Huawei Launches New Line of Android Mobile Phones

Hey, I just came from the Huawei Technologies event last Sunday, December 16, at the SM North EDSA Cyberzone at SM Annex and we had a wonderful time learning about the new mobile phone offerings of Huawei Philippines.

Famous Yugatech blogger and Nuffnang Philippines Country Manager Abe Olandres was there to give his insights of the new line of products and his guess price of the units.

Lots of winners from the raffle where miraculously, or by luck of all luck, there was one family whose members all won something (jacket, discount coupons, Android lamps) from the raffle including one of the Huawei mobile phones.

Amazing indeed, as amazing as the new Huawei phone models to be available soon!

Chatted with the Marketing Manager and he said they also have plans to put up a concept store soon probably by next year.

Huawei locally launched its flagship quad-core Android 4.0 smartphone, the Ascend D1 Quad XL. Along with this model, the Chinese mobile device manufacturer also revealed the dual-core successor of the famed Huawei Honor, the Ascend G600.

Below are also some of the existing Huawei mobile phones on display at SM North EDSA Cyberzone

Huawei Device brought to the Philippines its flagship quad-core Android 4.0 ICS smartphone, the Ascend D1 Quad XL, together with the successor of the well-loved Huawei Honor, the Ascend G600.

“Huawei Device strives to combine what we know people want in a smartphone with our experience in delivering against those expectations. As part of our Ascend series of best-in-class smartphones, the Ascend D1 quad XL and Ascend G600 allow consumers to experience speed, long battery life and exceptional mobile entertainment in a high-quality, lightweight package. In addition, our more than two decades of experience has allowed us to optimize the Ascend smartphones’ network search algorithm and its base station auto-search technology, improving the speed of the phone’s signal detection to further extend battery life,” said Johnson Ma, country manager at Huawei Device Philippines.

The Huawei Ascend D1 Quad XL is powered by a 1.4GHz quad-core processor that delivers high-speed mobile processing and comes with a 4.5-inch HD display that provides clear view of images and videos even under direct sunlight. In addition to this, it is packed with a 2600mAh battery pack that offers 15 hours talk time and 500 hours standby time.

The Huawei Ascend G600, also known as the Honor 2, runs on a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and sports an 8-megapixel autofocus (AF) rear shooter for taking high resolution photos. It is packed with a 1930mAh battery that charges quick to full for only 4 hours and can last on standby for 15 days.

Winners of the two new mobile phones models were drawn a few days ago. One of the winners was a young boy belonging to a family that also won individual prizes themselves like the Huawei jackets, Android lamps, and discount coupons. Each member of the family won a prize in the Huawei raffle. Talk about family luck so plenty!

For more information about these smartphones, visit Huawei Device online at www.huaweidevice.com.

For the latest updates about Huawei, like www.facebook.com/huaweideviceph and follow www.twitter.com/HuaweiDevicePH.

Smart Now Offers iPhone 5 in the Philippines

Attended the Smart Christmas Midnight Rush Countdown thingmagig at the Resorts World Manila last December 13 and had a blast anticipating the launch of the new iPhone 5.

Wireless leader Smart Comunications, inc. has officially began offering iPhone 5 in the Philippines. Customers can now order iPhone 5 from Smart's official iPhone site http://www.smart.com.ph/iPhone.

With an iPhone Plan Php 2499, iPhone 5 will be available at no cost (free) for the 16 GB and 32 GB model, and Php 6k for the 64 GB model in all Smart Stores nationwide. In addition, iPhone 4s and iPhone 4 will also be available at no cost with an iPhone Plan 2499 beginning today. Smart will allow iPhone 5 customers to connect to its fast HSPA+ network.

iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing  fast performance; and ultrafast wireless technology - all while delivering even better battery life.

iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: Shared Photo stream, Facebook integration, all-new Maps app and Passbook organization.

Below are just some of the photos I took during the countdown to iPhone 5 launch. There were actually a lot of great looking and popular celebrities, artists, singers, models and the likes that I was not able to capture on camera due to being just so starstruck. I was staring all night and admiring how tall, slim and cool they were.

A lot of celebrities got to bring home a new iPhone 5 that night, and seems to be happy with the cool new gadget that's hot in the market right now. So what are you waiting for, grab one now!

I'm sure you'll want to own one too. How about you, what's your favorite gadget before the iPhone 5?

HP Lanches BYOD For Today's Technology Driven Society

With the proliferation of so many technologies available to an individual nowadays, this reality is having a sweeping impact on the way we live, work and enjoy life. Aside from a desktop PC, you probably also have a laptop, a smartphone, a digital camera and a tablet or "phablet" - phone tablet - PC. I very much believe I am not alone when I say so many of us have multiple mobile devices we use in our daily routine. We simply have a communication or automation gadget or device that we do not fail to use on a single passing day.

It would be nice if I can access all that I want from my own personal device. In this day and age, the line between personal time and professional time is already very blurry. You could also say that is already a fine line separating the two. The traditional 8-to-5 working days are long gone. However, I still prefer not to lug around multiple devices. I want one device with easy access to all my contacts. I want to be able to access my information from my office cubicle or from the basketball court over the cellular network. Though some admit that they purposely limit the capabilities of a device, it is done basically to cut down on cost. However, the quality and multi-functionality of a device is sacrificed. So unless a valiant technopreneur decides to give it all out for the consumers advantage, we might still have to lug with a lot of devices.

Regardless of this situation, employees, customers and partners agree it’s time to bring your own device—BYOD.

The catch here though is the issue of security and control over the personal devices. ...and since there are a huge list of brands and models with varying firmwares and user customizations, it might become a nightmare for IT security personnel to administer the company infrastructure. IT organizations are under tremendous pressure to deliver a controlled and safe way of accessing applications and company information with established and enforced policies. Otherwise users are going to subject enterprises to huge risks. If it was only one class of users then it may have been easy to manage.

Think about all the variables that IT has to deal with:

• Users – customers, partners, employees, contractors
• Devices - desktops, laptops, iPhones, android devices, blackberries, tablets
• Ownership – company owned, user owned devices
• Access medium – wired, Wi-Fi, cellular networks
• Services – outsourced, offshored, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid clouds

 

To say that I am going to only provide internet access to user owned devices is not even addressing the tip of the iceberg. It is very evident that device onboarding, provisioning and managing/monitoring is critical to support BYOD but IT has to take a holistic approach to manage the entire infrastructure to be efficient and optimize resources. BYOD is just one of the corner cases.

The HP BYOD solution is a robust, simple and secure way for enterprises to allow users to access the network as well as applications from their own laptop, tablet or smartphone. Leveraging a single pane-of-glass management interface, IT can onboard, provision and monitor users, devices and traffic on the network whether the user is an employee, contractor or guest and the device is attached to a wired port or connected wirelessly through HP's mobility solution. Through HP IMC and F5 BIG-IP, enterprise IT can identify the user and their device, assign and enforce policy based on the user and device profile and monitor traffic and user behavior to maintain the security of corporate assets without disrupting user productivity. When online, users are demanding rich multimedia and real time content and service. The new HP 10512 increases capacity and bandwidth to support connections with more than 6300 802.11n APs at line rate and enough throughput to stream the entire Netflix library simultaneously.

 

Benefits

• Identify and control network and application access for user-preferred devices
• Secure network and application access regardless of location
• Orchestrate wired and wireless networks with a single pain of glass management interface
• Simplify network design for assured scalability of wired and wireless LANs
• Satisfy the demand for mobile access and rich media content

Features

• Modular solution lets you add resources and functionality as required
• Seamless onboarding means minimal disruption in user productivity
• Single pane-of-glass management for wired and wireless devices
• Scalable performance from core to edge for the entire wired or wireless network
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