Archive for the 'Gadgets & Tech' Category

SEAOIL Prepaid Price Lock Card

The price of gasoline will continue to rise every week. In fact, according to a news item, gas prices can reach up to 80 PHP per liter this year. That’s really alarming since that will have an impact on other commodities as well. Seaoil, one of the newest players in the gas industry, is offering [...]

Sony Ericsson’s C905 - 8.1 MP Camera Phone

Let the geek fest continue! Sony Ericsson is also coming out with a new kick ass mobile phone that really tops all of the phones in the market in one aspect. Get this guys, the new C905 has an 8.1 Mega Pixel Camera! It’s literally as good as the digital camera that’s being offered by [...]

Nokia Announces New Units - E71 & E66

Apple announced the 3G iPhone, Samsung announced their iPhone killer, the Omnia, and ChinaKing came up with a mobile phone that had the capability to project. Nokia, the leading brand here in the Philippines, announced the E71 and the E66. Both of these units are business phones and have various functions that will really be [...]

China iPhone Version has Projector Functions

I assume you guys were really excited upon reading about the Apple 3G iPhone and the Samsung Omnia. ChinaKing recently released their version of the iPhone and it has one breakthrough feature which really floored me. Guess what? The ChinaKing Mobile Phone also functions as a PROJECTOR. WTFOMGBBQ! Yes, you read that right! A friggin’ [...]

Prepaid iPhone at 34,000 PHP

Steve Jobs started it off by announcing a massive price cut and saying that the new 3G iPhone would retail for $199 USD or around 10,000 pesos. A few days later, we got info from Globe that it would be priced at around 20,000 pesos. Now, based on Yuga’s computations, the unsubsidized 3G iPhone will [...]

Globe 3G iPhone to Cost 20,000 PHP?

Here’s another cross-post from Carlo Ople dot Com. I forgot that I should be writing on Gadgets & Technology more often here than the other blog, hehe. A few days ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs released an announcement that really floored the entire world. He was releasing a new version of the iPhone at half [...]

New 3G iPhone for 10,000 Pesos?

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, recently announced the launch of the new version of the iPhone. It wasn’t loaded with new features except for Microsoft Sync, 3G, Push E-mail, and GPS Maps. Nothing really revolutionary since these are already being offered by different brands already. However… Steve Jobs also announced that the new iPhone will [...]

Samsung’s iPhone Killer - the i900 Omnia

Samsung is aggressively capturing market share with their promotions, advertisements, and viral marketing efforts. That strategy combined with a killer product will definitely give Nokia and Apple a run for their money. They recently announced that they’ll be launching the Samsung i900 Omnia this June 2008. This new unit is touted as a phone sexier [...]

U Mobile: Free 350 Load Monthly

Got this news from Mike Abundo. U Mobile is the newest player in the cellphone industry of the Philippines. They’re actually a subsidiary of SMART so I’m not really sure if we can consider them a new challenger, hehe. Anyway, what’s different about U Mobile? Well… you get up to free 350 PHP worth of [...]

Top 50 Philippine Blogs (Alexa Ranking)

Pinoy Money Talk recently compiled the top 50 Philippine blogs according to Alexa ranking. I’ll repost it here so everyone who’s interested in reading the top local blogs can bookmark the urls. It’s nice to see that Waukster Online landed on number 31 (LOL).
Anyway, here’s the list:
1. DotaStrategy.com/blog
2. Rickey.org
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Globe to Bring iPhone to Philippines

Finally - we’re going to see legal iPhones in the market soon! As announced in the Globe corporate website, they will be the exclusive distributor of the highly anticipated mobile phone in the country. I have a feeling that there was an intense battle for the license behind the scenes between Globe and our sister [...]

World of Warcraft Action Figures

I was at Greenhills last night shopping around for some stuff to decorate my office with. I was initially looking for some posters but I ended up buying World of Warcraft action figures (LOL). I passed by DataBlitz and saw an Orc Shaman action figure and I suddenly found myself paying for it in a [...]

John Chow Switches to Mac

John Chow, one of the most successful bloggers in the world, has made the switch. He recently decided to drop his PC and Windows VISTA in favor of a Macbook Pro with the Leopard OS. This really came as a surprise because John has always been an advocate of the PC and rarely talked about [...]

Macbook Air Prices (Philippines)

Apple’s Macbook Air is now being sold by several Apple resellers in Metro Manila! In fact, I just saw someone at Starbucks typing away in a brand new unit while sipping from his coffee mug. Here are the prices quoted by the Pinoy Tech Blog at the iStudio branch in Bonifacio High Street (The Fort): [...]

Wauks’ Gadgets: Macbook

This is the second installment of my personal gadgets post series which kicked off with my review of the iPod Nano 8GB (3rd Gen). Today I’ll talk about the Macbook which I recently purchased two-three weeks ago. It’s one of the best gadgets I’ve ever bought and I really have no regrets despite spending so [...]