Rhian Ramos for HTC Smart

Last August 10th, HTC officially launched Rhian Ramos as their official endorser for HTC Smart which was launched April 2010. The event was held at the Dolce Superclub in Quezon City.

HTC Smart is one of the simplest touch screen phones in the market today. All communications with friends/relatives are organized by conversation and not through applications. This means that you need not go to Facebook or Twitter to see their status updates. When you click on your contact in the HTC Smart phone, you’ll be able to see all the previous conversations, call logs, emails, Facebook and Twitter updates.  The Samsung Galaxy S also has this feature, which makes everything personalized instead of depending on the individual applications. This phone also has what they call Friend Steam which integrates Facebook and Twitter. You will be able to see your friends updates in one application. You can also update your status with this feature. This one, although, doesn’t have Wifi.

When Google Wave was announced, I was eager to try it out since I see its potential of a great collaboration tool. I gave out invites to friends who are interested to try it out. Anyway, Google will stop the developments of Google Wave as a standalone product. However, Google Wave will be still available until the year ends. Even if it Google Wave is still accessible, Google Wave will just die a slow death. Read more about this announcement from Google.

YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, has just increased its upload limit to 15 minutes for all users. Prior to this increase, YouTube’s upload limit was only 10 minutes.

With this, YouTube users around the world are asked to upload a 15-minute video and tag it with “yt15minutes”. The video should be uploaded on August 4, 2010 (Wednesday). Some of those videos will be featured on the homepage giving them their own 15 minutes of fame.

Plants vs. Zombies is an addicting game wherein your goal is to kill the zombies with plants and never let them enter your house. If ever the zombie reaches inside your house, the zombie will eat your brains. My nephews, as well as my siblings, have been playing PvZ in our desktop PC while I’ve been playing it on my iPhone since the first time I’ve heard of it.

An iPhone game company, Smule, decided to take a holiday to play StarCraft II. Jayvee Fernandez of A Bugged Life posted his unboxing and installation photos of StarCraft II. You’ll also see in Twitter their impressions on StarCraft II, etc.

PadPressed will make your WordPress-powered blog to look like as if it is a native app for the Apple iPad when it’s accessed from it. This is actually a premium WordPress plugin and a theme and you can purchase it for $49.99. Do you think it’s worth the price just to have an awesome user experience when viewing your blog with an iPad? Check out the features after the jump.

WordPress, one of the top blogging platforms used by Filipino bloggers would stop supporting PHP 4 and MySQL 4 after version 3.1. WordPress 3.1 will be released late 2010. This is a signal for developers to be prepared on updating their plugins. In addition, if you are hosted somewhere that does not support PHP 5 and MySQL 5, better ask your hosting provider if they will switch soon.

Nokia C3, is just one of the latest mobile phones from Nokia that I saw in their store in Glorietta. Nokia C3 is an entry-level mobile phone with a full-QWERTY keyboard. For those who do not really need the 3G connection speeds but would still like to have internet access via EDGE or WiFi, this is a phone that you’re probably looking for.