My new iPad mini is here! It is powered by Smart LTE which is way better than just relying on wifi hotspots. I did a few speedtests regarding Smart LTE coverage and it is pretty impressive.

It was very hard which iPad I needed to get for me. I was choosing between the iPad mini or the iPad 4th gen with Retina. My end result obviously was I chose the iPad mini. Mainly because, with my line of work (work from home and social media), my travels and my blogging, I need a powerful device compact enough that I wouldn’t feel its weight inside my bad. Portability won over retina for me. iPad 4 hd way better specs though that’s why despite the fact that it is bigger, people still prefer it. In my opinion, iPad4 isn’t even that too heavy.

Since I’m a lover of free-writing, this iPad mini is quite a tool for me! I am currently writing this bog post using WordPress app for iOS. I can write blog posts on the go! take photos and post it instantly! I am SOoooo happy!

Anyway, here are a few unboxing photos. Details, specs and Smart LTE plans can be found <a href="http://here.

If you want to get your hands on the new iPad 4 or mini with Smart LTE, check out this poster.

Also visit this website:

http://www1.smart.com.ph/pages/ipadmini

Christmas got early!

Even the entire box can fit in my purse!

Smart LTE sim card welcome kit! 7 days unlimited LTE for free! I am currently enjoying very fast broadband speed!

The unit from Smart came pre-installed with games and apps including iPhoto, Garage bamd and iMovie for free! But if you don’t like, just reset. 😉

I was already able to use my new iPad mini powered by Smart LTE to cover an event at Resorts World Manila! My job got easier!!!

*This blog post is powered by Smart LTE using iPad mini and WordPress.

It is now available in 52 Smart Stores nationwide with competitive LTE packages you definitely can take advantage on.  If you have a cool gadget, you might as well maximize its capacity to WOW you!  With that said, download games, stream Youtube videos, upload albums with ultra fast internet without lag, buffering or delay!

Experience LTE today on an iPad Mini or an iPad 4th Gen. 

It’s worth the investment especially if you don’t want to waste your time waiting for webpages to load, or your instagram photo to be uploaded!  Live more by letting the LTE do its job.  Once you experience LTE, you will be spoiled!  and you deserve it because you deserve to spend your time on the things you love – not on waiting 😛

I had my hands on an iPad 4 to test!  Check out my speed test video below on 2 different locations.

Testing area: TOSH (The Old Spaghetti House), Valero, Makati

Download speed at a whopping 19.65 mbps!

Upload speed could have done better at 0.94 mbps… but for me, it’s still fast enough to upload albums / videos

Testing area: Picasso Boutique Hotel, Makati

Download speed in this area is only 3.37 mbps – but still!!! streaming youtube videos would be no problem for this speed

Upload speed got better at around 2 mbps

Check out more video tests by Chef Tonio here.

iPad LTE Plans with Smart

Plan 999

Unlimited Smart LTE/3G Internet for 24 months

iPad Mini and 4G at P8,000 discount (an iPad wifi+cellular at the price of a wifi only unit) 

Installment schemes available with major credit cards

Plan 499

65 hours of Smart LTE/3G Internet, protected by anti-billshock feature

iPad Mini and 4G at P1,000 discount and zero-interest for 24 mos, even without a credit card

Choose lowest monthly plan option and get it at 0% interest for 24 months.

Pay only P1,374 a month, all-in. No credit card or cash-out necessary. Available on Plan 499

iPad Freebies

FREE reversible neoprene sleeve

Best priced insurance against theft or accidental loss and damage for as low as P1,371/year.

Discount vouchers up to 20% on accessories

Complimentary tickets for two to Digital Lifestyle Sessions at Jump

If you want to get your hands on the new iPad 4 or mini with Smart LTE, check out this poster.

Also visit this website:

http://www1.smart.com.ph/pages/ipadmini

Age is attitude.  We can live youthful forever!

Cues Ke$ha’s song “Let’s make the most of the night like we’re gonna die young.”  and Taylor Swifts “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22” and all the crazy fun songs that just embodied our Laboracay weekend with Smart Live All Out Party!

I hope you did follow #SmartLiveAllOut hashtag on Twitter and instagram.  We have been posting all our photos of the fun-filled weekend!  I hope there’s a part 2 because I just want more of this!

Here’s a recap of my FUN weekend that was, but will always be in my heart LIVE ALL OUT!!!

I broke my personal record!

Longest stay in Boracay (8 days, 7 nights!) one fully loaded week!

Longest simultaneous partying (7 nights)

achieved 80% alcohol in my blood (I kid you! I have a very nice functional liver and I drink wheatgrass)

Fell in love with a stranger (may ganon? joke lang!) more of like, grabbed a stranger and danced with him (so he can save us from some jeje trying to *BS* me and my friend)

Swam by the beach at night! (shhhhhh!!!)

Ran out of clothes and become creative.

Won a random spinning elephant contest!

Took paraw sailing to a different level, walked by the edge of the boat’s stabilizers and high fived someone from another boat (Lance DeOcampo) while running!

Danced on top of the DJ’s stage!

I definitely lived ALL OUT!

Me and my friends arrived on April 27.  We were warming up for the Labor Day weekend festivities.

as the labor day weekend comes close and closer, more parties, more friends, more fun!

The only thing I love about beach parties: you don’t have to wear heels, you can dance barefoot, you wear comfortable clothing (uh-huh) and you get to swim when it gets too hot and malagkit!

Best part: you don’t have to drive home!  You can just sleep by the sand and no one cares! (I kid :P)

Comes May 2 and my blogger friends arrived from Manila!

I love my roomies! @alyssalapid and @shensaddiction

We stayed at Boracay Garden Hotel

We LOOOOVE our room!  We have pool access by our Balcony, spacious room and not-so-pricey mojitos by the pool bar!

Seriously guys, I brought work with me (because I work from home gala!)

As long as there is internet, I can work from wherever I am, super thanks to SMART LTE prepaid broadband for making this possible!

Here’s how my sched looks like:

6 – 4pm   WORK (excel sheets, html and graphix shizz)

4pm onwards at White House to party

9 pm go home to freshen up

10 pm dinner

11 pm EPIC / Tides

2am go home

Guys, it’s the only thing I know how to do “Work Hard, Play Hard”

ALL OUT NA ALL OUT!

With fashion bloggers @verniecenciso @lush_angel and @vernenciso

Partying non-stop at White House Boracay, EPIC and finally Uptown #SmartLiveAllOut Music Fest!

We beat a guy playing this random game called “spinning elephant!”

We did dares LIVE! broadcated on http://smart.com.ph/liveallout

beauty blogger @mikkigalang was also in the area <3

L-R: @verniecenciso @mikkigalang @vernenciso @flaircandy @alyssalapid

Mode of transportation in Boracay: your feet or trike!

Paraw sailing with fashion, beauty and entertainment bloggers and smart team: @lancedeocampo @flowgalindez @mangyanblogger @shensaddiction @tobielstjohn @irislaotan

This relaxing paraw sailing totally gave me a zen moment.  From hyper parties to relaxation mode!

You can never go wrong catching a Boracay sunset.  It will always take your breath away. #nofilter

Dinner with the bloggers and smart team before partying!

at Sun down, the party people of boracay were treated to an All Out Music Festival with performances from some of the country’s finest artists to celebrate youthful victories. Bands and DJs that rocked the event are The Oktaves, Yolanda Moon, Brigada, Funk Avy, Callum David, Scratchmark, Thea, and David Ardiente.

We had to say goodbye to Boracay on Saturday, but our journey didn’t end there!

To embody our theme for this week to “LIVE ALL OUT,”  we flew to Cebu just to eat Zubuchon!!!

WHATIZZZ DAY TRIP?!?

kami na talaga! Us already!

When I arrived at Manila airport… I zoomed as fast as I can to my photoshoot…

I love this life I live!  It’s so full of action and energy

And so Living All Out continues.  Please free your June 1 7pm to watch our Stellar Broadway Pole summer show at SM North Sky Dome.  See you!!!

xoxo,

FlairCandy

I have a good net at home and in my workplace, but I ALWAYS NEED to be online.  One, it’s part of my job as a Social Media Specialist for TV5. Two, I just need to connect personally to check my emails and social media and blog comments as a blogger.  Three – early in 2010, I read an article in Inquirer about me and tagging me as a Social Media Princess.  I think I have to live up to that name

Being on the go and jet setting all the time doesn’t mean I can do my work and write blog entries!  Thanks to my gadgets powered by SMART!  I’m on prepaid so sometimes I choose my package depending on the work I’m doing.  If I’m traveling around the Philippines, I don’t rely on my hotel accommodation’s internet so I usually subscribe to SMART UNLISURF.  I bring my own so I don’t have any excuse to work, write and connect.  If I’m in the metro and I have internet at home and at work, but I need to check emails, tweets etc when I’m out to cover events I subscribe to ALWAYS ON.  Whatever your needs are connection wise, SMART has a lot of affordable packages to offer for you.

I’ve learned a lot living an independent life.  One of the tricks in life that I try to apply is “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”  It’s actually from the book by Richard Carlson.  It’s all about simple ways to keep the little things from overtaking your life.

One of the best books I’ve ever read that really helped me a lot.

I guess to live life without regrets, you just have to LIVE MORE.

Regrets.  “Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.” – Fulton Oursler

Some interesting read I found over the internet that I think is worth sharing to all of my readers.  Spread the positivity and love

1. Realize that it’s okay to make mistakes. Just make sure to learn from your past mistakes, forgive yourself and move on.

2. Make your health and wellness a top priority and always take care of yourself so you’re ready to take care of others.

3. Follow your own path—not one that others want you to follow.

4. Find the humor in life and laugh like there is no tomorrow.

5. Relax and move with the flow of life by being unafraid of change.

6. Be adventurous by trying new things and taking more risks.

7. Have more intellectual curiosity and embrace creativity.

8. Try to find happiness with as many different people as you can.

9. Think for yourself instead of letting other people’s opinions influence you too much.

10.Try not to judge people before you get to know them.

11. Be thankful for what you have now instead of thinking about what you don’t have.

12. Wish well upon everyone equally and try to admire without envy.

13. Share your happiness with others instead of hoarding it all for yourself.

14. Don’t try to change someone—love who they are now.

15. Enjoy the journey, not just the destination.

16. Know that happiness is bigger than any bank account.

17. Control negative thoughts so that they don’t contribute to the outcome of your life.

18. Use your energy wisely because spending energy complaining, worrying or being impatient is just wasted energy.

19. Be bold. Find the courage to change things that should be changed and accept that there are some things that cannot be changed.

20.Love your work. If you don’t currently love what you do, figure out what you would love, and take the first step toward that life.

21.Turn your discontent into a mystery and enjoy trying to solve it.

22. Face problems from different angles in order to find solutions.

23. Gain independence by realizing that on this earth we are all dependent upon each other.

24. Change your perspective by taking on a wider view of things.

25. Don’t waste time trying to bring disagreeable people around to liking you.

26. Become the person you would like to spend the rest of your life with.

27. Be honest with yourself and others by saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

28. Treat people with respect and compassion.

29. Live in the now by loving the present and being aware of your thoughts and actions. Think happy thoughts and speak powerful words.

30.Try not to put things off until later.

31. Never hold grudges.

32. Face your fears head on and try to do the things that you think you cannot do.

33. Spend time with people who make you happy while also not depending on other people for your own happiness.

One example of being connected to your loved ones, no excuse

34. Stand up for yourself and others and don’t let anyone or anything hold you back.

35. Be yourself and love who you are now.

36. Be a participant in life rather than an observer.

37. Do the things that you love to do as much as you can.

38. Write out a list of goals and achieve them by doing them step by step. Don’t give up when things get difficult.

39. Do something every day that makes you feel proud of yourself—commit random acts of kindness whenever you get the chance.

40. And always keep on moving forward.

Source of the list: http://tinybuddha.com/blog/40-ways-to-live-life-without-regrets/

Live More.

It was a fun launch hosted by DJ Andy 9 and Sam YG

with dance and song performance by Iya Villiania

she’s getting hotter and hotter every time I see her

“Teach me how to Dougie”

#livemore

My blog’s mobile layout looking sexy on a Samsung Galaxy S3

yum! I should get one soon…

To get your ultimate super phone the Samsung Galaxy S3 under Smart, go to www.smart.com.ph/galaxys3 or visit the Smart Store nearest you.

Know more about Samsung Galaxy S3 details, specs and Smart plan here.

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I am blogging through http://m.wordpress.com

I am making the most out of every technology I can use!

Mobile blogging is definitely a handy tool especially with people like me who doesn’t wanna be doing nothing while waiting for something. I also hate how we are always stuck in traffic here in Manila! I can be productive during these times now, thanks to mobile blogging, mobile surfing, mobile emails and IMs!

I love technology! I love WAP, GPRS, 3G, 3.5G, HSDPA and free wifis (ligaw na wifi)! I am so thankful for technology!

Thank you Smart, Globe and Sun! Yes, I have all 3 networks… Whoops… Was red mobile (formerly umobile) left out? Hehe, sorry but the reality is, I don’t have their sim card. I don’t think I would need one either… Although, I have a spare phone in my drawer.

1. Flaircandy.com (of course!)
2. Batangyagit.com (Winston suggested that I should make my blog mobile friendly)
3. Jehzlau-concepts.com (learning how to make money online on the go)
4. Ourawesomeplanet.com (so much I can learn about our country here and of yummyliscious foods on restos I wanna pre-taste)
5. plurk.com/m (microblogging in an instant!)
6. Facebook.com (know what’s happening to my friends, get invites, etc.)
7. Multiply.com
8. Friendster.com
9. Twitter.com
10. Google reader (comprehensive rss on the sites that matter to me)

Mobile technology… It’s addicting!