My Mystery Smartphone is...

My Mystery Smartphone is no other than the new Samsung GALAXY S II that is about to officially touch Philippine shores come July 2, 2011.
Experience the seamless user interface and multi-tasking smoothness with its built-in 1.2GHz Dual Core Processor which may be better than your netbook's. :P

Gaze at vivid colors and images with Super AMOLED Plus display screen stemming from Samsung’s LCD and

Round 3 Winners of the Guess My Mystery Smartphone

The final round gathered at least 214 likes and 130 entries. Thank you for participating in the  Guess My Mystery Smartphone Round 3 Contest from June 17 to 20, 2011. 


After filtering the duplicate entries from 130, we had 98 valid entries left. We also disqualified a number of entries with the wrong URL links in the FB wall or in the comment section of the article.


Listing the 98

Round 3: My Mystery Smartphone has Voice Talk

This is the third and final round! If you missed answering the Guess My Mystery Smartphone Round 1 and Round 2, this is your last chance to win a WiFi Smartphone!

The final clue for our Mystery Smartphone is its Voice Talk feature.

The enhanced voice technology enables users to "do more with less. From opening the app to controlling the messaging, social media, email and calling, ...[it]

Round 2 Winners of the Guess My Mystery Smartphone

Thank you to the additional 149 likes and all the entries who joined our  Guess My Mystery Smartphone Round 2 Contest from June 12 to 15, 2011. After filtering the duplicate entries, we had 76 entries left.


I had to disqualify a number of entries with the wrong URL links in the FB wall or in the comment section of the article.


Listing the 76 non-duplicate entries


The first three in the

Round 2: My Mystery Smartphone has Super Amoled

Since it's Philippine Independence Day, this clue is a give-away! If you missed answering the Guess My Mystery Smartphone Round 1 correctly, then you shouldn't anymore in Round 2.

The Mystery Smartphone is equipped with a 4.27 inch WVGA (480x800) Super AMOLED Plus screen. It "introduces the best in quality in color gamut, contrast ratio and edge sharpness. Using RealStripe screen technology and

Round 1 Winners of the Guess My Mystery Smartphone

Thank you to the almost 200 participants who joined our  Guess My Mystery Smartphone Round 1 Contest from June 7 to 10, 2011. After filtering the duplicate entries, we had 171 entries left.

For the following, I had to disqualify one of your entries since an individual can only have 1 entry: (Ms. Quiambao, Mr. Lacson, Ms. Lao, Ms. Tanpiuco, and Mr. Mamuyac). Only one of your entries was

Dual Core is Dual Fun: Guess My Mystery Smartphone Round 1

It is said that two brains are better than one. More so in mobile phones when we talk about performance. Just like My Mystery Smartphone which has a dual-core application processor!


*Mystery Smartphone Main display on left photo: Have all of your favorite apps on the main page for easy access. Can you guess what mobile phone this is?

Dual-Core is Dual Fun

Have you experienced lagging

Samsung Fat to Flat Promo

As part of Samsung's Fat to Flat Promo in the consumer upgrade to Samsung FPTV, selected 32’’ LCD & LED TV are subjected to consumer promotion effective February 15 – March 31, 2011.

The Samsung Fat to Flat Promo mechanics are as follows:

IN-STORE PROMO MECHANICS:

3-A CASH BUYER PROCESS:
1.      Cashier will receive customer’s cash payment for following units:
a.       LA-32C350 (32’’ LCD TV)

The 5 Winila Card Winners

Thank you to all Digital Manila readers who participated in the contest in conjunction with Winila - Be One of 5 Winila Winners of P200 Cards.

However, out of the of 18 who participated, only 10 were qualified entries. The rules/steps indicated were:
1) Post the blogpost's link in your FB wall
2) Tag Digital Manila Facebook page (@DigitalManila) in your FB wallpost
3) Post the link of your FB

Be One of 5 Winila Winners of P200 Cards

This is a simple contest with Winila. Share this blog post on your Facebook wall and place the link of your FB wallpost on the comment section below and you're done.

Don't forget to tag "@" "DigitalManila" in your message-post so your FB wallpost will also be visible in Digital Manila Facebook page.

This Winila contest starts today and ends December 12, 2010. Five (5) winners will be selected

Chikka Text to Win Raffle Promo Mechanics

Chikka, an online and mobile application locally developed for exchanging text and online instant messages, has a new "Text to Win" raffle promo which gives its users the chance to win an iPad™ or a iPod nano® whenever they send messages from the mobile phone to online buddies via Chikka technology.

Promo Mechanics:

1. Chikka Text to Win Raffle Promo duration is from November 15 to December 15

Trade-in Your Old CRT TV to a Bravia LCD TV - Sony's Big Switch

What is Sony's Big Switch? Starting tomorrow, November 19, upto Nov 21, Sony will be accepting - trade-ins of your old CRT TV to a BRAVIA LCD TV!

It's all about trading in the old and upgrading to a new one - that is Sony’s Project: Big Switch. Sony Bravia will be having a 3-day trade-in event wherein customers are entitled to a trade-in value of P4,000 when they swap their 21”-34” CRT TVs (of

Tech Seminar and Gift Pack Contest

Along with my other blogs, it's also Christmas time in Digital Manila! And we're starting the season with a merry contest of ticket and gift pack giveaways!

Up for grabs are 5 tickets to the "How To Break the Traffic Barrier Of Your Blog" tech seminar worth P300 each and 5 gift packs by simply sharing the tech seminar information. All these while getting the valuable knowledge about blogs and

Skybroadband Trivia Overload Champion Awarded

Skybroadband  has awarded the 13-inch 250 GB MacBook to the Trivia Overload champion!
Marnie Garbo of Laguna bested about 4,000 players of the Trivia Overload game on Facebook. Netizens flocked to the Trivia Overload Facebook application powered by Skybroadband challenging their own trivia geniuses.

The winner for Round 1 and 2 is Christopher Andres of Novaliches who bagged a 32 GB iPod Touch

My Rewards, My Globe - 4438 Revealed

Finally, the 4438 mystery was revealed yesterday as Globe sent special messages to its 25 million Globe and TM phone subscribers.
For days, 4438 remained a mystery until yesterday - April 4, 2010 - the day of revelation. 4438 turned out to be the launch of Globe's loyalty program called My Rewards.My Globe.


More than 90% of all the subscribers were able to get the expected message yesterday

UnliMAIL: Email on the Move from Globe Tattoo

Need to check your email on the move? You're carrying your laptop around but there's no wifi or Internet around?
What about the idea of checking your email through your phone even without internet connection? Globe Tattoo announces a new service that make mobile email virtually limitless - Globe Tattoo UnliMAIL.

With UnliMail, you get unlimited email right on your mobile phone, and it’s totally

Online Video Contest Results by Cream-O Released

 Cream-O Online Video-Making Contest has recently been concluded with the announcement of winners who took home a MacBook Air laptop for the grand prize, a Canon Vixia Camcorder for the 2nd prize and an iPod Touch for the 3rd prize.

Cream-Oholics showed that they could do the extreme for Cream-O. They would jump off a hill, scream at the top of their lungs, swim a wild river, brave a cemetery

Skycable's New Discovery Channels; Win a Food Trip!

Skycable clients get a chance to win a food trip with their new Discovery Network subscription; preview them on Skycable Channel 22.


Nostradamus Decoded premieres on February 21, Sunday, at 9pm. Decipher the predictions of the world’s most famous prophet, and unravel the mysteries on why so many people actually believe him.

Discovery Turbo then revs up home entertainment on the preview

Microsoft Blogger's Night

Microsoft Philippines preps-up the local blogging community with its upcoming Microsoft Blogger's Night.

Microsoft Philippines set up an online community event for 100 selected bloggers as part of its Microsoft VIP mix for January 2010.

It is set to happen on January 28, 2010 6-10pm  at 16/F 6750 Ayala Office Tower, Ayala Avenue, Makati City.

For attendees above 18yrs old only, the event will

Cheftonio wins Bobson Shirt Giveaway

In conclusion to one of our many contests, and four days after our Samsung Phone giveaway, the Bobson Shirt prize goes to Cheftonio who won with his simplistic but sincere answer to "What Christmas means to you?"Together with guest blogger-judge Flowell Galindez who writes for Ang Sa Wari Ko and Open Road, we choose the winner for the simplicity and essence of his answer. Flowell is also the