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Poll: How much digital storage do you have?

yuga — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:56:11 +0000

When the 1-terabyte HDD broke the Php5,000-barrier ($100-barrier), I thought this will be the year when most PCs will be on the terabyte range. So I thought, let’s put it as a poll.

How much digital storage do you have at home?

As an example, I got 2 x 1TB HDD, 1 x 500GB, 1 x 640GB and 2 x 320GB at home for a total of 3.78TB. That does not include the portable storage I have on laptop/netbooks which adds up to another 570GB.

I’ve posted a poll on the sidebar with the following choices:

How much HDD storage do you have?

less than 250GB
under 1 terabyte
between 1 – 2 TB
more than 2TB
more than 5TB

You can leave a comment below or submit your answers in the poll.

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Poll: Prepaid or Postpaid Mobile Subscription?

yuga — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:54:12 +0000

For the past decade, I’ve always been on prepaid mobile subscription and the first time I switched to postpaid was when I bought the iPhone 3G last year.

Having had some billing issues on my postpaid account lately made me think if I should go back to prepaid again (besides, I’m no heavy texter or caller). Obviously, there are some advantages and disadvantages between the two.

This brings us to our poll of the week — are you on prepaid or postpaid? Why?

Please do send your answers to our Poll section on the right side and/or add a comment below.

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Poll: Who’s the best netbook maker?

yuga — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:52:30 +0000

With over a dozen netbook brands available in the Philippines today, it’s pretty harder to pick a model compared to a year ago. It’s good though — the more, the better — competition drives innovation up and prices down.

This time, our poll asks — Who is the best netbook-maker?

From my count, we got at least 15 brands currently selling locally:

Acer
Astone
Asus
Dell
Gateway
Gigabyte
HP
Lenovo
Minix
MSI
Neo
Red Fox
Sony
Toshiba
Qube

The label ‘best’ is subjective and it could mean ‘best designed’, ‘best bang for the buck’, or ‘best performance’ so let’s just settle for ‘best-overall’. As usual, I’ve added the poll on the sidebar so you can send in your votes.

Note: Didn’t include LG and Samsung (and others) since they haven’t officially released their own netbooks in the Philippines.

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Poll: WiFi or 3G for mobile usage?

yuga — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:30:59 +0000

My latest entry on the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic sparked a nice little debate on people’s preference and usage behavior between WiFi and 3G on mobile phones.

I thought it would be good if I asked my readers here which of the two modes of connectivity they often use.

So our poll for this week — WiFi or 3G: Which one do you often use with your phone?

As usual, I’ve added a poll at the sidebar so you can submit your votes there but please leave a comment if you want to share your own usage behavior and why you chose one over the other.

As for me, even if my place is full wireless, I think most often use 3G on my phone. I access 3G on the road, while driving and outside the house — with my phone, that would be about 90% of the time.

There are 2 factors that affected my usage behavior in favor of 3G — one is that I have allocated 3G minutes on my postpaid account and, second, 3G internet is pretty cheap and fast nowadays that I don’t really bother looking for free wifi whenever I’m in public places.

Update: I’d like to clarify that this poll is not about which is better or faster. It’s a survey which of the two modes of connection you often use despite the advantages of one over the other.

Let’s look at an example:

Mobile 3G on Phone: 90% coverage area of Metro Manila, 100 – 300Kbps speeds
WiFi on Phone: 1% coverage area of Metro Manila, 256Kbps – 3Mbps speeds

Is the mobility of a 3G connection more suitable for you or the speed of WiFi? And by the way, WiFi speed is also dependent on its source. If you’re using WiFi on dial-up connection, your WiFi is still going to be slow.

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Poll: Plurk or Twitter?

yuga — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:38:21 +0000

This week, our survey covers the micro-blogging service Plurk and Twitter. According to stats shown by Google Trends, the Philippines is ranked #3 visitor of Plurk.com worldwide.

Okay, it used to be #2 until Taiwan took that spot from us. On the other hand, we’re nowhere in the top 10 for Twitter.com.

Then again, between Plurk and Twitter, Plurk seems to be the more preferred choice among Filipinos. It’s yet unknown why this is so but if you look at the average profile of a Plurk user and a Twitter user, you will see the age range is much lower with Plurk.

The Philippines doesn’t normally follow the social networking trends in the US. We’re into Friendster more than Facebook, into Plurk more than Twitter, into LiveJournal and Multiply than WordPress and Blogger.

So our poll this week aims to answers some of these questions — Which micro-blogging tool do you favor? Plurk or Twitter?

Please send your answers to the poll section on the right and leave a comment here if you want to add something.

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Poll: How often do you switch phones?

yuga — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:09:37 +0000

There was some theory going around that major phone manufacturers had to introduce brand new phone models every so often because survey says the average lifetime of a phone in the hands of consumers is about 8 months.

I’m not sure if there is truth in this but based on my observations with friends and relatives, that number is not very far off. People tend to switch phones very often so manufacturers have to hurry up introducing new ones before each cycle ends.

I’d like to take that theory into a test a do a little poll here — how often do you switch/buy/replace your primary phone?

Less than 6 months
Around 9 months
About a 12 months
18 months or a year and a half
I have a dinosaur of a phone — more than 2 years

My personal experience is a little off since I have 4 phones — E51, E71, 5800, iPhone 3G — which does not include the ones given to me. Normally, I would have just 2 or 3 to service both public, business and private numbers. All 4 phones were bought in a span of less than 6 months but the motivation there was more for review on this blog so they don’t count.

Please share your thoughts on the comments below and send me your vote/feedback on the poll.

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Poll: Do you use the GPS in your phone?

yuga — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:12:42 +0000

A lot of middle to high-end phones being sold nowadays come with GPS and/or A-GPS support and I wondered if people really use them at all.

Our poll this time is for phone users — if they use the built-in GPS in their phones. Most of my experience with using GPS is while driving to places I’m not familiar with. Instead of the physical maps (I have one of those EazyMaps), I often Google Maps and GPS to give me some sense of direction.

How about you? Is the GPS in your phone an unused feature or have you found some good use for it? Let me know by leaving a comment and adding your vote in the poll section.

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How much do you spend on cellphone bills?

yuga — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:11:31 +0000

Ever since I got a postpaid account for my iPhone 3G, my monthly cellphone bills have doubled (maybe even tripled) in the last couple of months. It used to be less than Php300 for each of my 2 mobile phones.

Our poll for the week surveys the amount spend for cellphone bills by our readers here. I’ll be using the data as part of the demographic profile report for the blog.

Here are the choices:

Less than Php300
Less than Php500
Less than Php1,000
Between Php1,000 – Php2,000
Between Php2,000 – Php3,000
Between Php3,000 – Php5,000
Over Php5,000

Please send in your feedback in the poll section on the sidebar.

Likewise, do leave a comment if you’re more of a texter than a caller or which type of mobile service takes the bulk of your bill.

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Poll: What’s your preferred video player?

yuga — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:36:45 +0000

I was watching the new TV series (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) on my MSI Wind and was trying out several video players I installed earlier just to check which one will efficiently play them.

Was wondering what do others use to play their videos, hence the poll. There aren’t much of them today that I can think of. Back in the 90’s, Xing MPEG Player was a personal favorite. How about now?

Which video player do you often use?

Windows Media Player
DivX
VLC
Real Player
iTunes/QuickTime
PowerDVD
WinAmp
WinDVD
Media Player Classic

Please do send your feedback on our poll section on the right sidebar or leave a comment here.

I’m also particularly interested to know which one has the smallest footprint (in terms of memory or CPU usage) as well as the most efficient especially when used on netbooks.

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Poll: How much do you spend for mobile 3G?

yuga — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:46:32 +0000

The latest AdMob report for August shows strong growth in mobile web traffic for the Philippines. This is partly pushed by the iPhone 3G. Our next poll asks how much people spend on mobile 3G every month.

Our latest survey on Mobile 3G Usage indicates more than half are using their 3G phone to go online compared to tethering or using 3G USB dongles.

For this survey, we’ll look into the average monthly spending for 3G connection and here are the options:

You don’t use mobile 3G.
Less than Php100 per month
Between Php100 to Php500 per month
From Php500 to Php999 per month
From Php1,000 to Php2,000 per month
More than Php2,000 per month

Some older accounts on Globe Visibility has that unlimited usage plan at Php2,000 (the promo price) and Php3,000 (regular price). There are also people in the WeRoam plan (Php1,999 for unlimited) as well as that Smart Bro Unlimited plan (came out first week only) for Php999. Sun Cellular is also offering unlimited mobile broadband for as low as Php999 a month.

Please go and send in your feedback to our Poll section in the sidebar.

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Poll: Which iPod are you?

yuga — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:57:27 +0000

Reports say that the iPod Nano is the most popular of all the Apple media player line. That’s maybe because when it first came out, it was the cheapest iPod at that time. Now that there are more than half a dozen models, I’d like to see which iPod people buy.

Thus, the poll “Which iPod are you?”

Choices are as follows:

iPod Shuffle
iPod Nano
iPod Classic
iPod Touch
iPhone
I have another MP3 player
I don’t have one

Please head on to out poll section on the sidebar and cast your vote. Also leave a comment on why you chose your mp3 player over the rest.

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Poll: Which Mobile 3G do you often use?

yuga — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:50:48 +0000

With so many plans and options to get mobile 3G, I wonder which one tops the list for most internet users. I’ve counted over half a dozen ways to hook up on mobile 3G — our next poll asks which one do you often use?

Please go to our poll section on the side bar and take your pick from the ff. 3G services:

Smart Mobile 3G (via my 3G Phone)
SmartBro Plugit! Postpaid
SmartBro Plugit! Prepaid
PLDT WeRoam
Globe Visibility
Globe 3G Per KB
Globe 3G Per Minute
umobile 3G
Sun Cellular 3G

I’ve already included umobile 3G even if there are only a couple thousand users nationwide as well as the still-to-be-launched Sun Cellular 3G.

Come to think of it, PLDT WeRoam and SmartBro Mobile 3G are practically competing products by the same telco. My guess is one of them will soon be phased out.

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Poll: Which UMPC you’ll likely buy?

yuga — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:29:08 +0000

At least half a dozen ultraportable laptops are now available for sale in the Philippines. As supply increases demand will likely go down. Asus is no longer the only player in the UMPC niche but it has successfully manage to grab the most exposure — all the rest becomes just another “Asus EeePC-killer”.

I’ve listed down 7 of them in our new poll for the week:

Astone UMPC – 7-inch screen, Php19+k price.
Asus Eee PC 701 – 7-inch screen, Php15k price.
Asus Eee PC 900 – 9-inch screen, Php23k price.
Neo Explore X1 – 7-inch screen, Php17k price.
Deep Blue H1 – 7-inch screen, Php17k price.
HP 2133 Mini-Notebook – 9-inch screen, Php25k price.
Redfox WizBook – 7-inch screen, Php16k price.

Some of the prices have gone down since we first covered them here. Likewise, Asus is set to launch the Eee PC 1000 this month but it’s not final yet. Send us your vote in the Polls section.

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Results: AVG is Most Popular Anti-Virus

yuga — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:28:44 +0000

According to our recent poll on antivirus, AVG came on top of the heap followed by Nod32 and Avast. From over 220 respondents, AVG was actively used by just over 25%. See chart after the jump.

Surprisingly, the Slovak-developed antivirus Nod32 came in second with close to 16%. First time I heard and tried this software was back in December in Germany when a Honduran delegate shared it with me (in Spanish version).

Avast came in 3rd. All of the the top 3 anti-virus offers a free version so it’s not a surprise they’re the most widely used.

Eight (8) of the total respondents shared they did not need any anti-virus (OSX/Linux maybe?) while 19 added they were using a different kind of anti-virus software.

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Poll: What’s your laptop brand?

yuga — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:29 +0000

I just ended the previous poll and it looks like AMD is still popular among desktop PC users. Our new poll is for those owning a laptop or notebook. Which brand of laptop are you using?

Our list only has about a dozen brands but there are actually more than 3 dozens of them out there.

- Apple
- Asus
- HP/Compaq
- IBM
- Lenovo
- MSI
- ECS
- Deep Blue
- Neo
- Toshiba
- Fujitsu
- Sony
- Dell
- TwinHead

Please head o to the poll section and submit your votes. I made it possible to send in two votes for those who have a UMPC aside from their primary laptop.

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Poll: What’s inside your rig, Intel or AMD?

yuga — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:50:18 +0000

Last month, I upgraded my old desktop PC. I have been a longtime AMD fan and for the last 5 years or so, have used almost all of their CPUs — Athlon, Sempron, AMD64+, and the X2. Even most of the dedicated servers I get runs AMD Opteron CPUs. They’re cheaper and does the job just fine.

However, during my latest upgrade, I switched to the other side — an Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz. I actually got the works — 4GB DDR2 800 RAM, Inno3D 8600 GTS 256MB DDR3 and a Gigabyte 3D Aurora.

The switch was prompted with the realization that at the top of the food chain, it looks like Intel has taken back the lead for some time now. In the lower end CPUs, AMD is may be seem neck and neck with Intel — Athlon 64 X2s vs. Intel Intel E4×00 C2D — but go up in the quad cores and you’ll see Intel becomes cheaper.

Has AMD lost the battle altogether? Has their “cheap but fast” brand label been diluted?

Our poll for this week will look into you CPU preferences — What’s inside your rig, Intel or AMD? For good measure, I also added in the poll IBM’s PowerPC (those running pre-Intel Macs) and Via processors.

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Results: Mobile Phone Survey

yuga — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:06:49 +0000

As reflected in the global market, Nokia dominates the pack in our recent survey on mobile phones. The results of the poll were really interesting although it was pretty obvious from the start who would win.

There were a total of about 179 people who sent in 199 votes in their poll answers. I realized people now are actually using more than one mobile phone — 11% of the respondents indicated they use at least 2 phones at the same time.

Here’s the breakdown of the poll results:

Nokia – 44.7%
Sony Ericsson – 26.1%
Motorola – 9.0%
Samsung – 6.5%
LG – 2.5%
Apple iPhone – 2.5%
Blackberry – 2%
Palm – 1%
HTC/Dopod – 1%
Panasonic – 1%
Verzio – 0.5%
Others – 3%

Of those who indicated they use more than one cellphone, 8 out of every 10 uses a Nokia phone while 4 out of 10 says they use Sony Ericsson. The most commonly paired phones are Nokia and Sony Ericsson at 40% rate of incidence.

Overall, Nokia took the lead with 9 out of every 20 mobile users, followed by Sony Ericsson at about 5 out of every 20. Motorola took the 3rd spot at 9% and Samsung at #4 with 6.5%.

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Poll: What anti-virus software you got running?

yuga — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:19:12 +0000

Anybody here still remembers that ThunderByte antivirus from late 90s? It was one of the most powerful of the batch back then because it had heuristic features that can identify and cure even unknown viruses. Our poll for the week is to survey which anti-virus programs people are using nowadays.

On top of my head, I can easily point to AVG, Avast, Nod32, Kaspersky, F-Secure. And then, the more popular commercial ones like Norton, McAfee, PC-cillin and Sophos.

So which one of these you got installed and running on your PC. Please go ahead to the Polls section to submit your feedback.

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