Unveiled yesterday at the Lenovo Partners Night at Xiamen, China were three new smartphones among them the S560 and P700i and the formidable K860 which is featured in this posting.
UPDATE: BOOM! CES 2013. We have the lowdown on 3 new Android phones announced with pricing!
Yesterday, Lenovo PH officially announced three new phones. Of the three, two of the mid-ranged phones came to our attention as being very similar in specs to the very detail that their price point is exactly the same at PHP 10,999. We’re talking about the S560 and the P700i.
So what’s the diff?!
UPDATE: BOOM! CES 2013. We have the lowdown on 3 new Android phones announced with pricing!
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Greetings from Xiamen, China! I’m here for an overnight trip with the Lenovo and Open Communications team. We had a chance to tour the Lenovo factory where their smartphones and tablets are made. More on this in another post. Last night was Lenovo’s debut for their Q3 lineup of phones in time for the holidays. These are the Lenovo K860, P700i and S560.
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Today, SMART announced its LTE Pocket WiFi which is essentially .. well, the WiFi version of the LTE dongle they launched a couple of weeks ago.
The new LTE Pocket WiFi comes in PLAN 1749 (PHP 1749 per month) for 42mbps. For those wondering what happened to Plan 3500, the only difference is the data cap which will be implemented by end of January 2013. Plan 1749 will be capped at 10GB while PLAN 3500 is capped at 21GB. To be quite honest, LTE is really going to get even cheaper (as you’ve seen from how the rates were just lowered in only a couple of weeks). So yeah, it’s going to get even more affordable.
NOTE: If you’re worried about the bandwidth cap, there are also LTE packages for enterprise OR you can just apply for PLDT FIBR which is basically the next-gen fixed line connection with no cap.
Here’s a boon: You can upgrade to the LTE Pocket WiFi by adding a one time fee of PHP 2,000.00. That’s very fair considering these devices can go for more than PHP 10,000.00
So last month, Microsoft PH hopped onto a Ford Ranger (from Aracama at the Fort) to travel around the Philippines to showcase their latest tech around the country. This isn’t your typical “Windows and Microsoft Office” tech — they’re more software and infrastructure related. Here’s a quick list of some of the stuff they’re working on: