Doogee Mix review: Great hardware let down by awful software
HARDLY anyone pays attention to upstart Chinese brands in outside markets, but when something like the Doogee Mix comes along, one can’t be blamed for sitting up and taking notice.
Nokia 8, the brand’s first flagship phone, is here
JUST when you thought the next few months couldn’t be any busier in the smartphone industry, Nokia has launched its first flagship smartphone under HMD Global, the Nokia 8. This comes seven months after the unveiling of the first Nokia phone from the company that secured the rights to use the household brand.
Budget version of the LG G6 launched in PH [Updated]
DESPITE the disappointing sales of the LG G6, we still think the Korean flagship is one of the better smartphone choices around — all the more now that it is at its lowest price yet.
Could the ASUS ZenFone 4 Pro be 2017’s ZenFone 3 Deluxe?
WE have been swamped with more ASUS ZenFone 4 smartphone series leaks now that we’re THISCLOSE to its official unveiling.
NBA Live 18 demo makes us want to revisit franchise
THE 2017-2018 NBA season isn’t due to start until October, but the contest to determine the best basketball video game will be tipping off about a month from today.
Where to live if you want the fastest internet connection
WHEN you live in a country where the internet connection is as slow as traffic during rush hour, we don’t blame you if you feel like migrating to a place where you can get reliable speeds — especially when your productivity depends on it.
Android O rumored August release is bad news for Android users
SERIAL leaker Evan Blass of VentureBeat tweeted that Android Oreo O — otherwise known as Android 8.0 — is set to arrive on August 21, which is only about a week from today. That’s good news, Android users! Or is it?
This is how ASUS will challenge OPPO and Vivo
THE ASUS ZenFone 4 line will be announced next week, August 17th, in its native Taiwan, and then two days after in the Philippines, where the electronics maker is set to stage a similar entrance on August 19.
Meizu Pro 7 review: Excellent from front to back
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.
This year’s best smartphone camera could come from LG
WHILE some of us are hungrily looking to the Apple iPhone 8 or the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 for a better imaging experience, it seems LG might walk away with the “best smartphone camera” crown this year.
Well-specced Meizu M6 Note to launch August 23
MEIZU launched the top-shelf Pro 7 and Pro 7 Plus in China just last week, but the Chinese smartphone maker isn’t done for the month of August quite yet.
Sharp Aquos S2 could be what the Apple iPhone 8 looks like
THE iPhone 8 is likely set to make an appearance in September. And though the much-anticipated Apple smartphone has yet to make an official appearance, one doesn’t have to look too hard to get a glimpse of what it may look like.
Alleged prices of ASUS ZenFone 4 models leak out
THE ASUS ZenFone 4 series is still more than a week away from being officially launched, but this early, we’re seeing the alleged price list circulating online.
Red OPPO F3 coming to PH; price and release date revealed
THE Philippines will be getting a new red version of the OPPO F3 this week, according to an event invite sent to us by the Shenzhen-based smartphone maker. A recent Facebook post on the company’s official page confirmed the launch date as August 12th.
Inside the factory where OPPO smartphones are made
SHENZHEN is widely considered to be the Silicon Valley of hardware. A fishing-settlement-turned-mega-city that is home to rising startups and established tech companies, China’s first special economic zone is also where the OPPO smartphone factory resides.
#RevuLive: Doogee Mix and HTC U11, U Ultra, U Play, Desire 10 Pro
THE fourth episode of #RevuLive is pretty jam-packed, as we featured five devices. One is a controversial smartphone from Doogee Mobile, and the other four, all the handsets that HTC has officially made available in the Philippines.
Xiaomi is back on the list of top 5 smartphone makers worldwide
IF you look at the quarterly rankings of smartphone vendors from the first quarter of 2016 to the second three months of this year, you’ll get bored because you’ll be looking at the same companies again and again. Not the second quarter of 2017.
HTC is back in PH! These are the phones it brought here
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.
#RevuLive: Meizu Pro 7 dual-screen flagship initial impressions
IN the third episode of #RevuLive, we turned the spotlight on only one device, the Meizu Pro 7. And for good reason; the flagship phone has not even been released yet. It will start shipping in China on August 5 and is tentatively set to launch in the Philippines end-August.
ASUS ZenFone 4 to launch globally August 17, in PH August 19
REMEMBER our story about ASUS possibly announcing the ZenFone 4 in the Philippines on August 19? Turns out we were right! The ASUS ZenFone 4 is indeed getting an official announcement in a couple of weeks, as confirmed by the brand today.