It’s official! The Philippines will be one of the first few countries to get the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III via the country’s top leading networks — Smart Communications and Globe Telecom. Both will begin accepting pre-orders of the Galaxy S3 on May 23, 2012.
Globe Telecom announced that it is the exclusive Philippine carrier of Nokia Lumia 800, Nokia’s latest smartphone device that runs on the Windows platform, featuring Internet Explorer 9, free maps and voice-guided navigation services, and free image and file storage.
The undoubtedly much-anticipated smartphone of the year (in the Philippines) will be finally launched and released tomorrow, December 16! For that, Smart Communications has set up a public iPhone 4S launching tonight (starting at 8 p.m.) until the break of dawn at Rockwell. It’s a free event, so everyone’s invited to drop by tonight!
But before the launching happens, SMART reveals, as early as this time, the plans and rates of the device under their network, where the 16GB variant comes free at Plan 2499! Check out the other plans after the jump!
As previously known, Smart Communications was the first telco to announce getting the much-sought smartphone of the year, the iPhone 4S, “exclusively” in their hands. Then a week after that, Globe Telecom unveiled getting Apple’s newest flagship handset as well.
Just today, both SMART and GLOBE revealed to the public that they’re now accepting “registration of interest”, which basically means, getting an email alert of the device’s arrival, official launch and pricing. This means, there’s no pre-order requests happening yet.
The latest Apple flagship smartphone, the iPhone 4S, will finally land in the Philippines next month, to be carried by both of the country’s leading telcos, Smart Communications and Globe Telecom.
This is quite a surprising news for us since this is the first time in the country to have an iPhone product “exclusively” available in two different telco companies. We knew back then that Globe was the only telco exclusively distributing the iPhones since the first version until the iPhone 4.
Globe Telecom competes against Smart’s Galaxy Y Netphone Edition by introducing the PowerSurf Edition of the same smartphone. Globe’s Samsung Galaxy Y PowerSurf Edition comes free with Plan 499.
I took a picture of this ad from the Manila Bulletin newspaper; it features both the Samsung Galaxy Y and the CloudFone Temptation (which also comes free in Plan 499). Both Android smartphones are tagged to be perfect with the Globe’s PowerSurf 299 that offers 30 days of 300MB data plan.
Research in Motion Philippines has just launched the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 tonight. It will be available in stores nationwide this October 17, 2011. Find out the price of this full QWERTY-cum-touchscreen smartphone after the jump!
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