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Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

Watch Pacquiao vs Hatton Live on your mobile phone

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Here's a short video showing how you can watch the Pacquiao Hatton fight on your mobile phone. Update (May 3, 11pm): Video of what the fight looked like in my phone [caption id="attachment_912" align="alignnone" width="397" caption="Pacquiao After the Bout (on my mobile phone, live)"][/caption]

What’s your Uzzap Experience?

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Uzzap"][/caption] Many months ago, I saw some Smart advertisements of a chat service called "Uzzap". The animated advertisements were rather zany and fun. From the animation, I had a good idea what the service was about. After seeing the advertisement, Uzzap to me was: "Chat on your PC, then bring ...

iPhone 3G from Globe to the Philippines

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Does that make it 4G with Globe's "G" included? :D I see a lot of hype about the iPhone 3G launch here in the Philippines. There are a lot of blogs who've posted prices and other information about the launch. So let me just describe what I've heard about the iPhone ...

FREE Txt Blast from Smart

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Did you ever have to text hundreds of your contacts when you changed cellphone numbers? Smart has a service that does this for you. I received a text message from Smart one fateful day (name and numbers masked for privacy): From: Smart Message: SMART ADVISORY: This is to inform you that Felicity V. ...

My Phone - Dual Active SIM phone

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Related: free ringtones for my cell phone , My Ringtones , siemens phone, t mobile phone, ringtones for my phone , 2 SIMs 1 Phone Way kewl! My Friend is raving about the "My Phone T11" Dual Active SIM and it sounds like one great idea! Best feature: Two SIMs, even from ...

Cellphone Calls from mid-air or mid-sea

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Smart has a coastline and inflight roaming service, so says their print advertisement. Roaming services have been around for many years now allowing Pinoy subscribers to make calls using their Philippines-based cellphone using telcos of other countries. What's unique about the latest services are how subscribers will be able to make phone ...

SMS Competition for NGOs

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Got this from colleague Erwin Alampay .... SMS Competition for NGOs kiwanja.net have just launched their latest mobile initiative - nGOmobile ? a competition which encourages grassroots NGOs in developing countries to submit ideas on ways they could use text messaging in their work. The best four entries will win laptop computers, Nokia phones, GSM ...

Brosia goes to America

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Those who have been following my blog may have encountered Brosia many times in past articles. Brosia is mysmart phone, that’s the name of my Smartphone. She's an HTC Tanager and I took Brosia to the US earlier this year. I’ve been using Brosia for more than three years (around August ...

Smart’s MyTV

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

 MyTV by SMART is a service, it's supposed to be the country's first mobile TV right in your hand. So it's TV anytime anywhere. It's not download, it's a broadcast of TV shows. TV shows from channels like: Cartoon Network Entertainment Central Jack TV PInoy Box Office MTV CNN PBA Solar Sports National Geographic Channel History Channel. This is a service of ...

Murmur Toronto - folk stories via mobile phone

Monday, August 6th, 2007

There is this mobile service, very interesting in Toronto. They call it Murmur. While you're walking around in Toronto in Canada, there'll be signs around the street. It's like the "tubero" signs we have in Metro Manila, tubero or lipat-bahay signs. Around Toronto there'd be a metal plate about the size ...