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A Review: BlackBerry Bold 9900

Written by louiseinthehouse on August 14, 2013

For the longest time, I have been meaning to try using a BlackBerry phone. My hubby has one, but it gives me limited accessibility since it was issued by their company, and they apparently blocked (***sad face**) some Apps for work reasons. So you can imagine how ecstatic I was when a co-blogger asked me if I can test the BlackBerry Bold 9900 for two weeks and do a review after. Of course I said YES! So here it goes: GREAT KEYBOARD FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES/EMAILS FAST The most notable experience of using the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is the keyboard. It gives me the ease and comfort of sending/receiving messages and emails fast. Even my husband who is a BlackBerry user for years can attest to this since they incorporated company email (Outlook) with the phone as the company’s form of communication every working hour, all week. Email and […]

The New BlackBerry Q10 Is Now Available!

Written by louiseinthehouse on August 14, 2013

The new BlackBerry Q10 smartphone is the first ever BlackBerry 10 smartphone that has the classic Blackberry QWERTY Keyboard. It is now available in the Philippines since June 7 at the price of Php 31,990. You can choose from the two elegant colors of the BBQ10: Black and White. It proudly features the strength of the BlackBerry 10 platform with a large, re-engineered keyboard and eye-catching touchscreen display. It is known to be the largest ever on a BlackBerry QWERTY smartphone. It offers premium performance set in BlackBerry’s distinct keyboard design, allowing users to take real time action and be connected to their work and personal connections anytime of the day. As it boasts of its posh and ergonomic QWERTY keyboard, it provides a wider layout, bigger and a more sculpted keys. With BlackBerry Q10’s advanced hardware, communications and multimedia features, coupled with a long battery life, you are sure […]

BlackBerry Kicks Off Global Scholars Program

Written by louiseinthehouse on July 23, 2013

Eight esteemed women, led by Alicia Keys, will select up to ten recipients from over 500 applicants to receive full four-year tuition scholarships in STEM-related fields Globally, women are vastly under-represented in technology fields. To help attract more women to our industry and address this massive gender gap, BlackBerry® is championing the next generation of women leaders in mobile computing as they advance their careers in this highly-competitive industry. The BlackBerry® Scholars Program, announced in May by Alicia Keys, BlackBerry’s creative director, is a global four-year scholarship program for outstanding women entering their first year of undergraduate study at an accredited college or university. The Program is designed to help drive the number of women engaged in mobile computing and related science, technology, engineering and math fields. We are pleased to announce that in this first year of the program, we received over 500 applications from women across 43 countries […]

Globe Prepaid’s GoSAKTO Create Your Own Promo

Written by louiseinthehouse on March 25, 2013

The current competition between local telecom companies to catch attention from their subscribers has become stiff, that it often leaves me confused in differentiating the promotions they offer each time. Unlimited text messaging, unlimited calls, unlimited browsing, all day in Facebook, Twitter or what have you. How many texts was that again and for how many days? And what about texts and calls for other networks?? Good luck to my memory. And please, don’t ask me the text codes to send and the corresponding numbers to send these codes to. I am THAT bad in memorizing them. Chances are, it is not just me who has this kind of dilemma. Good thing, Globe Prepaid has introduced a unique way of allowing us subscribers to create our own prepaid promo called GoSAKTO Create Your Own Promo. With this, Globe prepaid subscribers will now have the freedom to choose and create a […]

Sun Prepaid’s Name Ur Number SIM

Written by louiseinthehouse on March 21, 2013

Want to know the latest (and something unique) from Sun Cellular Prepaid? They have recently launched their latest offering, the Name Ur Number SIM. This prepaid sim gives subscribers the chance to pick their own mobile number for FREE and personalize the last 6 digits with alpha numeric characters of their choice. With this, you can now start having numbers such as these: 0943-9-CALL-ME, 0943-8-I-KIKAY or 0943-8-INLOVE. Pretty cool, eh? What used to be only available to postpaid subscribers can now be enjoyed by the many Sun Prepaid users , hence, giving them the free hand to identify their numbers with their favorite tagline, number or anything that distinctively describes their personality and lifestyle. The Name Ur Number SIM is available at a very affordable price of P59. What’s more, it includes a Sun Call and Text Combo 50 load which is valid for 5 days and comes with 200 Sun texts, 200 texts […]

The New BlackBerry Z10 Is Now Available in Stores!

Written by louiseinthehouse on March 20, 2013

All BlackBerry fans have a reason to be happy now. Their latest baby, The New BlackBerry Z10 is now available in the Philippines (starting yesterday, March 19). Packed with mind-blowing applications and features, you sure will not think twice of wanting to own one! Among the highlights of Z10 are the Blackberry Hub, Blackberry Flow, BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) Video with Share Screen, enhanced BlackBerry Keyboard, Balance Technology, Time Shift, the new BlackBerry 10 browser, BlackBerry Remember, the Safeguard Technology, built in support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and the BlackBerry World storefront which boasts of about 70,000 BlackBerry 10 apps. It is available in 2 colors: black and white at a price of Php 29,990 (3g version). Meanwhile, you can also opt to avail of the 3g and LTE versions from local carriers, Sun Cellular, Globe Telecom and SMART. To get to know more about this sleek and distinctive smartphone, […]