Author: Jayvee Fernandez

Editor’s Note: This is a retelling of an original post, with the addition of photos taken with the OPPO Find N3 Flip with Hasselblad lenses. There’s a bike route I’ve been following more often. And the irony is the trail is within a mall. The Festival Mall canals are really something else. In a way it reminds me of the huge ponds of the former QUAD (now Greenbelt) in the 1980’s and Virra Mall but on a larger scale. Festival Mall’s humongous expansion extends the mall towards Asian Hospital with new outdoor areas around a forum that follows the freshwater Alabang…

Everything about the realme 11 is contextualized with the price. The realme 11 (8GB + 256GB) only costs P13,999, which is bonkers for a phone that touts the flagship line. 

Guess how much!

The OPPO A18 is meant for the budget conscious, without sacrificing utility. We have a follow up contestant for 2023’s “best of” budget phone category – the OPPO A18. It’s as if OPPO conducted a focused group discussion in the budget phone category and listed the most important things consumers wanted — a huge 5000mAh battery, expandable storage , and loud volume for multimedia consumption. These three features really just cater to the mainstream binger watcher who likes to keep a device plugged in without having to worry about overcharging. The phone prevents battery degradation by learning usage habits so…

For the price of P4,899 you get yourself some form of security knowing where your child is at all times. Available in blue and pink, it’s honestly the perfect holiday gift for parents with kids under 10 years old.

Tech writers often use, to a fault, the terms “stylish and functional” quite liberally. This is one of those instances where the GT4 does actually meet those two descriptions.

We’ve themed this dispatch of PhilSTAR Tech as “back to school.” But instead of focusing on student-grade laptops and productivity apps, we want to bring light to new technologies that are, quite frankly, sending us back to (online) school to learn new things — some for fun, others for professional survival.

My very first colored laptop was an IBM Thinkpad back in the early 90’s. Technically it wasn’t mine — as I was too young to truly own one — it belonged to my dad, and this was my first experience to really feel what it was like to use a workhorse of a computer. I’ve previously used heavy Toshiba laptops with mono LCD displays but the Thinkpad was the first device I had experience in actually upgrading, pumping up its RAM to 4MB (yes MB not GB). I remember being enamored with the “nipple” mouse, as this has been an…

Editor’s Note: This is a retelling of an original post, with the addition of photos taken with the Xiaomi 13T w/ Leica lens technology. There’s a bike route I’ve been following more often. And the irony is the trail is within a mall. The Festival Mall canals are really something else. In a way it reminds me of the huge ponds of the former QUAD (now Greenbelt) in the 1980’s and Virra Mall but on a larger scale. Festival Mall’s humongous expansion extends the mall towards Asian Hospital with new outdoor areas around a forum that follows the freshwater Alabang…

Now here’s the thing: Honor 90 Lite’s older sibling came packed with a 200MP Triple camera (Ultra Clear, Ultra Wide, Macro). Which means this Lite version runs to town with a 100MP Ultra camera. That doesn’t feel like a downgrade. That’s a good deal staring back at you.