The Nokia is coming out really soon in the Philippines and it looks like a good buy. There is no official suggested retail price yet but several online stores are putting the price tag of Nokia X6 at Php19,500.

Announced last September 2009, the Nokia X6 has a 3.2-inch touchscreen, 32GB of storage, and boasts of 35 hours of music playback. Not really very slim at 14mm. It has 3G/HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and a 5MP Carl Zeiss optics.

Red Unlimited is Smart’s response to value-for-money packages and rates and the need for a nationwide coverage to meet the varying communication needs of Filipino subscribers.

Php 25 offers one day of unlimited calls and texts to any Red subscriber on anywhere in the country. Also, it comes with 60 free text messages to all networks.

Php 125 offers seven days worth of unlimited calls and texts to another Red Mobile number in the country — saving you up to Php 13 vs. the Php 25 variant. This variant comes with 300 free text messages to all mobile networks.

Php 500, on the other hand, offers 30 days of unlimited Red-to-Red calling and texting anywhere in the country and comes with 1,000 free text messages to other networks.

Smart Bro Surf TV is a device that connects to a television set and gives it access to the internet any where in the Philippines (well, as long as you have 3G coverage).

You basically plug the device into the RCA port of a color TV set. Smart Bro SurfTV then turns the set into a ready-to-run “internet appliance” where users can surf, chat, and email — through a multi-tasking TV.

Smart Bro SurfTV comes in a boxed set complete with a keyboard, a mouse, a remote control, and a Smart Bro USB stick-type modem with a prepaid SIM, pre-loaded with Php100 worth of load. The entire kit costs only Php4,500 and additional internet access costs Php10 for every 30 minutes.

Apple has finally unveiled its latest entertainment device, the iPad. This over-sized iPod Touch is 9.7″ across and does what an iPhone can do, and more.

Apple iPad specs:
9.7″ display screen
16Gb to 64GB Flash Drive
1GHz Apple A4 Chip
Bluetooth 2.1
WiFi 802.11n
3G optional (uses new micro-SIM)
10 hours battery life
30 days standby

iPad WiFi 16GB: $499
iPad WiFi 32GB: $599
iPad WiFi 64GB: $699

iPad WiFi+3G 16GB: $629
iPad WiFi+3G 16GB: $729
iPad WiFi+3G 16GB: $829

Shipments start in 60 days for the WiFi and 90 days for the 3G version.

Google has finally unveiled its flagship phone called the Nexus One. The Nexus one will ship for only $529, unlocked.

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Sony Ericsson Philippines launched the SE Satio in the country last month and it has become the flagship phone of the company.
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The new HTC Hero is now available in the Philippines. It has a sale price of Php32,990 and available in the market starting today.

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Globe has upgraded their Duo service with Super Duo — an add-on landline number attached to your mobile phone number which enables you to make unlimited landline calls as well as unlimited mobile phone calls to any Globe or Touch Mobile number nationwide.

For an additional Php499 per month on top of your regular subscriptions, Globe Super Duo gives you unlimited phone calls to any Globe/TM phone nationwide. Price for prepaid subs is Php599 per month or Php35 per day. No need to get a Duo-activated SIM — your existing SIM card will do.

To activate Super Duo, text “SUPERDUO < area > ON” to 8888.

VoIP in the Philippines has been growing since the last 5 years or so. In 2005, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) opened up VoIP as a Value Added Service in the country paving the way for a lot of independent players. Telcos such as PLDT blocked this as it directly competes with fixed lines services (NDD and IDD).

Facebook has a new companion, FriendFeed, a Silicon Valley startup which allows members to see what their friends are doing online and share content. According to Facebook,12 employees of the California-based FriendFeed Mountain View, will join Facebook and its four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. Meanwhile, financial details of the purchase were not disclosed. The acquisition of FriendFeed follows Facebook’s failed attempt last year to buy hot microblogging service Twitter. FriendFeed was described as a potential rival to Twitter in its ability to conduct real-time search, an area where Facebook has been seeking to expand.

Fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook was attacked by a hacker yesterday that slows down the process of the said social networking sites. On its status blog last Thursday, Twitter said that it was defending against a denial-of-service attack,in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through. For Twitter users, the outage meant no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down. The outage began at about 9 a.m. according to Ken Godskind, chief strategy officer at Web performance monitoring company, AlertSite. The site still had lingering access problems midday, though both Twitter and Facebook seemed to be functioning at least intermittently, giving cubicle-bound social media addicts a collective sigh of relief.

A new regulation was released by the NTC or the National Telecommunications Comission to ban service providers from sending “push messages” and other forms of offerings to mobile phone subscribers. Under MC No. 03-03-2005A or the Rules and Regulations on Broadcast Messaging Service, it will prohibit the use of push messages to mobile phone subscribers such as sending promotional advertisements without NTC’s consent. This was after they received numerous complaints of deceitful and unwarranted text messages for which recipient subscribers were eventually charged. Those who will violate the said memorandum will be apprehended in accordance with the law. The new NTC circular will take effect 15 days after its publication.

For those who want to experience the unlimited calls without the hassle, here’s a brand new offering of Smart Communications, as they launched a new service called, “smartalk”, where you can do unlimited calls anywhere in the Philippines for a fix price.

For Smart Subscribers, here’s their load denominations;
* Smartalk 100 = 5 days unlimited calls
* Smartalk 500 = 30 days unlimited calls

You can also set your phones to use the 5 or 30 days unlimited calling by prompting this codes;
just type : set Talk100 to 6400 for 100 package or set Talk500 to 6400 for 500 package

Aside from buying the smartalk cards, This service is also available at your load retailers in your areas. This unlimited calling will only cost you 17 pesos per day as you avail their 1 month load. This service is also available for Talk N’ Text subscribers but, not vice -versa.
To start this service, just dial *6400 + the 11 digit cellphone number. ( *640009091234567 ).

Four battery-powered vehicles named “Green and Go” Shuttles was launched at the Araneta Center in Cubao today. This will make malling more convenient for the public and also helps in protecting the environment. Rene Dela Cruz, chief operating officer of the Araneta Group said that these “Green and Go” Shuttles guarantees no harmful emissions that pollute the environment. It has the capacity of 14-seats that will help bring mall-goers to and from Gateway Mall and Ali Mall for free. Senior citizens and the disabled will also benefit the said shuttle as they will be assisted in going to and from the two malls. Early this morning, Bb. Pilipinas 2009 winners took a short trip with one of the shuttles together with Quezon City Vice Mayor Herbert Bautista.

Nonito Donaire Jr. has also his own video game via renowned boxing video game “Fight Night Round 4.” He will be the second boxing icon in the Philippines to be featured in this game as Manny Pacquiao first made it. He will be the fourth Filipino athlete to be showcased in a sports video game, joining Pacquiao and billiards icons Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco Bustamante of the World Championship Pool in 2004. Fight Night Round 4 will be released on June 26 for the Playstation 3 and Xbox consoles. It will also feature 48 retired and active professional boxers on its roster, including legends Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns.