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Archive for September, 2009

Toshiba intros Satellite T100 CULV Notebooks

CULV notebooks (thin, light, long battery life) are slowly becoming the new hot segment in mobile computing. They won’t be as hot as netbooks but they’ll be a better performing alternative.

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Dell Latitude Z600: Thin and Light at 16

Dell’s new 16-inch Latitude Z600 laptop is not only as thin and light as can be but also comes with some pretty nifty features not normally seen in its category.

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Blackberry Curve 8520 Review

Research In Motion (RIM) has been targeting the entry-level market for some time now but it wasn’t very evident until they released another qwerty smartphone, the Blackberry Curve 8520.

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HP Mini 5101 Price: Php23,995

First announced last June, the HP Mini 5101 is a 10-inch netbook aimed towards the business class. I think I’ve correctly predicted the retail price to just shy of 5 pesos.

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Samsung IT100 Digital Compact Camera

I’ve had this digital compact camera from Samsung since June but forgot to publish a review. It was just good timing since today I got to use the HD recording capabilities of the Samsung IT100 and posted it on YouTube.

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Coolest iPhone App ever!

This has got to be the coolest iPhone app ever made. I didn’t know the iPhone can do this type of trick but seeing is believing, so watch the video after the fold.

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Dell Vostro 320 All-in-One Desktop PC

The Dell Vostro AiO 320 series is the latest of Dell’s All-in-One desktop PC. We got a review unit today to check out how it performs as an entry-level, space-saving desktop PC targeted to small businesses.

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LTO to implement RFID tags on motor vehicles

News about the Land Transportation Office (LTO) implementing RFID tagging on all motor vehicles this October has been making the rounds of the evening news today.

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Snow Leopard on a Macbook Pro

So Apple sent in a 13″ Macbook Pro with the new Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) pre-installed so I can check out how the new OS upgrade performs.

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Microsoft’s Courier is a Foldable Tablet

Looks like Microsoft is in its later stage of development of a foldable tablet PC called Courier. Gizmodo has the scoop on a set of photos and demo video.

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Going Mobile with SmartBro Share It

Last Saturday, I signed up for the unlimited Plan 999 of SmartBro Share It. It was locked for 24 months but they have a promo where you can buy a computer set (Intel Core Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz) for just Php4,000.

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HP Envy 13 and 15 becomes official

HP has just announced their new line of premium laptops — the HP Envy 13 and Envy 15. What’s surprising is that the Envy 15 already has a 1.6GHz Intel Core i7-720QM CPU in it (even before Intel announced the ship).

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Winners of Free Passes to SemCon 2009

We got over a dozen and a half entries for our SemCon 2009 free ticket giveaway. Unfortunately, we can only give 3 free passes to participants and here are the lucky winners:

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Blackberry Curve 8520 in the flesh

Here are more high-detail photos of the new entry-level Blackberry Curve 8520. This is the 3rd phone we received last week so I’m pacing them a little slower than usual. Photos after the jump.

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Globe’s 15GB Bandwidth Cap in Fine Print

Last May, Globe Telecom sent us a formal statement regarding the peer-2-peer bandwidth capping on their network — claiming they’re not doing any bandwidth capping. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have such provisions in the subscriber contracts, a copy of which is posted below:

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LG GD900 Crystal unboxed

First unveiled as early as February of this year, the LG GD900 Crystal is a slider touchscreen phone with a transparent keypad. We received one this week from LG Philippines. See the unboxed photos after the jump.

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Smart gives out free PlugIt to students

The Smart B Free event held today at the Mega-Tent, Meralco Avenue is an attempt to give-away 10 thousand free SmartBro PlugIt modems to students from UAAP and NCAA universities.

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5G iPod Nano Video in the flesh

Yesterday, Apple reps flew in to show the media their new line-up of iPods. Of the lot, the iPod Nano 5G took the spotlight with a number of new features, including a 0.3 megapixel video camera.

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HP DreamScreen Internet Tablet

Turns out HP went ahead of Apple to introduce a portable internet table to the market. Dubbed the DreamScreen, the 10-inch and 13-inch models will be fully touchscreen and priced reasonably low.

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Under the hood: What’s your CPU?

The latest news is that AMD is coming out with a quad-core CPU (Athlon II X4) for under Php5,000. If consumers tend to upgrade their PCs every 18 months or so, we should be seeing at least dual cores in homes nowadays.

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