Without pre-register or even little hype, Blackberry Bold 9780 finally available from Maxis, at last. Do no expect special introductory price or whatsoever. Both postpaid and prepaid package available from RM2259 and 2079. The price includes 12 month of BIS advance plan worth RM360 for pospaid ( actual BIS fee is RM1440 = 120 x 12 month), and 6 months of BIS plan (not stated which one) for prepaid worth M180.
Postpaid package especially is very attractive as the price of the Blackberry Bold 9780 alone is only RM819, and the huge bulk of what you pay( RM2259) is for 1 year BIS subscription fee that you pay in advance, equal to RM1440. Pretty good deal.
It is not only Celcom’s postpaid users that could enjoy Blackberry Bold 9780, but now Celcom Xpax users has the same privilege as well. Blackberry Bold 9780 is offered at RM1888, and of course without contract. If you notice, Celcom Exec plan doesn’t offer this phone without contract, so any Celcom Exec user who’re not keen on contract can purchase this phone via Xpax channel.
While Blackberry Bold 9780 comes with 3G connection, unfortunately Xpax Blackberry users won’t be able to get this speed, as the prepaid Blackberry only support 384khps speed, or EDGE. So it is not really worthy buys, in my opinion.
source Xpax
Blackberry Bold 9700 is now available without contract at Digi Online Store. With price at only Rm1688, you get free Digi Prepaid Simcard, premium number selection, an umbrella and yes it is delivered to your doorstep free of charge. You save Rm311 according to Digi as the Phone RRP is RM1999. For comparison, the same phone RRP at Celcom and Maxis is RM1788 and RM2099 respectively. You still pay less regardless what is the RRP and importantly, you’re not in any contract.
source Digi Online Store
Owning Blackberry without Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) is quite wasteful, you’ll miss the entire features in Blackberry and BIS. But if you don’t mind, here is your chance to get the Blackberry from Celcom with only voice and sms package. Blackberry Storm 2 and Bold 9700 is available at RM1488 with only RM50 commitment per-month. Blackberry Curve 8520 is even cheaper, priced at RM688 with the same amount of commitment.
I’m quite skeptical with the promo initially, so I tweet my question to MyXpax, one of Celcom’s Twitter account, and the answer is positive. May I remind you again that, you’ll miss all the fun without BIS in your Blackberry. But I do believe that anytime you want to add BIS to your package, Celcom will still allows you to do so.
source: Celcom
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If you like me who wanna great stuff but paying less, check this out. This time, it is Blackberry, the next cool gadget after iPhone that many wanna fancy with. With HSBC credit card (you have to subscribe auto-billing plan, hit the source link for more info), you can enjoy up to 42% discount for selected Blackberry device. But please note that subscribing to Celcom Exec (voice and sms) and Blackberry Advance 3G (BIS) is till mandatory though for 12 months period. There is also additional cash rebate on your monthly bill for the first 2 months.
source: HSBC
