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Kata F2 is a Smartphone for Smart Users

I have been a Kata smartphone owner and user for a year after buying the first generation M-series or Kata M1, a 5.7-inch display with a quad core processor, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, a whooping 4,000 mAh, 13-megapixel rear camera, 16 GB internal memory, and a Edge/2G and 3G mobile connectivity. My secondary phone was a low-end DTC smartphone that lasted less than a day of a full charge without even using mobile data or WiFi.

List of Kata Stores.Last month, Kata invited me to their fold of endorsers and ambassadors and gave me a Kata F2, a 4.5-inch smartphone that replaced my old DTC phone. Specs-wise, it has a 1,850 mAh battery with a 1.3 GHz quad core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage, Edge/2G, 3G and 4G connectivity, 8-megapixels rear camera and 5-megapixels front camera. We had pizza and beer at Kuppa restaurant in Bonifacio Global City. I love that resto!

Usage-wise, I use the Kata F2 more for SMS or text messaging and mobile calls. For my first long mobile phone call that lasted 20 minutes, the battery status of 98% didn’t even budge. In another call that lasted for 45 minutes, it used up 1% of the battery. One day, I did so much phone calls the battery life just didn’t degrade like many of the compact smartphones and mobile phones I’ve used in the past. I always thought the below-average 1,850 mAh battery wouldn’t last me a day. Wrong assumption.

Turning on the WiFi access of the Kata F2 also did not use up much of the battery life like my old DTC and other low-priced phones I’ve tested or used in the past. My normal use of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, together with text messaging and phone calls, would degrade battery life down to zero within 12-18 hours. Constant use of WiFi will require me to bring a battery pack if I think I will exceed my usage or usage time. But half-a-day’s use without charging is already a plus to my lifestyle.

Also, I’ve stopped bringing my pocket WiFi (I have two, would you believe that?) and started using the Kata F2 as my WiFi device for my other gadgets – my Kata M1, iPad 3 and Asus laptop – while I’m on-the-go. If I’m off for a telecommuting spree with my gadgets, I’ll just bring along my 10,400 mAh battery pack and the Kata F2 electrical charger (the latter is just in case I come across an open outlet in my favorite cafe).

However, power consumption really racks up when connecting to the Internet using mobile data. I turned off my WiFi access and turned on mobile data for a day, and started using my favorite social media sites, and it took about 6-8 hours before I hit the bottom in battery life.

Since the Kata F2 only has by default 1GB of RAM for apps, I made sure my Google disabled e-mail. The Google Contacts and Google People were enabled so I can sync my phone for the important phone numbers I’ve had stored in my Google account for the past few years since I started using an Android phone. The other apps I downloaded was Instagram, GrabTaxi and G-Cash.

In the Philippines, the Kata F2 went on sale to the public early June this year and is priced at P3,999. It is available at most Kata Kiosks, Kata outlets, and Lazada.com. The list of Kata Kiosks from their Facebook Page are listed below:

EDSA Starmall, 3rd Level
Forum Robinsons, 2nd Level
SM City Fairview, 3rd Level SM Cyberzone
SM City Marikina, UG Level SM Cyberzone
SM City Manila, LG Level SM Cyberzone
SM City North EDSA, 4th Level SM Annex Cyberzone
SM City Sta. Mesa, 3rd Level SM Cyberzone
SM City Sta. Rosa, 2nd Level SM Cyberzone
SM Megamall, 4th Level SM Cyberzone
SM Pampanga, Grd Floor SM Cyberzone
SM Southmall, 3rd Level SM Cyberzone
SM Baliwag, 2nd Floor, SM Cyberzone
Robinsons Place Lipa, 2nd Level Lipa City
SM City Bicutan, Lower Ground Building A
Isetann Recto, 2nd Level
Robinsons Place Imus, 3rd Level Cyberzone
Robinsons Place Metro East, 3rd Level
SM City Clark, 2nd Level Cyberzone
Lucky Chinatown Mall, 3rd Level
Walter Mart Bicutan, 2nd Level
Walter Mart Trece Martires, 2nd Level
SM City Lipa, 2nd Level Cyberzone

Kata is also available for sale worldwide through Amazon.com through its company brand OWTEL. Visit the OWTEL Storefront in Amazon to select and order online.

A few of my friends living in the United States have messaged and asked me about Kata since it is available for sale at Amazon.com, asking how the phone is. I told them it’s a great phone for a great buy than spending too much money on branded smartphones like Apple and Samsung. Same chicken, same fixins, different eating ambience. LOL!

Title Image from KataDigital.com | Photos by @raffypekson

Written by Raffy Pekson II

July 15, 2015 at 1:00 am

Posted in ICT, Lifestyle

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The Best Kind of Business in the Philippines is in Prepaid Load

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UPDATE: The prepaid load business is now inoperable.

In replacement, I would like to offer you something else, which is VOICEBLAST.

What is “VoiceBlast?” Do you know what TEXT BLAST is?

Well, instead of text blasting people to death and yet not knowing if they received the message, deleted it, may be interested in it but decline to text back, or simply the number is already dead or terminated, VoiceBlast is the better alternative. With VoiceBlast, you get 100% statistics on all numbers called so you’ll know what the outcome or disposition per number. Plus, voice is definitely 100x better than text.

We also have a Referral Partner Program where you can get paid for referring SMEs, large companies and other organizations every minute they use the VoiceBlast service. E-mail me at raffy@goautodial.com if you’re interested it this.

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It’s an obvious fact that more than 90 percent of the mobile phone market in the Philippines happen to be prepaid. It’s a market where almost a billion text messages (technically called SMS or small message system) is sent out every day. Yes, you read it right – one billion text messages a day! That’s why this huge market lives and breathes on text messaging promotions like unlimited text messaging between like telecom providers per day, per week or per month. Sometimes, that includes sending text messages to other telecom networks. For voice calls, there are also unlimited calls within the same telecom network or even discounted calls abroad.

Now, what if you can use prepaid load as an entrepreneurial business for yourself? “Why?” you’d say since not only the telecom companies are doing that for themselves, there have been one or two doing it through a network marketing model. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford the joining fee or start-up cost. Juan dela Cruz (a.k.a. John Averageman) and his meager salary can’t invest thousands of Pesos to join this direct selling business.

Enter “KikoLoad,” today’s cheapest and easiest way to start a prepaid load business in the Philippines by paying a registration fee of not thousands of Pesos but only 500 Pesos! “What’s the catch?” Actually, nothing. In fact, what Mobile Ventures did more was to give half the amount back as a starting credit to the new member of KikoLoad. So, out of the 500 Pesos you paid for joining, you get back 250 Pesos as your initial KikoLoad so you can start your business instantly. On top of that, they’re also giving away 50 Pesos as a recruitment incentive to the member (that’s you) for every person who joins KikoLoad as part of your network. And that’s not all – every new recruit is eligible to receive a 20,000 Pesos life insurance coverage for FREE! That’s probably the best incentive to join a direct selling business using the most popular product in the Philippines.

“Why the heck should I join this kind of business?”

Let me repeat what I wrote above: more than 90 percent of the mobile phone market in the Philippines are prepaid phones. There are more than enough relatives, neighbors, office colleagues, professional acquaintance, real friends and Facebook friends for you to earn a lot of money by selling prepaid load and recruiting others to sell as well.

If you see how those prepaid load sellers in flea markets and the malls use three phones for each telecom network provider, KikoLoad simplified it into just one mobile phone, regardless of the telecom network provider or SIM card you are using. You say you use a Globe Handyphone SIM card owner? Sell and transfer your KikoLoad credits to a Smart or Sun user. “Now, how do you do that?” To simplify my answer, don’t even worry about it. It’s KikoLoad’s job to give you that convenience. Just focus on selling and recruiting, and KikoLoad does the rest of the technical stuff for you.

People are now flocking to join KikoLoad!

Here’s another benefit for the would-be entrepreneur: prepaid load is a product that does not need inventory management and warehousing. This means no need for any bookkeeping to tag assets, depreciation, obsolescence, spoilage, theft, bond payments or deposits, and a whole kaboodle of accounting work that drives many entrepreneurs nuts. Sell KikoLoad, get the cash from your customer, type a command on your mobile phone, and your customer’s phone is credited with the new prepaid load you just transfered.

In fact, the method by which you earn selling (or transferring) prepaid load to another person is something like instant rebate: when you sell 100 Pesos to your friend, only 90 Pesos is actually deducted from your KikoLoad. Repeat this cycle and increase the amount of sales, and you get the drift of the business. No need to travel the distance to get a check payment. No need to wait in line to en cash the check in a bank far away from where you live. The instant rebate means instant revenue or on-the-spot earning.

However, everything I just mentioned above is selling. What about recruiting people to join KikoLoad and being tagged under your network, also called in network marketing or direct selling parlance “your downline?” Every recruit you bring in gives you an instant rebate of 50 Pesos, a small token of appreciation for the effort of convincing that person to join the business under your network. Once your direct recruit starts buying more KikoLoad credits to sell, you instantly earn 0.5 percent. But they don’t stop there. When your direct recruit (let’s label this recruit your “Level 1” or L1) starts building his or her own network of recruits (let’s call this network your “Level 2” or L1), and those recruits also starts buying KikoLoad credits to sell, you also earn 0.5 percent from them. In summary, you earn 0.5 percent from each of your L1 and L2 network members. How many you recruit directly and how many your recruits recruit directly, too, including how much KikoLoad they buy to sell, equals your instant rebate or your instant earning.

This is just the tip of the iceberg because all I’ve been writing about is prepaid load or credits. You can also sell life insurance and a host of other products that’s in the pipeline which, again, needs no inventory management and warehousing. As a direct selling company, there are performance incentives and promotions, and reward and recognition for top performers. It’s a whole new way of doing business using one the most popular product in the Philippines today – prepaid load.

Think about it! If you recruit someone, you may not even have to push your recruits to sell to earn a percentage of their sales. Almost everyone needs prepaid load. It’s as if you just need to sit pretty on your comfy couch and watch the Pesos come in. However, do you think people won’t bother you to sell them prepaid load? They will! Do you want to earn more? Think about a girl named RITA. “Huh?” Yes, RITA. Her name means “Recruitment Is The Answer!” It’s your ticket to a luxurious retirement, right?

So, rather than go on and on repetitively, let me just post the million Peso question:
Do you want to earn money while sitting down? “Who doesn’t!”