Beginning yesterday, Maxis has exclusively started selling HTC Desire with data and voice package. If you’re not aware, Maxis has exclusivity to sell HTC Desire for one month period, and only from 24th June onward, HTC Desire will available at all selected retailers nationwide.

But Maxis does provide a quite good deal to everyone. Maxis price HTC Desire at only RM1499, quite substantial subsidy from it’s retail price RM2199. With 1 year contract, you must choice from any Value Plus 50, 80 and etc, plus any data plan, beginning from RM58 permonth for 500MB.

By doing simple math, minimum fee you need to pay is RM108 (Value Plan 50 + RM58 (500 MB) data that bring the total to 1296 for 1 year. Minus RM700 (HTC Desire price subsidized by Maxis), you only pay RM596 for 1 year voice and data usage minimum, or about RM 50 permonth. Is that good??

HTC together with it’s partner, SIS and Maxis has officially unveiled HTC Desire for Malaysian market today in one event at KLCC. As expected, Maxis has the exclusivity to sell the phone for one month beginning tomorrow. Only after 24th June and onward, the phone will be available at authorized reseller nationwide.

Maxis will bundle the phone with data and voice plan and priced it at RM1499. Suggested retail price is RM2199. One interesting fact about HTC Desire as point out by Mr SK Wong, Country Manager of HTC Malaysia when answering one question from the press is that, HTC Desire will receive update to Android 2.2 by the end of this year. Hope I got it right, and that’s good news indeed if you’re one of the  HTC Desire user.

Press Release

HTC DESIRE DELIVERS OUTSTANDING USER EXPERIENCE

HTC Desire captivates with brilliant display of colours on 3.7 inch AMOLED screen

Malaysia – 27 May, 2010 – HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today introduced HTC Desire in Malaysia. The HTC Desire is the latest Android smartphone that offers the enhanced HTC Sense experience.

“HTC Sense on the new HTC Desire not only delivers one of the most dynamic and personalized user experiences possible, but also one of the easiest ways to interact and integrate social networks into your life,” said Jack Tong, VP of HTC Asia. “It’s the stuff of powerful inspiration.”

Said Jean-Pascal van Overbeke, Maxis’ Chief Operating Officer, “Maxis is pleased to be first to offer the highly anticipated HTC Desire to our customers, to address their needs on a holistic level – ensuring unique access to the latest advancements in device technologies and interfaces in order to enjoy rich contents over best network speeds for mobile data and browsing.”

“The device’s focus on intuitive exploration is very much a reflection of Maxis’ commitment to making it easy and natural to manage every aspect of your life, through technology and service solutions which meet the range of human desires. We are pleased to work together with HTC in enriching our bundled service offerings and adding a new dimension of enjoyment and interpersonal connection to our customers’ lives.”

HTC Desire delivers intense brilliance, sharp contrast, and true colors on the expansive 3.7-inch AMOLED display. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive while the instinctive HTC Sense experience lets you wield the power of the HTC Desire with the greatest of ease.

HTC SENSE

HTC Sense is a user experience focused on putting people at the centre by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. This experience revolves around three fundamental principles that were developed by observing and listening to how people live and communicate. These core tenets of Make It Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected continue to be the key to the new HTC Sense experience.

The new HTC Sense experience continues to focus on improving your interactions with your most important people.  This begins with a new HTC application and widget called Friend Stream that seamlessly aggregates all of your social communication including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised flow of updates. This simple aggregation makes it easier than ever to focus on what friends are doing as well as to view the images and links that they share.  In addition to Friend Stream, people can be organised into specific social circles, such as groups of friends, colleagues or any other way that makes sense.

The new HTC Sense experience also introduces broad improvements to applications including the browser, email client and others. In addition, the new version of HTC Sense includes a new newsreader application and widget, as well as a new seven-screen ‘Leap’ thumbnail view for quick and easy access to specific screens.

Pricing & Availability

To be first to experience the HTC Desire from Maxis, please look for the Maxis-HTC Desire roadshow at Ground level of KLCC from today till 3 June.

The new HTC Desire is now available at any of 28 Maxis Centres nationwide and at selected Maxis Exclusive Partners at a subsidised price of RM 1,499.00 with contract. The retail units will be available at all authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of RM 2,199.00* from 24^th June 2010 onwards.