Posted on Oct 16 2008 by iGerry Filed under: Blackberry Bold, cell phone, HSDPA, Omnia, Samsung, Smart, Sony Ericsson, Xperia X1, Mobile
A couple of days back, I was reading this news article about the upcoming availability of the Blackberry Bold 9000 from Smart and Globe. Smart has also announced that their new HSDPA mobile network will be able to provide up to 7 Mbps of bandwidth speed for HSDPA enabled phones.


Since I am shopping for a new mobile phone, I decided to look into the features and specs of the Blackberry Bold 9000. The specifications are actually what you’d expect in a business-centric mobile phone but I was just wondering how on earth can it be perfect for Smart’s new HSPDA network when the Blackberry Bold only supports up to 3.6 Mbps?
So I went and check out some other mobile phones that can theoretically use the 7 Mbps network speed (I say theoritically because, the actual speed depends on a lot of factors).
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Posted on Sep 21 2008 by iGerry Filed under: Android, Apple, cell phone, Dream, E71, Globe Telecom, Google, HTC, iPhone, mobile phone philippines, Nokia, Technology
Yesterday, I got to spend some time at the Mall of Asia with my wife who went to the Graphika Manila 2008 event. Graphika Manila was an annual event of graphic designers in Manila. The sort of get together annually to talk about what’s happening and some of the things that they have done in their professions. It’s one of those events that my wife didn’t want to miss off to Mall of Asia we went.
While waiting for her, decided to go around the gargantuan Mall of Asia to look around. It was a sale weekend so the place was packed with people looking around for bargains aside from the usual mall-strolling popular among Filipinos.
First thing I did was to go to the Nokia store to try out the Nokia E71 and Globe Telecoms (authorized Apple iPhone distributor) to take a look at the Apple iPhone.
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