Don’t give up on looking for a real way to make VoIP calls with your iPod Touch 2G just yet. Truphone has just announced the availability of their free App Store application called Truphone for iPod Touch, and sure enough, it allows users to make hassle-free Internet calls without the need for a cellular signal or data plan. All this is possible through the magic of Wi-Fi and VoIP. Of course, this also means that calls made using Truphone are free of charge. What’s necessary here are an iPod Touch 2G and a microphone. And that’s it. Download their free iTunes App Store application from this link, and start enjoying free Internet calls on the “funnest” iPod ever. Now.
The iPhone’s smartphone reigning days are over. But if you’re a BlackBerry user, I’m guessing you’d rather pass up on the S60-flavored set and just go with RIM’s latest, which is the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm 9530, am I correct? Well, the BlackBerry Storm is expected to be available soon, for a special price of only 48,000 Pesos. I say special because the price I quote is taken from Gadget Grocery, the same folks who brought us the BlackBerry Bold as well as the T-Mobile G1 first. They say the Storm will be in stock on December 10th, so don’t fret. But are you sure you really want a BlackBerry that doesn’t have a built-in QWERTY keyboard AND Wi-Fi? Just asking.
Dear reader, I’d like you to meet the Kogan Agora. For those that aren’t familiar, Kogan is an online-only, Australia-based enterprise that deals out wares manufactured from China. The Agora (also available as the Agora Pro) is a smartphone that uses the open-source Android OS. Yes, it will function exactly like the T-Mobile G1, touchscreen coolness with QWERTY keyboard and all. Let me break down its many features in full to you, bullet-point style, after the break. Continue reading »
Heard of Inovent Revolution, and they’re awesome LCD TV that’s actually a PC called the Ilumina LCD iTV? Good. Interested in learning more about their product? Of course I can provide you with the goods. Price? A recent report from the Manila Times puts it at “probably… 80,000 Pesos each,” which is pretty steep, to say the least. Currently, the guys behind the Ilumina LCD iTV are looking for angel investors to back them up in mass-producing these monsters, but using funds they pooled themselves, it is said that the first prototype was produced for P40,000. Continue reading »
If you’ve been needing a way to do some real computing on the go, but haven’t been entirely convinced to shell out cash for a netbook, the TG Sambo LLUON MOBBIT might just be the right device for you. It’s the world’s first commercially available Intel Atom-based MID (Mobile Internet Device) and uses Windows XP Home Edition as its operating system. Among its most notable features, aside from its 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor, are: 4.8-inch WSVAG (1,024 x 6,000) touchscreen display, 1GB RAM, 30GB HDD or 16GB SSD, 2-megapixel camera, WiBro, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and built-in T-DMB mobile TV tuner. It will start shipping in January 2009 for a price of 600,000 Korean won or about $405 USD. A bit more expensive than a more capable netbook, but if you value portability more, you’d probably call this a bargain.
Whoever said geeks don’t need exercise must be a nerd. On Saturday, Nokia’s sponsoring a fund-raising run on Bonifacio Global City, which it calls “Recycle Your Phone and Run.” To participate, all anyone has to willingly do is simply toss in any old phones, chargers, batteries, and accessories of _any_ brand into bins found on site. All this is needed to kick off Nokia’s E-cycling campaign. Proceeds from every kilo of raw material collected will be donated to Bantay Kalikasan for the continued rehabilitation of the La Mesa Watershed. Registration for this even begins at 5:00AM, so don’t forget to set your alarms for that time, after you mark your calendars December 6th, 2008. 9th Street near NBC Tent is the place to be. See you there! (Continue reading for the full release) Continue reading »
I don’t know about you, but I’ve just received my very own RED Mobile SIM card, and for free, of course. I used to be one of the umobile “beta testers” too, so I guess I was entitled to receiving yet another free SIM card from the same people who gave me my old one.
RED Mobile is a new telco here in the Philippines, one that dares challenge the dominance of Sun Cellular in the world of unlimited calling. RED doesn’t even offer unlimited calling in any of their packages, as far as I know. Instead, they battle Sun Cellular by bullying their service as unreliable, choppy, and generally not worth its contracts are printed on.
RED’s even got several snazzy TV advertisements that go with their stand on taking down Sun Cellular. My favorite is the one where there’s an ugly girl saying she’s fallen for a handsome guy, and then suddenly the line drops before the guy says his response. Video of the said advert is embedded after the break, as well as a short gallery of the Red Mobile SIM package. You can wait for my review of their service in a couple of days, or get one for yourself for 39 Pesos. Continue reading »
Score one for Filipino geeks on this one. A local team of geeks calling themselves collectively as Inovent Revolution has unveiled the future of TVs in the Philippines. Or so it seems.
The company has launched a prototype of what it calls an LCD interactive television, or an iTV, codenamed the “Ilumina.” It’s a one-of-a-kind contraption that’s best described, according to its makers, as “a television set with the brain of a personal computer.” Continue reading »
While I still like it a lot, I’ll be the first to say that my honeymoon with Acer’s 8.9-inch Aspire One netbook is over. Yeah, it’s given me a ton of good memories, and enabled me to blog where a lot of bloggers have never gone before (the toilet is one), but in a time where every other netbook has a 10.2-inch screen and many other extra goodies, the Acer Aspire One just doesn’t cut it.
Good thing Acer is already working on a 10.2-inch replacement. One that will still use Intel’s Atom processor, but will have a “different” system from offerings by its main competitors (that’s Asus and MSI). Continue reading »
