Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Filipino MyPhone A878 Duo


Some of you will ask what MyPhone is. As you will notice on my Google+ Profile, I am a Filipino and MyPhone is a Filipino made mobile phone company. Even though their phones are manufactured in China, all the designs and ideas are made by the creative minds of Filipinos. Lately, they have been releasing Android operated phones to keep up with the mobile industry here in the Philippines and the MyPhone A878 Duo is their latest flagship Android phone.

The MyPhone A878 Duo runs on Android's latest mobile OS, the Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 which has MyPhone's user interface. Usually when you see a Android ICS operated phone, you can determine that it is  a high end phone capable of running this OS compared to its predecessors that can only run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and can't be upgraded.

Like the new releases of touch screen phones from Apple, Samsung, HTC, Nokia, etc. you will notice the phone sports a 4.3 inch screen that has the IPS (In-Plane Switching technology) that makes any viewing angle satisfying.

It runs on a MT6517 1GHz dual-core processor, the first in MyPhone's line of smartphones and is believed to be capable in running HD games and playing HD Videos together with a 512MB of RAM and a PowerVR SGX531 GPU. The 1,800mAh battery can also last for a day or more with standard usage. Below you can see its performance in games like this:


The MyPhone A878 also has a 2.5GB of usable storage and a microSD slot that can support up to 32GB. So you can store many photos and some videos in the internal memory alone using the 5MP autofocus camera with a LED Flash.

MyPhone is also known as the first manufacturer of dual-sim phones here in the Philippines and is supported in this model. Unfortunately the A878 has no 3G which is bad news for some people with unlimited mobile plans.

Other features are MP3/MP4/Media playback, WiFi/WiFi Hotspot capable, Motion/Proximity sensors, TV-Out, Google Play Store, 3.5mm audio jack, 2.0 microUSB socket and many other features.

This phone had a promo where you can buy it for only P5388 ($130) and now has a regular price of P6,999 or about $170.

myPhone also has an upcoming release of a new smartphone dubbed as the "A898" that has the specs of the A878 but now supports 3G, so YAY! for some of you. G'day!

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