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Apple iPhone in Malaysia

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Yukkuri shiteitte ne!

Behold! Apple iPhone finally official in Malaysia.

Malaysia’s leading mobile operator Maxis Communications Berhad (“Maxis”) today announced that it will offer iPhone 3G 8GB for free on its iValue 4 plan from March 20. Maxis will offer a range of new tariff plans, starting at just RM100 per month, tailored specifically for iPhone customers.

iPhone 3G combines three products in one – a revolutionary phone, widescreen iPod and breakthrough internet device – to create an incredible mobile experience. With fast 3G networking, GPS mapping and support for enterprise features including Microsoft Exchange, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. The groundbreaking App Store provides access to tens of thousands of applications from games to social networking to financial planning and health management, generating more than 500 million downloads to date. iPhone 3G is now available in over 70 countries around the world. 

“As the nation’s leading operator, Maxis has always stood for innovation and distinctive customer experiences,” said Sandip Das, Chief Executive Officer of Maxis. “We are very pleased to launch iPhone 3G in Malaysia as many of our mobile users have been eagerly anticipating this revolutionary phone. They will really enjoy the many embedded and downloadable applications from the first time they use iPhone 3G.” 
Maxis will offer the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G models with four new and specially designed postpaid plans called iValue, all of which are voice-data bundled price plans, starting from RM100 per month. For customers who sign up for a monthly commitment of RM375 over a 24-month period on the iValue 4 plan, the iPhone 3G 8GB will be free of charge. 

The bundled voice and data plans are the first of their kind in Malaysia, reflecting the substantial growth in mobile data usage among Maxis’ customers. Maxis’ subscribers form the largest base of mobile data users in Malaysia, with more than 4.4 million accessing mobile internet services and sites on a regular basis.

“Malaysians, including our Maxis customers, are among the highest internet and data users in the world; and iPhone 3G will further enliven their mobile experiences with Maxis,” added Mr Das. “We are making nearly RM1.6 billion of investments into our networks this year. Over the coming months we will continue a comprehensive upgrade and expansion programme that will further enhance coverage and performance, including our high speed 3G data network.”
The new price plans on 24-month contracts are:


Note: All customers are also eligible to add any existing SMS bundle to their iPhone plan at standard rates.

The Maxis iPhone 3G launch will be held at 7pm on March 20 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, where customers who have pre-booked iPhone 3G will be invited to the event to collect their phones. Walk-in customers who have not registered may also book iPhone 3G at the launch and collect their phones at a later date. 

Maxis announced the launch of the special website www.maxis.com.my/iPhone. Customers can visit the site to find out more about iPhone 3G and iValue plans. To be among the first in Malaysia to own an iPhone 3G, customers can either pre-book via the website or visit one of the 29 Maxis Centres nationwide, as well as selected Maxis Exclusive Partners and authorised Apple resellers. 

Maxis customers can also call 1800 821 123 for details on how to book their iPhone 3G devices and plans.

Blatantly copied from here. Come people this March 20-22nd at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre! I will be there.

Mek Siti

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I went to One Utama last night. Why? Because Mac City, the Apple Computer Reseller in Malaysia, is currently holding an event there, the ”Mac + iPod Discovery Week” from 17th to 21st December. As usual, a fair like this will exhibit several products from the reseller where people can have somewhat personal hands on with the products which eventually will make them purchase it (or simply tell others for show off like, “Hey, I get a hold of iPhone that day. It’s very cool lor”).

Mac + iPod Discovery Week
Mac + iPod Discovery Week

For last night, I was there along with Amin and Reza Fahmi, the Terato big boss, for attending the iPhone Development talk apart from having fun by testing those gadgets. Conducted by Chris Hong, he gave much of his experiences on developing applications for Mac especially iPhone/iPod. As some of you might already knew, iPhone still has a very small market in Malaysia as it’s not yet officially available. Though, iPod Touch is available and it’s functions are pretty much the same only without those GSM, GPS and camera functions. So far, there are only two applications officially from Malaysian developers (as what Chris said). One of the developers was there, Adrian, who created a simple but useful converter application. Actually, we are somewhat members of Malaysian Cocoaheads, local branch of the international Cocoa Programmers’ Group. Opposed from usual meeting which is 3rd Saturday of the month, we made the meeting earlier as of the iPhone Development talk was on Thursday.

It was a fun experience. Being an ardent gamer on Windows platform, I don’t have much reasoning to use Apple Macintosh much. Yet, as I am iPhone developer wannabe, developing stuffs on Apple platform is a must. For those who don’t know much, Xcode is a tool for programming in Cocoa. Despite it uses Objective-C for its programming language, it can understand other programming languages like C or C++ which also can be integrated into the Objective-C with some simple coding (just like Chris said, again). Oh, those two cats of mine are just additional spices added in this entry.

Well, that’s all for now. :3

The Culprit is…

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Last Saturday, I asked linkinstreet to come over to my house and help me figuring out what’s the problem with my computer. He brought along a spare PSU and an Nvidia 9600GT which both were mine before (I think the PSU is still mine lol). After he experienced himself about the symptoms of my computer, he suggested to try with the PSU first. Amazingly, it made past BIOS. So the culprit was PSU instead of graphic card which I suspected. Before anyone stupidly accuse this and that, I’ve done POST test where my system seems to be able to pass it when I unplugged everything, only mobo. But on that day, even with POST test and everything, the motherboard seems cannot be booted at all (well, it did boot but only the fans moving without any beeping sounds). Only after we tried with the PSU, it seems there’s hope. For some reason, even though it’s booted to BIOS, the BIOS page seemed inaccessible despite hitting DEL button repeatedly. Perhaps, the PSU hadn’t enough juice to make the PC runs. Off we went to Lolwut Lowyat Plaza (actually we went to Hard Net shop in Kajang first but eventually went along to Lowyat due to unavailability).

Extreme 500W yo!
Extreme 500W yo!

So, I bought this Cooler Master Extreme 500W for RM 170. Nothing fancy about it as eventually my Silverstone Strider ST50F is better for quality than this but it is the culprit for my PC failure to boot. I guess it was because of lightning or other shits that made it failed. I have to RMA it back quickly (but I am not free with works and stuffs). Finally, my PC can be boot well and I am fucking happy about it. Sorry Gainward for cursing at you lol.

*gambar linkin telah dibuang sebab terlalu macho*

Move on to my work side, our office has received with furnitures; tables, chairs, a couch and curtains. Oh, not forgetting the table tennis table… doesn’t sound right, it’s ping pong table or whatever it is called.

Nothing much to be seen from here
Nothing much to be seen from here
My officemate, Amin
My officemate, Amin
Nice sleeping place
Nice sleeping place
ZA WARUDOOOOOOO!!!!
ZA WARUDOOOOOOO!!!!

iPhone development tools can be downloaded at Apple Developer site. Free registration but you need a Macbook to start working on it. Yeah, yeah, I know that there’s other workaround tools for Windows users to develop something for iPhone but the native is on Apple Mac OS X. While the registration is free, you can only play around with the iPhone Simulator though. You have to pay for your applications to be available on your iPhone.

Ciao.

Work in progress

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Last Friday, I’ve just started working at Terato Tech, a company established by my senior of my former school, to develop software. Supposed to be started on Thursday but we have no equipments in the office yet. We are focusing on the development of games for iPhone. It’s something new for me because I am not very familiar with Apple Macintosh. Apparently, so do my officemates. Well, at least we have an office where we can do our work and stuffs.

Empty office is empty
Empty office is empty

No furniture as of now. No worries as they will be there soon from IKEA (they’re postponing until after Hari Raya Korban if we want them to deliver to our office). The air conditioner has already been installed. Pretty cool and run at 2.5 HP. Carpets are there too though not shown at the picture above as that was taken before the carpets arrived. Well, there’s no internet yet because the TM operatives have some conflicting shit that is from their parts. As usual, TMnet rocks, meh. But that day, we’re discreetly stealing bandwidth from unprotected WiFi from nearby office. Quite funny because they didn’t put any kind of security and I can look into several computers’ shared folders and documents easily. Imagine if I delete any files they’re sharing there. Hehehe…

Oh, I just got myself an Apple Macbook :3 and it was given to me for the development tool for the iPhone project. Well, not entirely mine as it’s still a company property which contracted to me to take care of it.

Hmmm putting it on my desk
Hmmm putting it on my desk
Immediately changed to a Strike Witches wally
Immediately changed to a Strike Witches wally
After figuring out how to screencap using Macbook. Eila and Sanya are just :3
After figuring out on how to screencap using Macbook. Eila and Sanya are just lovely :3

Still playing around with this Macbook and I have to learn more on the use of iPhone SDK for the project. Oh, if you’re wondering where is my office, it’s just the other row further than the McDonald’s row in Diamond Complex behind Bintang Supermarket. Of course it’s near to my previous office for my internship which is Idwal Systems.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ttyl