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Masbad: Quick hits 35

Roark Masbad / from May 13, 2019

FIRST off, happy mother’s day to all the moms out there! You all make life easier for all of us.Blockchain phoneLate last year, HTC announced the Exodus. It’s basically a phone that has cryptocurrency and blockchain built-in. The vision? As they website says: “Rebuilding trust, one phone at a time.” ...

Masbad: Folding phone: An idea for one

Roark Masbad / from May 6, 2019

DAVE Lee put up this video last week about folding phones in light of the recent launches by Samsung and Huawei.And this quickly got my interest.Well, for one, that’s a leaked photo or concept design of the Motorola RAZR. Undeniably, that’s one of my favorite phones that I have ever ...

Masbad: Should you still Apple?

Roark Masbad / from April 29, 2019

IN THE past couple of years (or probably even more), I’ve seen Apple’s dominance in the laptop realm get “eroded.” Eroded in the sense that the laptops they were releasing weren’t as compelling as it was before. I would agree with what some have said; that Apple’s not innovating anymore ...

Masbad: Easter eggs

Roark Masbad / from April 22, 2019

HAPPY Easter everyone!I sure hope you’ve risen above whatever troubles you’ve had over the weekend. And if there were no troubles, I pray that the good things increased a hundred fold for you and your family.And in keeping with the season, I got you a list of some of the ...

Masbad: Quick Hits 34

Roark Masbad / from April 15, 2019

NASTY List... this early in the yearNo, it’s not about Santa’s nasty/naughty list. It’s about compromised Instagram accounts being used to spread a dubious link via DMs. It’s a scam, basically, to trick users into giving up their passwords.The scam works by using compromised accounts to send messages to followers ...

Fingerprint scanner, bypassed

Roark Masbad / from April 7, 2019

A report from Forbes detailed how one hacker was able to bypass the fingerprint scanner on a Samsung Galaxy S10.Sure, how the hack was accomplished was tedious and required a 3D resin printer, but the fact of the matter here is that the supposedly unhackable and secure fingerprint scanner was ...

Masbad: Quick Hits 33

Roark Masbad / from April 1, 2019

VERY quickly now.The P30 ProHuawei just released a potential killer of a smarphone. The P30 Pro. And that is another addition to this year’s early lineup of smartphones maturing beautifully in terms of hardware design and feature implementation. The P30 is no exception.Here’s a video from Unbox Therapy.Huawei’s security issuesAs ...

Masbad: Battleground: Video experience

Roark Masbad / from March 24, 2019

LAST September 2018, Opensignal launched a metric in measuring video experience levels for mobile networks worldwide. Of course, our country’s incumbent networks were rated as well. If you want to know how we fared in that debut of the metric, click here for the full report.And as early as now ...

Masbad: Battleground: Latency

Roark Masbad / from March 18, 2019

AFTER last week’s piece on the state of our mobile networks in the country, I found this recently published story from OpenSignal about latency being the new battleground in 5G.And rightly so.In the advent of 5G and its promised Gigabit-level speeds, those speeds will not matter squat if that same ...

Masbad: The state of Philippines mobile networks

Roark Masbad / from March 11, 2019

THIS is technically a continuing series. The last one, I wrote about last year around August. So, finally, earlier this month, OpenSignal sent me a link to their latest report on the state of the Philippines’ mobile networks.And right off the bat, it’s a one-sided battle between Globe and Smart.Before ...

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