Sandbox Mobile Portal from SMART
June 14, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apps
A few months ago I was part of a team that was consulted upon to help launch a Philippines-based service that had “everything in a box” related to a particular telco’s property. Although the focus was with the blogs on my end, the bigger picture was with the actual portal itself. The name of the portal is Sandbox.
Sad that the current product doesn’t use “open technology” to share with the outside world. It doesn’t have RSS feeds and you really can’t permalink much. Not much Javascript either for photo uploading. What it does fulfill though is having all of SMART Telecommunication’s services all in one place — music downloads, games from Gameloft which cost really cheap when consigned with them, movies, MyTV (a service that allows mobile TV to occur in HSPA enabled handsets via streaming technology) and network chat.
You be the judge. Check out the service at www.mysandbox.com. It isn’t meant to be a Facebook or MySpace. What it looks like is what it is — a portal for housing all their properties.
[photos c/o author]
