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Android Smartphones Available In Malaysia Via Telco

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I still remember when I carry my first Android smartphone, HTC Magic and my friend start asking, what it is running on. “Android” I answer. “What? Is this the Google OS” they replied. I nod my head, sort of. That is end of last year where little known Android at that time is known more as Google’s operating system. Fast forward to this year, Android need little or no introduction. It grows impressively over the years, with the phones sold everywhere, in retail tores, online and even hypermarket!

The wide adoption of Android smartphone in Malaysia is particularly attributed by telcos and the smartphone’s local distributor who aggressively marketed this phone to users. Maxis stand out from the rest with the most Android smartphone in offer. They have 5 Android smartphone models, although they do have more before, but pull some of them out due to weak demand. Celcom, who pioneering Android smartphone with HTC Magic, seems stagnant, no new product, basically nothing. It is unclear what is Celcom strategy toward Android.

Digi on the other hand, being new player has priced the only Android smartphone they have, HTC Legend aggressively. They halved the retail price with  2 years contract. With upcoming HTC Aria due in September, I expect similar strategy to be deployed here to woo more users.

I’ve listed down Android smartphone available with contract from telco. On top of these models, there are more model available in market from retailer such as Motorola Milestone, Milestone XT, Acer Liquid series, SCL Mi300 and etc. Hit the source link at the end of this post to visit each telco.

Maxis
HTC Desire Android 2.1( upgradable to 2.2), 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor, 3.7-inch AMOLED/SLDC display, 576 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM,  RM1349/RM1399/RM1499 (24/18/12 months)
Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.1( upgradable to 2.2), 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor, 3.7-inch AMOLED/SLDC display, 576 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM,  RM1499/RM1649/RM1699 (24/18/12 months)
HTC Wildfire Android 2.1, 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz, 3.2-inch display, 384 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM,  RM549/RM599/RM699 (24/18/12 months)
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Android 1.6, 5-megapixel camera,  Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz, 2.55-inch display128 MB RAM,  RM1288/RM1418 (24/18/12 months)
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android 1.6, 8-megapixel camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor, 4-inch display, 384 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM,  RM1288/RM1418 (24/18/12 months)
Celcom
HTC Hero Android 1.6, 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor, 3.1-inch display, 288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM,  RM1288/RM1418 (Exec50/Exec250)
HTC Legend Android 2.1, 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM 7200A 600 MHz processor, 3.2-inch AMOLED display, 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM,  RM1318/RM1428 (Exec50/Exec250)
Digi
HTC Legend Android 2.1, 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM 7200A 600 MHz processor, 3.2-inch AMOLED display, 384 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM,  RM999/RM1399 (24/12 months)
HTC Aria Android 2.1, 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz processor, 512 MB ROM, 384 MB ROM,  (available September)

source: Maxis, Celcom, Digi

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Sony Ericsson Android Smartphone with PSP Go Is Brilliant Idea

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The story about Sony developing Android smartphone with PSP Go functionality, which appear on Engadget is indeed very exciting. After Microsoft unveil it’s incoming Windows Phone 7 going to have Xbox games, it is just a matter of time other console player will follow the suit. Why? The reason is simple, smartphone is going to be dominant device in future, everything will be ported to smartphone, making it appeal to the mass.

Sony’s Android with PSP Go smartphone, if it is real is going to be the phone loved by many. Android fan combine with Sony fan, how about that? And well, don’t get confused, the above pictures is the mock up device from Engadget, but the real smartphone is said to be cross between Samsung Captivate (one flavor of Samsung Galaxy S available in the US) and PSP G0. Well, we’re talking about 4+- inch device.

Going further inside, 1Ghz snapdragon processor is the ideal candidate to power it up. Android 3.0 is possibly the OS it is going to run. What make it cool, on top of Android games, other popular PSP Go games will be available as well; I think this is a must have ingredient if this project to be succeed. The Android Market might have additional space for these games, and you know what, other smartphone which met the requirement might as well accessing this games!  Ops, don’t overjoy, this is still in early stage and there might change plan as well, but with Engadget credibility, this story looks very very promising.

source Engadget

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Unboxing HTC Magic


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It is rainy day when I arrived at IT Hypermall the day after Christmas. About an hour later, I came out RM1.5k poorer, thanks to HTC Magic. The long dreamed Android smartphone finally in my pocket, ready to rock!

HTC Magic position itself between HTC Hero, the HTC’s Android based smartphone flagship model and HTC Tattoo, the slightly low end model running on Android 1.6. Compared to Windows Mobile smartphone, it is relatively an easy task choosing Android smartphone of your choice due to limited model we have currently in Malaysian market.

There are 17 Android based smartphone models available worldwide if I’m not mistaken, but I’m quite surprised to see only Android smartphones from HTC currently in sale (at the outlet). Well, since I already set HTC Magic as my first Android smartphone, the rest of the model doesn’t really matter now..

HTC Magic has been in the market for about 6 months, so I left the review part to this post, which covers almost everything. You know, GSMArena is always over delivered on it’s review, which why I trust them whenever I’m going to shop for new smartphone.

On my end, I’m more into the inner side of the smartphone such as the interesting apps, function and feature of the smartphone which you should start to see in the next few days, hopefully.

There are couple of things that almost end me up with Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone.  But luckily I’m sticking to my target. Before you decide to buy HTC Magic or any Android phone and using it in the country outside of the US, please be aware of following drawback. If you live in the US, that’s not going to be the big deal, as it’s there by default.

- No Android Market. By default, Android smartphone sold in South East Asean countries (such as Malaysia, Vietnam) doesn’t have it. It remind be of Blackberry App World that I have to install using the workaround. Imagine iPhone without its App Store, unimaginable?? Gone all the excitement in iPhone!!

You won’t be able to fully utilized to phone to its extent. Although there is workaround to install it (by flashing the ROM), but hey, not everyone has the skills  to do that.

- No GPS Software – HTC Magic is equipped with GPS but without GPS software and MAPS by default. Garmin?? Don’t ever dream of it. Jump to Windows Mobile smart phone which has the GPS app and maps pre-installed if you really wanted it.

But the  good news is, Papago X5 and maps (for Malaysia) had just been released recently. It is not free though and I’m not sure if it is good enough.

Seriously, it really need more effort to enjoy Android smartphone in this part of the world, just like other Android users in the US or other developed countries who enjoy the phone without risking their ‘life’.  There are workarounds available on the net, but it may void the warranty and in the worst case may turns it to brick.

But because my ultimate goal of having Andoid phone is for blogging purpose, just like how I use other smartphones run on Symbian, iPhone OS and Blackberry OS, and not for just daily usage, it is thousands times more worth than the amount that I have to part away and the time I have spent to get it works the way I want.

Anyway, here are some photos of the phone that I snap the day after I ‘kaw-kaw’ testing it. Gorgeous right!

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