I won’t make this blog post any longer. If you want to help the victims of Typhoon Sendong, just visit www.redcross.org.ph/donatenow and donate. The easiest way is SMS Red Cross. To donate using SMS just follow the instructions below
SMS Text RED<space>AMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4143 (Smart)
G-CashText DONATE<space>AMOUNT<space>4-digit M-PIN<space>REDCROSS to 2882 You can donate the following denominations:
Globe: 5, 25, 100, 300, 500 or 1000 Smart: 10, 25, 50, 100, 300, 500 or 1000
I don’t watch TV that much but I’m familiar with Willie Revillame’s acts in his show and Jose Manalo’s jokes in Eat Bulaga because my parents watch both of their shows. Yesterday, a woman mistakenly said Wally’s name as Willie which started the whole parody on the show. Oh and there’s another video on Willie’s show.
Eat Bulaga
Willie’s answer to Jose Manalo’s parody of Wiltime Bigtime
It is December 15 today and in a few hours, we will see the launching of both Smart and Globe iPhone 4s but Smart has already revealed their iPhone 4s plans and it will be free on the Plan 2499. At plan 2499 there will be a bundled 300 minutes of free call, 300 free sms and a 1GB of free data. But you can always resort to Plan 3000 where you can get the iPhone 4s 32 GB for free and get an unlimited data. Anyway, just look at the table and see.
Last week, I attended the launching of the three new phones from HTC — Rhyme, Explorer and Radar. Rhyme looks is almost similar to Radar but this one uses a Android OS oh and it is especially made for woman. Why?, the design and the accessories of Rhyme matches what the girls want. Just like the bag charm accessory of the HTC Rhyme.
The bag charm accessory is connected to your phone in where you make it as a bag charm and it also notifies you by its lights when you have a new message or something similar to that. The phone’s screen size is 3.7” only which I think is just right for a mid-range chic phone. There are a lot of accessories that you can add with your HTC Rhyme just like the HTC Rhyme dock, headphones, armband and many more.
HTC Rhyme Specifications
119 x 60.8 x 10.9 mm, 130 g 3.7″ S-LCD capacitive touchscreen 800 x 480 microSD up to 32GB
The HTC Rhyme in Clearwater color will come bundled with the HTC Rhyme Docking Station, HTC Rhyme Tangle Free Headphones and HTC Rhyme Charm and is now available at HTC authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of PhP25,000.
PHILIPPINES – 7 December 2011 – HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today unveiled HTC Rhyme™, a new kind of phone created for people who require advanced features but want a phone that is sleek and fits seamlessly into their lives. The result is the elegant HTC Rhyme that delivers a fresh approach of integrating distinct colours, HTC Sense™ and complementary accessories for a natural personal experience.
“HTC intends to present a brand new unique experience to our consumers, where the mobile phone is integrated into every part of a consumer’s daily routines, from work to play. This new approach will continue to put us in the lead for mobile design and innovation and highlight our commitment to our consumers,” said Lennard Hoornik, President of HTC South Asia Pacific. “HTC Rhyme is the first in line to offer consumers a fresh take on the mobile phone experience, including a whole catalogue of innovative accessories like the HTC Rhyme Charm and Docking Station.
Sleek, Fresh and StylishHTC Rhyme offers a smart, elegant unibody design in a fresh clearwater colour with every detail carefully crafted to deliver a unique sensory experience. The materials, the curves, and the dimensions are all designed to feel great in your hand, without sacrificing advanced features.
HTC SenseHTC Rhyme is not only defined by its soft, simple design and distinct colour scheme but by the refreshed HTC Sense experience. This unique twist on HTC Sense carries over the visual language of the hardware design and includes an all-new home screen that provides a clean and uncluttered way to interact with the essentials. The home screen enables quick, uncluttered previews of your appointments, messages or whatever is important to you. HTC selected custom wallpapers to offer a variety of original art to complement the HTC Rhyme experience.
With a beautiful 3.7-inch WVGA, super LCD display and high-quality stereo sound, HTC Rhyme also offers advanced imaging capabilities that begin with its 5-megapixel camera that includes auto focus, power LED flash and instant shutter for capturing those memorable moments whenever they arrive.
In addition, the camera features a number of photo-taking and sharing elements, including face detection, which ensures that friends are always in focus, action burst scene, which automatically takes five consecutive shots of a scene, and panoramic mode, which lets users stitch several photos for those larger-than-life views. The HTC Rhyme’s locked home screen can be customized to display the most important content, making it quick and easy to see social updates, photos, snapping a photo or the weather forecast by simply turning on the display.
Integrated Accessories*HTC Rhyme’s suite of accessories is designed with the same sensory focus in both function and style. Created to help you experience HTC Rhyme as a natural part of your life, the integrated accessories make your phone more personal than ever before.
HTC Rhyme Docking Station
– The Docking Station simultaneously recharges the phone while turning the phone into an alarm clock and music center so you can wake to your favorite songs played directly from the built-in Bluetooth capable speakers.
HTC Rhyme Charm
– The Charm is an innovative approach for discretely alerting you to incoming calls or messages while the HTC Rhyme is deep in your bag. The Charm is a small light-emitting cube that attaches to the phone by a cord that can dangle from your bag and also be used to quickly pull the phone out of your bag. It also makes it easy to find your phone buried in your cluttered purse or backpack.
HTC Rhyme Sports Armband
– The Sports Armband allows you to work out in style while keeping your apps and music close to you.
HTC Rhyme Tangle Free Headphones
– The Tangle Free Headphones take the hassle out of listening to your favorite music.
HTC Rhyme Bluetooth® Headset
– The wireless headset follows the same design cues as the phone itself and enables for easy hands free use.
HTC Rhyme Bluetooth® Car Speaker
– The wireless speaker clips onto the sun visor in your car for easy and safe driving.
Already received your 13th month pay?. Still confuse of which one you should buy?. Most of you might be thinking of which gifts you should buy to your friends and relatives this Christmas. Today, I’ll give you some suggestions that might help you choose which and gift you should buy and where you could buy it.
Urbanears Bagis
Urbanears headphones and headsets are simple yet cool. They’re made of fabric and their sound quality was sooooo good. For its price, I think that’s a steal. They are available in different colors too. oh and Urbanears Bagis is listed on my own Christmas wishlist.
Price: ₱1200
Available at: Most Apple resellers have this one
MiPow Power tube 2200
Normally, smartphone these days doesn’t last up a day on heavy use so techie guys like us recommend bringing a portable charger just like this one. This one is made from aluminum and it has a wide array of vivid colors to choose from
Price: ₱2000
Available at: Most Apple resellers have this one
Timbre Gitara headphone
Timbre headphones are 100% Pinoy. They are made by a local brand Timbre and was design by Team Manila (They’re one of the best here in the Philippines. I haven’t tried this one yet but it is very stylish which is perfect for a gift)
Price: ₱2500
Available at: It is available at some Apple resellers
CherryPad by Cherry Mobile
Tablet on the budget?. Well here’s an answer to your prayers because Cherry Mobile has a tablet below the P5000 mark. Too bad they just used a resistive screen (No Multi-touch), 800 mhz processor and Android froyo. But hey it supports 3G and Wifi and it cost ₱3900 only!.
Price: ₱3900
Available at: It is available at Cherry Mobile stores
Samsung Galaxy Y
Samsung Galaxy Y is one of the most affordable Android smartphones around. For ₱6000, this phone is a steal too!. 830 Mhz processor, Android and many more. Oh and I almost forgot, you can play Fruit ninja and angry birds smoothly in this phone.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray It is one of the best cellphones that I used this 2011. Its rating is 9.8/10 here at JAM Online. For its price, I think this is one of the best gifts that you can give this Christmas. It has an excellent 8 megapixel camera, 3.3″ screen (297ppi!) with Bravia engine and a thin & sleek profile body.
Amazon Kindle fire is only available at some stores like Widget City. I’m not sure if the Amazon services will work here. But hey this tablet is great for reading and did you know that you can root this tablet to make the Android Market work. It is great to give it as a gift. Why? because it is cheap hehe.
LG Optimus 2X This is first Dual-core that has been launched and it is one of the most affordable dual-core phones around right now. It features a 1 ghz Tegra 2 processor with a 8 megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p videos. Oh and you can get it below P20,000
HTC Sensation XE We love beats that’s why HTC decided to buy it. And they’ve made a HTC Sensation phone which has a beats inside, the HTC Sensation XE. Why you should pick it over the original sensation? Because it just have a P200 price gap. HTC + Beats = Great gift Price: ₱23,500.00
It’s a phone! It’s a tablet! no! it’s a Galaxy Note!. Samsung thinks that your Galaxy S II is too small for your hands so they created a much bigger than that — the Galaxy Note. It has a lot features like the S pen which allows you to draw and use it as a stylus. Why should you give it as a gift? Well, because it is different from smartphones and tablets. Samsung combined the phone and the tablet and made it to a 5.3″ device called Galaxy Note. Oh this is great if you are only wishing to cash out some money
Sword, Action, Blood and Kojima!. That’s what we need to have a pure bloody action game from Kojima. This game was first announced at E3 2010 and it was called as Metal Gear: Rising and I think I like it more than this one. Oh and the title is longer now. They added the Revengeance word in there. Metal Gear: Rising was better. It will be available this 2012 on Xbox 360 and PS3
As I told you in my earlier post. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is one of the most sexiest smartphones around. I tried it for just a week and I just love it. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S (I shall call it X-Arc S or SEX Arc S) is just an upgraded version of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. The phone still features a sleek and slim profile just like the original one, the only difference between the two is that the SEX Arc S has a faster 1.4 ghz and has more variant colors.
Sexy oh-la-la
Of all the smartphones I tried, I think Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S is the sexiest of them all. The curve body and the arc back cover was so sweet. I just fell in love with it. Because of its thin profile, I always feel that this phone is prone to breakage. The chrome-y sides makes the phone look sexier but I don’t like the pure plastic body of it. But I think they choose that to make the phone lighter. Oh and I almost forgot!, this phone is soooooo light. for its size. I love it.
Sooo thin Baby!
The hardware keys
Camera
the HD Camera
Sony Ericsson has been known for creating devices with excellent camera quality. And just like the one that we reviewed earlier, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray (we called that as X-ray the Exmor-R equipped camera didn’t failed me. The camera of the X-Arc S isn’t good, it is great!. Even at low light conditions the camera still manage to have a bright pictures. And at normal conditions, the contrast and saturations went well too. I believed that it is better than the images taken by iPhone 4 and Galaxy S II (except that 1080p video recording. Geeez).
Another feature that I like about some of the 2011 Xperia line of phones is the 3D sweep panorama. Creating a panorama shot in the Xperia Arc S is so easy, you just have to sweep your phone slowly from left to right and kaboom! you’ll have a 3D panorama picture. Too bad, You can only view the 3D panorama picture when connected on a 3D TV. Anyway here are some of the pictures that was taken using the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S:
The picture is well saturated
Excellent at Low light conditions!
Giant Lego Christmas tree!
Using the 3D Sweep Panorama!
Oh and here’s a video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S. It can only record a HD 720@30 fps. Yep the upgrade isn’t a dual core processor, they just bumped up the processor by 40% (You can compute that easily, you don’t need a calculator!). I don’t think there is a drop in frame rates. The video is still smooth at low light.:
The 1.4ghz performance
The Xperia 2011 line of phones almost have the same specifications. All of them used a Qualcomm Scorpion processor. From Xperia Mini to Xperia Arc, all of them used a 1 ghz processor except for this one. This one uses the same processor but this one is overclocked by 40% (I was a bit disappointed, they should have made it to a Tegra 2 just like the Sony Tablets).
This is what I hate with Sony Ericsson. They released a single core phone when the high end phones on the market is already on dual cores. And until now, they still don’t have a dual core phone (I think they’ll be releasing one early next year, The Sony Ericsson Nozomi. BUT THERE WILL BE QUAD CORE DEVICES NEXT YEAR!!!). I still don’t know if they’ll change their strategy since Sony already bought the remaining shares of Ericsson.
Anyway, the performance on the Xperia Arc S was good. I rarely felt some slowdowns on the device. Most of the time when I open the Timescape, it take a second or two before it loads completely.
Battery Life
The battery life was good. At normal use, I reach 1-2 days before the battery died on me
Verdict
I loved how Sony Ericsson created this phone. It has a large screen, easy to hold and thin. Too bad they only used a plastic body (which makes the phone less solid and prone to breakage). The camera was excellent even at low light. I think It can even replace your point and shoot camera. I was disappointed because they just used the same processor which was just overclocked by 40%. The high-end market is on Dual core Sony Ericsson!. Anyway, I still think that this phone is great.
Boys and girls!. We’ll be extending the JAM Online Giveaway so that there will be more people who can join especially this Christmas break. So what are you waiting for?. Haven’t joined the contest? join now and get a chance to win a EUROO EMS-3000 speaker!. Oh I almost forgot, you can join the giveaway here: http://www.jeromeancheta.com/2011/11/jam-online-giveaway-euroo-ems-3000.html
Last wednesday (the day before my birthday). HTC invited us to witness the launching of the 3 newest phones in their 2011 family of phones — HTC Radar, Rhyme and Explorer. The HTC Rhyme and Explorer are equipped with Android with the latest HTC Sense while the HTC Radar is a Windows Phone 7 Mango phone. The Explorer targets those people who have a tight budget while the HTC Rhyme are made especially for girls (Yeah thanks to that charm accessory).
A lot of bloggers that I know and some celebrities attended the event. Anyway, here are some of the pictures in the event
Our friends at Widget City has now posted on their Facebook Pagethat they’ll be selling those Blackberry phones that were announced at Indonesia last month — the Blackberry 9380 and 9790. The Blackberry Curve 9380 is the first BB Curve to feature a missing QWERTY keyboard while the other one is the cheaper version of the Blackberry Bold Touch that BB users had been craving for. Anyway, you can order a BB 9380 and 9790 starting tonight at Widget City.