Thursday, September 6, 2012

Philippines, iPhone 5 First Asian Stopover


Considering the Philippines market economy today by its purchasing power, Apple is considering the country be one of their starting point in Asia to have the much awaited iPhone 5. It is expected that by next week the said phone will be available in the United States.

In an interview with the chief wireless advisor of Smart Communication Inc, Orlando Vea, he said in the Asian Carriers’ Conference (ACC), that Apple is looking for possibility that it may enter country first ahead of any in Asia.

“Hopefully we are the first in Asia,” Vea said.

He explained that the Philippines' high consumption of social media such as Facebook and Twitter make it a "digital literate country" that is well positioned to become an initial market for the iPhone 5.

The iPhone 5 has been much anticipated as it is rumored to sport a larger and thinner form factor than its predecessors, and is Apple's first flagship phone since the demise last year of its visionary leader, Steve Jobs.

Smart's parent company, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), claims a total subscriber base of 67.4 million, of which 3.1 million are broadband subscribers. For its part, Smart has a 26.9 million-strong subscriber base, with an additional 24 million subscribers under its Talk 'N Text subsidiary brand.

Smart's newly-acquired subsidiary, Digital Telecommunication (Digitel), has 15.9 million subscribers under its Sun Cellular brand.
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Discounted Lenovo Mobile Phones

Discounted Phones



Lenovo Philippines has just announced in their Facebook page that they will be having a 5 days special discounted prices on their units. Beginning on July 18 up to 22, some of their selected models will undergo a slash price in their TriNoma branch.

So what are waiting for? Let us visit their store on the said date.


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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Plastic Waste Turns Into Fuel


The long wait is over, a Filipino inventor in the person of Jayme Navarro has just found the solution of one the world's worst problem with regards to plastic. Converting plastic materials into diesel, kerosene and gasoline. The said invention had an approved patent. It will not only the Filipino community will benefit but also the whole world.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Nokia Pureview 808: Beating the Odds

Nokia Pureview 808

 It seems that Nokia is now again ready to join the bandwagon of producing quality phones that will capture the world market and wake-up from a profound sleep.

 A powerful smartphone model has just uncovered today, the Nokia Pureview 808. Packed with superior features like the 41-megapixel sensor Carl Zeiss lens combined with PureView imaging technology and Full HD video. Good enough to beat iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S III which only have 8-megapixel camera.

This phone is design for photo enthusiasts. Capturing image even the smallest detail of an object. You can even zoom the camera up to 4x. A great alternative to bulk DSLR camera.

Another thing that can be consider as a state of the art phone, is the 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, the Dolby-capable Headphone and the 16GB built-in memory that can be expanded to 32GB or higher as 48GB.
http://phl-tech.blogspot.com/2012/06/nokia-pureview-808-beating-odds.html

Nokia 808 PureView


Although Nokia Pureview 808 is very impressive with its capability into capturing higher resolution images but still it has some limitation just like the operating software that they use, the Nokia Belle OS which is Symbian. This means that some of the software that they input is not compatible with other Android and iOS phones.

How will you feel if some of your peer will upload instantly a group photos using an Instagram on their phones and yet you will still need to go home and use your PC to share them online. Is it that embarrassing?

Will you splurge P26,550 for this phone? Or wait for more updated models?

Fore more review you can visit the full specification here: Nokia Pureview 808

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Nokia Asha Phones to uncover follow-up models

Following the released of their trademark line "Asha" phones 300, 303, and 200, Nokia will again unveil three (3) latest models hoping to regain the top status which were snatched by high-end mobile phone manufacturers like Blackberry, Apple and Samsung. These smartphones will be name as Nokia Asha 305, 306, and 311 respectively. All they come with 3-inches touch screen but will have different capabilities and features.


Asha 311:

NOKIA ASHA 311
  • 3.0” scratch resistant, capacitive glass screen 
  • Polarised display filters for better usability in direct sunlight 
  • WLAN 
  • 3.2 MP camera 
  • 1GHz processor 
  • Music Player, FM Radio and Internet Radio 
  • Plug and Play, easy PC connection and file transfer 
  • HSPA connectivity 
  • Nokia Maps and Nokia Life (in selected markets) 
  • Colours: Dark Grey, Rose Red, Blue, Brown and Sand White (colours will vary by market) 

The Nokia Asha 311, shown above, is a 3.5G mobile phone powered by 1GHz processor to make for a speedy online and gaming experience. As well as the 40 free EA games, the Nokia Asha 311 will also include 15 preloaded levels of Angry Birds for you to enjoy.



Asha 306:

http://phl-tech.blogspot.com/2012/06/nokia-asha-phones-to-uncover-follow-up.html
  • 3.0” WQVGA resistive touch screen 
  • 2 MP camera 
  • Music player and FM radio Built-in speaker 
  • Plug and Play, easy PC connection and file transfer 
  • GPRS/EDGE connectivity 
  • Nokia Maps and Nokia Life (in selected markets) 
  • Colours: Silver White, Red, Mid Blue and Dark Grey (varies by market)




Asha 305:

http://phl-tech.blogspot.com/2012/06/nokia-asha-phones-to-uncover-follow-up.html
  • 3.0” WQVGA resistive touch screen 
  • 2 MP camera 
  • Music player and FM radio Built-in speaker 
  • Plug and Play, easy PC connection and file transfer 
  • GPRS/EDGE connectivity 
  • Nokia Maps and Nokia Life (in selected markets) 
  • Colours: Silver White, Red, Mid Blue and Dark Grey (varies by market)



Nokia Asha 305 has the Nokia’s Easy Swap Dual SIM technology. Allowing SIM cards to be swapped without opening up or turning the phone off. This is useful for storing different numbers on your SIMs and for taking advantage of different operator rates.

According to Nokia, Asha 305 will become available in the market by second quarter of 2012 and both Asha 306 and 311 follow on the third quarter of 2012.

Although Nokia had announced the prices for these three models but surely it will be different when it landed the Philippine market.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Bringing Back the Heirloom Rice

Tinawon rice
Tinawon variety


Heirloom rice maybe forgotten. Just like our forefathers, it was been kept from the past and today's generation might don't even know about how they looks like, their name, their history of how they fed the past generations.

Who might even know about Makonting, Balatinao, Kadiling, Paskaren, Mayoc, Potaw, Kalias, Knchot, Bongkitan, Dayong, Gal-ong, Lamadya, Kabal, Sing-itan, Lasbakan, Saba, Saboli, Makanining, Talangkay, Kumbisyon, Salili, Kwalti-an, Balasyaw, Ipugao, Palgay, Lalay, Babantinya and others? On how these sturdy rice varieties dwell in the summit of rice terraces in Cordillera. Their time may have gone now. And high-breed variety replaced their name.

From the seat of the 8th Wonder of the World, the preservation of these varieties have started and they called it as The Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project.
The Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project is focused on making traditional rice varieties—the crop that nearly every high-elevation farmer grows—a source of economic opportunity. In doing so, the indigenous people use their knowledge of rice production to develop a sustainable and culturally appropriate economic enterprise. The vision of the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project includes:


  • The establishment of a cooperative business that produces and sells the heirloom rice of the high elevation rice terraces;
  • A renewal of social stability through the building of farmers’ cooperatives and the skills and capacity building training of the farmers;
  • The implementation of a business model for a vertically integrated, shared-equity rice business, which will give farmers an opportunity to be equal partners with a meaningful stake in the success of the business;
  • The building of an economic enterprise that is environmentally sustainable;
  • The revitalization, maintenance and use of the high-elevation terraces and watershed areas for their historic purposes.

RICE, Inc., terrace farmers in the provinces of Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province, Eighth Wonder, Inc. (USA), and municipal, provincial and regional government agencies of the Cordillera are collaborating on the project.

Aside from this project, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los BaÑos, Laguna formed the International Rice Genebanks, a bank to over 113,000 types of rice including modern and traditional varieties, and wild relatives of rice. Making it the world’s largest repository of rice genetic diversity.



This bank is similar to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. The facility preserves a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. The seeds are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide.

heirloom rice

Because of these projects, we can revive the once lost varieties. We can still see how these plants may still be exist for future generation of human. And that human may still survive the next millenium.
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Road to Organic Farming

organic farming

Filipinos are getting conscious about their health. The rise of different incurable diseases among humans maybe the one problem why our farmers are shifting from the "known technology" and getting back to organic farming. Using organic farming, farmers will lessen the use of chemical-based pesticides in their plants. It will also diminish the cost of capital expenditures and turn these budgets into profit.



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Kalinga drafts 5-year organic agriculture roadmap
By Larry T. Lopez


TABUK, Kalinga, Feb. 24 (PIA) – Kalinga agriculture authorities and stakeholders have organized a three-day workshop to draft the province’s five-year agriculture roadmap for 2012 to 2016.

Rice Program Coordinator Joe Casibang of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist said the drafting of the plan is in support to Republic Act 10068 or the Organic Act of 2010, which mandates organic farming in the country.

The roadmap prepared in the workshop, according to Casibang, serves as implementation manual of the organic agriculture program in Kalinga.

Among its major components include the organization of the organic program technical committee; various plans reflecting the needs of the different municipalities; production facility, equipment and infrastructure requirements and sources of organic raw materials.

Government promotes the use of organic technology in agriculture from land preparation, inputs, processing and marketing. The system, Casibang said, covers all the stages in farming from production-consumption.

Explaining why government advocates the technology, Casibang said organic agriculture is based on the globally accepted principles that it has direct benefit on health and ecology. The technology completely avoids the use of chemical-based inputs and implements in the production, processing and marketing of farm products and therefore is safe to human health and the environment, he stressed.

He admitted that though that the technical committee has some issues to address before farmers could adopt this like that fact that gradual shift from traditional to organic farming may affect level of production.

The shift from chemical farming to organic or non-chemical farming may bring lower yield for some time but Casibang explained this has long-term advantage to soil condition that would eventually reduce cost of production and bring higher income to farmers. (JDP/LL- PIA CAR, Kalinga)
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