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Our neighbor's mini internet shop was badly affected by the recent typhoon Glenda. Their roof at the 2nd floor was thrown away by the typhoon's extremely strong winds, allowing the rain to pour down to the lower floor which houses the mini net café. We're paying just a little amount to them to use the internet - that's a 5mbps DSL connection. As of this writing, they still don't have the internet connection. That triggered me to look for alternatives to sustain the internet connection at our home. I then decided to buy an internet device at which has a comparable browsing speed as I used to before - an LTE device. There's no available LTE pocket wife's out there. There's only 4G pocket wifi available at stores which ranges from P1,995 to P3,500(that's only up to 7.2mbps - not LTE). I tried to apply for an LTE plan at Globe at which you will buy the LTE pocket wifi for P2,999 and pay 299 each month for 50hour LTE usage. Also expensive. Aside, y...

I got this unit as a freebie when I had purchased an LED TV from Lazada (see my last post regarding MyView 24PX100 TV Review ). Even up to this moment I still don't know what to do with this mini camera, maybe it was given to me for a purpose which still I have no idea yet. It's just like a keychain, very small that it could be used for spying. The one you're seeing above is it's actual size - it's just 43 x 24 x 10mm (LWD). It has the ability to capture 5megapixel photos and take videos of 1280 x 960 resolution. The camera's actually just 2megapixel, just upscaled to 5mp, doesn't have autofocus so don't expect digicam / smartphone quality photos. For video quality, it's good. It saves videos in .avi video format (quite, but not that heavy for storage). Anyway, this camera is compatible with up to 32gb microsd card. You can even use the unit as a micro-sd card reader when you have the cable with you. See below video review courtesy of YouTub...

It was last month when I tried to visit lazada.ph website, and among all the products I had browsed on the website, this TV caught my attention. 24 inches Full HD LED TV with USB media playback. Asking Price? P6,500. Below are the product's main specifications you need to know, for the rest of the specs sheet, visit MyView website . SERIES PIXSMART Model 24PX100 Size 24" 580X377X43 Design Fine Polished Blac Panel Maker BOE/IPS/Sharp Resolution 1920x1080 Brightness 400 cd/m2 Contrast 3000:1 Viewing Angle 176 (H) X 176 (V) Dot Pitch 0.1615, X 0.4845mm Maximum colors 16.7M Response time 6.5ms Backlight life >100000 hrs Colour system PAL/SECAM In their website, there's in the list that states that the product runs on Android 2.3, Cortex A9 CPU, Mali 400 graphics... no no no. There's no single trace of Android in this product....

To my fellow Flare users, or for those who are thinking of buying one, below are the results of the 3 benchmark tests that I conducted on my phone. 1. Antutu Benchmark. AnTuTu Benchmark is a comprehensive Android Benchmarking application. It includes "Memory Performance", "CPU Integer Performance", "CPU Floating Point Performance", "2D 3D Graphics Performance", "SD card read-write speed", "Database IO" performance testing. Application can be downloaded here . Antutu Benchmark: whooping 6912 2. Quadrant Standard Benchmark. Also the same as what Antutu does, just from the other company. Quadrant Standad: 2898 points 3. Vellamo. Again, also a benchmarking tool,but is exclusively made to Qualcomm processors. Cherry Mobile Flare uses Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor (MSM8225).   Vellamo is designed to be an accurate, easy to use suite of system-level benchmarks for devices based on Android 2.3 forward. Vellamo b...

As stated on my latest blog post, I'll be listing those geek stuffs that I brought on top of the mountain - Tarak Ridge. Among them were the following: 1.  Solar Charger / Power Bank (CD-R King) Loaded with 2500 mAh power to recharge your devices. It can be charged though a standard Micro USB port on computers / normal cellphone chargers for estimated 3 hours or 25 hours through direct sunlight. 25 hours? ow ow, better buy a power bank with a higher capacity for the same price, but still a good option for emergencies or when on you are on a remote area at which there's no other option to recharge. Other things I like about the product is that it has some interchangeable charging tips which you can use on your other devices (even just with the wire - PC connection). It had ran out of batteries on our Day 2 when we're already on the bus returning home. Price: P380 http://www.cdrking.com/?mod=products&type=view&sid=15283&main=157 2. Cherry Mobile Flare Spa...

Reliving my blog, but this time I'm posting a topic not that related with IT... Well, this is mine's blog, I can post here any topic that interests me... It’s been almost a year since the last entry here in my blog – just all about technology and geek stuffs. It is because I’ve been busy with my job as an IT consultant / helpdesk in a BPO company in Alabang – making rapid and efficient solutions to everyday technology users (intense job experience for a fresh grad me... nice one). Maybe we need some time have some escape among these everyday problems and stress – and our plan – to go out of town and have some fun. I waited too long until April 20, 2013, the day I’ve been waiting for. I’ve never been into outdoor trips in my entire life – even in paid school field trips, I didn’t join any single event because of our family’s financial problems that time. I may say that I’m a “special project kid” when I was in school – but they can’t still beat my grades though… LOLS… ...