Sony NWZ-B152F MP3 player: Gets out of my wish list, gets into my life

Last week, I finally gave in to my desires (at least, one of them anyway). I bought a Sony NWZ-B152F Walkman MP3 player, which happened to be on my gadgets wish list. Nope. I did not have a sudden and uncontrollable urge to splurge. I don’t have that much dinero to splurge with, in the first place.

The NWZ-B152F as it appears on Sony Philippines' Web site

While my original plan was to buy the Sony MP3 player sometime after Christmas, I found myself with no recourse but do so after my editor told me to do a story on a local television program that highlights how technology can help improve the lives of Filipinos. He told me to interview the talk show host.

Nikon Coolpix L22: Compact and budget, almost perfect

Last week, I bought myself a compact, budget-friendly camera at the SM Megamall's appliance center. After browsing the store's collections of digital cameras, and those of the other retail outlets located in the EDSA shopping mall that used to be the country's largest, I finally settled on the Nikon Coolpix L22.

The Nikon Coolpix L22 is a highly capable compact digicam.

Priced at Php7,200, the compact camera comes bundled with a 4GB SD card, two rechargeable batteries and a charger, and a camera pouch. It was also supposed to come with a pair of disposable AA batteries, but when I checked the whole package after I got home, the disposables were nowhere to be found. Not that I actually minded at all.

After all, for quite some time now, I have never liked using those landfill-bound batteries.