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    Blackberry Curve 9220 and 9320 now available in teal blue

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    Blackberry Curve 9220 and 9320 now available in teal blue

    Make way for teal-colored ‘Berries!

    RIM and Globe recently announced that RIM’s newest smartphone offerings–the Blackberry Curve 9220 and the Blackberry Curve 9320–are now available in teal blue.

    “As the first Philippine telco to bring the BlackBerry Curve 9220 and BlackBerry Curve 9320 to the country, we are happy to take the excitement a notch higher by giving subscribers the flexibility not only to choose the perfect Globe postpaid plan for themselves, but also to select their preferred device color, giving them a more personalized and customized experience,” shares Head for Globe Postpaid, Martha Sazon.

    Those who want to avail of these two smartphones in teal blue can do so by visiting your nearest Globe store and availing of any of the following postpaid subscriptions. The BlackBerry Curve 9220 is free upon subscription to My Super Plan 499 with P99 unlimited BlackBerry Chat. My Super Plan 499 comes with monthly consumable amount of Php 499 for calls and texts, unlimited BBM and 2 freebies for as low as Php 598 per month. The BlackBerry Curve 9320, on the other hand, is available for free when you subscribe to My Super Plan BlackBerry Unli Surf Combo Plan 999 that has Php 400 monthly consumable amount for calls and texts, unlimited mobile surfing, and 1 freebie for a monthly cash-out of Php 999.

    Western Digital outs Red hard drives for SOHO NAS

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    Western Digital outs Red hard drives for SOHO NAS

    Western Digital has seen a demand for HDDs optimized for Network Attached Storage systems (NAS) and as a result, has released their Red line of HDD for NAS. The Red strikes a happy balance between consumer drives and more expensive enterprise solutions, and offers numerous features that improve reliability and ensure maximum uptime for consumers. The drives feature 3D Active Balance Plus, an enhanced balance control technology, which significantly improves the overall drive performance and reliability. In an exclusive for WD Red customers, WD is offering free premium 24×7 dedicated support and a three-year limited warranty. Prices for the new drives are as follows: WD Red 1 TB drive (model #: WD10EFRX) is P4,995.00, the 2 TB drive (model #: WD20EFRX) is P6,195.00 and the 3 TB drive (model #: WD30EFRX) is P8,695.00

     

    Review: LG Optimus 4X HD

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    Review: LG Optimus 4X HD

    We did a detailed hands-on of the LG Optimus 4X HD before, and today we’re finishing up the review by posting the performance numbers and other features that we missed during that article. Reading our detailed hands-on of the device is highly recommended before diving into this article.

    The LG Optimus 4X HD is visually appealing, though it’s not at the same level aesthetically as the Samsung Galaxy S III or the HTC One X. It’s overall design is influenced by the L-style philosophy that’s been implemented in the L-series of phones that we’ve reviewed a couple of months before, namely the L7 and the L3. The back of the 4X HD has a textured back which helps in the overall grip of the device.

    The 4X HD has a silver trim that’s complimented by a prism finish, which gives it an extra visual flair.

    The screen is a 4.7-inch true HD IPS screen that has a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. Unfortunately, the screen is a bit prone to glare – our demo unit had a bit of issues when we tried using it outdoors, which is a bit of a shame really, as the screen is otherwise excellent.

    The Optimus 4X HD runs on Google’s Android 4.0 OS (ICS) with their own UI overlay, dubbed Optimus UI 3.0. The same UI was present on the Optimus L7, though the limited hardware on the L7 couldn’t really do it justice. That’s not a problem with the 4X HD – the Tegra 3 processor has enough oomph to power the transition effects in the device. The UI overlay also replaces the somber, hi-tech feel of the stock UI of ICS with something more colorful and lively, which may or may not be up to your liking. Like anything, your mileage may vary.

    One of the more positive aspects of the Optimus UI 3.0 is the camera app. See, the Optimus 4X HD has this camera feature called Time Catch shot. When you turn it on, the phone starts caching images from camera. Once you press the shutter, you’re given the option to keep the picture you just shot, or five images leading up to it in a span of about a second. This gives you a chance to grab a photograph that you might have missed.

    We’ve posted pictures of the benchmark of the Optimus 4X HD before, but it bears repeating again for the sake of completeness. On AnTuTu, the Optimus 4X HD scores high marks (11510), going over the scores that the Asus Transformer Prime set (which is incidentally another quad-core device) and almost reaching the top spot.

    On Quadrant Standard it’s a slightly different story, and the Optimus 4X HD only managed to nab 3665 points – still impressive, but it’s a bit far from the next quad-core powered device – the Transformer Prime.

    These numbers translate to an overall better user experience – the Optimus 4X HD powered through most of the applications that we used it with. The interface felt slick and smooth, with nary a hiccup to be found during its time with us. The Optimus 4X HD also managed to eek out about a day of useful battery life with moderate use, which is a bit off the mark when compared to the battery performance of other, higher-end Android devices.

    There are certain issues with the 4X HD, aside from the ones we already mentioned. The camera software needs improvement, as it has a tendency to continuously refocus, even after you touch the screen to try and get it to concentrate on one spot.

    So is the LG Optimus 4X HD deserving to be your next phone? Well, that all depends on you. It isn’t as visually striking as the HTC One X or the Samsung Galaxy S III, but it makes up for that by being as fast as those two devices. On the plus side, the LG Optimus 4X HD has the advantage of being the cheapest option of the three, with a suggested retail price of Php 27,990 – which makes it very attractive to people looking to save a few bucks and still get a fast, feature packed smartphone.

    What’s Hot:

    Large 4.7-inch screen

    NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor

    Excellent UI overlay

    Most affordable quad-core smartphone currently in the market

     

    What’s Not:

    Camera software needs a lot of work

    Screen is prone to glare

     

    Bottomline:

    It’s not perfect, but the LG Optimus 4X HD gives excellent value for money, especially when you consider the prices of its competitors.

    Buymeter: 4/5

     

    Tech Specs:

    • Operating System: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Optimus 3.0 UI overlay
    • CPU: NVIDIA Tegra 3 1.5GHz
    • LCD size: 4.7-inch HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 720 x 1280 pixel resolution
    • Physical Dimension: 132.4 x 68.1 x 8.9 mm
    • Weight: 133 grams
    • Band: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
    • Internal memory: 16GB, expandable through microSD

     

    PC gamers flock Ubertech gaming tournament

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    PC gamers flock Ubertech gaming tournament

    Competitive gamers gathered at the VMall Exhibit Area last Friday and Saturday as Übertech Philippines, a premier distributor of PC hardware, hosted its first ever action-packed gaming tournament, Gaming Overload.

    Participants battled against each other for the top spot in three of the most popular PC games today. The first day of the tournament featured the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 division and NBA 2k12. The second day featured a friendly round of NBA 2k12 and the Street Fighter x Tekken tournament division.

    MW3 champs Team FXE (left) and 2nd placers Team UDTxSE (right)

    The winners for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 were Team FXE, composed of Jacky Chan, Eleine Joyce Javier, Juan Lim, and Firdausi Mulsid. Team UDTxSE, composed of Christian Hizon, Dan Gutierrez, Emmanuel Capalad and Benson Sta. Ana, ranked second place.

    Rold Michael Cornejo (right), NBA 2k12 champion
    SFxTekken 2nd placer Tonton Jagolino (left) and champion Mark Frianeza (right)

    The winners for the NBA 2k12 division were Renzo Pacquing (3rd place), Kevin De Leon (2nd place) and Rold Michael Cornejo (champion). For Street Fighter x Tekken, the winners were James Patrick Markle (3rd place), Tonton Jagolino (2nd place) and Mark Frianeza (champion).

    All first placers got to take home a motherboard from Gigabyte and free original copies of their respective games. Second and third placers got to take home USB flash drives and backpacks from the event sponsors–namely, AMD, Sapphire, Gigabyte, Cougar and Roccat. Lootbags containing Gigabyte lanyards, sports bottles, shirts from AMD and back issues of Gadgets Magazine were given to all the participants.

    Members of the online fighting game community Team X-Over served as marshals for the games. The two-day event was streamed online  on TwitchTV by Jason Conanan and Edsel Volante.

    Downgrade for iPhone 3GS Baseband available

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    Downgrade for iPhone 3GS Baseband available

    For those of us runing the 3GS jailbroken and carrier unlocked, it is quite likely you are running a reflashed version of the os with the iPad baseband. This is great since it lets you use the phone, but has a few problems, namely terrible mobile data battery life and a sudden lack of GPS. Wait no longer. It has been fixed (finally) and works totally fine. It’s not that hard a fix, either: just a quick download, reflash and hey, presto! all the functions are back where they should be. If you want to give it a try, head over to this video HERE. It’s a little scary, since you have to wait, but it works. Just make sure you follow the instructions.

    You may want one of these for your Death Star

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    You may want one of these for your Death Star

    This one is for all the nerds in the house. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has just fired the most powerful laser in the history of lasers. The laser, which fires for a fraction of a second, peaked at 500 Trillion watts, which is 1000 times more power than the US uses in any given moment, and is over 100 times more energetic than any of the lasers anywhere in the world. The point behind all of this, apart from being all sorts of nerd cool, is hydrogen fusion, one of the Holy Grails of energy production. To be honest, though, we believe this is all just a clever ploy to fool the Jedi. If you want to read more about it, head on over HERE. (Nerd stuff. Totally SFW)

    Google Nexus 7 starts shipping to customers

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    Google Nexus 7 starts shipping to customers

    People in the US who pre-ordered their Google Nexus 7, listen up. Google has announced on it’s Google+ page that they have started shipping their wundertablet out to the hands of customers who have taken the trouble to pre-order it when it was announced. Unfortunately, only people in the US and some territories are getting the Nexus 7 love, while countries outside of the US (like ours) can only look on with envious eyes. We’ll soon be getting our own Nexus 7 soon enough when Asus officially releases it here, unfortunately we’re only getting the 16GB version and we’ll be paying a bit more than our US counterparts. Such is life.

    Source: Google

    Rapoo lands in the Philippines, brings along sexy wireless E9080 keyboard

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    Rapoo lands in the Philippines, brings along sexy wireless E9080 keyboard

    Rapoo, the leading Chinese wireless peripheral maker has landed in the Philippines, and has brought along its thin and sexy wireless E9080 keyboard with it. This particular keyboard is impossibly thin at only 5.6mm, yet still packs a scissor keystoke structure that gives users excellent tactile feedback, allowing them to type quickly and accurately. It also has a built-in touchpad if you’re not in the mood to use a mouse. It’s brushed stainless steel frame and overall design has garnered it numerous awards, chief of which is  the prestigious IF Product Design Award (2012). It’s also the slimmest keyboard in the world, and can be yours for a measly Php 2,630.

    Unify your multiple G+ identities with Takeout

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    Unify your multiple G+ identities with Takeout

    People who, for one reason or another, have multiple G+ accounts usually have a hard time juggling posts, friends, circles and all the other odds and ends that Google + gives. It can be something of a daunting task that can be anything from annoying all the way to impossible, depending on the number of contacts and groups involved. Google has heard your pleas and given us all Takeout. It’s a service that let you import all the related Google plus odds and ends from one account into another. There are still a few things you need to know beforehand, like a little downtime involved while things get wrapped up and sent out, but if you really need to put things together, this is just what you’ve been looking for. Read more about it HERE.

    Nokia Asha 305 starts shipping in the Philippines, full touchscreen phone for only Php 3,890

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    Nokia Asha 305 starts shipping in the Philippines, full touchscreen phone for only Php 3,890

    Nokia’s not done with their Asha releases. The Finnish firm has just released their full touchscreen phone, the Asha 305, in the Philippines. This particular device has a 3-inch display, is powered by Symbian Series 40 and is fully capable of going online. Other specs include a 2 megapixel camera, 2GB memory card (which can be swapped out and replaced with a bigger capacity card) and dual-sim capability. The Asha 305 uses the Nokia Browser, which the company says is 3x faster than other browsers and saves you data connection costs through its revolutionary cloud accelerated technology that offers up to 85% compression. You can grab the Nokia Asha 305 for only Php 3,890.

    Adventure Time video game trailer now up

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    Adventure Time video game trailer now up

    The trailer for the first ever video game based on Cartoon Network’s animated action-comedy, Adventure Time, has just been released. The game, developed by WayForward, is titled Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?! Fans of the show are in for a treat as series creator Pendleton Ward himself crafted the game’s storyline in which Finn and Jake embark on a magical journey through the Land of Ooo to stop the Ice King from creating a Garbage Princess.

    The game will be available later this year on both Nintendo DS and 3DS. Check out the trailer below!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Zi-jzBvJE&feature=player_embedded

    Source: My Nintendo News

     

     

    Amazing Alex is proof the Rovio isn’t a one trick pony

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    Amazing Alex is proof the Rovio isn’t a one trick pony

    Many wondered if Angry Birds developer Rovio could successfully make another game to match their runaway hit, Angry Birds. Well, Amazing Alex hasn’t matched Angry Birds total downloads and revenue, but it’s currently poised to do that. If you haven’t checked it out yet, we’ll lay down Amazing Alex’s premise for you: it’s basically a physics puzzle game where you construct Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions to achieve objectives. Like Angry Birds, the game is simple to learn and is extremely addictive, and will definitely suck a bunch of your time if you’re not careful.

    The game has risen swiftly since its release last Thursday – the paid, 0.99$ is currently best selling iPhone app in 35 countries, and it’s climbing swiftly up the Google Play store, where it sits at 11th place. Curiously, Amazing Alex didn’t start its life inside Rovio’s walls – the game was acquired by the company back in 2011 when it was known as Casey’s Contraptions, and was relaunched as Amazing Alex with noticeably more polish and flair. We’ve included the official links for the game if you’re interested in trying it out: iOS peeps can click here, while Android owners can go here for the game.

    Source: Venture Beat

    Team Gadgets is at Gaming Overload!

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    Team Gadgets is at Gaming Overload!

    Game faces are ON here at the VMall Exhibit Area as Übertech Philippines–one of the country’s premier distributors of PC hardware–has just opened its action-packed game tournament, Gaming Overload.

    Lined up for today are two of the hottest titles in the PC games market. The matches for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will start in a while, followed by the NBA 2k12 matches in the afternoon. The Street Fighter x Tekken matches will be held tomorrow, July 14, at 3pm.

    Winners of the tournament will get motherboards, free copies of the three games, and loads of freebies from the event sponsors.

    Be sure to catch the Free Play session where competitive gamers will be allowed to play these titles and pit their gaming prowess against each other–for free! The Free Play session will run tomorrow from 11am to 3pm.

    If, for some reason, you can’t head over to the venue, you can still catch all the action via live streaming.

    Gaming Overload is being staged by Gadgets Magazine, the country’s first tech-lifestyle magazine, made possible by Übertech, distributor of AMD, Sapphire, Gigabyte, Cougar and Roccat, and official media partner Manila Bulletin.

    Android is king in the US and Philippines

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    Android is king in the US and Philippines

    It seems pretty damn obvious at this point, but it bears repeating – Android is the OS of choice for users in both our country, the Philippines and the folks in the US. In the good ol’ US of A, Android has managed to grab 52% of the smartphone market, with 34.3% belonging to Apple’s iOS according to the research firm Nielsen. In the Philippines, the divide is much greater – according to a report sent to us by Smart, Android now commands a whopping 82.2% of the smartphone pie, utterly cloberring all that come before it. The report was done by GfK, and apparently the report also lent another gem of information – 95% of the Android devices in the Philippines have HSPA in them, which Smart says is fueling the demand for mobile data.

    Source: Slashgear

    Yahoo confirms third party credentials part of security breach, Gmail, AOL and Hotmail users affected

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    Yahoo confirms third party credentials part of security breach, Gmail, AOL and Hotmail users affected

    Remember that security breach that hit Yahoo yesterday? Well, it seems that the problem is a lot worse than we first thought. It seems that other email addresses have been pilfered as well – probably because they were the ones used to sign up for Yahoo’s Voice service. Marcus Carey, a researcher at Rapid7, has combed through the data pasted by the group D33Ds and found that there are 106,000 Gmail e-mail addresses, 55,000 Hotmail e-mail addresses and 25,000 AOL e-mail addresses associated with the pilfered Yahoo Voice accounts. Like we said, if you’re a current Yahoo Voice subscriber, it’s extremely important that you change your password immediately, as well as the password that’s associated with the email address you used to sign up for the service. If you’re someone who uses the same password across multiple sites and services, it is imperative that you change your passwords NOW.

    Source: New York Times

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