The past week had me attending the Samsung Digital Roadshow and Nokia Launch in two posh hotels. These are tech industry events where you are supposed to salivate at all the gadgets on display and wonder why you don’t have the salary to afford them in the first place. A highlight are the raffles which I never win (ugh!) Again, it gets me thinking that if I never win raffles where I get to compete with 20 or so press people, the probability is that I’ll never win the lottery in a million years.
The Samsung event was a well-staged one which had the reigning Miss Earth and Bb. Pilipinas Universe touring us towards a gallery in their body-hugging outfits (hmm, do they still eat?) The venue was filled with huge plasma TVs, wall-mountable LCD screens, portable DVD players and such. The MP3 players were pretty hip and I had my eye on the YP-D1 model which not only plays music on its 2GB hard drive but is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera as well. To round it off, I get to have an exclusive interview with the Samsung Asia President.
At the Nokia launch, some lucky guy from a rival daily won the Nokia 6681, one savvy smartphone which I recently reviewed. How blessed can you be?!! Haha. But my personal favorite from all the phones presented was the N91 which not only has a 2 mp camera but has 4GB of memory for playing music. Yup, a memory that’s almost the same as the iPod Mini and other full-fledged MP3 players. What else could you possibly want? This digital wonder is available in time for your Christmas bonus, or the last quarter of 2005.
And just when you think you’re jaded from all the tech stuff…comes this forwarded email pic from Polo Paulding: the all-in-one Pinoy Cellphong.
This cellphong has a 262k color screen with a swivelling body for taking pictures and videos in landscape mode.
Has an antenna which doubles as a toothbrush further doubling as a vibrator.
And the killer app: Swiss Army attachments on the side… pangsaksak sa cellphone isnatser, if ever.
Now available in Raon. Cool ‘no? hehe.
Nakakatulo nga ng laway! and I’m only looking at pictures. Haay naku!
huh? toothbrush? vibrator? ouch!!
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I love that Pinoy cellphone !
Good evening Ajay!
Gaganda naman ng mga products ngayon especially that all-in-one Pinoy cellphone. Samsung has really good products. Their new launch MP3 is very nice too. YPF1 ba yun..
That’s why I abide with the KISS philosophy, Tito Rolly so as not to be frustrated (‘Keep It Simple Stupid’)
Why the ‘ouch’ JR? Have you tried it? (joke)
Haha, glad you liked the Pinoy cellphone Sidney and Luchie..
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Hello Ajay, ang tagal kong di napagawi dito ah. Been so busy lately. But I’m back in circulation hopefully *wink* Cool gadgets you got there, meron ba nyan dito? Especially yung last one 😀
wow, hayop ‘yong pinoy cellphone. totoo ba ‘yon??? (as you can tell i’m out of the loop here LOL)
hi ajay. why did mr paulding named it as “cellphong”? hehehe.
Hi Marisol and Stef, too good to be true ang Pinoy cellphone ano? Hopefully, the’ll invent it soon..lolz..
Pakuwela lang ang word na cellphong Tin, hehe
gusto ko ata yung pinoy cellphong! 😀
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hey ju! what do you not write about? i should be curious to know how you’ve evolved into a tech writer of sorts. this cellphone phenomenon back home is interesting. in the states, nobody really gives a horse’s ass. much less here in canada. my brother was here to visit recently and he gave my sister and i cellphones with a camera. imagine our joy! he gave me a motorola razr (is that how it’s spelled) and guess what, i hardly use it. these snazzy looking gadgets with superfluous features are expensive status symbols for suckers and showoffs, if you ask me. david pogue is a tech columnist for the new york times and guess how many, out of the 340 archived columns online, he’s written about cellphones? NIL.
btw, savvy smartphone – sounds like a tautology, my friend
Hmm, why oh why does everybody seem to like the Pinoy cellphong? Is it because of its vibrator? (joke)]
Thanks for sharing your two cents’ worth on the matter Lei. But the Philippines is not the US and vice versa. Cellphones are big business in the Philippines (or Asia, for that matter) and our impoverished country is not the texting capital of the world for nothing. So… writing for a gadgets page is still valid considering the abovestated reasons. I am glad to learn the in’s and out’s of this new “beat” and prouder still that am part of such a pioneering team.
Sorry but my state of tonto-logy had a hard time figuring out what tautology meant (thanks encarta!) hindi naman siguro redundant coz savvy is an adjective while smartphone is a noun. Correct? Hehe
i just think our impoverished country, and majority of its citizens, impoverished or otherwise, are being taken by these cellphone makers. i should think there are better ways to spend money, specially the type that doesn’t grow on trees. thanks for pointing out that the p.i. is not the u.s. of a. who knew?