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UPDATE: We already have unit. Read our unboxing and initial impressions here: Unboxing the Smart NetPhone The biggest draw of the Smart Netphone is the competitive price. According to a news report on Inquirer, the Smart Netphone will retail for P5,000-P7,000. That’s ridiculously cheap compared to a lot of other smartphones in the market today. [...]

Jayvee Fernandez is currently covering the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and he’s been giving terrific updates via Twitter and his blog. One of the big announcements that was made was from Smart Communications. They’ll be launching a smartphone called the Netphone. It will be powered with Android 2.2 Froyo OS and Wholesale Applications Community [...]

Rumors of a partnership between these two companies surfaced early this week when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said in a memo that the company was not doing too well and that they needed to do things differently. Today it’s official. Nokia will provide the hardware while Microsoft will bring the software including the Windows Mobile [...]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recently released an internal memo (which was leaked) that talked about how badly Nokia needs to rethink their strategy since Apple and Android have left them behind in the high end smartphone category. iOS and Android are far superior than any version of Symbian so it’s not surprising that Nokia is [...]

Medical breakthroughs have never been mobile-ish, until Mobisante recently introduced its newest technology – ultrasound scanning via smartphone. Now, get the wand, spread some gel, and connect to your smartphone. Mobisante’s product, MobiUS, is the world’s first smartphone -based commercial ultrasound imaging system which offers a level of portability and privacy due to its “non-invasive” [...]

Just a few days ago we posted an initial review of the HTC 7 Mozart Windows Phone. Coincidentally while watching the latest episodes of Smallville Season 10, the Windows phone made an appearance. It was actually used by Lois Lane to sms Clark Kent, lol. Brilliant product placement on the part of Microsoft. Here’s a [...]

New Media PH was invited to the HTC 7 Mozart Windows Phone soft launch which was held at Digital Walker in Eastwood City, Libis. It was a nice gathering of bloggers, techies, and even a few digital marketing practitioners! Congratulations to Microsoft for pulling off a great event. Anyway, moving on to the phone, I [...]

I recently got a Nokia E5 phone and I’m honestly disappointed with the over-all user experience. I’ve owned, tried, and reviewed a lot of phones already from different brands like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, and BlackBerry. While using the E5 I felt that I was taking a huge leap backwards in terms of the technology [...]

A colleague asked me to sit-in during the presentation of several agencies to them for AVP materials. I was surprised that only one out of the four actually brought speakers with them when they presented their work. Investing in mobile speakers is a must if your job involves a lot of presentations that require audio [...]

CCTV footage of an unidentified man stealing a laptop at Oyster Boy restaurant in Metrowalk surfaced on Facebook this afternoon (thanks for the link Noemi). It basically shows how the thief scouting a victim, sitting down next to him, then uses his feet to slowly nudge the bag near to him. When the bag is [...]

I can still remember getting my first BlackBerry 2 years ago. It was the BlackBerry Bold 9000. It just launched here in the Philippines and I picked it as my “free” handset from my Smart Infinity postpaid plan. I remember marveling at the gorgeous and classy design of the phone. I slept late that night [...]

As most of you guys know I’m an avid gamer. One of the games that I’m currently playing right now is Blizzard’s StarCraft II. I was able to get the tie-up gaming mouse of Blizzard and Razer called the Razer Spectre. It’s expensive for what it does (in all honesty not worth it) but it [...]

I wasn’t actually expecting this but it looks like the strong opposition showed during the public hearing of the controversial “Broadband Cap” issue paid off! The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) junked the section in their original draft memorandum order allowing companies to limit the data download of customers. In an even better move, the NTC [...]

I finally got my hands on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet this morning. The highly touted Android tablet is the first serious competitor of the iPad here in the Philippines. Backed up by Smart Communications, the Galaxy Tab got a lot of media mileage on TV, print, radio, and online. I wasn’t able to play around [...]

Thanks to the efforts of Citizen Journalist group Blog Watch I was able to follow the NTC public hearing on the Broadband Cap issue. The public hearing was brought about after a draft Memorandum Order was published by the NTC. Before I share my insights and thoughts on the matter, allow me to breakdown the [...]

I’ve been getting a lot of messages on Twitter and Facebook asking about recommendations for iPad cases for professionals and entrepreneurs here in the Philippines. I drew up a short list of cases that are available either in local shops or global brands that ship to the Philippines. These are basically the favorite cases that [...]

Gadgets are being churned out by companies at an alarming rate. It was just a few months ago when Steve Jobs announced the iPad and we’re now being swarmed by different kinds of tablets, smart phones, and other mobile devices offered by great companies like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Microsoft, Motorola, ASUS, HTC, and Research In [...]

I dropped a dinner last night hosted by my uncle who flew in from Switzerland. Seeing him after such a long time wasn’t the highlight of the evening though. The spotlight was on my 78 year-old grandma! Why? Well she just proved to me that the iPad is truly a magical and revolutionary device. My [...]

I dropped by the house of one of my ninongs who lives in Forbes and I was pleasantly surprised with his answer when I asked if he had WiFi. He had fiber optics broadband in his house! I quickly opened my laptop and did a speedtest to check out how fast the connection really is. [...]

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 is currently on-going in the US right now. Global tech companies are all trying to raise awareness and hype for their new products coming this year. It wasn’t actually a surprise that the main focus for this year’s event would be on smart phones and especially tablets given the [...]