Tips & Tricks
UNLIMITED Overnight * Text for 2 Days
Feb 8th
(*11pm-7am)
ONLY P20 PLUS 20 FREE TEXTS ALL DAY**
For SMART to SMART **7am-11pm
To Register: Load as low as P20 to your prepaid line,
then Type 20 on Send to 258
You will receive a confirmation message of your registration.
You may now make unlimited overnight texts to other SMART subscribers for 2 days.
To enjoy SMART 258 Reload, your account must have a maintaining balance of P1.00 after registration and during the 2-day (text) period.
ALSO AVAILABLE! UNLIMITED TEXT ALL DAY!
P15 for 1 day*
To register, load as low as P15 to your prepaid line
Registration is from 9am to 5pm and 11pm to 6am only
Type 15 and send to 258
You will receive a confirmation message of your registration.
You may now make unlimited text to other SMART subscribers for 1 day.
P30 for 2 days*
To register, load as low as P30 to your prepaid line
Registration is from 9am to 5pm and 11pm to 6am only
Type 30 and send to 258
You will receive a confirmation message of your registration.
You may now make unlimited text to other SMART subscribers for 2 days.
P60 for 4 days*
To register, load as low as P60 to your prepaid line
Registration is from 9am to 5pm and 11pm to 6am only
Type 60 and send to 258
You will receive a confirmation message of your registration.
You may now make unlimited text to other SMART subscribers for 4 days.
Globe Info
Jan 15th
TEXT POEA for job opportunities, job validation, recruitment agency information and POEA customer care inquiries. (Just text POEA HELP to 2385)
WORLD TIME for the exact time in other countries (Just text TIME (City) to 2333) Ex. TIME New York
WORLD CURRENCY for today’s currency exchange rates (Just text CTC Forex to 2333) Ex. CTC FOREX EUR
NAIA SCHEDULES for arrival and departure flight schedules (Just text FLIGHT to 2333)
What is Info2Go?
Jan 12th
Info2Go delivers content fresh to your mobile phone!
From helpful information and inspirational words, to entertainment and lifestyle — Info2Go lets you make the most out of your phone!
Get what you want, and get it straight from your phone.
Soulfood– inspiration from Bible verses, discipleship tips, book excerpts, and daily devotionals
Scoop– fresh and hot showbiz news from Cristy Fermin and Lolit Solis
Laff– jokes and laughs from 286mobile’s regular roster, celebrity of the month, or Lolo Ben of Mango Comics’ twisted humor
Horoscope– your fate decided, with daily regular horoscope readings, or fun horoscope from Mango Comics’ Duday and TM FM’s Manay Manay
KPower– Ka Ernie Baron’s knowledge power on herbal medicine, treatment, weather, health/illness, history, general knowledge, and local folklore
Served daily, each message delivered to your mobile phone costs only P 2.50!
How to add ringtones to a Blackberry
Dec 18th
Greg Hughes has an old post here on how to add a ringtone to your Blackberry 7290 model.
Check it out here.
How to Send an International Text Message?
Nov 29th
This “How To” is for Sun Cellular subscribers only:
1. Go to the “Write Message” menu of your mobile phone and compose your message there.
2. Select “Send” from the Messages submenu of your mobile phone.
3. Input destination number, if you are sending to recipient not listed in the directory or scroll to the desired recipient from your address book.
4. Please remember to put a + sign, the designated country code, operator code, and mobile number.
5. Press “OK” to send.
6. Wait for the “Message Sent” notification.
Note: Commands and prompts illustrated above may differ depending on handset model.
Free Downloads for your Cellphones
Nov 17th
You cna download free ringtones and stuff into your phone by simply registering to Katazo.com. Here are the sample tones available for free:
- Ying Yang Twins: Wait (The Whisper Song)
- Fall Out Boy: Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down
- Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
- The Notorious B.I.G.: Big Poppa
- Green Day: Wake Me Up When September Comes
- Shakira ft. Alejandro : La Tortura
- Natasha Bedingfield: These Words
- 50 Cent: Disco Inferno
- Norah Jones: Don’t Know Why
- Damian Marley: Welcome To Jamrock
Note: This offer is only for polyphonic compatible handsets on AT&T and Cingular only. Most handsets available including Audiovox, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.
How to upload a ringtone to your phone.
Nov 12th
This is a short list fo ways to upload/download a ringtone to your mobile phone unit. There are plenty of ways actually, but most of the time, you will need a connection betwen your PC and your phone.
- RS232 cable. The older phone untis use this cable to connect your PC to your phone. It’s a serial cable and can be had for Php150 to Php300 in Greenhills or other phone shops.
- IR-to-PC cable. If your phone has an Infrared port, you can go get an IR-to-PC cable. It’s a little slow though.
- Bluetooth. This is the latest option but still rarely used. You can buy a USB bluetooth dongle connected to your PC’s USB drive and just enable bluetooth connection on your phone. Radius is around 5 feet.
- USB port. Some newer models of phones have a built-in USB port. pricey though.
- Mobile Network. You mobile network company offers ringtones and other MMS items for a flat fee. You can subsribe to that to get the latest tones and downloads. MMS costs about Php5 to Php25 per download.
With all the PC to phone connection, you will need to install a phone manager like the Nokia PC Suite.
How to convert .3GP movies
Oct 13th
You will need to download and install QuickTime Pro from Apple.com. It comes free with iTunes 5.1
- Open a .3gp movie in QuickTime Player.
- Press File -> Export. Enter filename.
- Choose type of output file (Export: Movie to AVI (.AVI) or Movie to Quicktime Movie (.MOV)).
- For AVI: press Options -> Video Settings -> choose DV – PAL (for better quality of re-compression).
3GP – is the new mobile phone video file format.
3GPP, 3GPP2 are the new worldwide standard for the creation, delivery and playback of multimedia over 3rd generation, high-speed wireless networks. Defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 respectively, these standards seek to provide uniform delivery of rich multimedia over newly evolved, broadband mobile networks (3rd generation networks) to the latest multimedia-enabled wireless devices.
Tailored to the unique requirements of mobile devices, 3GPP and 3GPP2 take advantage of MPEG-4, the standard for delivery of video and audio over the Internet.
Extensions:
.3gp 3GPP standard, GSM Network, Video: MPEG-4, H.263, Audio: AAC, AMR
.3g2 3GPP2 standard, CDMA2000 Network, Video: MPEG-4, H.263, Audio: AAC, AMR, QCELP.
The evolution of high-speed wireless digital networks is based on two predominant technologies — GSM and CDMA2000. Both types of 3G networks are currently being deployed worldwide to offer consumers a variety of on-the-go multimedia services.
3GPP and 3GPP2 Mobile Infrastructure Solutions — Many of the world’s largest telecommunications infrastructure companies provide 3GPP and 3GPP2 mobile content delivery products and services to operators. Examples include:
- Alcatel
- Ericsson
- Nokia
- Siemens Mobile
- Sun Microsystems
3GPP and 3GPP2 Mobile Phones — Many of today’s new mobile phones offer 3GPP and 3GPP2 content capture and playback capabilities. Leading providers of these standards-based multimedia phones include:
- Motorola
- NEC
- Nokia
- Panasonic
- Sanyo
- Sharp
- Sony Ericsson
- Toshiba
- Qualcomm