Maxis 4G Devices (Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC One XL)

The first telco to introduce 4G LTE in Malaysia has now launched their first 2 products package, namely the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC One XL. Both devices supports 2600MHz LTE bandwidth in which Maxis 4G LTE is running on. Unfortunately not many 4G LTE devices in Malaysia supports the 2600MHz band. For example, the iPhone 5 does not.
During the launch, both devices will only be available in Maxis KLCC and TTDI. LTE coverage are limited at the moment.

Quoted from Maxis's website:

Source: Maxis 4G LTE

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The New iPad Now Available At Malaysia Apple Online Store

The new iPad is now available on the Apple Online Store Malaysia. You can already start to purchase it via online, apparently early than the shop gets to open tomorrow.

The prices are as below:

• new iPad 16GB WiFi = RM1499
• new iPad 32GB WiFi = RM1799
• new iPad 64GB WiFi = RM2099
• new iPad 16GB WiFi + 4G = RM1899
• new iPad 32GB WiFi + 4G = RM2199
• new iPad 64GB WiFi + 4G = RM2499

Source: Apple Malaysia
 

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[Official] New iPad to Land in Malaysia This Friday (20th April 2012)

As the earlier rumors mentioned that the new iPad would arrive in Malaysia's shore by end of April turns out to be true. Along with Malaysia, there are 11 other countries to be receiving the first batch of the new iPad - South Korea, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Replubic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The price is expected to be the same here in Malaysia starting from RM1499 being the lowest model with 16GB WiFi. So, who's providing 4G LTE in Malaysia? None for the moment..

Below are the text from Cupertino:

CUPERTINO, California―April 16, 2012―Apple® today announced the new iPad®, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, will arrive in South Korea and 11 additional countries on Friday, April 20. The new iPad features a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video. The new iPad still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly thin and light.

In addition to South Korea, the new iPad also will be available beginning on Friday, April 20 in Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela. Beginning on Friday, April 27, the new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand.

The new iPad Wi-Fi models will be available in black or white for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model and $699 (US) for the 64GB model. The iPad Wi-Fi + 4G models will be available for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model.** The new iPad will be sold through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com) and select Apple Authorized Resellers. Additionally, iPad 2 is available at a more affordable price starting at just $399.

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

**4G LTE is supported only on AT&T and Verizon networks in the U.S. and on Bell, Rogers and Telus networks in Canada. Data plans sold separately.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.

Source: Apple

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The New iPad

Apple decided to call the next generation iPad, the New iPad. The much rumored name of iPad 3 or iPad HD turned out to be not true. Honestly many people would be disappointed with the naming.

Let's get on with the New iPad features. Starting off would be the Retina Display of 2048 x 1536 resolution. Screen size is still the same at 9.7-inch. No surprises here as everybody was already expecting this from the day the next generation iPad was rumored.

Next upgrade on the list is the A5X quad-core processor (1GHz, 1GB RAM). Just so that it's clear, the quad-core is the graphic part and not the CPU part. Apple claims that the quad-core GPU is needed to power up the high resolution display of 4x the iPad 2.

Rear camera was also upgraded to 5MP, named as iSight. The camera is also capable of 1080p HD video recording. Camera performance comes with backlight illumination sensor, auto-focus, tap to focus and with the aperture size of f/2.4. As for video functionality, it comes with video stabilization like the iPhone 4S. Take note that the front-facing camera is still the old 0.3MP.

4G LTE would be the biggest upgrade for the New iPad in terms of connectivities. With LTE, it could go as high as 72Mbps. The speed doesn't really matter much to us in Malaysia as the only so called 4G providers are P1 and Yes. P1 is limiting its speed to 5Mbps and Yes is marketing their speed at 20Mbps.

Along with the New iPad, Apple releases the iOS 5.1 which includes the Dictation function. I believe this is much disappointment as people are widely expecting Siri in the next generation iPad.

There you have it, the hardware overview of the New iPad. Many have expected to see Retina Display, A6 quad-core, higher resolution camera, 4G LTE and Siri. Out of the 5 items, I think the rumor got 3.5 right. Retina Display was spot on, A5X quad-core GPU was slightly within expectation, 5MP is nice but front-facing camera still remains crappy, 4G LTE was also spot on and Dictation was out of expectation. I

In terms of mechanical dimension, the New iPad is 9.5" x 7.31" x 0.37" and weighs 1.44lbs. iPad 2 size on the other hand is 9.5" x 7.31" x 0.34" and weighs 1.33lbs. No noticeable difference in terms of dimension size and weight. I believe the old iPad 2 casing should fit fine with the New iPad. By the way, Smart Cover works just fine with the New iPad.

During the launch, the New iPad will be shipped beginning of 16th March to US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. The rest of the world would start on the 23rd March. A quick check at the Apple Online Store shows that the devices will only be shipped 2 ~ 3 weeks time. As to when it will arrive at Malaysian shores, we will have to wait and see.

Folks from Vietnam seemed to have gotten their hands on the New iPad. Video below shows unboxing of the device.



Source: Apple

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