Celcom to unveil Blackberry Storm this April

celcom storm Celcom to unveil Blackberry Storm this April

Last week, we have seen how Maxis and iPhone dominating the local telcos news with the official release of iPhone to the local market. Not to be outdone with its rival, Celcom beginning this weekend, started to air, TV commercial promoting unknown device due to be unveiled April. You can guess what it is based on the size.

It is none other than iPhone rival…. Blackberry Storm!! Well, my early guess appears to be true.

Blackberry Storm is the first touch screen phone from RIM, compete directly with Apple iPhone on the smartphone segment. It manage to grab quite an attention when it was released last year, so it is interesting how it will compete here in the local market.

No detail about the device price as well as the data plan or call plan available on the Celcom’s Storm webpage. It is unknown if it will use existing plan or Celcom will introduce new plans just like Maxis approach with iPhone.

Interested user can prebook now, where there are free gift worth RM638 up for grab. Head to Celcom’s Blackberry Storm page for more information.

Blackberry Bold – Maxis VS Celcom package plan

Since iPhone most likely won’t be around ‘legally’ at the moment,  lets jump to another cool gadget from RIM, Blackberry. Well yeah, only Blackberry Bold manage to give Apple’s iPhone 3G run for their money.

Hoping to see Blackberry Bold faded, once seeing a big BlackBerry Bold photo on both Maxis & Celcom sites.  Why we used to be behind when it come to get ‘cool’ device huh, probably for one exception, for gadget made in Korea, Japan or Finland.

Although I favor iPhone over Blackberry (except when Storm make it way here) for many reasons , the superiority of Blackberry over iPhone for business users and functionality is undeniable. The Blackberry strength lies on it rock solid service of delivering email to and from mobile devices. The service disruption is a rare, especially in Malaysia based on my colleagues experience of using company sponsored Blackberry which run on Celcom network.

Ahh, excuse me if I sound like promoting Blackberry. In Malaysia, Blackberry is only offered by Maxis & Celcom. I’m not ultra busy person who who devoted myself for emails, but if the price and the plan is right, why should I avoiding Blackberry, correct?

Having said that, I made a simple spreadsheet, comparing the plan between Maxis & Celcom side by side. The idea is to identify, which one offer the best value for money. Keep in mind though, the price and service compared is only for consumers usage.

Celcom’s plans looks more attractive than those offered by Maxis. Celcom didn’t mention if their data plan had included Internet/WAP service, even though I believe so but if it is otherwise, Celcom plan is surely less attractive than Maxis. Instead of price, sometime it is the quality of service that determi

Want more, check out the detail over here for Maxis & Celcom