The Philippines, being dubbed as “the Texting Capital of the World”, is also a great market for cell phones and other high-tech gadgets like laptops/notebooks and MP3 players. In my opinion, Filipinos are truly fascinated by cellular phones and other high-tech gadgets because of curiosity. We can’t say that every Filipino can afford to buy a Blackberry 8320 phone or a Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic cell phones but Filipino culture saw that everything new and shiny is attractive to many Pinoys.

Read the rest of this entry »

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Senator Richard Gordon proposed through Senate Bill 2402 that text messaging should be taxed in the Philippines. As early as now, many Filipinos have expressed dismay over this bill. Interviewed cell phone users are disgusted and complained that this “TEXT TAX” is abusive and unfair to the consumers (in this case, the subscribers).

An excerpt from the Inquirer stated that Read the rest of this entry »

News has it that the cost of a text/txt/SMS message sent was reduced to 50 centavos from the original one peso rate.  This was included in the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Philippine President Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) yesterday to the delight of Filipinos addicted to texting.

Cell phone addiction in the Philippines is severe. Even six-year old kids know how to send and receive text/txt/SMS messages here.

Read the rest of this entry »

The Philippines, being branded as the “Texting Capital of the World” might already be experiencing some of the negative effects of texting. This is evidenced by the poor academic performance of students especially in spelling. Texting and/or cellphone addiction can do so much damage to our country’s future. Our great passion for new cellphone models packed with new and better features (thanks Nokia, Samsung, Motorla, et al.) makes this craving for cellphone texting grow even more. But beware of the possible consequences.

Read the rest of this entry »