Talk 'N Text Panalo Phone: Cheapest Cellphone in PHL Today

Yugatech featured what would be the cheapest cellphone in the Philippines, the Talk 'N Text Panalo Phone. A unit of the Panalo Phone was reported to be priced at only Php 499.

Yugatech writes, "The handsets are simple candybar phones which were co-branded with Cherry Mobile and ZTE. The phones are also locked to the TNT network and it’s highly likely the telco is subsidizing for the cost of the handset."

If it will distributed direct to homes, it may be a good time to start a database of prepaid cellphone subscribers.

The Talk 'N Text Panalo Phone
Image taken from Yugatech

Filipinos love gadgets moreso if it comes cheap such as this TNT's Panalo Phone. And if this concept from TNT will succeed, other telcos will surely follow. That would indeed be great for communications all over the country.

On the business side, more demand for cellphone units will be good for manufacturing. More cellphones units will also mean more demand for prepaid load.

Yugatech further writes that the Panalo Phone will be distributed via direct-to-home approach. Perhaps distributing this cheap phone may be a good time to start the registration of prepaid cellphone users.

The affordability of the Panalo Phone can also be taken advantage of crooks who utilize cellphones in their illegal activities. I think a registration of some sort can make these unscrupulous people think twice before using any cheap cellphone to commit a crime. Because there is a possibility that the cellphone can be linked to them.