Smart, MLhuillier, Starmobile launched a new smartphone w/ MLWallet app

Smart Communications Inc. together w/ MLhuillier Group of Companies and Star Telecom Alliance Resources, Inc. (Starmobile) forged a new partnership together.

Smart x MLhuillier x Starmobile

Under this new partnership, MLhuillier, a leading pawnshop and remittanc chain has tapped Starmobile to design a custom Android smartphone powered by Smart for their employees and customers.

It's a 3G powered Starmobile smartphone that's pre-loaded w/ MLWallet app that digitizes its bill payments and remittances services. In addition, the Starmobile 3G Android smartphone also has Smart Ka-Partner retailer app to enable MLhuillier employees and customers use Smart's retailer business features.

This partnership is a milestone. It allows MLhuillier customers and Smart subscribers to have a better experience when using their mobile phones. With over 2,000 shops in its network, we are happy to be chosen as one of MLhuillier's partners. Starmobile, meanwhile, has a strong record of giving good experience to its customers with its mobile handsets. We look forward to seeing more MLhuillier phones in the market, said Alex O. Caeg, head of Wireless Consumer Division Sales and Distribution at Smart.

We forged this partnership with Smart and Starmobile to give our customers the power of convenience when they’re paying bills or sending money using the ML Wallet app. Starmobile’s customized smartphone powered by a Smart SIM allows us to use the mobile phone as a tool to further expand our financial services, said Lorenzo Escanio, MLhuillier’s General Manager for Luzon/NCR.

In making the best technologies available at the best value, we hope to be an enabler of the digital migration of more Filipinos with the aid of the mobile phone. MLhuillier phones will be sold at a value-for-money price of PHP 2,350.  It is a smartphone with a dual SIM that is sure to give new smartphone users a great customer experience, said Joey Uy, CEO and chairman of Starmobile.

The Starmobile 3G Android smartphone for MLhuillier also has dual SIM card functions for PHP 2,350.

Moreover, MLhuilllier has also announced that all its branches in the country ow be selling Smart retailer SIMs.

Unfortunately, that's all we know about the smartphone so far.

We'll update this post w/ the full specs as soon as possible.