vivo V80 Lite Philippines: 10,000mAh Battery, IP69 Rating, and Pre-Order Freebies From ₱24,999
vivo’s V80 Lite brings a 10,000mAh battery and IP68/IP69 protection to the Philippines from ₱24,999. Pre-orders run October 4–16 with freebies.
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XPENG Philippines Prices: L03 From ₱1.548 Million, X9 From ₱3.858 Million, and What Launch Night Changed
XPENG took over the SM Mall of Asia Arena on September 25 and priced four more variants than it had announced two weeks earlier, starting ₱510,000 lower.
HONOR 600S Philippines Launch: What We Know Before October 1, and How HONOR Got to No. 4
HONOR’s newest midranger lands in the Philippines on October 1, with the brand now the country’s fourth-biggest smartphone vendor. Here’s what’s confirmed so far.
Filipino Fashion Is in Milan This Week. At Home, It Still Can’t Agree on a Fashion Week.
Twelve Filipino labels just wrapped a Milan showcase, MNL Fashion Week closed weeks ago, and Philippine Fashion Week has changed course. So where does Philippine fashion actually live?
I Want the iPhone Duo. I’m Still Not Buying It.
The iPhone Duo starts at ₱159,990 in the Philippines, and I really like it. Here’s why I’m still not upgrading, and why I want to hear whether you are.
Discord Ban Philippines: The Block Lasted Less Than a Day, and Paulo Avelino and Alodia Gosiengfiao Spent It Asking Why
Discord went dark on Globe and DITO on September 23 and came back the next afternoon. Here’s what the government wanted, and what the platform promised.
Alex Eala’s Front-Row Seat Was Worth $502,000. Filipinos Have Been Fighting Over That Chair for 17 Years.
Brands now put a dollar figure on a front-row seat. How a Manila blogger, two rival fashion-week regulars, and a tennis star each got theirs. Alex Eala sat front row three times in one week at New York Fashion Week. The first was Tory Burch, days after her US Open run ended. Next came Michael Kors at the Museum of Modern Art, where she was seated beside Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor who had praised her interest in fashion a month earlier. The third was Calvin Klein, where she sat in a white button-down and off-white slacks next to actress Sadie Sink and singer Tate McRae. A week later came the number. Karla Otto, the brand-building agency, cited figures from the influencer analytics platform Lefty putting Eala’s presence at the Calvin Klein show at $502,000 in earned media value for the brand. That’s a strange price to put on a 21-year-old in a chair, and a fairly honest one about what the front row has turned into. Insiders still watch the clothes from it, …
Three Days, Every Kind of Bad Weather: The Ford Everest’s Baguio Verdict
Ford Philippines loaned us an Everest for three days in Baguio — traffic, steep Cordillera grades, and a sudden June downpour. Here’s the honest verdict.
Alex Eala Landed on the Front Page of the New York Times. Then She Sat Front Row at NYFW for Tory Burch.
A New York Times front page, a CBS Mornings sit-down, and three NYFW front rows — Alex Eala’s New York had nothing to do with tennis.
Manila’s Coffee Boom Has Three Tiers. The Farmer Isn’t Winning in Any of Them.
A P280 cup of pour-over and a P7 sachet of instant both come from the same Philippine soil. Only one of them is treated like it means something. That contradiction is what I kept circling back to in Quezon City, standing in a room full of people who sell milk tea and frappe for a living, watching a world barista champion launch a Filipino ingredient brand aimed at exactly none of them — and all of them, depending on how you count it. The Collision The champion is Boram Um: Korean family, born in Brazil, took the 2023 World Barista title in Greece. The social media version of his bio stops at “barista.” The more accurate one is economic proof of concept — he took a local agricultural product, vertically integrated the supply chain around it, and forced a global market to pay a premium for the labor of the farm as much as the skill of the extraction. That’s the thesis his championship was built on: not just pulling a great shot, but making …