Cherry Mobile launches 'phablet ng bayan'

MANILA -- Cherry Mobile recently made major announcements during its exclusive #3Peat event, highlighted by the introduction of its Awesome 5 ng Bayan promo and developer initiative, Pinoy App Shop.

The company also introduced the Flare 3, a popular phablet from Cherry Mobile’s affordable Android phone line, which is powered by a 1.3 Ghz Quad-Core processor and equipped with Android KitKat 4.4.

Nicknamed “Phablet ng Bayan,” the Flare 3 allows easy navigation through its seamless architecture especially with its five-inch qHD IPS OGS scratch-resistant screen display. Shooting photos becomes a pleasant experience because of its 8-megapixel BSI back-camera, while its front-camera boasts of a 3-megapixel camera. The new Flare 3 also allows you to pick the color that best fits your style as it comes in five different colors – black, white, silver, red and blue.

Flare 3’s memory capacity is boosted with its 8GB built-in memory and an expandable Micro SD of up to 64GB, to allow users to store more mobile applications, photos, music and videos. For better web browsing, the dual-Sim Flare 3 is also coupled with the Enhanced High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) and is WiFi and Bluetooth (BT3.0) capable.

To complement the launch of their newest phone, Cherry Mobile also introduced its anniversary promo that includes four other best-selling phones coupled with discounts. Joining the Flare 3, priced at P3,999, in the Awesome 5 ng Bayan group will be the Fusion Aura at P1,999; Ruby at P2,499; Life 2.0 at P2,999; and Omega Icon at P4,999.

Meanwhile, the Pinoy App Shop provides the opportunity Filipino app developers to make their hard-works available for public usage. The company said this is their manifestation of support for local app developers and their creative ideas. The app shop will be embedded in Cherry Mobile handsets.

Poch Zenarosa, head of marketing of Cherry Mobile, said the mobile manufacturer has continued to produce wide varieties of stylish and sensible feature phones, smartphones and tablets that caters to the needs of a huge portion of the market and at the same time maintaining its competitive prices.

”Only on their fifth year, the company has truly revolutionized the local mobile market as it puts high priority on its products and its customers,” she said.

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Big-screen 'phablet' smartphone sales to soar

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sales of big-screen smartphones will soar in coming years as people who game or watch videos on the go opt for "phablets" with near tablet-size views.

Phablets, a moniker created by combining the words "phone" and "tablet," will prove particularly popular among mobile gamers in South Korea and in China, where people will be drawn to high-quality viewing of online content, according to Britain-based Juniper Research.

Juniper forecast on Tuesday that shipments of phablets, typically described as smartphones with screens of 5.6 inches or more when measured diagonally, will breach 120 million units by the year 2018.

An estimated 20 million phablets were shipped last year, according to Juniper.

The phablet market will be dominated by devices powered either by Microsoft's Windows or Google's Android operating systems unless Apple weighs in with a big-screen iPhone, Juniper predicted.

"This dynamic could change dramatically if the rumors of an Apple phablet, which meets Juniper's definition of a 5.6-inch display, were to be realized," the research firm said in its report.

Apple is fighting for share in China's competitive smartphone market, with chief executive Tim Cook personally taking part in the launch Friday of iPhone on the country's biggest wireless provider, China Mobile.

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