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I got this information via email on how Pinoys use mobile apps and online apps. I made sure from the source whether I could share the information. Glad to pass on the information to help readers understand where the Mobile Apps market is like and where it’s headed. There are two studies in the files below. 

The first is how Pinoys use Mobile Apps. The second is What Pinoys do Online. 

How Pinoys use mobile Apps 

Among the top usage of Mobile Apps are m-commerce, MMS, ringtones, gaming and infotainment. Of course Txt Messaging is used by many more subscribers, it’s included in the table further below just for comparison. Other items in the list are Graphics, Music, Email Msg, Mobile TV/ video, Mobile IM, 3G Sub (just for comparison). 

Philippine Mobile Apps Users 2009 (click to see full image)

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I have previously written about mobile and online services of Phihealth.

There was the Philhealth mobile service that let’s you access your Philhealth number and other details. Read my Philhealth article on Pinoytechblog. And I also wrote on eOFW.net about healthcare through Philhealth online .

Thus, it’s a pleasant addition to Philhealth’s e-government services to see that Philhealth individually-paying members can now make Philhealth payments using their mobile phone and their airtime load.

Philhealth Remittance-by-Air

Dubbed “Remittance-by-Air”, members can send their P100 monthly contribution from the convenience of their own home.

To complete a transaction,
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Here’s a very welcome service to the mobile interenet scene: Surf Unlimited data plans .

The typical charging is P10/ 30 mins.

By subscribing to data plans, you get a “wholesale” discount for subscribing to a data plan for many hours. You will no longer need to count the minutes you’re using the Internet on your phone.

The new data plans give you more hours at a more affordable rate:

• Unli Surf Daily  P50 / day 
• Unli Surf Weekly  P300 / Week 
• Unli Surf Monthly  P1,200 / month 

This works well for me because I access the internet from my phone many times a day, at various hours of the day.

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Spring cleaning and I find this draft post. It’s time to publish (though many months delayed). Publishing as is … activate! ….

We’re up!

Until 2008, Facebook’s SMS service was available only within US and Canada.
This year, Facebook opened up the service to other countries.
The Philippines can now avail of Facebook’s Mobile SMS service.

I’ve been testing the service since last week. I find it highly streamlined and intelligent. The available commands, the follow-up replies and the control of how much/little you want are very well thought out. I like how the service makes the next logical transaction easily available for the user.

Facebook Mobile SMS

In this article, I’ll give you a quick guide on Facebook Mobile SMS:

• how to register for Facebook Mobile SMS
• Facebook Mobile SMS commands and online demo by Facebook

Register for Facebook Mobile SMS

While logged-in at Facebook, go to:
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Kumusta na? Ayos pa ba?

It’s been an awesome past many months for me. Although I haven’t been blogging about all that’s been happening in my life, specifically my technology life or “Technobiography”, I’ve been happy being involved in many awesome activities that have been truly life changing.

The typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng crashed through the Philippines. We saw how Filipinos can band together if we choose to do so. I took a few trips to Baguio and I was there right smack between Ondoy and Pepeng. Took another trip to Baguio after Pepeng to document some of the relief activities.

And through all these, I’ve been steadily keeping up-to-date with the goings on through the help of technology. Here’s how technology has helped me help others in the past months.

Keeping posted

When the typhoon hit Manila on September 26, Saturday, I made my way from Quezon City to Makati. I wasn’t expecting the typhoon to cause so much havoc. And as we took one route and then another and then another because we were hitting flooded roads, I finally reached the MRT which was working well. I kept up-to-date via Twitter @ka_edong with the disaster that was unfolding. I access Twitter via a Nokia N82 loaded with TweetS60 . It was good for getting news of the floods around the metro.

Citizen Reportage

As I was making my way through EDSA on the MRT, I started taking photos of the traffing and uploaded them via MMS to ping.fm . I had a photo of what was later re-labelled as “the world’s biggest parking lot” (thanks @jimayson).

As I was tweeting from the MRT, I saw a half submerged bus on the Northbound lane of EDSA in front of Camp Aguinaldo. I circled back because I wanted to share to the world what was happening in the Philippines. I got ready with a mobile video through qik.com.

And now I have my most widely viewed qik video: Half submerged bus .

Half Submerged Bus

Search for missing people through Google Docs
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Here’s a quick (Qik!) video of the HTC Magic, the first Android phone in the Philippines.

The Google Android Phone by HTC features a barcode scanner, compass, 3D road-level view of places among other things. See how it works by clicking the image below:

Google Android Demo by HTC

ka edong
(in monotone) “I am a robot”

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Smart offers unlimited calls to 38Million Smart subscribers. Here are a few clipping from the local dailies and some SmarTalk links and FAQs.

Smart Talk for Smart Buddy

Clippings from the local dailies:

Smart joins ‘unlimited calls’ bandwagon (Inquirer.net)
“With this new service, Smart subscribers all over the country need only one phone, one SIM and one number, to be able to make unlimited, crystal-clear calls to over 38 million Smart numbers anytime, anywhere,” said
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I saw my blog on Anton’s webinar screen. Slipping in a quick blog. Hehehe.

Welcome back Tiffany!

Key Recommendations of Anton for improving Technobiography:

• Choose Mobile Technology as a niche. Could be a very successful niche.
• Improve tagline to reflect mobile technology as a niche.
• De-clutter the sidebar. Most people look for content and not the sidebar.

Thanks for your inputs, Anton!

Here’s a recent email from Anton regarding the Maven Secrets program:

Here is the contest mechanics

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Ateneo celebrated its 150th anniversary last Sunday, June 14. There was a whole-day program involving a motorcade passing through the Ateneo campuses in Manila, with programs in key campuses along the itinerary. Visit: http://150.ateneo.edu

Throughout the day, Ateneo had ten videographers covering the event through live mobile video streaming enabled by the Smart network using an online video service called QIK (www.qik.com) .

Ateneo Sesqui mobile videos

The interesting thing is that in the Ateneo Sesqui group on qik, videos from different handsets were being streamed in sequence, like a relay race. Thus, online visitors got to watch the celebration LIVE on their computers from the different viewpoints of each videographer.

Results:

• Ateneo Sesqui videos: http://www.qik.com/groups/5194
• Quezon City, Philippines
• Videos: 204
• Views: 4142 (as of June 17 afternoon)
• Total time filmed: 05:43:51

Live Streaming Videos via Mobile: A Qik Guide
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I was exchanging SMS messages one time with a twitter buddy. Towards the end of our SMS conversation, we were each having our laughs with our (t)witty exchange.

Note before I share: For folks not yet familiar with Twitter, it’s twypical (typical) for tweeps (peeps, short for people) to modify words or prefix words or some consonants with “tw”.

Here’s the twalk that twappens when two twitter folks twext each other…

• ka_edong: “tweet you later, twalligator!”
  • twitter buddy: “twokay.”
• ka_edong: “twalang twhiya, twahat twnalang! twhetwhetwhe!”
  • tb: “Twyou twarted twit! Twahaha :p shyet, ang hirap pumigil ng twawa dito!”
• ka_edong: “twhahaha! nag-mukha ka ring baliw twulad ko?”
  • tb: “Twinabi mo! LOL”
• ka_edong: “TOT! Twaughing out Twoud! Twama na nga!”
  • tb: ” :p “
• ka_edong: ” tw:p “

Share your twitter twalk . Whether in english, twagalog or twaglish.
And lets all twaugh out twoud!

ka edong
twaughing out twoud!
follow @ka_edong on twitter

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