Samsung Corby Pro (B5310) is expected to be out in the Philippine market this January 2010 and its launch price will be PhP 11,990.00. If you’re thinking of buying a new phone this Christmas, you may want to postpone it for January and wait for Samsung Corby PRO. 
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Philippines is still a Friendster nation despite of the increase of people adding me up in Facebook everyday. And so, Globe Telecoms’ Prepaid Subscribers may enjoy surfing their Friendster for 20 pesos a day. Yup, surf Friendster for 24 hours for only 20 pesos. Those who have mobile phones capable of surfing the internet would surely enjoy this deal. 
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LolaTechie looks like BayanTel DSL’s social media marketing strategy. Our favorite “techie lola” has accounts on Plurk, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Multiply. I would not wonder why Lola Techie won’t have a Friendster account for obvious reasons. Read more »
Everyone was becoming impatient with the release of the iPhone 3.0 OS update in iTunes. I was one of those. Anyway, I did not download it from iTunes by clicking the Update button. Instead, I learned a tip from TUAW where I only have to execute a few command lines from the Terminal and I will be able to get the list of the download links. I got the correct download link and pasted it to my browser. Time to download was pretty fast and I was excited. 
Installing is also easy. And if you see emergency calls appear on your iPhone screen, just wait for the main screen of the iTunes to load with the heading “Unlock your iPhone”. After activating your iPhone, you’re good to go
Do you remember the days of having a thick battery on your Nokia phone so that you can use two SIM cards in your phone without removing the battery and replacing the SIM card with the other one? Cherry Mobile is a new player in the local mobile communication industry that provide dual SIM technology at a low price. Cherry Mobile is not actually the first to provide the dual SIM technology in the Philippines in fact, there’s already the existing one which is My Phone.
Will the HTC Magic be able to conquer the Philippine market? Globe Telecoms announced that it will be free if you get the 7,000-peso postpaid plan (GFlex or GPlan) which I find a bit pricey. It will be available exclusively under SMART Gold subscription plans by the end of June. It would be interesting to see if other popular mobile phone manufacturers would come out an Android version of their mobile phone models. Read more »
Red Mobile, when it was launched last year, was only working in 3G handsets. Then, they recently announce that Red Mobile is now compatible with 2G handsets. It was not really a good idea for them to just stick with subscribers that can afford to buy 3G handsets. Read more »
Filipinos and the rest of the world are excited with the 3.0 software update for the Apple iPhone OS. Here are the features why you should upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0:
Acer’s move in joining the Smartphone competition is not really going to compete head-on with their own products. It’s actually more of a complement. All of the smartphones will be running on Windows Mobile 6.1 which I think would be a hindrance to would-be switchers especially if they would prefer the Symbian OS. Read more »
There’s really nothing much new regarding integrating mobile to social networks. This has been done with microblogging sites such as Twitter and Plurk wherein you send an SMS to update your status. For photo uploads, I remember before I tried uploading a photo to Flickr from my mobile phone using the Shozu app. But what’s good about it is that the social network is localized. Read more »
