An overeager Jerry Shen was already in his seat when I walked into our meeting room at the ASUS headquarters in Taipei last week. The charismatic CEO...
We’ve seen Samsung and LG launch their respective flagships for 2016 in the Philippines, and now, apparently, it’s Huawei’s turn. As expected, the Chinese phone maker...
If you’ve been keeping tabs on recent smartphone releases at all, you might have heard about the Flash Plus 2, a budget smartphone sequel from the...
We all know — and feel free to agree — the ASUS ZenFone 3 is due to launch in May or June this year. What has...
When Vivo debuted its new V3 line of smartphones in India last month, the Chinese smartphone maker claimed they were “faster than faster.” Earlier today, when...
Noted Apple seer Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities today made some bold predictions for the American tech juggernaut, telling investors to expect iPhone shipments to fall...
It’s official. Facebook Philippines is now open for business. Not that the country is a stranger to Facebook or vice versa. 49 million Filipinos access the social...
ASUS Philippines added yet another handset to its ZenFone line, this time designed for first-time smartphone owners who are not looking to spend too much on...
Remember the LG G5, the sort-of modular Android flagship launched at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona? The one that comes with a pair of...
This week was one of many firsts. My first trip to India and my first formal introduction to smartphone brand Vivo, whose V3 and V3 Max...
After months of leaks and rumors, HTC has unveiled its flagship smartphone for 2016, the simply named HTC 10. It has a lot riding on its...
Globe Telecom just announced a set of no-contract data plans for smartphones (and tablets with SIM slots), starting at P600 per month for 500MB of data and...
In the tech world, there’s plenty of talk of smartphones, but very little said about the processors that power them. But did you know that many...
If you’re a fan of ASUS’ budget ZenFone smartphone series, 2016 hasn’t been too kind to you so far. Two major tech conferences have passed, and...
Not too many people in the Philippines have heard about Vivo, a Chinese OEM that, like Huawei and OPPO, is aggressively expanding to markets outside of...
In a surprise announcement at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony said goodbye to its top of the line Xperia Z smartphone, unveiling in its place...
It’s been a full month since the biggest tech coverage of my life to date. Having finished Legal Management in college, and then eventually making a career in...
Hours from now, Apple will very likely take the wraps off a new iPhone, a smaller iPhone that’s more affordable and more suited for those who...
Cherry Mobile, the Philippines’ leading smartphone brand, is expanding to European markets later this year, a Cherry Mobile executive told GadgetMatch in a phone conversation. Germany...
A few phone makers have found themselves swimming in good vibes lately when analyst firm IDC released its findings on the Southeast Asia smartphone market, which...
OPPO’s Mobile World Congress announcement didn’t include a single device, but the world’s eighth-largest phone maker, which shipped 50 million units last year, made the most...
Contrary to previous years, a good number of popular Chinese phone makers flocked to Barcelona to unveil their vision of the future at Mobile World Congress...
The story arc that is fierce rivalry between Korean rivals LG and Samsung reaches its penultimate conclusion on February 21, with both companies set to unveil...
The phone hasn’t been unveiled yet, but LG is already announcing a case for its upcoming flagship the G5. Via a news release sent out to...
More than the now, CES 2016 is a showcase of technology’s potential. It’s a showcase of what will hit the market soon and in the distant...
Samsung supports the arts and to prove it, they partnered with Philippine National Artist Benedicto Cabrera (BenCab) for this Galaxy Note 5 BenCab Limited Edition.
The whole GadgetMatch team is on holiday and we thought we’d share with you the gadgets and gizmos we will be taking with us during our...
Samsung vs Apple. These two gigantic tech brands continue to rival each other in the smartphone arena.
This year’s arrival of Windows 10 brings with it a great promise, a universal operating system that will run across all devices in the Windows ecosystem,...
If understated elegance is what Sony was going for then they hit the nail on the head with the Xperia Z5. A unibody design with unobtrusive...
By now there’s probably nearly a lifetime’s worth of videos out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Which one to watch? Well, in this one we...
There’s a certain cadence to tech reporting, a routine if you will, milestones and destinations that are plotted on a calendar like red letter days. Like...
Are these phones or gold bars?
There’s still less than 48 hours to go before the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and yet it...
Switching phones is never easy. It’s even more difficult if you’re switching to a different operating system. The changes can be jarring and downright overwhelming. But...
Samsung’s flagship phablet the Galaxy Note 5 is coming sooner than expected. Usually announced during the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in the first week of September,...