Author: Bernard Theo Janda

Nothing just released their latest offering, the Nothing Phone (2a). Widely considered as a “budget phone” but its feature set, looks and performance says otherwise. Being designed in London and made in India adds to its desirability for people who are getting paranoid by China-made devices.  Starting at P18,990, the Phone (2a) may be in the running of becoming the phone of choice for people with limited budget. Of course, corners had to be cut to get it down to its current price.  Unlike its predecessors, the Nothing Phone (1) and Nothing Phone (2), the 2a is made entirely out…

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Partly analog, partly digital, all awesomeness. I belatedly jumped into the Instax bandwagon and I couldn’t be happier at the timing.  I got the mid-2023 version of the Instax mini Evo that came with a USB-C charging port.  Fujifilm calls it a hybrid instant camera because it can be used as a conventional Instax where picures can be instantly printed … BUT it also can take digital photos! This allows you to snap and choose which photos are worth printing – a godsend for people who cringe at the wastefulness of printing out less-than-perfect picture moments. The Instax mini Evo…

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Full disclosure: I fancy myself as a “gamer” but I mostly play older games.  I also fell through the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards when I bought my first mechanical keyboard that I used primarily for work.  I stopped using conventional keyboards since then because the mechanical ones were so much more pleasant to use. When 8BitDo released the 8BitDo Retro Keyboard, I immediately told myself “I WANT ONE!” This is because this keyboard satisfied two of my interests at the same time – gaming and mechanical keyboards. One of the things that sold me on to this piece of…

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