Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Limpag: Unlimited texting for a day By Max Limpag Celltalk
SMART has launched two SMS packages that will have heavy texters aflutter: UNLI and All Text 20.
Under the UNLI service, Smart Buddy subscribers can send unlimited text messages to other Smart or Talk ‘N' Text phones for one day for only P25. The package also gives subscribers 10 messages to other networks.
To be able to avail yourself of the promo, you must have a minimum balance of P26 and maintain P1 in your account. To activate UNLI texting, just send UNLI25 to 258.
All Text 20, on the other hand, allows subscribers to send 100 text messages to Smart and Talk ‘N' Text phones for one day. The package also comes with 10 text messages to phones of other networks.
DOMINANT NOKIA. Nokia still dominates mobile phone shipments in the first quarter of the year, according to the IDC. TechWeb, in an article, described Nokia’s 39 percent share of the handset market as “so overwhelming.”
Samsung was at a distant second with 15.9 percent, Motorola was third with a 9.4 percent market share. LG Electronics was fourth with its 8.4 percent share. Sony Ericsson was a distant fifth with a 7.6 percent share.
As a Sony Ericsson fan boy, I find it incredulous that the company has such a small market share. But, you can’t argue with the figures. For a company with such great lineup of mobile phones, it’s a pity it only has such a small share of the market.
MOBILE FIREFOX. The mobile version of open source browser Firefox will enhance the experience of browsing the Web on mobile phones.
PC World quoted Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker as saying
Fennec, the mobile Firefox version, will simplify Web browsing on the mobile phone. Baker also said that the software will usher “an era of intense developer innovation.”
“The key to the Internet should be the same. The core is information: What can I get to and what can I do with it?” Baker said in a PC World report.
I currently use Opera Mini to browse the Internet on my phone. Unlike the built-in browser in my phone, Opera Mini can render and display almost any type of website.
This is because the browser pre-processes web pages and optimizes these for mobile display before these are sent to the phone.
While Opera Mini is a very good mobile browser, it isn’t open source.
Fennec isn’t available just yet but I’m eagerly awaiting its release. Because of its development model, Fennec is sure to later trump Opera Mini’s features, if not sooner. But until then, Opera Mini will do in mobile Internet browsing.
