Having new smartphone during festive season is perhaps making it more meaningful eh? Or as gift to the love ones? And just like Celcom’s Raya promotion last month, Maxis is offering such deals on selected smartphones for incoming Deepavali. At a glance, the phone discounted between RM100 for instance Nokia N8 and RM400 for Samsung Galaxy S. But do observe the plan and contract tied to each phone before walk in to Maxis store. The promo end this 7th November and it is opened to everyone.
source : Maxis
Eid Mubaraq or Raya had just passed a week ago, though the Raya mood still going strong with lots of open house to attend. Anyhow, for those that cut their online activity off like me, I just figure out the Raya phone sale from Celcom.But do not expect huge cut although the ads claim the 1/2 price off.
The price advertised on their printed and website is the normal subsidized price (because of the the contract, usually 12 months) with additional price cut. For instance, originally Blackberry Cuve 9300 is priced at Rm688 with RM250 monthly commitment for 1 year, but with this promotion, there is additional RM100 off. Not bad, but somehow it is quite misleading for frequent visitor to their website like me. It’s true there is price cut but it is marketing tactic after all, right? Hit the source link for the deal.
source : Celcom Raya Sale
Celcom is running promotion at Sungai Plaza with HTC Smart as one of the smarphone in offer. It might not topping your list of favorite phone, but if you wanna experience HTC Sense phone, this is one of the most affordable in market. Plus with Celcom offer, you can purchase it from as low as RM238, but keep in mind it comes with quite high monthly commitment fee for 12 months contract. One thing to note, this phone is running on Brew OS, not Android. It comes with free car charger worth RM99 if you get it from roadshow.
source : HTC (facebook) HTC Smart Spec
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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| HTC Aria |
Android 2.1, 5-megapixel camera, Qualcomm MSM 7227 600 MHz processor, 512 MB ROM, 384 MB ROM, (available September) |
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source: Maxis, Celcom, Digi
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Samsung has a big plan for the newly released Samsung Wave and Bada OS. On yesterday copy of The Sun daily nespaper, Samsung Wave advertisement is in 4 full pages describing everything from it’s AMOLED screen until Bada and it’s application. No smartphone has ever been advertised in such manner as far as I know.
Check out the photos below, and sorry if it is not too clear. The front page of the ads using image of colorful eye to describe the AMOLED screen, ehmm remember retina display anyone?
Samsung will has mini roadshow as well to couple of shopping Malls all over Malaysia from this week till the end of July. The attention of the show definitely to the Samsung Wave and Bada as the new breed of mobile OS that Samsung try to show to the world.
Samsung Wave priced at RM1699 with free 8GB Micro SD card while the stock last.
