Path: Growing in Asia. But not so much in the Philippines?

Path is a great app. It looks beautiful and the UI is very streamlined. The app is available for iOS and Android phones.

I’ve seen a lot of friends who are registered users of the service but despite their number, there’s only 2 individual who are actively using them among my friends.

It has been reported by various tech blogs that the service is growing in Asia. But why is it that after registration, people don’t use it regularly? It’s because of Facebook.

There are 100 Million users by now in Google+ but only a few are active. It’s also because of Facebook.

Why Facebook?

Because beauty and innovation right now is useless for another social app or service if your friends are staying somewhere else.

Google+ is striving because it’s useful for those who wants to grow their network. It’s not just for your friends alone. But what about Path?

Personally, I love how easy you can post anything in Path. But it feels empty because when we “share” we want friends whom we can share something with. If there’s no one in a “social” app, then the motivation to share diminish.

Do you use Path? What do you think of the app? What do you think of this service?

iPhone 4 Unlocked Now Available – Could Come To the Philippines too

Apple is now selling through its stores the unlocked iPhone 4. What does it mean to Filipinos? Well, it means that you can now get an iPhone 4 someday that doesn’t require the 2-year contract from Globe.

Right now, only the GSM model of the iPhone 4 is available. But that’s okay if you’re planning to live in the Philippines. The 16GB version of the iPhone 4 is available for USD649$ roughly 27,907php if you convert directly to pesos and the 32GB is available for USD749$ or 32,307php. However, we all know that it would probably be more expensive than that.

I just hope that with this move, iPhone will one day become available to other carriers and the competition on selling the iPhone will one day come to our shores.

Is your iPhone eating up your phone bill?

Mine does. In a shocking discovery, apparently my bill for Globe is now around 8,000php. That is soooooooooooo BIG that I now hate Globe. I called their CustHelp (211) and the agent there did not help solve that problem.

So the problem is the Wi-Fi.

The Globe CustHelp via 211 did not tell me this but good thing the people at applei.ph community told me about “Kahit naka wi-fi ka, pag nag fluctuate yung wi-fi, automatic mag co-connect sa 3G yung iphone” (even if you are using your wi-fi, once the connection between your router and iphone fluctuates, your iPhone will connect to the 3G service.)

What to do?

iPhone users, who are fond of connecting to the internet through their home wi-fi should change the APN settings to make sure you will not be billed by Globe or SMART on internet use.

How?

1. Go to Settings > General > Network

2. Change APN from internet.globe.com.ph to something like fake.internet.globe.com.ph

3. Reset your “Usage” for Cellular Data Network.

4. Connect to the internet via wi-fi and check if your “Usage” doesn’t get any bytes.

Once you have confirmed that you can connect to the internet through your home wi-fi without the Usage getting any bytes, then you won’t be getting those WHOPPING POSTPAID BILLS anymore.