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[Retz]

LG Nexus 5 review: Back to the future



Key features
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
Penta-band 3G with HSPA; LTE cat3
4.95" 16M-color 1080p True HD IPS Plus FullHD capacitive touchscreen
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 display protection
Android OS v4.4 KitKat
Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400 CPU, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 330 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset
8MP autofocus camera with LED flash, geotagging, optical image stabilization, photo sphere, 1080p video recording * 30fps with continuous autofocus and stereo sound; HDR mode, Dual recording, optical image stabilization
1.3 MP front-facing camera
16GB/32GB of built-in storage
microUSB port, USB host support, USB on-the-go, SlimPort TV-out
Bluetooth v4.0
NFC
Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA
GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS
Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Voice commands
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
2300mAh Li-Po battery, wireless charging

more....
LG Nexus 5 review: Back to the future - GSMArena.com

LG Nexus 5 review: Back to the future - GSMArena.com

[Ry_Tower]

Moto G dual sim 8gb(P10,400) and 16gb(P11,600+) daw available na sa kimstore. Pero sa website nila 16gb dual sim priced at P10,400 lang nakalagay. hmmm

Magandang katapat nang Xperia SP ito ah.

[crazy_boy]

^ang mura ng MotoG ah. Presyong local brands na.

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[rukawa11]

hanap ko lang ay murang phone may 4G na sana may lumabas na mura, about sa camera pixel i dont care na may camera 360 na kasi :D
tiis tiis muna sa lumang androidphone

[Retz]

^

Sa camera 360 kahit madami pimples sa mukha nag mumukhang makinis.


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[Calistro]

Parang sa smartphones, medyo mag aalangan ako kumuha ng less than 3000 mah na kasamang battery.

[Ry_Tower]

^ang mura ng MotoG ah. Presyong local brands na.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Oo nga, dual sim, tapos 16gb na din pa naman. Kaso kahapon umorder ako, wala naman stocks. Pasaway lang eh.

Mas mura pa siguro yan kapag motorola na mismo magbenta. Sure naman daw na irelease dito sa atin kaya wait ko muna. Sana hindi ako katihin. hahaha

[crazy_boy]

^agree sa post above. kaso pag nilakihan pa battery, kakapal na yung phone. yung Nexus 5 ko, 2300mah lang yata. pero mas matipid sa battery compared to S3 ko. siguro daming bloatwares nung samsung kaya lakas sa battery

[Ry_Tower]

^agree sa post above. kaso pag nilakihan pa battery, kakapal na yung phone. yung Nexus 5 ko, 2300mah lang yata. pero mas matipid sa battery compared to S3 ko. siguro daming bloatwares nung samsung kaya lakas sa battery

Newer processors and GPU also helps conserve battery afaik. Single sim lang naman nexus 5, sakto lang 2,300mah imho. Kaya isa pa sa pinag-iisipan ko is yung lenovo p780, 4,000mah ba naman na dual sim. hehe

[Retz]

LG G Pro 2 announcement and name get confirmed



LG spilled the beans on the announcement and the name of the successor of the LG Optimus G Pro. The upcoming phablet will go official in February (MWC in Barcelona is likely) as the LG G Pro 2.

Unsurprisingly, LG removed the ‘Optimus’ moniker from the name of the yet to be seen handset. Like the latest batch of high-end smartphones from the Korean manufacturer, the device will launch as simply a member of the 'G' lineup.

In case revealing only the name of an upcoming device appears to be an odd move by LG, we must point that this isn’t the first time the company pulls such a trick. Last year, the manufactuer revealed the name of its current flagship, the LG G2 in a similar fashion.

Source: LG G Pro 2 announcement and name get confirmed - GSMArena.com news

LG G Pro 2 announcement and name get confirmed - GSMArena.com news

[miLes]

Moto G dual sim 8gb(P10,400) and 16gb(P11,600+) daw available na sa kimstore. Pero sa website nila 16gb dual sim priced at P10,400 lang nakalagay. hmmm

Magandang katapat nang Xperia SP ito ah.

too expensive pa, also i want the single sim lang. tagal naman ng motorola philippines

will wait until first week of feb hehe

[Ry_Tower]

too expensive pa, also i want the single sim lang. tagal naman ng motorola philippines

will wait until first week of feb hehe

Kaya nga, ang bagal ilabas eh.

[rukawa11]

^

Sa camera 360 kahit madami pimples sa mukha nag mumukhang makinis.


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ngayon ko lang nalaman yang app na yan... kaya pala biglang gumanda mga old friends ko sa fb

[Retz]

^

yep sir, iba sa camera 360 kahit wala pang effects iba ung pagkakuha ng picture.

[Monseratto]

Google sees a blackhole... but keeps the crown jewels(patents)... another US brand goes to China.

Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo for $2.9B

Google is unloading Motorola Mobility onto Chinese PC maker Lenovo.

Google confirmed on its site that it has sold Motorola for $2.91 billion, consisting of $660 million in cash and $750 million in Lenovo shares, with the remaining $1.5 billion paid in the form of a three-year promissory note. Reuters earlier reported on the deal.

Lenovo gets the Motorola brand, as well as its portfolio of devices, including the Moto X and Moto G. In addition, it will also receive more than 2,000 patent assets, while Google will retain control of a majority of the patents it originally obtained when it acquired Motorola several years ago.

A deal instantly gives Lenovo, which has a thriving smartphone business in China but few other places, an established global brand. Google, meanwhile, will shed a business that has continually dragged down its profits.

PC maker Lenovo, which has struggled for smartphone success outside China, gets an established global brand, while Google unloads a burden on its balance sheet and a source of tension.

The deal marks one of the worst investments in Google's history. In 2012, Google completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. At the time, it was thought that the primary reason for the acquisition was the treasure trove of Motorola patents that would help Google defend it and its partners against Apple.

The patents, however, have proven to be less than effective in warding off lawsuits, and much of the legal fighting as gone on between Apple and Samsung, with Google only tangentially related. Google and Samsung recently signed their own cross-licensing pact.

Troubled handset business

The handset side of Motorola, however, has always been a stress point between Google and its partners. While Google said it maintained a division between its Android group and the Motorola unit, other vendors have privately expressed irritation that a partner was also a competitor.

Google did legitimately try to revive the once vaunted Motorola brand with unique products, including the Moto X, which was built in the US and could be tweaked with different colors and covers, as well as the ultra-low-cost Moto G, geared toward emerging markets and lower-income consumers looking for a competitive smartphone.

Throughout the last year or so, Motorola has continually posted losses. In the most recent quarter, Motorola posted an operating loss of $248 million, wider than the year-earlier period. Google reports its latest results Thursday.

Still, the move is a surprising one, given that Google has been moving toward becoming more of a hardware company. Beyond smartphones, the company is pushing its Google Glass headset and its Chromecast media dongle. It just purchased Nest for $3.2 billion to get into the smart thermostats and smoke detectors.

"This would be at odds with its recent push to hardware," said NPD analyst Stephen Baker. "Everybody was thinking they would get more hardware-oriented. This may signal a reversal."

Gaining a global brand

Lenovo, meanwhile, could conceivably jump-start its smartphone ambitions with the purchase of Motorola. As the inventor of the cell phone, Motorola has a rich legacy and a still well-known brand that Lenovo could exploit.

"The acquisition of such an iconic brand, innovative product portfolio and incredibly talented global team will immediately make Lenovo a strong global competitor in smartphones," Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said in a statement.

Indeed, Lenovo actually has a strong smartphone business itself, but one that is largely limited to China. Still, the market is big enough that it ranked No. 5 among global smartphone vendors in the fourth quarter, seeing its share rise to 4.7 percent from 4.2 percent a year ago, according to Strategy Analytics.

[Ry_Tower]

Astig ang Lenovo ah. May nakuha pa rin pa lang patents na medyo madami but maybe not that cutting edge.

Lenovo is picking up about 2,000 Motorola patents in addition to the phone manufacturing operations.

They are really serious and on track to challenge for the #1 spot imo. Sana yung Moto G mas mapabilis roll-out nila since mas okay distribution nang Lenovo kesa Motorola eh.

[Retz]

Geeksphone offers two different OS' on one phone



The Geeksphone revolution made its news debut a little over a month ago, and not much was known about the device, except that it would offer multiple operating systems on a single handset.

True,Geeksphone offers both Android and an "alternative os", but don't think that you'll be able to use Windows Phone or iOS as that alternative. Also the base OS of the phone is Android, with the “alternative OS” being the auxiliary one you'll have to select to dual-boot into.

For now, the most prominent alternative OS option will be Firefox. You'll be able to boot into it using Boot2Gecko, and it will receive OTA updates, as will any other alternative OS options that you select. What are the other options? Geeksphone only refers to "any other community supported OS" being loaded onto the device.

There's no word on the versions of Android that the Geeksphone will be rocking, but we do know the specs: a 4.7” 960x540 display, 1GB RAM, dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, and an 8mp camera.

Source: Geeksphone offers two different OS' on one phone - GSMArena.com news

Geeksphone offers two different OS' on one phone - GSMArena.com news

[miLes]

Astig ang Lenovo ah. May nakuha pa rin pa lang patents na medyo madami but maybe not that cutting edge.



They are really serious and on track to challenge for the #1 spot imo. Sana yung Moto G mas mapabilis roll-out nila since mas okay distribution nang Lenovo kesa Motorola eh.

sana nga! tho i still want motorola to be independent and still retain its identity apart from lenovo

[Monseratto]

Google tried the "made in USA" model, for Motorola, but that didn't work...I guess "owned by China" will better off...hehehe.

[Retz]

Red color LG Nexus 5 appears in a leaked press image



After appearing in live images on a couple of occasions over the past week, the yet to be revealed red LG Nexus 5 showed up yet again. This time around, a press image of the red handset made the rounds on Twitter, courtesy of *evleaks.

Right in line with earlier leaks, the press image reveals that the red Nexus 5, like its white relative, will essentially carry a dual-color scheme. In it, the back of the smartphone has been treated to the new color, whereas the front is all-black save for the red accent on the earpiece.

There is no word on the availability of the red Nexus 5 just yet. It shouldn’t be a long wait before the device goes official.

Source: Red color LG Nexus 5 appears in a leaked press image - GSMArena.com news

Red color LG Nexus 5 appears in a leaked press image - GSMArena.com news