Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category
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
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Posted in Mobile, TechTips | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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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 ...
Posted in Mobile | 31 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in 3G, Mobile | No Comments »
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. ...
Posted in Mobile, TechTips | 3 Comments »
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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in ICT Industry, Mobile | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in ICT4D, Mobile | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Mobile, Telecoms | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Mobile, Telecoms | 4 Comments »
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 ...
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