newKube MP3 Player Makes International Debut in the Philippines

World's Smallest MP3 Player Delivers Big Sound with New Features Suggested By Fans

Bluetree Electronics, a maker of next generation audio technology, announced the newKube in Manila, Philippines. 

The newKube is actually the third generation of the renowned Kube family of compact MP3 players that deliver clear, crisp audio playback of music optimized by genre in a tiny device with a long battery life. A fully charged newKube offers a non-stop audio experience for seven hours without running out of battery power.

"Our customers love the Kube family of MP3players and made suggestions for all the new features we put into the newKube," said Sem Chong, managing director, CEO, and founder of Bluetree Electronics.

The newKube has a new design, comes in new colors, and offers a number of new features not available on earlier generations of the Kube family of MP3 devices including: 

• Lock button - to prevent accidentals
  
• Repeat button - lets you playback the same song, all songs in sequence or in random; not found in comparable simple MP3 players
• Jump folder - allows you to get to the specific song location, also not found in simple MP3 players
• EQ Pre-sets - lets users select music settings for optimized playback of Pop, Rock, Classical music, and other genres.

The newKube measures in at one cubic inch (the size of a small ice cube or dice), is easy to use, and offers up to six hours of continuous playback in a single hour USB charge. The newKube offers a removable microSD slot making music capacity adaptable based on the size of the installed memory card instead of pre-defined internal memory. It comes with a charging cord and headphones can carry additional microSD cards for more music selection.

The newKube is available in selected Astrovision and Astroplus stores for P1599. For more information, please visit http://www.newKube.com.

About Bluetree Electronics

Established since 2004, Bluetree Electronics is a Singapore-based technology company specializing in portable electronics and audio MP3 products. It has years of developing electronics products in the OEM market.

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So Far So Good: Samsung Galaxy S Duos S7562

It has only been a couple of weeks and I must say, I'm really satisfied with my new phone, a white Samsung Galaxy S Duos S7562. 

The S7562 in white. It is also available in black. 

After using my old Nokia N85 for about three years now, I figured it was finally time to get my very own smartphone. I mean--Smartphones are the "in" thing now, right? Prior to getting a new phone, I could only watch in envy as a lot of people I know upload their photos on Instagram, or use the coolest apps for whatever reason. 

Originally, it was a toss-up between the Samsung Galaxy SIII, or the iPhone 5. I was already really leaning towards the iPhone 5 (which is why it took me so long to decide to get a new phone), since I thought the SIII was a bit too big for my pocket. I first thought that the iPhone 5 would be launched in the Philippines in November (as someone had told me so), but the month of November passed and there was still no word on the iPhone 5 launch in the country. Even if the iPhone 5 were already to be launched, as I was to find out later on, getting one soon after its launch would be quite difficult because of the long waiting list. It wouldn't exactly be cheap, either. Ugh, never mind, I said. 

But then, the S7562 (which was officially released in the country last November) came along. My mom was recently issued a black unit by the company where she works, and I was able to take a nice, long look at it, enough for me to be convinced that this was the phone for me. Priced at just around P12,500-P13,500, it wasn't exactly heavy on the pocket (figuratively and literally--the phone is actually pretty light!). 

The phone is powered by the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Os, the latest version of the Android platform. It has a 4GB storage capacity and comes equipped with a 5-megapixel camera (for the rear) with LED Flash and autofocus, as well as a VGA 30fps video recorder. It also has a pretty large 4-inch touchscreen with 400x800 display resolution and 16M color depth. The battery life is about 445 hours on standby and has a talk time of up to 780 minutes. 

Now, who says you have to shell out lots of money just to get a cool smartphone? 

(For more information, please visit the official Samsung page)

(P.S. Did you know that Samsung has been named as the top mobile phone brand for 2012? Click  this Yahoo article to find out more!)