Audio-Technica ATH-WS55 Review

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March 29, 2012

Here’s a good headphone that can satisfy your hunger for bass and style, the Audio-Technica WS-55. This headphone features a midrange price but can offer a good sound quality. Aside from that, the Audio-Technica WS-55 is very stylish which I think will be attractive to the youth. Of course, we didn’t expect that this headphone will be better than the we previously reviewed, the Audio-Technica ATH-PRO700MK2. We used the cans for almost 2 weeks on different devices and yes, It reached most of my expectations.

Before we get down to the review, here’s the specifications of the Audio-Technica WS-55 headphone:

• Type : Closed-back dynamic
• Driver : 40mm
• Frequency Response : 10-24,000Hz
• Maximim Power Input : 500mW
• Sensitivity: 100dB.mW
• Impedance : 40Ω
• Weight : 165g
•Plug : 3.5mm gold-plated stereo mini-plug (L-Type)
•Cord : 1.2m Y-type connector

Build and comfort

That’s the Audio-Technica logo on the cans

Just as we expect, the headphones will be light and portable. The one that we reviewed is the red Audio-Technica WS-55 headphones. I like how the Audio-Technica made this headphone. The cans are protected by a aluminum and along with that is the elegantly etched Audio-Technica Logo on it. It is one of the most stylish headphones I’ve seen and IMO it is way better than the Beats Solo. The headphones can be also folded for easy store but unfortunately, you can’t fold the headbands but it can be easily slide to fit in your head. The slider is made up of aluminum too so don’t worry about the durability of the headband. At the top of the headband is a cushion, very comfortable and not it didn’t cause me any irritation.

Yes the headphones can be folded for easy store and carry

The earpads!

The earpads are very comfortable, got no problems at all about it. Well, there aren’t any special designs on the earpads, just a simple and a very comfortable earpads.

Yep, It’s chrome-y and looks nice

Yeah! slide it baby!

Well, the cord? No problemo bro! It’s 1.2m long Y-type cord (Not bad). The only thing that I hate with Y-type cords is that they always tangled with my lanyard. No other issues aside from that. The cord is very durable and thick so I don’t thick that the cord will be torn down easily by some objects. The cable isn’t detachable but that isn’t an issue for me since this headphones are made for consumer not for some heavy audio-mixing whatsoever and some other kind of jobs that is similar to that. At the end is a L-Type 3.5mm Gold-plated plug. I’ve got no issues with that except that

The cables. No they’re not detachable my friends

The L-type plug

The headphones features a solid bass system with new double air chamber, it helps the headphone to produce a richer and deeper bass. Oh and We’ll discuss the performance of the headphones later. All in all, the headphone is light and portable and yet it is still solid and comfortable.

Audio-Technica WS-55 with the iPhone

Sound Quality

The Audio-Technica ATH-WS55 clad in Aluminum

We tested this headphones on different songs and movies. It turns out that the 40mm drivers did well on our test. We tried this for 2 weeks and we used it almost everyday for an hour or so. Just like what I’ve told you earlier, it features a double air chamber system that helps the headphone improves its bass. We played some songs and I noticed that the bass were good but not excellent. Like what I’ve said earlier, I’ve tried this headphone with different songs, and here’s my take about the performance of the headphones on some songs.

Lose Control – Jojo ft. Timbaland

The bass on the song were good, I can clearly hear all the minor details on the song. There are some things that you would hear on the headphones clearly but not on the other headsets or headphones. It is great but not that excellent.

Half of my heart – John Mayer ft. Taylor Swift

Here’s a song that probably most of you love especially when you’re in love. Yes, folks. I’m a big fan of Johnny. Anyway, This song from John Mayer is one of my favorites and the Audio-Technica ATH-WS55 didn’t fail to impress me. The acoustics were smooth and clear. You can clearly hear the song. And yes, the quality was great.

That’s Audio-technica baby!

Verdict
All in all, the Audio-Technica ATH-WS55 did well on our test. For more than 2 weeks of testing this headphones, I can say that the performance and the quality was great. I got a deep and punchy bass from its cans when playing some hip-hop or RnB songs and the blues and soft songs were great too. The design and the style of the headphones were great (And yes folks, I prefer the design of this one over the over-rated Beats Solo). For those who are interested on grabbing one, It is now available and it has a SRP of P3,799.00. You can check it out at some Authorized dealers listed here

Here’s the box of the Audio-Technica ATH-WS55:

Front

Back

Yes, I want to buy this headphones.

RATING: 8.7/10
Comfort: 9
Sound Quality: 8
Design: 9
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Total – 26

26/3=8.6667

Disclosure: The Audio-Technica ATH-WS55 was lend to us by Philippe Gadgets. The official distributor of Audio-Technica products in the Philippines. Thanks guys!

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Pre-order the Nokia Lumia 710 at Smart!

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Jam Ancheta

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March 28, 2012

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Do you want a Nokia Lumia but can’t afford the Nokia Lumia 800? Here’s the Nokia Lumia 710, It will be offered by Smart starting from this day. As of this posting, Smart haven’t posted the pricing plans for the Lumia 800’s little brother. FYI guys, the Nokia Lumia 710 sports a 3.7″ LCD, 1.4 Ghz processor, 5 megapixel camera and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. My prediction is that the phone will land at the Plan 1499 or below. Well, I hope that the Lumias will be affordable in the Philippines. Oh and these pre-orders give us the clue that Lumias will be launch here in the Philippines very very very soon. If you want to pre-order the Lumia 800, check it out here. But if you want the Nokia Lumia 710 from Smart, just wait for the pre-order page here

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Pre-order Nokia Lumia 800 from Globe!

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Jam Ancheta

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March 26, 2012

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Nokia Lumia 800

Yes folks, you can now pre-order the first Nokia Windows phone from Globe. If you can still remember, We reviewed the Nokia Lumia 800 a few months ago. We had an awesome time of using it but unfortunately, we had to return it from Nokia UK. Just a short recap of the specs, the Nokia Lumia 800 is powered by a single core 1.4 ghz processor, it has a 3.7″ curved glass Clearblack AMOLED, 8 megapixel camera and the OS inside is Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. Anyway, you can get it for P1,499 a month bundled with Unli surf Plan 999 so all in all, that’ll be free on Plan 2499. If you want to get the first dibs on the Nokia Lumia 800 in the Philippines, check out their pre-order page here

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Euroo Stylus Pen Review

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Jam Ancheta

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March 26, 2012

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JAM Online!

Tablets and phone are very essential tools in work and in school these days and most touch screen devices use capacitive touch screens. Capacitive touch screens doesn’t recognize most materials compared to resistive touch screens which was use in most touch screen devices back then, it can recognize almost anything which leads to accidental touch of buttons. Like I said earlier, the capacitive doesn’t recognize most materials instead it only recognize our fingers. For some, it will be harder especially those who wear gloves so it is recommended to use a stylus. Fortunately, Euroo got a pen and stylus in one product, Yes that’s Euroo Stylus pen. Let’s check it out.

Design

Personally, I like the design of the Euroo Pen and stylus. The body is made up of aluminum which makes the pen solid and a bit heavy. Yeah, it’s heavy compared to other pens but after an hour of using it, I already got use to it. The design looks professional too and I really love it!. I prefer using this pen rather than using my good ol’ trusty Pilot G-Tech. At the top of the pen is the soft touch rubbery-like texture stylus while at the bottom is the tip of the pen. To release the tip of the pen, you’ll need to twist the bottom part of ballpen. To refill and remove the bottom part of the pen, you just need to twist it too and ta-dah! you can now refill your pen.

Usability

I have no problems and I feel comfortable whenever I write using this pen. It isn’t a gel pen but the ink of the pen isn’t bad either. Oh and if you are out of ink, you can refill it. Like I said earlier, the pen looks premium and professional. I prefer to hang my pen in my uniform this way:

That’s the pen stylus on my uniform

The stylus at the top

The stylus? Well I didn’t like it that much but of course, the capacitive screen can recognize it well. The stylus has a rubber-like texture and It was quite good because it is easier to navigate on the devices when it is uneven. The thing that I don’t like about this stylus is that it is very soft, you can even press it like a button. Because of that, it is very hard to draw or write something on the device that you’re using.

Here’s the pen with the white iPad 2

Yep, you can refill the pen

I’m right handed. Not left. Just trying it out haha

The packaging of the Euroo Pen Stylus

Verdict

I really like the design of the pen. The look and feel of the pen was professional and premium. Businessman and professionals might love the design of this pen. In case you’re out of ink, you can easily refill it which is quite easy. The stylus isn’t recommended for drawing stuffs on the iPad because of the very soft rubber-like texture stylus but it is still usable on the iPads, iPhones or any devices that uses capacitive touch screen. If you want to get one, you can get it at a reasonable price of P449.00. Not bad at all, quite reasonable for a stylus pen like that.

Obama says not bad

Rating: 7.7/10

Ink – 8
Design – 9
Stylus – 6
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Total – 23

23/3 = 7.67

Disclosure: Philippe gadgets lend us the EUROO Stylus pen for 2 weeks

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Samsung Galaxy Note ICS upgrade with Premium suite

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Jam Ancheta

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March 23, 2012

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I must admit. I’m a big fan of the Samsung Galaxy Note. Yes, Yes I am. But unfortunately I don’t have the enough budget to get one for myself. Anyway, Samsung has a good and bad news for all of you Galaxy Note users. The bad news is the upgrade of the Samsung Galaxy note to the ICS isn’t going to happen this month but it is expected to be release in Q2 while the good news is that the ICS upgrade for the Galaxy Note will come with some premium suite of apps that will take advantage of the S-Pen stylus like the S-note which has some added features and templates to suite your needs, shape match which can automatically correct the shapes that you draw and formula match which I think is very essential for us engineering students. Why?, Because it can derive and understand formulas that you wrote using the S-pen. Other new and upgraded features are the S memo and my story which allows you to write and send greeting cards. Oh and those new features on the ICS will be added on the Galaxy Note too! Quite impressive huh? Check out the video of the new features after the break.

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Sony Mobile PH announced the SRP of Sony Xperia P

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Jam Ancheta

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March 23, 2012

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Surprise? Not at all. Sony Xperia P, the 4″ display with Sony Whitemagic feature touting-phone is expected to be release here in the Philippines soon. Aside from the 4″ display, it sports a dual core processor made by Ericsson and it has a 8 megapixel camera but this one is still powered by Android 2.3 but the ICS upgrade will be available soon enough. The SRP? Well it’s kinda expensive. But first, If you want to know more about the phone then you might want to check out our previous post about the specifications of the Sony Xperia P. The expected SRP of the phone is…. Check it out after the break!

What’s in the box? Oh wait, that’s the SRP!

Yep! that’s P22,990 folks. Or just simply P23,000. Now….Better wait for Widget City’s affordable price!

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Download Angry Birds space! Now Available!

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Jam Ancheta

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March 22, 2012

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Boys and girls!, the all new Angry Birds Space is now available in different devices!. Yes, it is now available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Amazon, Mac and PC. The new Angry Birds has some changes in terms of gameplay because you have to rely on gravitational pull to kill those pesky space pigs. Anyway here are the links on where you can download it:

iTunes iPad ($2.99)
iTunes iPhone ($0.99)
Windows ($5.95)
Android (free)

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Is this the Samsung Galaxy S III? Here’s my take

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Jam Ancheta

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March 19, 2012

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Is this the SGS III that we’re waiting for?

We’re not pretty sure if this photo is just a mock-up or it was photoshopped by someone else but I can assure you that the next Samsung Galaxy flagship will be announce this year. There are a lot of rumored features these past few months but some of them are not really solid. Some of the features that I think will hit the Galaxy S III are the larger and HD screen, bumped up camera and of course, the new Ice Cream Sandwich will be inside (not that ice cream sandwich that you can buy in restos and stores. It is Android 4.0 ICS that we’re talking about). Anyway, I noticed some things on the picture and I wanna share it to you guys.

Look at that Bezel – It’s an edge-to-edge screen! holy macaroni!. It means that the screen will be large
Same widgets – The widgets on the Samsung Galaxy S III is a bit similar to the widgets on the S II. There are only a few minor changes on it. But hey, they’re still great
Speaker Grill – Yes that speaker grill on the bottom looks familiar because it can be found on the Galaxy Tab 10.1N too, the one that was redesign by Samsung because of the patent lawsuit made by Apple to them.
Good heavens, is that a phone? – You guys might wonder if that is a phone because it is SUUUUPER THIN.
Camera button – Hurray to that! not much to be said about that
Earpiece??? – I’m still wondering where the hell did they put the earpiece. This is just one of the reasons why I think it is photoshopped
5 apps – Yep, that’s 5 shortcut apps on the bottom which means that the phone will be really large like the Galaxy Note. The last phone from Samsung that we saw with 5 shortcut is the Galaxy Note.
Is that a bulge? – Yes. Yes it is. Probably Samsung will have a high-powered camera inside the device
Save the date – May 22 2012 at London is the launching of the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S III?
That’s a physical button – Sorry folks, no onscreen buttons.

Well if you ask me, I’m not quite sure if the device is real. The lack of earpiece at the top makes me wonder if the device pictured is real or photoshopped. Anyway, it is still nice that there are a lot of people leaks and rumors about the device. It makes the SGSIII more exciting.

Via reddit

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Samsung Galaxy Note Stop motion ad is simply awesome!

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Jam Ancheta

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March 17, 2012

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Samsung Galaxy Note on the video

I admit, I’m a fan of stop motion videos and I know there are a lot of stop motion ads but this one. uhm. I don’t know if it is just me or the ad is just too awesome. Just a short recap folks, The Samsung Galaxy note features a monstrous 5.3″ Super AMOLED HD display that supports the S-Pen which is basically a stylus, a 8 megapixel camera and a dual core processor. The Samsung Galaxy Note lies between the phone and tablet category so some people called it as a tabphone or phoneblet but I prefer to call it as tabphone. Anyway, the video features the Samsung Galaxy Note but some of Sammy’s devices made a cameo too on the video. It took them 4000 pictures just to create the video. Here’s the video after the break!

The music played was Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) by Florence & The Machine.

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Sony Xperia Sola Floating touch demo, Specifications, Reviews and Price in the Philippines

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Jam Ancheta

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March 16, 2012

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The Sony Xperia Sola

Sony recently unveiled one of its magical midrange phone a few days ago. Its moniker isn’t a letter instead Sony named it as Sony Xperia Sola. It’s a midrange phone with floating touch feature inside. So what in the world is floating touch? Well, Sony develop this awesome technology for the Sony Xperia Sola. Floating touch lets you hover in the browser just like the mouse without touching the screen. I wonder why they didn’t included it in the flagship Sony Xperia S. Anyway, powering this device is a Dual core 1 Ghz Novathor processor which I think is sufficient for everyday tasks, games and apps. It has a 5 megapixel camera that can record 720p videos. Too bad Mobile bravia engine and Exmor-R technology isn’t included in this device but I think this is still a decent midrange smartphone. I think.

Sony Xperia Sola Specifications

116 x 59 x 9.9 mm, 109g
3.7″ display with 480 x 854 pixels
8 GB Memory
5 Megapixel autofocus camera with LED Flash with video recording 720p@30fps
1 Ghz Dualcore Novathor U8500 processor
HSDPA
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
NFC
Android 2.3 with Android 4.0 update soon

Sony Xperia Sola Reviews and videos

Sony Xperia Sola Price in the Philippines
Widget City is selling this phone for P9,950

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