PLDT Telpad and The Endless Possibilities

You’ve probably see the commercial of PLDT Telpad on TV showing bits of its features and I have to say it’s a pretty cool device with all things you can do with it from web browsing, to video calls and playing games like angry birds but what else can a regular user do with such a powerful device.


Here are more ways that you can use the AD-1000A Telpad:

1. Promote World Peace!

Yes, just like the most common answers of contestants in beauty contests, a Telpad user can take part on the greatest humanitarian cause with its ability to connect to any social network to have ever existed, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Multiply, etc., all this social mesh have existing applications on Android Market that a Telpad user can download, install and use via WIFI to spread the love and peace throughout humanity.

2. Learn in style.

PLDT AD-1000A Telpad is a substitute to all your reference needs. Say you’re a student that carries a bunch of more or less 1000 page books to school every day, what the Telpad can do is eliminate this tedious practice with its eBook feature.

E-books are digital publications, consisting of text, images, or both, and are readable on computers or other electronic devices. The Telpad’s E-book reader allows users to read books virtually in a book-like manner with the flipping page action or even better with its ability to highlight a portion or add a side note on the virtual page or zoom in or out the page to the user’s preference. With the Telpad’s 32GB of storage, users can save thousands of eBooks on it and will save them a bunch of weight to bring every day.

3. Teach interactively.

The device has a 7 inches TFT LCD capacitive screen that few people can picked into clearly all at the same time, all you need to do is download basic learning and educational tools and applications on Android market and ask people to set near you and teach them interactively with everything you want or better yet if you have a large audience, connect the device to a TV/Screen monitor via its HDMI port so a lot of people can see.

4. Explore creativity.

The device has a 4-point multi-touch screen, meaning, you can touch the screen with all of your four fingers all at the same time registering individual commands per finger, so how can this be related to creativity? Art, painting and anything artistry related, the device is capable of having this applications installed so you can sketch your way out to hearts content.

5. Experience movies and videos.

Love movies? Well I’m not going to tell you that the Telpad can let you watch movies because it’s given on the specs sheet that it supports .mp4, .avi, .flv and .mkv, instead I challenge you to create your own masterpiece and share it on Facebook or Youtube. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Telpad is capable of editing a video you’ve captured using your camcorder or mobilephone and make it into a movie that everyone could enjoy. You can find a lot of video editing apps on Android Market and it’s up to you to construct your storyline, plot, etc.

6. Conquer time.

Conquer time and not time conquer you. The Telpad can let you easily manage your time by organizing your daily schedules making it your personal virtual secretary. It will keep you posted with the reminders and To Do lists that you created for the day. Just choose the wide range of calendar and reminder application on the market that best suites you.

7. Love yourself.

Not in a deceitful way of course, but in a healthy way. The Telpad via the Android market offers you a wide range of applications to monitor your health. Weight, BMI, Blood pressure, Sugar, Exercise, these were just a few of the stuffs you can monitor using your device. A lot of apps also offer tips on how to improve your ways and means, personality, looks, etc.

And so much more…

As mentioned on my blog title, owning a PLDT Telpad has endless possibilities, you can do whatever you want or say whatever you say, you can even conquer the world with it, but which is which, always remember the moral lesson that the movie Spiderman partake, that with such power comes with great responsibility. Be responsible enough with your decisions and actions in using the device and most of all put God first above the rest.

To know more about PLDT Telpad, click the following links:

Official website: www.pldttelpad.com
PLDT landline Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pldtlandline

Read More

PLDT Telpad, The New Plan Package

I was able to to drop by PLDT Ozamis a few days ago to inquire about their service coverage having heard that they extended such. I asked if they have now reach the next barangay where I was working but unfortunately they haven't yet, instead, I found something interesting tech-wise, the new Telpad plan offering!

Telpad is a tablet pc configured primarily as a PLDT landline that can do local calls, direct dialing access for NDD and IDD, caller ID, among the rest of the basic phone features and like the rest of the current tablet pc currently offered in the market, it can do web browsing and multimedia functions. PLDT offered this device since December, 2010 as a package to a fixed high internet speed Plan but have not captured my fancy having been offered expensively and unreasonably.

So what where the recent changes in the Plan offering?

First and foremost, the device itself, from the S7 Slim with a 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor running Android Froyo, the current device offered is now AD1000 running the latest Android Gingerbread operating system.

Then from a no cash out payment for all Telpad plan package with 36 months subscription period, the device will now be brought by the subscriber in 3 payment option; a one time fee of PhP5,500, a 12 month installment for 450 per month or a 24 month installment of 250 per month. Quite expensive this time but unlike the before that the device remains a property of PLDT even after subscription period, the subscriber now can keep the device after the subscription period.

For monthly payment calculation of old plan, under the Plan 990 and 1290, the add on is PhP859 and PhP550 per month respectively, a total of PhP1849 only with 1Mbps speed boast.

In the new plan, under the Plan 990 and 1290, the add on is PhP859 + 250 (24months) and PhP550 + 250 (24months) per month respectively, a total of PhP2099 with 1Mbps speed boast.

Well, I think this is a good Plan offer if you need a high speed internet since you only need to add a few more bucks to get the tablet, but for the light internet user, this plan is a waste of money and speed. Even in my techy lifestyle, I only consider myself among the casual since I'm not very much into uploading or downloading stuffs on the internet. Blogging doesn't need high speed internet nor smartphone connection rather so speed is not a big deal for me.

I believe PLDT needs to consider offering the Telpad on lower internet packages like in Plan 990 or 1290 without add-on amount to pay for high internet speed because like the former, this package won't take off rather being again costly and irrational. I don't care if they will price the device higher than that of the current. Its more like wanting to pay for the device that I can use rather than pay on internet speed that will just be wasted. Call that logic!

Read More