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The battle is for Apple iPhone4 which will soon be available in Malaysia.DiGi and Maxis offered to register the interest of iPhone4 two days ago.

I think Malaysia will be in the next list of countries to sell iPhone4.Most people believe that it will be around mid August.In this competitive industry,no doubt that DiGi and Maxis will open their mind to promote iPhone4 with some attractive plans.The past history tells us that normally DiGi will win some fields.Well,nothing could be confirmed.I guess some of mobile service providers may offer some exchange program,trade-in your iPhone 3Gs for a bit rebate.

Let’s wait for the further information!

When I was in Malacca,I brought my laptop with me.So I could check emails and update Facebook on time.However,the hotel I stayed is without free usage of WIFI.I had to use my Google Nexus One as a modem connecting to my laptop to surf internet through DiGi’s network.

DiGi has a wide coverage of EDGE,the 2.75G network which is able to provide the downlink speed up to 144Kbps in my experience.However,it could not be suitable to load most websites fast because nowadays those fancy pages always embed with flash and pictures where the size is easily over 1MBytes,meaning that I have to wait at least 10 seconds for each page.I can’t imagine how I could watch a YouTube video or play some Facebook games by using such a wireless service.

I hope when I visit Malacca next time,I could enjoy 3G connection there.Do you hear me,DiGi?

DiGi yesterday showed up a new plan that is suitable for those more-surfing-less-calling users.

It’s a new postpaid plan which is including unlimited Internet usage with fair usage policy and no minimum call usage.The details are as follow:

Also DiGi sends out a nice gift for the users who sign up this plan for 12/24 months contract:get a smart phone at a very low price.The phones are HTC Legend,BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Curve 8520.

You could get more information here.That’s a great deal!

My Google Nexus One finally is in my hands.It takes one week flying from USA to Malaysia.Actually it may not need such a long time by courier service.However,when it reached Malaysia,it was detained by custom because by law any imported telecommunication products to Malaysia should have SIRIM approval.So I have to apply a special approval there to let the custom release my cell phone.

Turning to the topic.I like this phone very much after using it for several hours.It’s so powerful that anything you want to do on the move,you could do in this capable Android phone.

The hardest thing to me is to set up MMS and GPRS/EDGE/3G connection in the cell phone as there is no automatic configuration from DiGi.Frankly speaking,till now I yet don’t know how I solved the issue.

Nexus One has 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU inside.I feel it could be also treated as a super-portable computer.The Android market has around 10,000 apps there and the number is increasing dramatically.

For me,I now hope that ‘Turn-by-Turn Navigation’ in Google Maps could be worked in non-US countries as soon as possible.

Well,I have to take more days to learn how to play it ,not being played by the phone.

I just received an email from DiGi telling that I could collect the iPhone which I made the pre-order one week ago.

The prices of all types of iPhone are still as a secret until March 31,2010.Only the cash prices(retail prices) of phones are disclosed.

I find that the collections are arranged on different dates and the first date is March 31st,2010.So I think the earlier you made the pre-order,the sooner you will get your dream phone.I’m now praying that DiGi will offer a better price and package than Maxis for its existing users.