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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

MyPhone will launch their flagship phone on July 26 in the Philippines


If the specs of the front and back cameras does not impress you, the design and material will.  MyPhone in the Philippines, is well known for Quality phones at a reasonable price.  

MyPhone will release their flagship Phone on July 26, with a promo for people to own it by 12 or 24 months credit card installments.  According to them, this phone has 2 years warranty, unlike most phones today that only have 1 yr.

MyPhone has been lagging behind in releasing better specs phone lately, but with this release, they are on the top position to topple other Philippine branded phones like Cherry Mobile and Torque.  

I myself have a cheap phone from MyPhone, and using it and looking at it, I know it's built to last, and worth every penny I paid.  Unlike, the Cherry Mobile brand which does not last long and Cherry Mobile does not care if you have a sub-quality phone, for the cheap price you paid.  I made a mistake buying Cherry Mobile, that phone has a massive crack screen now and even before could not be used for calls, since the ear piece and mic was broken.

The specs of this phone "ICEBERG" is very impressive.  And the object and name has lots of meaning, they say because it's cold or cool.  I say, icebergs usually can be seen as little on the surface, but is massive underneath.

So here are the specs they are posting on social media Facebook:
✓ 5.7 HD IPS Display, Corning Gorilla Glass 2
✓ Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
✓ 1.2GHz Quad-core processor
✓ 16GB internal storage
✓ 1GB RAM
✓ 12-megapixel autofocus main camera with LED flash(BSI)
✓ 5-megapixel front camera
✓ 1080p video recording
✓ Bluetooth / WiFi / HSPA+
✓ Light, Motion, Proximity, Magnetic Sensor
✓ OTG
Very impressive indeed.  Puts my Samsung Galaxy S3 to shame.  I would buy this, if it was bit cheaper.  But the P11,988 promo launch price for this specs is cheap enough.  Plus the credit card installment option is the clincher.  I just want to avoid the crowd, that is why I won't be at the event.  Otherwise, I would have bought one at their nearest store.  I think they don't want the launch event to be a flop, that is why there is this promo during the event.

Really not that bad, you can own an android phone with top of the line specs for only P12,000. An option to pay for it 1-2yrs installment plan.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

iPad Mini 16.3-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery recharged using CD-R King Mobile Power Bank PWB-049-ZG 2800mAh


The title is a bit long, but these are my findings on recharging an iPad mini with a CD-R King 2800mAh Power Bank.

I ran out of power and need to be somewhere else, so I recharged my iPad mini with my CD-R King Power Bank, expecting it to be recharge at least more than half, like my Galaxy S3 (63% charge from completely drained).



I guess my math was a bit off. Galaxy S3 is 1/3 the size of iPad mini, so I should be happy getting 1/3 of the charge I got from S3.  I was surprised how fast the iPad mini drained the Power Bank.  It was empty in only 1.5 hours.  My iPad mini got a charge of 33% from 5% in one and a half hour.

So there you go, iPad mini charge test for CD-R King Mobile Power Bank PWB-049-ZG 2800mAh, it got the mini charge at 1/4 capacity.  Provided you turned the iPad mini off during the charge.

I was really surprised, the Power Bank got drained that fast by the iPad mini.

Monday, July 8, 2013

GrabTaxi App for the Philippine Android market


I just found out, there is an app here in the Philippines to call a taxi.  This app was advertised on a taxi that I took last time.  

I haven't used the service yet, but want to just let people know what is available in both the Apple Store and in Google Play.  If you ever need a taxi and have P70 to spare, then this app may help you when you can't seem to get a taxi and need to be somewhere else.

I am in no way linked to this app, install and use it at your own risk.  It has high reviews in Google Play, but how do we know the reviews are genuine users and not planted by the developers themselves?

GrabTaxi app is available for download for free in Google Play Store.