Category Archives: Mobile Phones

Cloudfone Thrill 430x

My office-mate was hunting an affordable Android phone for himself for some months already. So every now and then I would pitch in while he was searching for information online. His first choice was Cherry Mobile Flare since it was indeed a good deal for an Android phone – which you can get for 3,999 PHP ($100).

However, this mobile phone seemed to be never on-stock. If it would be, it would be gone like the wind. Guess too many liked it. Thus, my office mate gave up and tried to look for other mobile phones he could get.

Actually, there are a lot of local Android phones right now, especially because it’s Christmas. Cherry Mobile indeed started the craze but there’s Starmobile’s AstraMyphone A919 and many others with the almost same specs comparing them to one another.

But in all of these there’s one thing they lack – longer battery life. I told my office-mate that maybe Cloudfone 430x is for him. I’ve mentioned it to him before but we didn’t really pay attention because Cloudfone isn’t really known. One day though, we decided to have a thorough research about it leading to many good feedback.

Cloudfone Thrill 430x

Cloudfone Thrill 430x

Unlike the said mobile phones, Cloudfone Thrill 430x is equipped with 768 MB ram as well opposed to the usual 512 MB Ram. It also has 4 GB internal memory (2 GB user accessible) like all these and can also be inserted a micro SD card. Most of all, it has 4160 mAh (battery life) that can last for days even without charging.

I was surprised when my office-mate showed me that he actually bought it. I guess it truly suits him since he’s a heavy gamer (and it’s really awesome for PHP 7,777 ). If you’re going to buy it in cash, that is. It can also be bought through a credit card which will then cost you 8,300 PHP instead.

According to him however, the said discount price is only until December 15th. I wish they would extend! Heehee, or better, they should have another model with even better specs.

Sony Xperia ST15i

GENERAL: 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Announced: 2011, May
BODY Dimensions: 88 x 52 x 16 mm
Weight: 99 g
DISPLAY Type: LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches (~192 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch: Yes
Protection: Scratch-resistant glass
- Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine
- Timescape UI
SOUND: Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes
MEMORY Card slot: microSD, up to 32GB, 2GB included
Internal: 512 MB RAM, 320MB storage
DATA: GPRS Up to 86 kbps
EDGE: Up to 237 kbps
Speed: HSDPA 7.2Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA: Primary 5 MP, 2592×1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features: Geo-tagging, image stabilization, smile and face detection, touch focus
Video :Yes, 720p, check quality
Secondary:No
FEATURES OS: Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread), can be upgraded ti Android OS V4.0.4 (Icecream)
Chipset Qualcomm QSD8255 Snapdragon
CPU: 1 GHz Scorpion
GPU: Adreno 205
Sensors: Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push email, IM
Browser: HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
Java:Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors: Black, White, Blue, Dark pink
- SNS integration
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- TrackID music recognition
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
- Document viewer
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input
BATTERY: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh
Stand-by: Up to 340 h (2G) / Up to 320 h (3G)
Talk time: Up to 4 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 4 h 30 min (3G)
Music play: Up to 25 h
MISC SAR EU: 0.78 W/kg (head)
TESTS Loudspeaker: Voice 71dB / Noise 65dB / Ring 66dB
Audio quality: Noise -88.7dB / Crosstalk -90.6dB

 

Xperia ST15i

Xperia ST15i

Will be reviewing this :*)

Purchasing from Nokia Ovi Store

As I mentioned before, I’ve been hooked to my Nokia X5 again. Aside from these I’ve discovered how to purchase from Nokia Ovi Store a few months ago. In our country, Philippines – they don’t really allow usage of Visa Cards like how it was with iTunes. So it’s pretty much of a hassle. Not even by Gcash or Smartmoney. But somehow near, I guess.

I purchased 3 themes which I will also introduce for my Nokia X5 website, Strawberried (strawberried.net) but it’s not open yet. Sorry. Among all my purchased themes though, my favorite is Dino.

Dino Theme from MMMOOO

Dino Theme from MMMOOO

This is from MMMOOO, I also bought the Blackberry version of this but you know, it’s wayyyy better in Nokia. Why oh why? I wish they ported those cute icons. The colors blend in well so much. Just perfect for my candy phone!

To purchase from Nokia Ovi Store

1. Create your Nokia Ovi Account (you will be asked upon log in Nokia Store)

You can also check this through Options -> Sign in/Register -> Settings

2. Just follow the instructions. The key here is to make sure you’ve filled up what your primary phone number is

and that you’ve selected Phone Bill as your payment gateway during your account setup.

3. Load up your phone with load and of how much you’re gonna need (Autoload, Smart eLoad)

4. At Nokia Ovi Store, simply purchase or hit buy. Your load will be deducted of how much the application or theme you bought is.

 

That simple! However, it’d really be much better if purchases using Visa Cards and Master Cards were possible. Even Gcash and Smartmoney would do.

Nokia Ovi Messenger

Lately, I’ve been tinkering with my Nokia X5 (Strawberry) which led me to download/buy new themes over Nokia Ovi Store at the same time, I had to open my Nokia Ovi account. Little did I know, I had two..actually, three! I forgot the password to the other one.

Nokia Ovi Logo

Nokia Ovi Logo

But it led me to thinking…why didn’t we use the Nokia Ovi Messenger so much? It’s almost the same with BBM and iMessage after all. In fact, it came before iMessage. The only time I used it (with my first account with Nokia Ovi) was last year July (same time I got my Nokia X5) with a close friend. But eventually, we didn’t chat much. The @ovi.com address is pretty neat. My boyfriend owned a Nokia C3 back then as well but it’s not just really his type loading up for subscription which is partly a reason. Nevertheless, I would be happy to use it sometime…the only thing is I have no one to chat there right now anyway.

SmartNet problem

SmartNet

SmartNet

So, I wanted to check if this “free access to Facebook and Twitter” with Smartnet. I downloaded the application through Android, but I couldn’t sign up with their widget. I totally removed it afterwards. But the thing is, after removing it my phone seems to have a problem with its memory. Even if I’ve uninstalled things, the memory space won’t update! This all happened after I installed Smartnet. This SmartNet problem is not working for me ;(

Because of this, I’m thinking of re-formatting and finding a new OS. After all, it’s been quite a long time since my last reformat. Heehee.