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Smart is now offering their unlimited facebook service. They are claiming that they are offering the more reliable unli facebook for only 2 pesos. You need to know that you need to have a running regular smart prepaid promo like all text or something to get this unli fb. Procedure: 1) Load your regular smart prepaid promo. 2) Send FB2 to 6406 3) Wait for confirmation message.  They have dos and donts at: http://www1.smart.com.ph/prepaid/offers/unlifb2?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=prepaid&utm_campaign=PrepaidUnliFB2

Starmobile Navi Review   I needed a second phone to handle the extra sims that i have. I passed by greenhills and saw the starmobile store after passing by the samsung store. Samsung was pushing a dual core duos for less than 8k. Starmobile had this quad core for 1 peso less than 4k. Silly me for getting pressured to buy so i bought the starmobile navi.   The specs are in the box. Pretty impressive if you read it particularly for the price. However, specs doesn't necessarily mean that it performs well. The phone boots so slowly. My cheap alcatel android that i want to replace boots faster. The wifi detected my wifi but it wont connect. I used the gprs to logon to google. Oh, did i mention that there was no user manual? I dont know if they forgot to give me one or there really is no manual. I emailed starmobile support but they haven't replied a day after. Calling their hotline is a bust. They don't answer for a long time. I gave up the call.  ...

Globe offers unlimited text to all networks. To register, text MYSUPERTXTALL ON to 8888.  Costs 599 pesos for 30 days. Available only for postpaid subscribers.

This prepaid promo costs 25 pesos. You get the following: - 100 smart texts and mms - 10 sms to other networks - 5 minutes worth of calls - 40 text posts to your favorite social network  To get started, simply register your mobile phone to each of your favorite network (i.e. facebook, twitter, friendster)

Globe offers mobile internet that you can be billed for depending on the setting you choose. You can avail of the per kb billing where you will be charged 0.15 centavos per kb or you can set your phone to the time based billing where you will be charged 5 pesos for every 15 minute connection. You can set your phone to time by texting "time" to 1111 or to per kb by texting "kb" to 1111. Rumor has it that if you disconnect or get disconnected and then reconnect even though you have not finished your 15 minutes in time billing, you will be charged another 5 pesos for the next 15 minute connection starting from the time you reconnect. Another rumor says that the 5 peso reconnect is only for prepaid but not for postpaid. Somehow, we get mixed information from different customer service representatives of globe.

After about 4-6 years of staying with sun, i finally terminated my postpaid account. I realized that paying 350 each month for their service was not worth it. I dont get to maximize it. When i need to call my wife or staff, the connection is always choppy poor. I eventually have to call using my landline or other cell. Im going to try out their prepaid service with 150 peso a month text unlimited. Perhaps that would be more cost efficient and more value for my money. If it still sucks, i'll quit it altogether.

After years of use, i have finally given up on my sun line. The poor signal and frequent network congestion keeps me from using it a lot. In the end it is underutilized and consequently a waste of money. They are a good company but i guess that it would be the teens who use it a lot who would benefit more from their packages. People who need quality connections could go with Smart or Globe. That is unless you dont mind having multiple phones like me.

A couple of weeks ago, i got a new Samsung Galaxy S. It was a toss up between that and the apple ipod 4 but since the apple was more expensive and the galaxy S has an external memory expansion slot for a micro SD card, the samsung won. Off the bat, it was nice to look at compared to my old Nokia e90 communicator. It was shorter but wider and just as long. The screen is amazingly crisp. It had built in applications but hooking up to the app market opened it up entirely. My first task was to migrate my e90 info into the Galaxy S. I googled it and it said that the best way was to sync my nokia to Outlook and then sync the Galaxy S to outlook. It sounds easy enough. I downloaded the Samsung Kies software and got it to work the first time around. I synced and all my contacts were in. However, Kies only synced the contacts. No calendar, no notes. Also, the crazy Kies only worked once! When i tried hooking up the device again, it could not recognize the unit. Eventually, i had to just delete ...

After living with multiple phones, it came to a point that i have to maintain 4 units. The largest unit im using is the nokia e90 communicator. It is pretty useful given the fact that it has a nice full keyboard after you open the unit and pretty good camera. Its main drawback is the size. The fact that its a freebie from globe for using their service a lot is not a bad thing. For the mobile landline, i use the Nokia 1209. It is black and white unit with basic features and a led flashlight on top. The main advantage to this is that the decreased features provides for a long battery life. I dont have to charge for days. The one i use for my sun is the Nokia 6085 clam shell. It is compact but i am wary of breaking the hinge. It was a promo unit from sun which i added money for. The smart number i use is housed in the Nokia 6600. The one that looks like an egg is a pretty sturdy unit. No problems despite several drops. I am looking into the Samsung galaxy or HTC wildfire the to repl...

Tropical storm Basyang (international name: Conson) hit manila on July 13, 2010. It packed winds from 95 to 120 km per hour. At midnight of that day, there was a massive blackout in luzon. As of 9:30am of July 14, 2010, cellular service are as follows: Smart and PLDT Landline plus: Up and running well Globe: Low signal to none Sun: No signal since midnight I guess that it is smart to go with smart specially when it comes to emergencies.

Last July 2, NTC released new rules requiring mobile phone service providers to extend the load validity of prepaid phone load or credit to thrice the current duration. We dont know if and when this will take effect but this is good news for the prepaid using public. For more details on the story, please click on to http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090702-213540/Mobile-phone-load-to-have-longer-shelf-life

Globe recently released the Duo plan. For 399 pesos (good for 30 days) you will be able to make unlimited calls to and recieve unlimited calls from landlines and other Duo subscribers. They will assign a landline number to your globe cell so your phone will have two numbers, one globe cell number and the mobile landline number.  I think it is pretty cool BUT after having experienced the bayan wireless landline, i hesitate to try this. There might be problems calling them or making calls from this service just like the bayan wireless.  After thinking things over, i came up with questions and i asked Globe about it. As regards roaming, once you go on roaming and people try to call your duo landline number, they said that you will get the incorrect number message or call cannot be completed as dialed message. This will give the impression that your phone is busted or they got your number wrong. As regards getting a nice number, youre not assured of it. You will get syste...

I went out of the country and brought my sun for roaming. 1) It was more expensive than what they said it would cost. 2) They temporarily increased my credit limit which was good but they changed it back even before they sent me the bill to settle so when they did that, my account was automatically disconnected for being over the credit limit. How stupid can their programmers be for not figuring out a way to revert the credit limit after the due date of the next cut off? 3) 2 out of the 3 customer service people i spoke to cant get what i was trying to tell them about the problem. As regards Philips, i got a Philips S660 from sun for my brother. A few months later, it wont charge due to the fact that some parts turned out to be corroded. I brought it back and they said that it would cost me 1300+ to have it repaired even if it was still within the warranty period. Talk about a rip off right? Later on, another customer service person from sun said that there were quite a number of compl...

Im leaving in a few hours so i double checked my roaming services. Smart and sun bills you about 20 pesos per text back to manila. Both lets you receive messages for free. Globe... charges you 25 to send back and 15 PESOS for EACH MESSAGE you receive!! So, to those who know me, my globe phone is staying while smart and sun goes gallivanting in Cali.

Nokia is replacing problematic BL-5C batteries that are made by a specific manufacturer and made at a certain date. Please check the link below to get instructions on how to check your battery if it needs to be replaced. It also has a serial number checker to see if it is specifically one of those that they need to replace. http://batteryreplacement.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ Sadly, 2 of my phones use that battery and one needs to be replaced.

Details are in the article i posted called Per Second Calls. Anyway, it is irritating that they keep coming up with promos that may seem nice but mistakes will get costly. At least with smart and bayantel, it is all unlimited. Speaking of which, i'll write about bayantel here soon.

My friend had her cell stolen last saturday. It got snatched. She had a prepaid smart sim on her phone in that bag. We know that it is possible to have a sim programmed with the old number and even the existing load through smart (globe prepaid users do not get this privilege). We got the affidavit but we failed to get a replacement because we couldn't find a proof of ownership. She has lost her PUK unblock code slips or the card that came with the sim. Moral of the story is: keep those sim packs and PUK codes.

When globe doubled their rates for unlimited text, i decided to just select days when i will use it. The first time i tried it, they only activated it at midnight, 6 hours after i wanted to use it. They did change it though. Now it is 24 hours as soon as an hour after requesting. However, i didnt know that the unlimited text day and the nighttime thing was only for prepaid! Post paid users are only allowed the unlimitxt 20/40/80 which was for 24 hours. I dont intend to send all day. Why are they being nasty to post paid users? Is it because were stuck with you till the contract expires?!? For prepaid, use unlitxtd15, unlitxtn10 and send to 2870. Everybody can avail of the 24 hour thing by sending unlitxt20 or 40 or 80 to the same number.

We got a smart multi line sim to figure out where a person harassing us is getting our number. One number was given to office people and another was given to family and friends. Anyway, we had trouble with the prepaid line. We could not pasa load the account. After 4 visits to a smart wireless center, they were able to figure things out. The multi-line sims cant be switched by, in cases of Nokia phones, pressing the # key for a long time. You have to dial in to a number to switch and dial to another number to check which line is active. Easy enough to program into a phone but a little bit of a hassle as compared to long pressing a key. Still, the trick worked. We localized the leak and in the process of tracing the S.O.B.

Just got off the phone from talking to the Smart Customer Service Hotline. There were a few things i learned. Messages will only get through if there is at least a 3 bar signal. If you dont have it and a message comes in, goodbye message. Sad to say, its not like globe who will somehow try to keep it in their servers until it does get sent. If you have leftover credits and it is about to expire, forget loading a new load in an attempt to extend your credits. It wont work. Your leftover credits will still expire at the set date despite your new load. You should just use up everything or pasaload everything to another sim but that will only be good for 3 days and you either use it up or pass it again. Side note, a friend, a smart reseller, went to smart to buy a 300 peso load in an emergency. They said if it is just for personal use, they would rather that you dont use your reseller status to get a discount. Sheesh! I know business is business but if you cant even treat your resellers we...