'Ninoy-Cory' cellphone

I saw this on the news ('Ninoy-Cory' cellphone), as well as in SM City Cebu and I got interested in the 'Ninoy-Cory' cellphone. As I was researching, I came across the Solid Group, makers of the only Filipino mobile phone brand My Phone, has come up with the “NinoyCory phone,” the first series in the company’s My Heroes line of collector phones with the thrust of “keeping the memory of the two icons of democracy alive”.

The phone which debuts Myphone’s Myhero phone series comes in three variants all colored yellow, bearing an insignia of Ninoy’s signature pair of eyeglasses on the front and images of Ninoy and Cory at the back. This gadget was made in collaboration with the Ninoy Aquino Foundation, headed by Rafael Lopa.

Among its unique features include the following:

* Prayers like the Rosary, Station of the Cross and other novenas;
* Cory’s personal prayers
* Inspirational messages from Ninoy and Cory
* Aquino autobiography
* Ninoy’s poem and letters
* Speeches
* And some trivia

The children of the late Aquino couple were very happy to share their family’s treasured memories which could serve as an inspiration for the Filipinos most especially the youth, according to Pinky Aquino-Abellada.

One look at the phone and one will immediately realize that it is not just for Cory or Ninoy followers. Even the faithful will find the phone handy as it contains audio files of the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, various novenas (Lady of Manaoag, Perpetual Help, Sto. Nino, Black Nazarene, Lady of Antipolo, Lady Mediatrix, Lady of Guadalupe, St. Clare and St. Jude), common prayers (morning offering, Angelus, three o’clock prayer, evening prayer, Our Father, Hail Mary), intercession prayers, as well as ebooks of the entire Bible, to name a few.

The Solid Group just released the Pinoy phone which contains the rosary as well as 132 other prayers, and this gave Lim the idea of giving the Aquino family a memorabilia of Ninoy and Cory. The Solid Group top executive said a large number of the NinoyCory phone’s content came from the Foundation and that the company immediately put up a team to work on it.

The number of NinoyCory phones that will be made available to the market will depend on how the public accepts it. “It is very exciting. People, including those in our office, are grabbing the phones and want not just one, but two, even 20 at a time. After all, it is the first prayer phone ever made,” Lim added. The phone sells for P4,990 and is the first Qwerty phone to be released under the MyPhone brand.

He said because Solid Group believes in the projects of the Benigno Aquino Foundation, including education and feeding programs, the company will be donating a certain amount to the foundation, which did not charge anything when it shared some of the contents of the phone.