Typical Pinoy behavior?


Remember a month ago when SMART had that crazy promo where you could avail of the XDA II, Treo 600 and P900 at an absurd plan of P1200.00 a month? Then Globe followed offering the same promo a light niche higher?

So I’ve been walking around the malls, seeing more and more people with P900’s and XDA II’s. Sad, all they do is text and make calls.

And then some: others just decide to sell their units online just to get more money. Reminds me of a social development phenomenon where the government and NGO’s give land to squatters, who in turn sell or rent the land out for extra income.

Typical Pinoy?

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August 24th, 2004
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Written by:
Alucard
Posted on:
8/26/2004 at 12:12 pm

you bet!

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Written by:
Paulo Jherome M. Manalo
Posted on:
8/26/2004 at 6:01 pm

Very typical indeed…

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Written by:
iBernie
Posted on:
8/27/2004 at 9:00 am

I think *some* of them just realizes that being tied up to a service plan is not as bad as being tied up to a device. Imagine this scenario: Someone avails of the promo and gets the latest/greatest gadget phone offered for a two-year service contract. No problems with the service contract because it is consumable, i.e. it can be used by the person but at the rate these gadgets are updated/upgraded, he will have a virtually obsolete gadget in a couple of months’ time.

A lot of officemates actually asked me if such offerings by the telco are a good deal. I just gave them a “canned” answer of “Think of how often/seldom you change your phone, if you think you can stick it out with the “free” phone, then go ahead and get it, but if you are the type to changes phones every month (hi Poch!), then that offer is not for you.”

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Written by:
rjnworks
Posted on:
9/4/2004 at 7:15 pm

hahaha… it’s just like having a dsl connection and for all you know they just use the internet for irc…..

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Written by:
Kinny Salas
Posted on:
9/9/2004 at 12:31 am

Guilty as charged! Thank goodness I decided not to avail of it because of the lock feature. When i travel, I want an open line phone so i can just buy a prepaid card and stick it in there so my globe bill won’y give me a heart attack at the end of the month. So I dished out for an open line N7610.

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Written by:
jayvee
Posted on:
9/9/2004 at 12:58 pm

well promos are promos … there really is a catch somewhere despite the very attractive marketing scheme, diba?

hey kinny, you’re a beauty columnist right? maybe you should contribute one time to attract our female market.. “technology and beauty” :)

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Written by:
onie
Posted on:
11/17/2004 at 11:46 pm

he kinny you know what, the xda o2, funny it seems that Smart can really network lock the device….got mine after 2 months waiting period sold it eventually. Went back to my first love my T3 and my rugggedly handsome t610 it was such a feat to text using the XDA while multi tasking (say making chismis)…even when you are dead stuck in traffic…