Smartphone and Cellphone Wars

[badkuk]

doesn't even take 2 seconds to think about it. floating phones will always be easier to retrieve; just get a boat and you can pick it up, even in the middle of the ocean. whereas you can't ever retrieve a non-floating phone dropped in deep waters.

Eh sir...pano kung scuba diving? e di hahabulin mo pa sa ibabaw yung phone. joke :D

[roninblade]

Eh sir...pano kung scuba diving? e di hahabulin mo pa sa ibabaw yung phone. joke :D

hahahah

well, it's hard to scuba dive more than 100 meters. you need to decompress along the way. scuba diving 300 meters with an open circuit takes 12 hours. rowing a boat for 300 meters takes minutes, or a couple of hours if you're extremely out of shape heheh.

[Monseratto]

Those who have the Samsung Note 2 and have automatically upgraded to Jelly Bean 4.3. If you are encountering problems with your phone, kindly factory reset (hard reset) your Note 2. Before you do that, backup your important files...

[yapoy86]

Just bought a cherry mobile superion odyssey! Sulit for the price of 7495 petot very fast and looks like an ipad mini nice camera with autofocus jellybean 4.2 with playstore na din and best of all with full phone function 3g hspa capable.

[K.I.L.L.]

Just bought a cherry mobile superion odyssey! Sulit for the price of 7495 petot very fast and looks like an ipad mini nice camera with autofocus jellybean 4.2 with playstore na din and best of all with full phone function 3g hspa capable.

Over December, I bought 3 units of the Cherry Fusion Breeze for only P1,999 for my nephews and niece. The cheapest android tablet ever! The battery only lasts about 3 hours though so it's just long enough for them to play a bit and not stay up all night.

[Retz]

Among local cellphone/phablets brand like cherry mobile, myphone, starmobile and torque, ano ba ang hindi sirain?

[_Qwerty_]

how about yung THL? diba china din yun? thinking of getting their W100, i think it's only 6T+.. here's the specs:

4.5 inch, 960 x 540, 5 point multi-touch IPS display
Android 4.2
1.2GHz MTK6589 quad-core CPU
PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU
8MP Rear Camera + 5MP Front-Facing Camera
RAM: 1GB
Dual-SIM
3G: WCDMA: 850/2100MHz
2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
GPS
Bluetooth
Full support for Google Play
Micro SD Card Slot
Proximity Sensor
Accelerometer Sensor
Light Sensor
Magnetic Field Sensor

Among local cellphone/phablets brand like cherry mobile, myphone, starmobile and torque, ano ba ang hindi sirain?

[Ry_Tower]

how about yung THL? diba china din yun? thinking of getting their W100, i think it's only 6T+.. here's the specs:

4.5 inch, 960 x 540, 5 point multi-touch IPS display
Android 4.2
1.2GHz MTK6589 quad-core CPU
PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU
8MP Rear Camera + 5MP Front-Facing Camera
RAM: 1GB
Dual-SIM
3G: WCDMA: 850/2100MHz
2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
GPS
Bluetooth
Full support for Google Play
Micro SD Card Slot
Proximity Sensor
Accelerometer Sensor
Light Sensor
Magnetic Field Sensor

Parang starmobile and quality niyan (if reviews and pricing is to be taken into consideration), much better than myphone, cherry mobile, torque, telego, skk etc., imho. Closer to huawei nga actually. makikita mo naman sa build quality na may mga metals sila unlike myphone, cherry mobile na all plastics lang talaga.

Over December, I bought 3 units of the Cherry Fusion Breeze for only P1,999 for my nephews and niece. The cheapest android tablet ever! The battery only lasts about 3 hours though so it's just long enough for them to play a bit and not stay up all night.

Bilihan mo na din powerbank hehehe

[Retz]

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hindi ko pa nakita yan THL brand. It's cheap na.... sa Lenovo you get the same specs pero 8K na ung A706. ung Cloudfone din pala I think local phone din.

[_Qwerty_]

doubtful lang ako sa battery nyang THL.. baka di tumagal nang 1 day drained na yan..

[Retz]

If unsure of buying local android phones, mag Lenovo na lang almost same price range lang and widely available ang parts unlike Acer. Other phone brands worth a try imo includes O+ (US brand) and Gionee (India). Ang dami na nila.

[Ry_Tower]

doubtful lang ako sa battery nyang THL.. baka di tumagal nang 1 day drained na yan..

I just buy a powerbank, mura lang naman. Sulit din.

But Lenovo is indeed a good alternative. mga 3-4 times ko nang na-dro-drop itong gamit ko okay na okay pa naman. Pero dapat talaga RAM is 1gb na. Medyo laggy 512mb kapag nagmamadali ka. hehehe

[K.I.L.L.]

If unsure of buying local android phones, mag Lenovo na lang almost same price range lang and widely available ang parts unlike Acer. Other phone brands worth a try imo includes O+ (US brand) and Gionee (India). Ang dami na nila.

I think O+ is a local brand. I was in the US last year and never saw it anywhere. I also didn't see it in reviews there. They probably just registered their trademark there.

[badkuk]

Lenovo has a few 4" or so units that have 2000mAh or better batteries -- one of the few things that don't get much attention. i haven't forgiven them for the damaged laptop i got last year so LQ muna kami :D

Yung hesitation ko sa local brands is 1.) durability and 2.) android updates. didn't know Cherry Mobile updated their tablets to 4.2

Lots of local brands popping up...kaya tuloy MyPhone and Cherry Mobile are looking like premium brands

[miLes]

If unsure of buying local android phones, mag Lenovo na lang almost same price range lang and widely available ang parts unlike Acer. Other phone brands worth a try imo includes O+ (US brand) and Gionee (India). Ang dami na nila.

i think O2 yung nirerefer mo not O+, used to have O2 mini pda before, yan yung katumbas ng samsung note dati hehe

if pricing is right for moto g at 8-9k then this beats lenovo, cherry, star, myphone. better wait for this phone kaysa bili ng local brands

htc got carried away, their pricing became expensive for their medium ranged phones, wala na silang value for money kaya they lost market share and not everybody can afford htc one

[Ry_Tower]

i think O2 yung nirerefer mo not O+, used to have O2 mini pda before, yan yung katumbas ng samsung note dati hehe

if pricing is right for moto g at 8-9k then this beats lenovo, cherry, star, myphone. better wait for this phone kaysa bili ng local brands

htc got carried away, their pricing became expensive for their medium ranged phones, wala na silang value for money kaya they lost market share and not everybody can afford htc one

Mahal pa nga sa soolit yung moto g, ka-level pa nang xperia sp. Pero kung 8-9K, magdala ka na lang nang powerbank ay solve na. Basta hindi din mahilig mag-video at maglaro nang graphic extensive games kasi maliit nga memory.

[Horsepower]

What I don't understand with these companies is that they don't want to try multi-SIM in their high-end products as if dual sim is just for plebeians.

HTC One dual came close, if not for the amazingly inadequate camera (4mp LOL).

Sony, I hope they'd come out with Z1s dual sim. Kahit sa Z Ultra sana. my wife likes the ultra mainly because of her job.

*Badkuk, why not just buy any Sony? Even the "outdated" Z is pretty swell.

Maganda sana ang LG G2, if only it's a dual Sim.

[Walter]

There's battery and radiation issue. Mostly they're concerned with passing radiation level ratings of certain countries.

[Ry_Tower]

What I don't understand with these companies is that they don't want to try multi-SIM in their high-end products as if dual sim is just for plebeians.

HTC One dual came close, if not for the amazingly inadequate camera (4mp LOL).

Sony, I hope they'd come out with Z1s dual sim. Kahit sa Z Ultra sana. my wife likes the ultra mainly because of her job.

*Badkuk, why not just buy any Sony? Even the "outdated" Z is pretty swell.

Maganda sana ang LG G2, if only it's a dual Sim.

I posted that same question before. It seems that the rationale is that if you can buy a high-end phone, you can afford 2 phones naman. hehe

But I think dual sim phones that used to be available to low-end phones only are already present on mid range phones and maybe in the next 2 years they'll find their ways on high-end phones na din. Demand will surely dictate these and kung dito lang sa atin marami na multi-sim users then it won't take long indeed.

Problem with the G2 is the meager memory but the premium one has removable back and expandable memory. The battery is of lower capacity though so a powerbank is a must.

[SiRbossR]

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hindi ko pa nakita yan THL brand. It's cheap na.... sa Lenovo you get the same specs pero 8K na ung A706. ung Cloudfone din pala I think local phone din.

Maganda Cloudfone, ampanget lang ng UI. Mom ko Cloudfone and secondary phone nia, 3 araw walang charge charge. naka mobile date pa yun.