The Porsche Designed Blackberry also has the pin starting from 2AA to distinguish between the premium and the normal Blackberry users.
Preview video from Blackberry.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Blackberry Porsche P'9981 Launched in Dubai
The Porsche Designed Blackberry also has the pin starting from 2AA to distinguish between the premium and the normal Blackberry users.
Preview video from Blackberry.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
P1 WIGGY 39
P1 today announces the new broadband plan, WIGGY 39. It was described as lowest priced post-plan mobile plan in Malaysia.
The WIGGY 39 has 1Mbps speed and a data quota of 2GB with the price RM39/month.
For a limited time, you pay RM19 for the first 2 months and RM29 for the subsequent 3rd and 4th month.
Depending on the dongle that you choose, the activation fees is as follow:
- RM100 for UT dongle
- RM150 for UH dongle (higher performance)
The dongle has a lifetime warranty under the subscription period. Subscribers who needs more data can subscribe additional 2GB for RM10.
Steve Jobs Biography Easily Best Seller in Debut Week
As expected, Steve done it again even now that he's gone!
According to The BookSeller, Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson easily tops best-seller list in the US and UK during the 1st week of sales.
Nielsen Bookscan data shows that 379,000 copies of the book were sold in US and this exclude the sales of ebook.
The book is currently ranked number 3 in Amazon 2011 best seller charts.
Source: The Bookseller, Amazon, Steve Jobs Biography
iPad 2S?
Folks from Digitimes today said that there is a possibility release of iPad 2 upgrade, iPad 2S perhaps? The iPad 2 upgrade is supposedly with thinner design and longer battery life.
It was also noted that the iPad 3 will be released on 3Q 2012 earliest with the possibility of A6 processor as well as retina display.
Source: Digitimes
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Angry Birds Smashes Half A Billion Downloads!
Rovio the popular mobile game maker today announced that the Angry Birds family in total smashes half a billion downloads. This is an outstanding achievement ever made on a mobile game platform. The Angry Birds family includes Angry Birds, Angry Birds Season and Angry Birds Rio.
Source: Rovio
Free SMS and Data For All U Mobile Subscribers
If you are a U Mobile subscriber, you would probably experience service disruption on Monday, 31st October. It was noted later that the outage was due to unexpected glitch during the upgrading of their high speed network. As a compensation, U Mobile would now provide free SMS on 10 November 2011, 10 December 2011 and 10 January 2012. In addition to that, you will also receive additional free 500MB monthly from 10 November 2011 till 31 January 2012 if you are currently a monthly data package user.
We should at least give the benefit of the doubt to U Mobile for its proactive move to regain public's confidence.
Earlier on Monday, CEO of U Mobile Dr. Kaizad B. Heerjee apologizes publicly via its Facebook page for the outage.
Source: U Mobile
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Apple Announces iPhone 4S In 15 More Countries
Apple today announces iPhone 4S in 15 more countries. It is expected to be available on 11th November and pre-order to start on 4th November. Unfortunately, Malaysia is still not part of the 15 countries.
Below is the excerpt from the Apple announcement.
Beginning Friday, November 11, iPhone 4S will be available in Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Malta, Montenegro, New Zealand, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania and South Korea. iPhone 4S is available today in 29 countries around the world and will be available in more than 70 countries by the end of the year.
Source: Apple
Steve Jobs Biography - Walter Isaacson
Finally, the much anticipated Steve Job's Biography is here in Malaysia. Actually the official release to the book store was on 24th Oct and I managed to get mine on the 25th Oct from Times BookStore. Called up MPH BookStore on the 25th but were told that it were all sold out in all MPH BookStore in KL and Selangor. The book is sold for RM99.90 but you can get 20% discount by purchasing online at MPH online. Not sure if there will be a record selling again for Steve even in the after death.
Below is the excerpt of the book which I find it interesting to share:
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits and instead encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out."
Monday, October 31, 2011
U Mobile Unlimited Mobile Internet
U Mobile Unlimited Mobile Internet is only RM28/month with a data usage of 500MB. This comes with free 100mins of talk time as well as 30 SMS. Based on the comparison below (which was extracted from U Mobile website), it shows the cheapest by far..
Some terms and condition must be taken note as well. The renewal will be done monthly (30 days) automatically provided that you have a minimum of RM28 in your prepaid balance. You must have at least a min of 5 sen (after deduction of RM28) in order for this plan to work. Unused credit can be rolled over to the next month but the max is 200mins of talk time and 60 SMS. There is no rollover for data.
Upon exceeding of the 500MB quota, data speed will be throttled to 64Kbps.
Once the 100 min talk time or 30 SMS quota is used, standard charges applies for subsequent usage.
Source: U Mobile
Apple Releases 3 New iPhone 4S Ads
Three separate ads on the new iPhone 4S were released recently. They are mainly 30sec video ads enhancing the new feature of iCloud, 8MP camera and the Siri.
Siri Hacked To Run Fully On iPhone 4
It was reported earlier that Steven Troughton-Smith earlier managed to port the Siri into the iPhone 4 but that time, the server wasn't working correctly yet.
This time, he manage to do it successfully according to interview from 9to5Mac. Of course, jailbreak is necessary for all these to happen.
Here's a video of Siri on iPhone 4.
Source: 9to5Mac
Saturday, October 29, 2011
U Mobile RM48*/month 42Mbps Broadband
U Mobile RM48*/month 42Mbps broadband service is quite appealing. There is a reason for the "*" in which I will explain later.
One thing new would be the "rental modem" package. From the table, the prices are separated into Non-Rental and Rental. Rental basically means you are renting the modem from them but to me it's more like an installment you pay for the modem. Not sure if towards the end of the 12months contract (for Rental only), will the modem automatically be yours. I think so..
Basically, it has 2 plans - MB68 and MB128. As the name denotes, it's RM68/m and RM128/m.
There is a RM100 activation fees in any cases. Now, this is where the "*" comes into play. You will effectively pay RM48/m for the next 5 months as there is a Promotional Rebate offer of RM20 x 5 months during this promotional period. But take note at the Upfront Payment (last row), you will still need to pay RM350 in which RM250 is for the modem and RM100 is ?? it's for the activation fees.
So the statement above of RM100 rebate of the activation fees is true but the RM48*/month is only a gimmick. All in all you still pay RM68/month but you don't have to pay the activation fees.
Source: U Mobile
iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 Outright Purchase From Apple MY Store
Now you can get the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 directly from the Apple Malaysia Online Store.
Both comes only with the entry level 8GB version running iOS5 with free shipping. No more contract bind and of course all units are unlocked version.
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| iPhone 3GS - RM1199 |
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| iPhone 4 - RM1799 |
Does this mean that Malaysia will be getting iPhone 4S soon? According to the announcement made earlier, we should expect iPhone 4S to be available by end of the year. Let's see..
Source: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Windows XP - Happy 10th Anniversary
It's now 10 years since Windows XP was first launched. This is by all time the most successful OS of all time. It is still up to date the 2nd most used OS in the world right behind Windows 7 and way beyond Windows Vista.
Microsoft had also announced sometime back that Windows XP will be supported up till 2014.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Now on DiGi
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now on DiGi's tablet plan called DiGi Broadband Explore 6GB.
With this plan, you are entitled for DiGi's 0% Interest Easy Payment Plan (EPP) which is RM115/month for the next 24 months (RM115 x 24 = RM2760).
The total package breakdown is (RM98 x 12 months) + RM1584 = RM2760
There is also a RM100 of non-refundable registration fees. Take note that the "Advanced Monthly Fee Payment" is only for the DiGi Broadband Explore 6GB plan of 12 months. That means the remaining 12 months of the EPP contract does not include the RM98 plan. You will have to pay extra.
It is also possible to purchase the package without EPP in which you will have to pay RM2860 upfront (inclusive of RM100 registration fee).
Source: DiGi
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