TONYO CRUZ

Category: Cellphones

  • Cherry Mobile unveils Philippines’ first Android tablet-phone, two handsets

    Maverick Philippine handset maker Cherry Mobile tonight unveiled the country’s first Android-powered tablet and two other Android phones. The Superion, priced at P19,990, is powered by Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) and sports the following: Qualcomm MSM 7227 600MHz processor, 512MB ROM/512MB RAM, 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, 16GB expandable to 32MB, 3G/HSDPA, GPS/AGPS, WIFI, Bluetooth, standard mini-USB,…

  • Comparing Globe Tattoo, SmartBro and Sun Broadband Wireless

    More and more Filipinos have again gone wireless to connect to the internet. Recently, the three major wireless telcos have pushed down the cost of their wireless broadband modems or dongles to as low as P888 in a common effort to outsell competitors. The competition has gone so fierce that rivals Smart and Globe have…

  • Good news: Consumers score victory as House panel reconsiders vote on text tax

    Due to some technical problems, the TXTPower website has gone awry today. I’ll be posting here our press release regarding the outcome of today’s hearing held by the House Committee on Ways and Means regarding the text tax. Consumers score victory as House panel reconsiders vote on text tax Besieged by opposition from all sides,…

  • TXTPower seeks limits to allowable profits for telcos: GMANews.tv

    GMA7‘s Sandra Aguinaldo interviewed me yesterday over proposals to reimpose a cap on superprofits of telcos. The network’s 24 Oras newscast aired this report last night: This page requires a higher version browserFor the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV Later in the evening,

  • Internet and social change in the Philippines

    The advent of the internet, especially blogs, microblogs and social networking, has pumped fresh blood to the mass movement of people seeking social change. The internet has obviously become a new platform for individuals and groups to voice out their views and to launch all sorts of initiatives. This is good anyway you look at…

  • TXTPower: NTC must lower prices

    Consumer advocacy group TXTPower held a press conference today to demand lower prices and the banning of spam, along with the extension of prepaid load expiry as solutions to “vanishing loads”. We are not impressed by the new circular. More should be done by government.

  • US conference applauds Pinoy texting power

    Yes, folks, our sophisticated use of cellphones makes Filipinos a star here in the Los Angeles conference I’m attending. Speaking at the Beyond Broadcast 2009 plenary session yesterday (Thursday in Manila), I shared how we make use of mobile phones for pro-consumer and pro-people ends. Read more about it at the TXTPower website. I’ve met…

  • New cellphone tax in aid of election

    For the past few months, the House committee on oversight quietly studied how revenue agencies could jack up the proceeds from gazillions of pesos in a new tax to be siphoned off from Filipino cellphone users. In its narrow view, the House panel avers that government is not able to check whether the taxes remitted…

  • Nokia responds to iPhone with 5800 XpressMusic

    Welcome to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia’s answer to Apple’s iPhone.

  • Poll leader Barack Obama taps iPhone

    Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign continues to blaze the trail in tapping modern tools to reach out to many Americans.

  • T-Mobile launches Google’s $179 G1 smartphone: ‘First real iPhone rival’

    Update: Visit the official T-Mobile G1 website US mobile phone network T-Mobile today launched the G1, a smartphone powered by Google’s Android operating system which pundits and techies say may give Apple’s iPhone a stiff fight for hearts and minds of cellphone users everywhere.

  • Google to launch smartphone on Sept. 23

    US telco T-Mobile will launch the first smartphone powered by Google’s Android operating system this month, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Google smartphone is expected to do some serious battle with Apple’s iPhone which is saddled by network-lock and several technical issues.

  • Your cellphone can be your new WIFI router

    Yes, folks. You can do it with a little help from cellphone software programs.

  • Palm opens pre-orders for unlocked Treo Pro

    In an email and a new page on its website, Palm announced that the unlocked GSM version of the new Treo Pro is

  • Six days before launch: Testing the iPhone 3G in Manila

    Yes, folks, this is definitely a scoop, coming six days prior to the Philippine launch by Philippine telco Globe Telecom. Thanks to visiting friend Homer, I was able to get hold of an iPhone 3G. The particular unit was provided by Australian telco Optus. 

  • Whoa! Globe to sell iPhone 3G for P41,899!

    Way too expensive. That’s my reaction to the Globe Telecom announcement made to investors today that the company will sell the iPhone 3G starting at P41,899. Globe has set the iPhone 3G Philippine launch on Aug. 22.

  • Calling the bluff

    Today’s Inquirer editorial says that TXTPower jumped into the Arroyo administration’s free text bandwagon “never mind if they’ve been critical of the President in the past”. Elsewhere, a member of a Yahoogroup said that TXTPower “forgot all about the political context of the DOTC move. It naively fell into GMA’s trap”.

  • TXTPower statement on government moves towards “free text”

    From our group TXTPower, our reaction to news that DOTC Leandro Mendoza and Speaker Prospero Nograles are now batting for the removal of text messaging charges: TXTPower welcomes the calls by the DOTC secretary and several members of Congress, for the removal of text messaging charges.

  • Download Lozada_Souljaboy protest ringtone!

    Here’s a free and cool way to express your support for Jun Lozada and your protest against GMA’s role in the NBN scam. Download and use the Lozada Souljaboy protest ringtone now. Use it as a ringtone or message alert, or perhaps as the soundtrack for your Friendster page. To download, right-click here or here…

  • REVIEW: Samsung P520, the Armani phone

    Today, we take a look at Samsung’s P520, the Armani phone which is expected to be a hit among society’s upper-crust and trendsetters.

  • New political ringtones on NBN-ZTE and Jun Lozada

    Thanks to the creativity of Pinoys, we can now find, download and use new political ringtones that express our disgust and outrage over the Arroyo administration’s corruption. Here are two of several I’ve found:

  • Palm US to launch GSM Centro on Feb. 19?

    This is good news to the Palm community, perhaps to fill the void in between now and the launch of the next generation Palm OS: A GSM version of the $99 Palm Centro may be out next week through US carrier AT&T! According to a report by EverythingTreo: A member in our forums has received…