Say Hello To Google Wi-Fi

Wow! There's another product from Google and so excited to learn more about it. I've done my research and found out that this thing mesh WiFi is the newest approach to home WiFi solution that can works with your modem and internet provider for you to enjoy the streaming, downloading and sharing your files without missing a beat. 

Okay, so what is Mesh WiFi or Network? Actually, a mesh network is a group of routers that communicates wirelessly to each other to create a single WiFi network that provides strong connectivity that can help you to have a multiple sources of powerful WiFi throughout your home instead of a single router.

The question is, how many WiFi points you will need?

For a smaller homes, you just need one and it can cover up to 85 square meters. For medium homes, you will need two and can cover 85 to 170 square meters and for larger home, three mesh is needed with up to 255 square meters coverage.

Amazing right? It helps your home internet connection to a more faster way and to get the full coverage. However, home materials and layouts can affect how WiFi signal travels.

What are the benefits?

- It has a built in smarts keep your network strong.
- It's simple from setup to control and beyond.
- It has a security that automatically update itself.

Aside from the benefits mentioned its has also a family friendly controls wherein you can schedula regular Wi-fi pause on your kids devices and you can block access to millions of explicit websites. The simple network control with Google Wifi App lets you monitor what's connected, set up a guest network, run a speed test and can quickly trouble shoot.

To know the basics and technical specs, as well as the requirements and how to set up the Google Wifi. 

Google Wifi is available for pre-order in the US at Google Store. Prize starts at $129 to $299. It is also available to in local retails like PLDT Home and even have a starter pack for Google WiFi Plan of Php3,799.

Photos from Google Store.

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LG Electronics Philippines Finally Unveiled the LG G7 ThinQ

The unveiling of the LG G7 ThinQ in the Philippines in its new flagship premium smartphone, at an exclusive launch recently event held at trendy bar and lounge Yes, Please. 

Combining exciting innovations, a sleek design, and stunning display and sound with LG’s intuitive ThinQ AI technology, the LG G7 ThinQ takes the smartphone experience to unprecedented heights. The LG G7 ThinQ comes with a Super Bright 6.1-inch display that, at 1000nit is brighter than any other mobile phone screen. This, along with the phone’s AI-powered operational and creative features, a Quad DAC feature that provides distortion-free sound, and a hardworking camera, offers consumers a better user experience all around.  

LG has always striven to provide products that makes the daily grind easier for its consumers. In the LG G7 ThinQ, this principle is reflected in the Hotkey, a button on the side of the phone that activates Google Assistant with one tap. Holding down the button will allow for instant conversations with Google Assistant, and will allow the user to search the internet, open applications and remotely use the phone on voice command (LG has worked with Google to come up 32 new Google Assistant commands). The LG G7 ThinQ also sports Super Far Field Voice Recognition, which allows it to hear commands for Google Assistant up to five meters away.

During the launch, LG invited gadget website Yugatech’s founder, Abe Olandres, to explain how the LG G7 ThinQ’s AI-powered features can provide beneficial advantages to everyday life. As Abe explained, the phone’s AI CAM helps deliver an unprecedented smartphone photography experience by recognizing an object and automatically adjusting settings according to what it sees. The phone also has 19 different color and contrast filters to help enhance results. All these features combined makes capturing professional-quality images a truly effortless experience for everyone. 

To fully display how the G7 ^ThinQ delivers the ultimate camera experience in a smartphone, LG commissioned a short video from up and coming director Mikhail Red, whose latest film Birdshot won the Asian Future Best Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and was the first Filipino full-feature film to be included in Netflix’s inventory. The video not only demonstrates Mikhael’s skill and dexterity as a director and photographer, but showcases how the LG G7 ^ThinQ’s camera delivers a higher range of details, more vivid colors and striking luminance when capturing both moving and still subjects. Mikhail’s video also demonstrated how the LG G7 ThinQ enables the Super Bright Camera feature in a low-light setting, resulting in clearer, more focused images, or how the camera supports depth-of-field Bokeh effects with a Super Wide Angle feature.

Superior sound is also another LG G7 ThinQ boast. The flagship smartphone has a Boombox Speaker that, as demonstrated in the launch, increases the base sound level by more than 6dB with twice the amount of bass. Translated in layman terms, the LG G7 ThinQ packs more than 10 times the loudness than that of a typical smartphone. 

“LG is pleased to introduce you to a smartphone that will take you beyond the limits of your imagination, and bring you closer to the things that matter in your life,” remarked Mr. Paul Jeon, LG Philippines’ VP for Mobile Communications. “The LG G7 ThinQ reflects a new era in smartphone design, the beginning of new AI-powered services and the gateway to a new way of thinking.” 

Mr. Paul Jeon (center), LG Philippines’ VP for Mobile Communications, with Yugatech founder  Abe Olandres (left), and film director Mr. Mikhail Red (right)

Yugatech founder Abe Olandres talks about the implications of AI technology in mobile use, and how it can help better our lives.

Up and coming film director Mikhael Red discusses the cool photo and video capture features of the LG G7 ThinQ

Tech media and bloggers learn the different features of the new LG G7 ^ThinQ from LG ambassadors.

LG gave away the new G7 ^ThinQ to the ultimate BTS fans. From left, Nico Gelle, Mobile Marketing Communications Manager of LG Philippines; Christina Zabat of ABS-CBN Lifestyle; Reyn Guergio of Manila Shaker; and Mayan Salapantan, Senior Manager for Corporate Marketing of LG Philippines 

The winners of the first and only LG G7 ThinQ Media Quiz night.

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