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Smart Uzzap: IM, Email and a bucket of SMS

Smart yesterday launched a new PC and mobile IM app called Smart Uzzap (probably a Web 2.0 play on the Tagalog term “usap” or talk). The app/service seems to aim into the PC-to-mobile (and vice versa) messaging market.

The app can be downloaded/installed directly into your mobile phone and will run via a 3G connection to initiate the mobile messaging (can’t seem to make it work via WiFi of the phone). The catch — there’s no connection/browsing/3G charges at all, just a one-off time-based package pricing.

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Smart Uzzap has a chat, email and SMS component and from now until July 20th, users can send 10 free SMS each day. Uzzap can also connect to your contacts on other popular messengers. It does not say which ones but I’m guessing Yahoo! Messenger.

After the promo period, you can top-up Php25 for 1 whole day of free service (plus 100 SMS), Php150 for 1 week (with 500 SMS) and Php400 for 1 month (with 2,000 SMS). All free SMS usage will have to come thru Uzzap though.

Update: Jim Ayson, Smart Product Manager for Platforms & Internet Services, adds that Uzzap can connect to your YM and MSN messengers as well a supports up to 4 clients (Nokia S60 2nd ed, Nokia S60 3rd ed, J2ME, and Windows XP/Vista. You can also login via your mobile phone’s wifi connection. And no, Uzzap wasn’t made to replace Chikka. See comment #20 below.)

Disclosure: Smart is an advertiser on this blog and several other blogs authored by me. Just click on the Uzzap flash banners (or text “UZZAP” to 7272) to download a copy of the app.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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  2. Avatar for melvin melvin says:

    i want uzzap

  3. Avatar for Ann Ann says:

    pano maguuzzap pg nasa abroad?di na gumgana pag sa fone.sa web lang pwede e.

  4. Avatar for Reena Reena says:

    Panu mkapg siGn in dto xa uzap?

  5. Avatar for pazaway pazaway says:

    walang sumagot sa tanung q haiiist my pano mg room sa uzzap sa abroad

  6. Avatar for jeff jeff says:

    dn ba tlaga ibabalik ang mga room sa uzzap pg nsa abroad ka kc and2 aq sa saudi no categories ang lumabas sna pki post kng my room pa o wla na tq

  7. Avatar for jeff jeff says:

    dn ba tlaga ibabalik ang mga room sa uzzap pg nsa abroad ka kc and2 aq sa saudi no categories ang lumabas sna pki post

  8. Avatar for jeff jeff says:

    pano po mg room tlgang wla na bng room pg nsa abroad

  9. Avatar for Ela Ela says:

    ang hirap magregister, panu ba? dati meron ako uzzap s cp ko..pero ngayon asa iba bansa ako i want to use uzzap, panu ba?

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