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the memorandum to adjust their SMS fees downward as required by the policy. So, there is one more reason to help make this Christmas merry for SMS-loving Pinoy consumers. Smart LTE Smart Communications has begun beta testing its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) broadband services. Otherwise known as fourth-generation (4G) mobile technology, LTE is reportedly capable of delivering up to 42Mbps in Internet speed. Aside from offering mobile subscribers much faster download and upload speeds, LTE can help upgrade the countrys average Internet speeds, which currently stand at levels we cannot be particularly proud of. Pinoy Terror Hackers American telecom company AT&Ts network was recently attacked by hackers later on identified as members of an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell in the Philippines. FBI and Philippine National Police officers arrested four suspects who were accused of breaching the corporate PBX of AT&T customers and stealing about $2 million over the span of two years. The suspects allegedly used these numbers to make expensive calls overseas and redirected revenues to bank accounts held by Saudi-based terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. This incident, aside from highlighting how much networked the world has become, puts Pinoys tech skills at center stage once more. We only wish that it involved a less dreadful occasion. Thats all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.
Talk is Cheap, SMS is Cheaper Maybe somebody should check local telecommunications executives temperatures, and determine whether they are suffering from life-threatening or mental-statealtering fever or other conditions. How else can we account for this sudden turn of our fortunes for the better? Imagine, they have agreed to allow consumers to use their mobile networks to send text messages at cheaper rates. Never mind that they are doing this not for some humanitarian reasons, or they have suddenly discovered a deep love for humanity. Early in November, Globe Telecom, Smart Communications, and Sun Cellular signed a memorandum of agreement to lower their interconnection charges on SMS by 20 centavos. This move is in compliance with the NTC Memorandum Circular Number 02-10-2011, issued on October 24. Telecom companies were given 20 days from the effectivity date of
Unfortunately, my review isnt over without pointing out some design quirks that I noticed. First thing I noticed is the lock screen. Cherry Mobile changed the way you unlock the device. The stock Android unlock method was changed into something a bit more confusing - instead of swiping from left to right to unlock the device, you swipe it diagonally, with each corner leading you to separate start screen, e.g., Home, Contacts, Phone and Messages. Cherry Mobile retained the now patented pattern lock, pin code and password lock functionalities. Another, albeit more confusing to me, is the way the hardware buttons are laid out. The Nexus Ones layout, from left to right, gives us Back, Menu, Home and Search. Cherry Mobile Magnum 2Xs layout, from left to right, is Home, Menu, Back and Search. In addition to that, the icons of Home and Search are non-standard, and I must say that non-descriptive and confusing. Tell me, how can a rounded square icon represent Home? How about Search
represented by a circle with dots inside it? I must commend Cherry Mobile for keeping the OS as close to the stock version as possible. A few added applications are included, but the apps are less annoying as compared to the Magnum HD bundled apps that I reviewed not too long ago. Moving forward, Cherry Mobile should make their smartphones conform as close to the reference design (Nexus series) as possible, both hardware and software. Whilst they may think that this will not differentiate their products from the rest of the Android smartphones in the market, believe me, it will. Imagine this -- you only need to test the latest OS for hardware compatibility and immediately release it instead of customizing it before release. The least customization, the better. AFAIK, no other smartphone comes close to the Nexus series user experience with each manufacturer adding their own flavor on top of the stock OS. I am hoping Cherry Mobile will be the one.
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