Globe Telecom to Offer BlackBerry Q10 First in PH

Globe Telecom, the country’s second largest mobile communications provider, recently announced the BlackBerry Q10, BlackBerry’s much anticipated QWERTY smartphone. This comes after the company also announced the telco-exclusive BlackBerry Z10 LTE a few months back.

The BlackBerry Q10 (LTE version) will be exclusively available for the first 30 days to the telco, carrier-wise, and will sell for as low as P1,499 with a monthly cashout of P500 under the company’s MySuperPlan 999 program. Also included in this plan is Globe’s No Billshock policy and a 7-day phone replacement guarantee.

The BlackBerry Q10 was launched together with company’s first full touch smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, on January 30, 2013. It sports a  3.1-inch AMOLED multi-touch display, a dual-core 1.5GHz A9 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB onboard storage, and an 8-megapixel rear camera with AF and LED flash.

Subscribers can order the BlackBerry Q10 via www.globe.com.ph/bbq10 starting May 29. Arrival of units in Globe Stores will begin on June 7, 2013.

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Globe Telecom to Offer BlackBerry Q10 First in PH

DTC Mobile Hints at New Mobile Devices, Possibly Company"s First Dual-Cores

DTC Mobile, the company that brought the first truly affordable smartphone to the Philippines (everything before the GT3 Astroid were above P5k), recently hinted at what could possibly the company’s first batch of dual-core, 4-plus inch Android devices.

This local brand had been lowkey for a while, with its recent releases only the GB3, the GQ6, and the GT5 Astroid Plus, but their latest teaser points at 5 new smartphones of varying sizes. These are all presumably Android, will be named after heavenly bodies, and of course be ultimately affordable.

Hopefully we’ll hear more from DTC Mobile and shed light on some details. For now, let’s just patiently for the bombs they’ll unveil in the near future.

DTC Mobile Hints at New Mobile Devices, Possibly Company"s First Dual-Cores

Curiosity"s First Drilling Site Looks Like a Riverbed

The Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity will make its first drilling on the Martian soil within this month. Curiosity will drill on what looks like a dry riverbed with lots of veins.

The site is called John Klien after congressman Klien. It is now called a candy store on Mars due to the diverse types of minerals found on the site. These minerals, like gypsum, can only form with the presence of water.

John Klien is full of fractures and rock veins that it looks like a dry riverbed on Earth. The Curiosity team is elated by the site"s richness that might prove that there is still a large amount of water below the Martian soil.

There"s More Water on Mars

There"s more juice on Mars. This is what Curiosity is trying to establish. Scientists already know that Mars once has Oceans on its surface but they are not sure how large these oceans were.

There are also large amount of water on the north and south pole of the red planet. These water turn to ice caps when Mars is on winter.

The mars rover Spirit also discovered later in 2010 that there is frozen water beneath the martian soil. The extent of this Martian Permafrost is also not yet established.

What does water on Mars mean to you?

We cannot mine the water that we find on Mars and bring it to Earth to quench the thirst of the people in the dry parts of Africa.

The purpose of trying to find out if there is water on Mars is not to get it. It is to learn.

We will learn the effects of the presence of the different chemicals on the Martian atmosphere to its water and soil. We will also learn how to prevent Earth from becoming Mars-like in the future.

If Curiosity finds enough evidence that water has been on Mars for a very long time and produced life forms even as single celled minute organisms, we will know that life is not exclusive to planet Earth.

Curiosity"s First Drilling Site Looks Like a Riverbed