At the press launch of the Asus Eee PC 900 last Monday, representatives from Asus Philippines announced that suggested retail price for the 2 models of the new 9-inch Asus Eee PC 900 will start at Php24,990.

Last Saturday, Globe Telecoms rolled out its new time-based charging for all mobile internet usage — GPRS, 3G, HSDPA. This new charging is now available on all pre-paid and postpaid Globe users - Php 5 pesos for every 15 minutes. Basically, the same charging as Smart 3G’s 10 pesos per 30 minutes.

To activate this [...]

After a year of sales performance going downhill and plunging stocks, Motorola has decided it’s better off being split into two — Mobile Devices and Broadband & Mobility Solutions.

Introducting, the all new Chikka. They now have a web-based interface where you could send free text and chat to Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, AIM and ICQ buddies aside from your Chikka buddies.
I just made a test where I sent an SMS to my mobile number. I immediately got the usual Chikka text if I [...]

Intel just announced their newest and smallest lineup of processors, the Intel Atom and Intel Centrino Atom. Fabricated from the world’s smallest transistors, the chip measures less than 25 mm², making it Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor yet.

Sanford Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi is counting Apple iPhones and noticed 1.4 Million of them are unaccounted for. Despite Steve Jobs’ announcing they’ve already sold some 4 million worldwide (as of Jan 15, 2008), only 2 Million iPhones have been activated by AT&T and several hundred thousands in Europe.
Here’s how he breaks down the numbers:
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Nokia Philippines has been alarmed with the increase in the number of cloned phones recently. It’s not only the popular Nokla phones from China but all other variations as well. While a number of consumers tend to buy the cheaper fake versions, others are not really aware that what they are buying are total knock-offs.
Nokia [...]

The Philippine Senate has passed Senate Bill No. 1697, called “The Anti-Theft and Robbery of Portable Telecommunication Devices Act of 2007,” prescribing stiffer penalties for gadget theft.
According to the bill, “any person convicted of the crime of theft and robbery of a portable telecommunication device shall be punished by the penalty next higher in degree [...]

This post’s title is a bit misleading–there probably will never be a phone distributed only for Filipinos, there is no such phone as an MC1(yet),  and the phone I will be showing here is just my own design.  In any case the MC1 will have the specifications of the newest cellphone models like the 16 million color display, support for external memory(up to 8GB),  5 Megapixel Camera with 16x [...]

AdMob, probably the largest mobile ad network provider, has served over 8.8 Billion ad impressions since their launch last January of 2006. Based on their web traffic stats from over 2,000 mobile publishers, they’ve published some of the most interesting stats in mobile web publishing.
Here are some of the stats in their September 2007 [...]