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Celcom to offer Blackberry Curve 8250 with Xpax prepaid plan

blackberry celcom prepaid Celcom to offer Blackberry Curve 8250 with Xpax prepaid plan

I’m happy iPhone user for almost 8 months now, though I’m not subscribing any data plan from any telcos. It lived mostly on WiFi, defeating its main purpose as ‘smart phone’ and portable device. But it is unusual for prepaid users like me, who bought an iPhone from grey market, and refused to switch to other telcos that offer data plan for users running on prepaid plan.

After iPhone, one of my wish-list which yet to get fulfilled till today is to have… Blackberry device… and I want to use it ‘kaw-kaw’.. I mean fully utilize the whole functions, including the famous BB email services, not just merely phone call, sms (texting) or web browsing. But… I don’t want to spend so much money on the data services.. or in plain English pay as you use. Guess what, I think I’ll have my dream come true very soon. But how??

Yeaahhaaa, from this Xpax page, it looks like Celcom is going to offer Blackberry Curve 8250… with prepaid plan. See, finally prepaid users can use BB as well, what. I know it’s too early to get exited.  Additionally, no information regarding the price and rate made available just yet. My rough guess (I hope it is true) would be below Rm1.5 for the device itself. If the price is higher than that, I better top up another RM500 to get more decent and powerful Blackberry Bold from ebay or lelong.

Blackberry Curve 8250 is said to be an entry level device from RIM, aim to personal use and consumer market.  It’s lack of 3G connectivity will probably drive regular BB user away from this device, but for the first timer who move from other smartphone will forgive this missed, as long as the price is right.

Stay tune till the end of this September when telcos will annouce the pricing of this device. So at the moment, don’t over spending for your Hari Raya Aidil Fitri (Eid Mubaraq) celebration, if you want to be among the first to get hold of this device. If possible, get more ang pow from your parents and relatives, if you still single and below 20 icon smile Celcom to offer Blackberry Curve 8250 with Xpax prepaid plan

Admin 5 September 2009 telecommunication , , , , , , , 2 Comments

More about HTC Hero

As mentioned on previous post, HTC Hero is finally here with recommended retail price at RM 2399  (I’m expecting below 2K, rough guess). Pretty high if you ask me, but you pay what you get, right?

Price used to determine the success of anything on the market, second after the physical appearance. And I can’t forget iPhone here, sorry. As comparison, the price is on par with 16GB/8GB iPhone 3G/3Gs, which priced almost that one on the grey market. Getting it from Maxis is surely cheaper, but you’re locked under contract for certain period of times.

Let’s put that aside. HTC Hero has 2 color are available to choose from, they called it ‘urban brown’ and absolute white’. Brown color looks more elegant to me though. Each HTC Hero equipped with with 2GB MicroSD card as standard feature.

HTC Sense, the HTC’s very own user interface if going to be available on HTC Hero as well. To describe what HTC Sense is, there is no better page, than HTC’s webpage. And for more features, I copy and paste the ‘Product Factsheet’ below. So that’s all folks.

Processor Qualcomm® MSM7200A™, 528 MHz
Operating system Android™
Memory ROM: 512 MB
RAM: 288 MB
Dimensions 112mm (L) x 56.2 (W) x 14.35 mm (T)
Weight 135g (with battery)
Display 3.2-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with 320×480 HVGA resolution
Network HSPA/WCDMA:

  • 900/2100 MHz
  • Up to 2 Mbps up-link and 7.2 Mbps down-link speeds

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE:

  • 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

(Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent.)
Device Control Trackball with Enter button
GPS Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g

HTC ExtUSB™  (11-pin mini-USB 2.0 and audio jack in one)
3.5mm audio jack
Camera 5.0 megapixel colour camera with auto focus
Audio supported formats MP3, AAC(AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media® Audio 9
Video supported formats MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media® Video 9
Battery Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Capacity: 1350 mAh
Talk time:

  • Up to 420 minutes for WCDMA
  • Up to 470 minutes for GSM

Standby time:

  • Up to 750 hours for WCDMA
  • Up to 440 hours for GSM

(The above are subject to network and phone usage.)
Expansion Slot microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)
AC Adapter Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5V and 1A
Special features G-sensor
Digital Compass(3rd party software is needed)
Value Added Applications HTC Sense™, HTC widget, HTC Scenes, HTC Sync, Google Maps,     Microsoft® Exchange synchronization, PDF Viewer, Quick Office, AK Notepad, Stock, Weather, Footprints, Twitter Peep, Smart Dialer, and Teeter game
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Admin 4 September 2009 gadget & hardware , , , , No Comments

Catch up TV in Malaysia

Have you ever watched or followed any tv drama series? Missed any one of the episodes? Don’t be upset, now there is this thing called catch up TV (in Malaysia), whereby you can go online and watch the missed episodes of yours. However, not all drama series are put up in the catch up TV programs, another possible solution, you can go to YouTube.

The catch up TV is actually based on which TV channel the drama series is on. Btw, it’s not just drama series, there are also other program series uploaded. In Malaysia, TV channels consist of RTM which includes TV1 and TV2, plus TV3, NTV7, 8TV, and TV9 which are under Media Prima Berhad. I only watch catch up TV from Media Prima Bhd’s channel, so this article is on one of the Media Prima’s channel, TV3. I tried to check out RTM’s video, but I was not able to watch the video.

Here comes the few steps to catch up on drama episodes that you’ve missed.

1. Go to the website. For this example, we’ll go to TV3 website.

2. First, in order for us to watch any catch up TV, we need to sign up as a member. This ID will then be applicable to other TV websites under Media Prima. Sign up and log in once done.

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3. To view the catch up tv programmes available, just roll over the mouse to “CATCH UP TV”, and select your required programme.

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4. Here comes your Part 1 of the Episode 14. There is an option to view it in full screen.

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5. And to go to the next Part of the episode, roll over your mouse to the arrow near to “Next Episode/Bahagian Seterusnya” and you will see another 3 parts to come.

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And that’s how the Catch Up TV works. I remembered there was once, when I was really attached to one Korean movie on 8tv that I watched it over and over again; Yu Hee The Witch, a really nice one I must tell you. However, they have taken it out from 8TV catch up programmes.

maiardz 3 September 2009 Promotion, socialize & media , , , , , No Comments
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