Vivo celebrates Chinese New Year with the CNY Photo Contest

To celebrate the Chinese New Year this 2018, Vivo launched a special photo contest but first involving a few well-known lifestyle bloggers for a first taste. Held last February 3 and 4 at Binondo in Manila, Vivo invited 18 lifestyle bloggers forn eventful photowalk around the oldest China town in the world. Bloggers were asked to capture photos that embody the Chinese culture may it be the food, the ambiance, the traditional lucky ornaments, or Binondo’s old charm as a whole.  

Innovate like Vivo: Make your selfies stand out with the V5s

Make your crystal clear selfies more radiant and stunning
 than ever with the new Vivo V5s that brandishes a
20-megapixel front camera and advanced selfie tools. 

Just when netizens thought that selfies couldn’t get any better with top five premium global brand1 Vivo’s “perfect selfie” V5 line, along came the Vivo V5s—its newest and most impressive model yet. Touting superb camera features and advanced selfie tools, the V5s has cranked up the selfie game, posing a challenge to selfie enthusiasts out there: how do you make your selfies stand out from the legions that are posted in social media every day? 

Here, the new Vivo V5s proves that the answer is as easy as heeding a few tips:

Vivo V5s levels up selfie game, trumps rival OPPO F3 Plus

The new Vivo V5s trumps its competitors
 within the same price range in terms of photo
 quality and camera specifications,
improved selfie tools, and new features
 like the Groufie or Group Selfie technology.

With a slew of smartphone brands vying for the patronage of tech-savvy Filipinos and inveterate selfie enthusiasts, top five premium global brand1 Vivo has sprinted past the competition with its “perfect selfie” V5 line, the latest of which is the Vivo V5s. Priced at only P14,990 but loaded with features that are not found in its competitors, the V5s is turning out to be the best smartphone deal vis-à-vis other brands in the same price range. 

First, the V5s is equipped with a 20-megapixel front camera with f2.0 aperture, which trumps the OPPO F3 Plus’ 16-MP front camera. The V5s’ superior front camera is complemented by its 13-megapixel rear camera with f2.2 aperture and an ultra-high-definition mode that renders stunning HD images of up to 52 megapixels.

Second, the V5s’ 20-MP sensor ensures that the tiniest of details are captured in your selfies. The light-sensing area, at 1/2.78 of an inch, is larger than average, allowing more light to come in, which, in turn, enhances photo brightness.

Vivo V5s: the best smartphone deal in its price-range offers new ‘Groufie’ technology

Selfie-centric smartphone brands have slowly dominated the mobile market in the Philippines, given their relatively low prices compared to other giant international brands. Knowing the consumers’ love for selfies or self-portrait shots, these brands are appealing to prospective buyers by boasting of their respective camera features.

Since it entered the Philippine market, top five premium global brand1 Vivo has successfully captured the hearts of selfie-loving Filipinos with its “perfect selfie” V5 line, the latest of which is the new Vivo V5s. Launched just in May, the V5s already proves to be the best smartphone deal compared to other brands in its price range.

Equipped with a 20-megapixel front camera with f2.0 aperture, the V5s takes crystal-clear and head-turning selfies for just a price of P14,990.

Selfless selfies for Habitat for Humanity: Top five global brand Vivo turns insta-hearts to insta-donations

Charisma Buan and Christian Jocson, Vivo brand executives,
Annie Lim, Vivo brand director and Nelson Perez,
Vivo digital specialist hand over proceeds from its Vivo Perfect
Selfie Cup to Francis Hussein Mamasabulod,
Habitat for Humanity partnership manager, and Rowena Kakilala,
Habitat for Humanity individual giving manager. 

After the first ever #VivoPerfectSelfieCup, top five premium global smartphone brand Vivo1 fulfilled its promise: donating all proceeds of the promo (a total of Php 101,980) Habitat for Humanity Philippines, a non-profit housing organization tacking poverty by building and renovating homes for families in need.

Vivo brand director Annie Lim and Vivo brand executive Christian Jocson handed over the donation to Francis Hussein Mamasabulod, Habitat for Humanity Philippines partnership manager, and Rowena Kakilala, Habitat for Humanity Philippines individual giving manager last March 22 at the non-profit organization’s headquarters in Makati City. 

Get that perfect artsy selfie with the Vivo V5 Plus’ bokeh effect

The Vivo V5 Plus from top five premium global brand Vivo
 is equipped with a 20-megapixel dual front camera co-engineered
 with Sony, able to produce the best possible selfies to date. 

In this age of selfies, netizens enthusiastically take self-shots with camera-focused phones and continually seek ways of enhancing these through filters and editing—deemed essential for creating beautiful, share-worthy selfies. 

Now comes Vivo V5 Plus from top five premium global brand1 Vivo. Called the perfect selfie phone, it is equipped with the world’s first dual front camera, which helps you shoot artsy selfies with ease. 

The perfect selfie phone features a primary 20-megapixel Sony IMX376 dual front camera and a secondary camera at 8 megapixels, which collects depth-of-field information. 

Because of its dual front camera, the Vivo V5 Plus is able to create a true “bokeh” effect. Bokeh, favored by photography- and selfie enthusiasts, is the aesthetic quality produced when out-of-focus parts of an image are blurred.

With its dual front camera, the Vivo V5 Plus can
 perfect the bokeh effect, the art of blurring
the background of a photo artistically. 

The term “bokeh” is of Japanese origin, from the word “boke,” which means blur or haze. Creating a “good” bokeh—or a blur that is pleasing to the eye—is tough. In the past, the technique required the use of an advanced digital camera with special lens, according to photography website photographylife.com. 

Smartphone-camera-wielding selfie enthusiasts eventually resorted to editing for adding a beautiful blur effect to photos.

Selfies can now have the aesthetic bokeh effect
of the Vivo V5 Plus, with the details of the selfie sharp
 and clear, and the background blurred beautifully. 

With the Vivo V5 Plus perfect selfie phone now rocking the selfie generation, producing a good bokeh effect in your selfies and other photos is as easy as a single tap on the capture button. 

Vivo V5 Plus’ bokeh effect will soon be a highly covetable feature. At least 200 engineers from Vivo and its partner organizations spent eight months studying the algorithm behind blurring effects to develop a highly accurate algorithm ideal for portrait shots. This defines objects in such a way that the details in focus are artfully separated from the background. 

The Vivo engineers also did research on the blurring effects of 96 types of large aperture SLR camera lenses and simulated each of these lenses in the algorithm of the Vivo V5 Plus dual front cameras. Then special enhancements were added to achieve good results in various lighting situations.

You can now take selfies anywhere with the Vivo V5 Plus’
 bokeh effect, able to blur any background creatively.

With Vivo’s research and development centers, the brand continually studies and improves selfie technology and other smartphone aspects. In fact, in its effort to improve smartphone technologies for its consumers, Vivo has two new research centers in California—one in Silicon Valley and another in San Diego.

Now, with Vivo V5 Plus’ advanced selfie technology, your artsy selfies will look like they were captured by a professional photographer. 

For inquiries about Vivo V5 Plus, visit the Vivo website at vivoglobal.ph, or check out their Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/VivoPhil), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vivophil/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/vivophil) accounts. #

*According to International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker (http://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/vendor;jsessionid=7595C1498F4F0FBF496CC767E273121B) 

Vivo V5 Plus expected to dominate selfie-loving PH market

The new Vivo V5 Plus perfect selfie phone
is highly likely to win the hearts of a nation
of selfie enthusiasts. 

Vivo V5 Plus, the flagship model of the top five premium global brand1 Vivo, is expected to dominate the local market for selfie-centric smartphones.

Dubbed as the perfect selfie phone, the Vivo V5 Plus is likely to win the hearts of a nation of selfie-lovers, with the Philippines now known as a certified selfie hot-spot and with Filipinos putting a premium on selfie-friendly camera features when purchasing smartphones.

The Vivo V5 Plus, features the most advanced selfie technology to date, which includes a dual 20-megapizel front camera, a true bokeh effect—the aesthetic blur or out-of-focus impression of a photo—on the spot, without editing; a selfie soft light; and a face beauty mode 6.0.

Globally, Vivo has been known for its competitive premium-range offerings, becoming the top five global smartphone vendor for the third quarter of 2016, a spot it has held for four consecutive quarters now.

Vivo V5 Plus shares tips on how to snap a perfect selfie on Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year on January 28 marks the beginning of the Year of the Red Fire Rooster. Feng shui experts say it is going to be a Yin year—a time best spent in harmony with friends and family. 

What better time, then, to create happy moments with these special people than on Chinese New Year, itself—a festive day of colorful rituals and exotic traditions that celebrate a brand-new lunar year. 

With exciting events highlighting the grand occasion, expect revelers to immortalize these with endless selfies. And to take the selfie game to the next level, top five premium global brand Vivo brings us the Vivo V5 Plus, the smartphone equipped with the world’s first 20-megapixel dual front camera and advanced selfie technology.  

Tech News: Five reasons why Vivo V5 Plus is the perfect selfie phone

Vivo V5 Plus perfect selfie phone features the true ‘bokeh’ effect,
allowing users to beautifully blur photo backgrounds
while keeping the details of the object in focus sharp and clear. 

Filipinos are certified selfie lovers, as proven by a recent study by TIME, which found that Makati City is the world’s “selfie capital”, and the cities of Cebu, Quezon and Iloilo belong to the top 100 “selfiest cities” across the globe. Taking a selfie is an integral part of the lives of millions of Filipinos from all walks of life, which is why they continue to search for the best selfie phone available in the market.

The entry of top five premium global brand1 Vivo’s flagship phone, Vivo V5 Plus, in the local market marks the end of this search. Dubbed as the perfect selfie phone, the Vivo V5 Plus is equipped with the most advanced selfie technology to date, expected to impress selfie- and smartphone-enthusiasts all over the world.

Here, Vivo shares five reasons why the Vivo V5 Plus deserves its tag as the perfect selfie phone.

Vivo Launches Stephen Curry-endorsed 20MP dual front camera V5 Plus

Basketball superstar Stephen Curry is the face of
Vivo’s newest flagship model, the Vivo V5 Plus.

With the ‘selfie’ phenomenon at its peak and its popularity growing unabated, smartphone manufacturers have been producing phones with camera-focused features that can create the selfie worthy of being called ‘perfect’.

In fact, Vivo, one of the top five premium global brands according to data from the International Data Corporation1 is set to launch a smartphone equipped with the most advanced selfie technology to date: the Vivo V5 Plus, to be officially unveiled in a consumer and media launch on January 21, Saturday at the SM Mall of Asia Atrium.

The Vivo V5 Plus is endorsed by basketball superstar Stephen Curry, who earlier said that he shares the same core values with the brand: energy, professionalism, and pleasure.

OPPO's #NationalSelfieDay is on every #SelfieExpert's Holiday Wishlist

Post your selfies and join the #NationalSelfieDay contest

Your selfie could get you a new smartphone this holiday season.

December is indeed a season of giving. As a way of extending gratitude, mobile technology brand OPPO is giving away 100 units of F1s to lucky Facebook users who will participate in the National Selfie Day Contest.

“The National Selfie Day Contest is OPPO’s way of giving back after all the milestones we made this year. It’s also our way of rewarding netizens for creatively expressing their most unforgettable holiday moments in selfies,” said OPPO Philippines Brand Marketing Manager Stephen Cheng.

Pro tips for travel selfies worth sharing

Capturing wanderlust takes some creativity and a few essential tools

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Whether it’s a day hike up Pico de Loro or a few days touring Angkor Wat in Cambodia, travel is always the perfect time for selfies. But any selfie won’t do if you want to capture the grandeur of the great outdoors from atop a mountain, or those ancient ruins choked by overgrown banyan trees—with you included in the shot, of course.

Putting the ‘self’ back in selfies

Selfie hacks that let your personality shine through 

So are you one of those who take selfies 10 to a hundred times a day? We may be proud of having one of our cities named the “selfie capital of the world,” but it doesn’t mean that we’ve fully mastered the art of taking selfies.

A lot has already been said about capturing the perfect image of yourself: from proper lighting and cropping close to your face, to angling and the rule of thirds. But if you really want your personality to shine through, here are a couple of tips that can add impact to your latest Instagram upload.

ART IS A BANG: Join the "Noises Off" #SquishFace Selfie Promo

Summer is here and it is time to break free and go wild! And make that wild and wacky side put into good use with the special promo of Repertory Philippines for their upcoming production "Noises Off". And what better way to make an impression inline with the hilarious stage play is with a "selfie"!

Here's how:

1. Take selfie of your face pushed up against glass.

2. Hashtag #squishface, ‪#‎REP2014‬ and tag @repphils. 

3. Tag 20 friends on Instagram.

4. Email screenshot of selfie with 20 tags to david@repertoryphilippines.com to claim 2 FREE Tickets to Noises Off. 

5. REP Admin will send confirmation of ticket date. 

6. Tickets may be picked up at the door 30 minutes before showtime under your name the day of the performance.

Note: Limit One pair of tickets per Instagram account.

Promo Ends: Monday April 7, 2014 at 12:00pm noon.

Don't forget to Like Repertory Philippines on Facebook and Instagram! Also don't forget the hashtags #squishface and  #REP2014.

Noises Off is part of Repertory Philippines 77th Season along with the talked about plays like "Wait Until Dark" and "August: Osage County".

Share your pizza stories with California Pizza Kitchen

California Pizza Kitchen invites pizza lovers everywhere to share those pleasurable moments in a storytelling campaign with two main stars: you and your CPK pizza. Just grab a bite of your favourite CPK pizza in any size, any flavour, anytime, anywhere. Have a slice at home, at the park, in the office, by the pool, at the tennis court, by your car, or even in a famous landmark. Show us how much you enjoy your CPK pizza by taking a selfie or a groupie with family or friends.

Starting February 24, upload your pizza story snapshot or short video to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or YouTube. Add the hashtags #MyPizzaStory, #EveryPizzaTellsAStory and #CPKPhilippines. To get a free treat from your friends at CPK, like CPKPhilippines on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and share the link of your pizza story to mypizzastory@cpk.com.ph with your full name, mobile number, date of birth and your favorite CPK location.

The SM Store's I'M SELFIE... And I know it!‏

Wanna show off your style? The SM Store Megamall is giving away P5,000 worth of shopping certificates to 10 lucky winners who can create the most fashionable Seflies!

1. Follow The SM Store @thesmstore on Instagram & Twitter.

2. Tweet this promo poster with the caption “I’m Selfie & I know it!” with the hashtag #thesmstoremegamall3DS & #thesmstoreimselfie

3. Upload your most fashionable Selfie on Instagram also with the hastag #thesmstoremegamall3DS & #thesmstoreimselfie

4. The top 10 most fashionable Selfies will each win P5,000 worth of shopping certificates from The SM Store Megamall.

5. Winners will be announced on October 17, 2013, 12:00 noon.

6. Validity of Shopping Certificates is from October 18-20, 2013 ONLY.

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