7: Heat is the newest title from the company that will hit Windows Phone. The game offers over 60 different car models to race with, like Lamborghini and Aston Martin, on 15 tracks based in real cities such as Paris, London, among others. What’s more is that it is the first game on Windows Phone to take advantage of real-time multiplayer...

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Review: HTC Butterfly

HTC’s last hooray in 2012, the HTC Butterfly, gives us a peek of what’s to come this 2013 — flagship phones with big screens with pixel-packed 1080p full HD resolution. I was a little bit skeptical at first, do we really need 1080p smartphones? Join me as I find out in this review....

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BlackBerry pushes first BB10 update, brings battery, camera, and performance improvements

BlackBerry 10 has been only out for a month or so, and the company has already worked towards improving the overall experience by issuing the first ever update for the Z10. The update, which bumps the software version to 10.0.10.85, includes several improvements like better 3rd-party apps performance. It also fixes Gmail calendars, the handling of call logs and text conversations...

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