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HTC Drop Smartphones Price, Due to Competetion or New Product Release Soon?

HTC has released the list of the latest suggested retail price for it’s Android and Windows Mobile based phone lineup. The price update is in respond to the increasingly competitive the smartphone market currently have. Looking on another side, this could also means that HTC is ready to launch numbers of smartphones that already available in other regions.

HTC Hero and HTC HD2 have substantial price cut amounting RM200 and RM400 respectively from their last price about RM2099 and RM2899 three months ago. Keep in mind that this is just suggested retail price or known more as RRP as a guide to retailer. The actual price usually lower than this due to competition. Full price list available in the press release below


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HTC Android and windows mobile phones price revision

Malaysia – 9 March, 2010 – Getting ahead of the competition affordably has never been easier with the HTC’s series of Android and Windows Mobile Smartphones. Get ready to be spoilt for choice to integrate the lineup of HTC smartphones, now carrying new suggested retail prices into your work and play repertoire.

The revised prices will take effect immediately.

Android™ Phone Models

Model

Revised Suggested Retail Price


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HTC Magic

Targeted at users seeking a stylish smartphone which delivers a superior mobile internet experience, HTC Magic comes equipped with a 3.2” HVGA touch screen display and features a track ball and navigational buttons for quick easy access.

RM 1,598


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Revised Suggested Retail Price

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HTC Hero

The first HTC phone that embodies HTC Sense™, allowing an intuitive and seamless experience to allow you to personalize a suite of widgets that best suit your personality and lifestyle.

RM 1,899

HTC Drop Smartphones Price, Due to Competetion or New Product Release Soon?

HTC Tattoo

The latest addition to the HTC Android™ family, the HTC Tattoo allows you to fully customize both inside and out. Design a cover or choose from the wide range of cover designs available to make your Tattoo your own.

RM 1,199


Windows Mobile® Phone Models

Model

Revised Suggested Retail Price


HTC Drop Smartphones Price, Due to Competetion or New Product Release Soon?

HTC Touch2

A compact and stylish smartphone that delivers the full touch experience boosted by Windows Mobile 6.5. Offering best-in-class messaging, browsing and productivity capabilities, HTC Touch2 keeps you connected with the people and information in your life.

RM 1,299

HTC Drop Smartphones Price, Due to Competetion or New Product Release Soon?

HTC Touch Diamond 2

An elegant companion, the HTC Touch Diamond2 simplifies communication with its people-centric communication technology, allowing you to view text messages, emails and call logs from individual contact cards or from the in-call screen during a call. Enhanced with HTC’s TouchFlo 3D user experience and zero-waiting Push Internet ensuring prompt and instant downloading of your favourite websites.

RM 1,699


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HTC Touch Pro 2

Remarkably designed with an intuitive mobile navigation and touch-responsive interface, you can view your office documents or browse web pages on the impressive 2.8” VGA touch screen. Targeted at business users, composing emails are a breeze with the slide out QWERTY keyboard.

RM 1,999

HTC Drop Smartphones Price, Due to Competetion or New Product Release Soon?

HTC HD2

Presenting a deluxe cinematic visual experience on its industry leading high-resolution, 4.3” capacitive touch display for a sharper and more vivid display, the HTC HD2 is powered by the new Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor to increase productivity and efficiency.

RM 2,499


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HTC Snap

Designed for users who prefer a user-friendly QWERTY smartphone that simplifies communication. Featuring the Inner Circle, it allows you to use a dedicated button to bring emails from a preselected group of people to the top of your inbox, enabling you to respond immediately.

Available in two versions, the camera and non-camera versions, the HTC Snap is a reliable smartphone companion regardless of whatever profession you are in.

RM 1,099


About HTC
Founded in 1997, HTC Corporation (HTC) is a global leader in mobile phone innovation and design. Since its establishment, HTC has developed strong R&D capabilities, pioneered many new designs and product innovations and launched state-of-the-art mobile phones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the US, Asia and around the world. HTC is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile device market. The company is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under ticker 2498. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.

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Office: (65) 6238 7788, ext 303


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5 Tools To Keep Up To Date With Tech News

Someone asked me how can I blogging about technology and keep myself up to date with technology, when at the same time I still working, spending more than 11 hours including commuting from and to the workplace. What’s more, I’m working in IT industry and my working time started after your lunch time and sometime after your dinner time (hope you can guess my working hours).

Well, there is no sophisticated tools, or scientific method that I use, except these 5 tools that I’ll elaborate below.

1. Twitter

Twitter need no introduction almost to everyone, it is the micro blogging service that taking the world by storm. What make Twitter is superior as news source is because, it got updated as a news broke out, or real time.

You know why? Twitter app is available in almost all smartphone platform, which means Twitter is accompanying the people wherever there go. Or , there are also SMS service provided by certain carries that let you tweet using your ‘regular’ phone, as long as it support texting or SMS.

In Twitter, these are 3 areas to look upon.

  • List - Most useful of all. List allow you to organize information by grouping the twitter account you follows based on the topic. For instance, nowadays, more companies jump to Twitter and use their account as one of the vehicle in doing announcement, promotion or customer service. So here is where it make sense. Let say you want to follow telecommunication news, so group all twitter account belong to these companies under one list, called Telco for instance.  Beside that, you can subscribe to the list the twitter account that you follow as well.
  • Search - Use the search function to find the conversation about the topic that you’re interested
  • Trending - The hot trend currently in Twitter. It can be manipulate using the hash # tag.

2. Techmeme.com

What is Techmeme. WikiAnswer best definite it as “Techmeme is a website that aggregates the top tech news stories from the most prominent technology oriented websites”. Techmeme is one of my favorite website, which has contributed to hundreds of posts I made in this blog. If you’re looking for tech tops news, beside Twitter, here is the right place to do so.

3. Google reader

Wikipedia define Google Reader as “Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline” . So you have tonnes of website that you frequently read or you bookmark them for later read. It is almost impossible to visit these websites to read the new content daily. RSS reader such as Google Reader fill up the gap by allow users to subscribe to the RSS of that websites. You read, comment, share bookmark the content you find interesting within the Google Reader itself. All in one, is that beauty?

4. Google Alert

What is Google Alert anyway? The definition by Google - “Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic”. So let say you want to stay update on Nokia’s latest new, set ‘Nokia’ as the topic in Google Alert, which will send the to your email on the frequency that your comfortable with. Create as many as Google Alert to fit your needs. For me, I have dozens of Google Alert set up for different topic of my interest.

5. Smartphone with data service

Of all that I suggest above, this is going to be the most important. If you can afford it, go get one and you won’t ever regret it.  Smartphone with data has 3 basic things that make it appeal to everyone.

  • It is portable, fit in your pocket, light and the battery life is long lasted than.. let say netbook.
  • You can get your email on the go, stay updated with your social networks through the social apps or webs and browsing website anywhere you want.
  • This is all in one device you ever need.You can play games if you bored, listen to music, capture picture and etc, not to forget it’s main feature as communication device.

Most of the time, I read all websites stated above using smartphone, except when I’ve found the content and ready to write, I’ll switch to my notebook.

All 3 websites stated above has it’s own mobile version. The ‘normal’ website is tough to read in your smartphone. The mobile version of this website will show bigger font and convenient to be read from smartphone’s small screen. The mobile optimized website also usually simple and less cluttered, less graphic which mean it will load faster in your mobile web browser.

So you say you have notebook that got wireless broadband connection. It’s true that it offer almost the same convenient as smartphone, but imagine if you’re commuting a lot. You’re not full time blogger who have luxury of working from home;  you spending a lot of time outside of your home. That’s where smartphone is what it is design for. Connecting you to the world of information regardless of space, time or border

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Maybank’s Mobile Banking Goes Mobile Web Browser

Maybank, the nation’s largest commercial bank by assets has unveiled it’s brand new mobile banking portal , which can be access at http://mobile.maybank2u.com.my.

Mobile banking is nothing new in this country, where the transaction method  is vary from SMS, or using application developed by bank which need to be installed in the mobile phone. The emergence of modern smartphones has created new generation of mobile banking, now running on web browser, thanks to large screen, powerful processor and fast internet speed

According to to this post, the portal is  still running on Beta phase for 3 months period. For the time being, only Account Summary, Transfer and Payment transaction is offered to the customers.

It appears also that, the portal is optimized for iPhone web browser, while browsing it from Backberry and Android (HTC) phone will only display the text without fancy graphic.

Having the luxury of doing banking related transaction everywhere is a nice thing to have, but keeping it save should be your utmost priority. Now tell me, do you feel convenient using your smartphone to do banking transaction?

Blackberry View (Curve 8520)          In Android  (HTC Magic)

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Testing Nokia Ovi Maps With Turn-by-turn Navigation

As some of you might already know, Nokia has released brand new Ovi Map with turn by turn navigation function, or GPS in Layman term. The new Ovi Maps which so far only compatible with Nokia’s latest smartphone, is available free of charge in more than 70 countries.

Unlike Google Maps which use data (internet) connection to run its turn by turn function, Nokia Ovi Maps doesn’t need that, although it still need data connection to occasionally update the maps. The release is like killing a bird with 2 stone. First, this is brilliant move as most Nokia’s smartphones (at least in this country) are running Garmin software which charge small fee to use it (I know there is ehem version for it). It surely hit Garmin and other GPS company that sell GPS software for Nokia phone. Secondly, Nokia has silently sent the message to the world particularly it’s rival, that they can offer better maps (from Navteq) with turn by turn navigation which is more practical to the rest of the world rather than specific for one region.

Beside a good camera, GPS is also one of the sought after function in smartphones nowadays. This is especially true for non geeks or person that looking for device with multiple function that easy to use. Whereas geeks will looks for OS or new technology that offer tonnes of stuff to explore and intuitive enough to use.

Having this maps gives Nokia an edge over it’s smaller as well as rising rival. This could be lethal weapon that Nokia really needs to explore mature market where the demand for high technology is extremely high and crucial to boost Nokia smartphone market share in near future. The only thing it lack now is fine OS (Maemo or S60) that capable of throwing strong challenge to Android, iPhone, WinMo , and Android or even WebOS.

Now back to the maps, I have a chance testing the Ovi Map briefly the day it was released. I don’t own any Nokia smartphone, but a friend of mine lend me his brand new E72, to get this maps installed. It is not a secret that most Nokia smartphone users that I know, aware of Ovi Store, but never had intent using it. So I have brief lecture with them about the benefit of having apps in your smarthone, and bla bla bla.

Well, after went through some installation process, I’m now ready to see how it’s work. I made a short journey from the office where I work at Cyberjaya to restaurant nearby that I have recorded below.

For turn by turn navigation in Ovi Maps, it has 2 mode which is Walk and Drive. Other existing option such as My Location, Places and etc is still there.

I use ‘Drive’ mode which Nokia has explained it very well on their website as “The Free turn-by-turn drive navigation, with voice and visual guidance in over 70 countries. Includes real-time traffic information, lane assistance, speed limit warnings, and automatic re-routing to help you arrive safely and on time“. Sound familiar?

I can also set the ‘home’ destination’ which will be stored in the maps for later use. That’s why if you watch the video carefully, the routing shown in the screen (in blue) is different from what we’re heading to. My sincere apology, that the video quality is bad. I merely want to see how it works, accuracy and etc. The outcome does not disappointing. As expected, the maps and route is accurate and able to bring us to the destination. It is short video indeed, and does not provide enough credit that it is going to works on other areas. Cyberjaya is not a big city although it is touted as Intelligent City, with roads that doesn’t change for years. So it make sense that the map is accurate, but if you test it at city center with frequent traffic change, the result may different

There are 3 view mode you can choose from, which are 3D, 2D and another 1 that I forgot. Enough said, you can find more feature here, or download it directly to your mobile phone from Ovi Maps or this page. Now I wish that I have compatible Nokia’s smartphone that able to run this GPS..

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Unboxing HTC Magic

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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