CES 2018

Sony brings back the old with the Xperia L2

It’s now a budget-oriented handset

Published

January 8, 2018

Daniel Morial

Remember the Xperia L from 2013? Sony revived their L-series after five years with the new Xperia L2. From a midrange phone, it’s now a budget-oriented handset with a wide-angle selfie camera.

The Xperia L2 doesn’t sport the curved design of its predecessor; it looks more like the Xperia XA series. However, the phone’s rear shell arches out in a slight bulge which improves ergonomics and houses a fingerprint reader. Sony likes to stick to their Omnibalance design despite the booming trend of near-borderless phones.

The phone has a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 and is powered by a MediaTek MT6737T processor. It has 3GB of memory and 32GB of storage. The battery is sizeable at 3300mAh, but there’s no mention of any support for fast charging. Android Nougat runs on the device with some minor tweaks from Sony.

The cameras are pretty basic as well with a 13-megapixel main shooter and an 8-megapixel front camera. The front has a wide-angle lens to lets users fit more stuff into their selfies.

The Sony Xperia L2 is coming in February in the US with three color options: black, gold, and pink. Pricing is still unknown.

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CES 2018

Podcast Episode 1: Getting lost at the world’s largest tech show

Published

January 23, 2018

GadgetMatch

In this first epidose of GadgetMatch Podcast we talk about the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2018) which just wrapped up in Las Vegas. Michael Josh and Isa share behind the scenes challenges of covering the world’s largest tech show. And the team talks about the most attention grabbing tech from the show including an entire range of Artificial Intelligence and Google Assistant gadgets, Vivo’s new phone with an in-display fingerprint sensor, Sony’s new robot dog, and Razer’s Project Linda.

CES 2018

LG’s InstaView ThinQ is one smart fridge

This is the future

Published

January 20, 2018

Isa Rodriguez

The future of smart appliances is upon us.

LG has not only dared to venture into connected kitchen technology, they’ve taken it a step further with their newest smart appliances. We got to see all this at CES.

The InstaView ThinQ is the fridge of the future. It’s equipped with the smart voice assistant Alexa which means you will be able to talk to it — the better to figure out what you want to eat! Not only that, it will suggest recipes depending on what food items you have stored. The best part is that it can be connected to your phone and all your other smart appliances for a seamless everyday home experience.

CES 2018

Best of CES 2018: Project Linda, Smart Display, and more!

From prototypes to full-fledged products

Published

January 19, 2018

Chay Lazaro

CES 2018 gave us a glance at all the wonderful consumer tech that’s in store for us — not just this year, but for the years to come. The show had tons of products, almost too many to count, so we came up with this video compiling the most interesting gadgets that caught our attention.