Philippine Cell Phones

When it comes to mobile phones, what consumers are looking forward to now is something that has the perfect combination of features. One mobile phone can have the camera that they want while the 3G feature is in another. And that is possibly what makes mobile phone makers create better ones.

And so we come to the Samsung Innov8, one of the newest mobile phones that we have encountered. This phone is also known as the Samsung GT-i8510. So what has got this phone got to offer?

• UMTS/HSDPA
• 240×320 pixel screen with 16m colors
• 8-megapixel camera
• measures 330×44x89 mm
• weighs 795 grams
• Bluetooth connectivity
• microSD card slot
• Polyphonic
• can run on Java
• 5 hours of talktime and 14 days on standby for GSM

This is yet another high-end phone that consumers would surely be going for. Notes over the internet are saying that the Samsung Innov8 is going to be battling against the Nokia N95 in the local arena. How the battle will go, we are not sure yet. The price for this mobile phone has yet to be disclosed.

Image from Mobile Gazette

One of the things that most people hate about technology is that they could crash any time. You wouldn’t have an inkling when it would happen but it does happen. And when any gadget of yours crashes, you know that you would be losing some of your most precious data.

But you can breathe fine if you know that you have backup of your phone data. The CEO of Mobile Arts, Elmar Gomez, says that they are looking at offering a service which would allow cellphone owners the chance to backup their phone data. As long as your phone can transfer data through a USB port or through Bluetooth, the data would be saved just fine in the company’s system just right until you need them. You can send the data to your email as well if you want to.

Nice, right?

[Image from Just Another Mobile Monday]

No. LG, the consumer electronics giant from South Korea, does not have a hush-hush plan on how to sell their products. But what LG does have is a Secret. Yes, a Secret. But this Secret’s not so secret really. It is a mobile phone and it has been made to be part of the company’s high-end range. It is sleek and it has just been unveiled recently.

The LG Secret is actually part of the Black Label Series which includes the other two known and quite so sleek phones – the LG Chocolate and LG Shine. These two have already been successful in the market so it would not be that surprising if the LG Secret shares the same success that these two units had.

LG is proud of their Secret. They are claiming that this is the slimmest mobile phone there is in the world. It is only 11.8 mm thick. But despite that size, the phone has a camera with 5 megapixels. In an announcement, LG has disclosed that they decided that Secret would be the best name to give the phone because it would “tantalize the user with the intrinsic features of the phone and engage in a continual process of exploring the inner workings of the handset that will never go out of style”.

Nice.

[Image from TechGadgets.in]

In a news report, it has been disclosed that the public health department of Toronto has recommended that teens and those who are even younger should not spend too much time with mobile phones. The reason? Young as they are, they can be prone to health risks because of the radio frequencies that mobile phones have.

However, this kind of news has been going around the mobile phone industry for years already. In fact, various studies have been done so as to prove or disprove this claim. The thing here is that, to be able to really prove or disprove this, a study would have to take years. So it really is still too early to tell.

Still, it is better to be on the safe side.

[Via textually.org]

Apple had some launch day bumbles…

With Apple’s servers overloaded and unable to accommodate customer demand, eager buyers who had camped out all week to acquire the new phone were thwarted. Though the new-generation phones were designed to be activated in-store, salespeople instructed customers Friday to go home, connect the phone to a personal computer and download new software to activate it.

Reminds me of what happened to Globe Telecom around 10 years ago when they introduced the short message system service (SMS).  A company with a very popular product encounters unexpected problems.

“It’s been crazy the whole day,” he said. “Our server has been really busy and has been timing out.” - Apple Tech support

Now isn’t this just a happy problem?  You have so much demand for your product that your servers can’t cope up. I’d love this to happen to my company. Eventually, it was resolved:

On a day that should have been a celebration for the company, Apple’s stock fell more than 2%. Toward the end of the day, however, many of the early technical problems seemed to have been resolved. By 6 p.m., after retrying several times, Kroll said he was able to download and use the free apps he had selected.

And the lesson?

“…is that nobody executes perfectly, not even Apple.’

Yesterday on Inquirer:

“The Philippines is not part of that batch for the global debut. We will come later,” said Manny Aligada, head of the customer engagement of Globe Telecom, in a telephone interview.”

This will disappoint many of the Pinoy Apple fans who’ve been waiting for the 3G version of Apple’s popular gadget.

“It would be too much to hope that the Philippines would be part of the July 11 rollout, considering only developed countries are part of that exclusive list. Not even Singapore or Australia will have iPhone 3G this early.”

Looks like an excuse to me.  No matter, as long as it comes.