How Skype and GoogleTalk Makes Communication Easier for OFWs and Bloggers

Google Talk and Skype for Samsung Galaxy Note is a great means of keeping in touch with user’s family and loved ones.  It is really of big help to Overseas Filipino Workers and for bloggers like me.  It makes communicating with my family, clients and co-bloggers easier than ever.  It both has an easy interface and can be understood with no trouble by former and new users.   The voice and video calling services of both application offer ease of communication for me.  I love both applications because it supports multi-tasking.  Credits to its features that offer text messaging, message exchange, voice chat, video chat and email reply through chat.  Google Talk really makes my work and family communications by all means easier.  It really helps me because I can contact not only Samsung Galaxy Note users but also personal computers, making it even more possible for a great communication with my family.  What’s more enjoying is that I can send pictures, videos and files to my family and vice versa.   It makes me feel like I am still with them enjoying every moment.  It is as if I am really with them.  Skype is really the perfect way for Overseas Filipino Workers and bloggers like me to connect with our loved ones and other various individuals, may it be through the application itself or through mobile or phone calls.

Samsung Galaxy S

Samsung Galaxy S

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Samsung Galaxy S has a great viewing screen at four inches from corner to corner, with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and with a Super AMOLED tech.  it is a great attribute tp communication and entertainment.  Samsung Galaxy S has a dimension of 122.4mm x 64.2 x 9.9 mm.  This doesn't make it unmanageable.  Also adding to this general impression is the lightness of the device.  The microUSB socket for charging and data transfer is hidden behind a sliding cover, rather than a cumbersome plastic flap or just being left exposed. All the other buttons and the 3.5mm headphone jack are also conveniently positioned.  The powerful 1GHz processor ensures a superfast internet experience, where other feature such as Google Maps with Voice Search will come in very handy.  Adding more fun to this brilliant Smartphone is the Android Marketplace, which has over 100,000 apps.  And with Samsung's new Swype technology, typing in searches and messages is relatively faster.  It is mobile entertainment and communication together in one phone.

Watch a video of the hands-on demonstration of the features of Samsung Galaxy S below:

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S Planner for Samsung Galaxy Note

The Samsung Galaxy Note S Planner

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S Planner is the best application for busy people.  Users with many plans should use the S Planner.  It will allow them to create timelines where they can indicate a plan for the weekdays and then another plan for the weekends.  Once they do that, users can access the S Planner then pinch to zoom to see specific timelines or zoom out to see the entire schedule.

This allows the user to add in an event for a specific time and date and set the application remind them.  The difference with other reminder application is that Samsung Galaxy Note allows the users to write down their reminders with the S Pen which save the time that will be used for typing.  The Galaxy Note will recognize the users’ text and create the reminder for them.  The new version of S Planner is really redesigned from previous versions so it can take full advantage of the S Pen.  It now offers seven different views compared to the four different views available on the older version.  New additions include a three day agenda as well as a handy tasks feature which previously had to be installed as a stand alone application.  Because the S Pen offers more precise navigation.  Creating a new event is very simple to do and you are given an option to set an alarm as a reminder.  One view that is particularly useful on the phone was the agenda because it displays a wide range of calendar entries from the past to current time.  This offers the users with simple overview of their life and makes organizing schedule a quick and easy task. 

Check out the preview of the S Planner below:

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Chikka Text Messenger on Samsung Galaxy Note

We all know that sending and receiving text messages can be problematic and costly when your destination is the Philippines.  Personally, I find it hard to communicate with my family, friends and colleagues through the usual way of mobile phones sometimes.  It’s either I do not have prepaid load or they find the rates of replying to me high.  Good thing, Chikka Text Messenger solves this dilemma by providing a communication hub via online servers.  That is why I installed Chikka Text Messenger on my Samsung Galaxy Phone.  It allows me send text messages to the Philippines for free and it also allows my family and friend to reply to me instantly for only PHP0.50/sms. 

The application loads quite quickly and the account setup is simple as well.  If you possess a Globe, Smart, or Sun mobile phone you may simply enter your phone number and password.  Eventhough there is a nominal fee for the phone responding to the messages, it is still very helpful because the fee is way much lower compared to the fee when replying using telecom sims.  Chikka Text Messenger has a look and feel similar to the messenger utility built into the OS with a few extra features and settings.  It has a clean layout and simple contrasting colors, making it easy to read.  I am really thankful to Chikka Text Messenger because I am able to have better communication with my friends, family and colleagues eversince I installed in on my Samsung Galaxy Note.

Samsung Repp

Samsung Repp

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Samsung Repp is a very inexpensive smartphone.  It also has awing features. Its performance is great due to its Android Gingerbread operating system on 800 MHz processor.  With 3.2-inch touchscreen display featured HVGA (360 x 480 pixel) resolution, Samsung Repp provides great size of viewing.  110.5mm x 58.4mm x 13.2mm dimension and weighs 105.5 grams, Samsung Repp is pretty compact.  Samsung Repp has a 3 MP camera which can be used for capturing pictures and recording videos.  With 2 GB internal memory and up to 32GB external SD card, it is quite convenient for storing your data.  It has a very impressive battery life for the entry-level smartphone.

Samsung Repp has proved us that an affordable smartphone can provide users with impressive features.  By launching Samsung Repp, Samsung is showing its great capability in producing great phone with affordable price.  Even though the features is not a premium one, it’s worth with the price.  Samsung Repp is definitely a great addition to Samsung's sensational smartphones released on 2011.

Watch a short review about Samsung Repp below:

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How ZigZag Board Helps Bloggers Like Me

As a blogger, I am required to meet with some people. They can be clients or co-bloggers whom I work with in a certain project.  I really can’t thank Samsung Galaxy Note enough for helping me carry out my responsibilities with less hassle.  There is this certain feature of Samsung Galaxy Note that is really beneficial to us whenever me and my co-bloggers or clients can’t meet personally.  This application is ZigZag Board.  ZigZag Board is a shared whiteboard application for Samsung Galaxy Note.  The application is optimized for the Samsung Galaxy Note.  So, it is also a good thing that the bloggers I work with here have also availed the same phone.  It has allowed us to do brainstorming, block diagrams, timelines, and process maps even if we are away from each other.  I can definitely see how my team is working in real time on the same screen.  With the application, we can work together visually and share ideas in corresponding time with only the Samsung Galaxy Note on hand.  I can even modify or edit my co-blogger’s work right away.  ZigZag Board optimized for Samsung Galaxy Note is really a very helpful application for bloggers like me.

S Memo Features of Samsung Galaxy Note

The advanced S Memo for Samsung galaxy Note

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The S Memo allows the users to record all forms of ideas instantly and freely.   Quick memo can be written at any screen to capture the users’ ideas before they are forgotten.  Those ideas along with pictures, voice recordings, typed text, handwritten notes or drawings can be put into S Memo for editing, annotating and sharing whenever the users wanted to.  S Memo works well with the Samsung Galaxy Note’s wide screen and the S Pen to take down important notes and reminders.

The Samsung Galaxy Note will convert the writing into text and allows you to check for errors.  S Memo also allows the users to draw around the memo.  There are four different drawing modes namely the pen, pencil, paintbrush and highlighter.  You can set any of the four depending of what will suit the needs of the users.  It also allows the user to include pictures, sound clips and a map from Google maps relevant to the memo.  S Memo is designed especially for and preinstalled on the Samsung Galaxy Note.  It allows the users to use the device’s S Pen stylus to scribble note.  The application can translate handwritten notes into text which it does with rational accuracy.

Watch the tutorial about the S Memo below:

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