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Free Blackberry Access For Celcom Xpax Users

free bb access Free Blackberry Access For Celcom Xpax Users

Time to cheer to all Xpax Blackberry folks! Beginning this week until 31st March 2010, you can enjoy free Blackberry Advance package during the weekend if you subscribe to Blackberry Advance for 5 consecutive weekdays.

You save RM5 perweek, and there are 11 weeks until end of March, so the total saving here is RM55.  In a month, you save RM20  (for RM5 x 4 weeks permonth) which brings the total bill, if you subscribe to Backberry Advance continuously, to RM55, from RM75 without discount for 30days usage. That’s cool if saving is your priority now.

This promo is part of Celcom’s ‘Got Big Freakin Sale’ going on from 11th Jan untill 31st March, so you gotta hurry to enjoy this. Apart from that, there are also discounts on phone calls as well as content downloads. Check out Xpax promo page for more info.

Admin 12 January 2010 telecommunication , , , , , 1 Comment

30% Credit Bonus if You Reload Celcom Prepaid Today

celcom 30 promo 30% Credit Bonus if You Reload Celcom Prepaid Today

In my 4 years experience of using Celcom prepaid services, I’ve never sees (I might miss it) a better deal that what Celcom is offering today, 1-January-2010. Seriously!!

For a minimum reload of RM30, you could get RM9 free credit (you read it right, credit not SMS) up to maximum RM60 if you reload RM200. Isn’t that great!

What makes it not sound so cool is, you must use the free credit in 7 days and it cannot be transferred because Celcom blocked transfer in that period of time.

If you’re wondering how you could finish it on time. Let say you reload RM50 which entitles you RM15 free credit,

  • Subscribe to Blackberry Advance for 6 days - RM2.5 x 6 days equals to RM15
  • Send SMS 3000 times to any friends in your 15Pax list (0.5 cent per SMS on any network)
  • Talk 215 minutes to any friends in your 15Pax list (1 minute rate is 12 cents to any network)
Admin 1 January 2010 telecommunication , , , 4 Comments

Celcom Vs Maxis - Blackberry Curve 8520 Prepaid and Postpad Comparison

Since its launch, Blackberry Curve 8520 has created a brand new smartphone experience to consumers after a long dominating corporate segment. With a low price tag, and offered to prepaid users, it becomes an instant hit, for people who want to have emails on the go, without having to dig deep to their pocket to pay for monthly bill.

So here is the list of comparisons of Blackberry Curve 8520 offered by Maxis and Celcom, with both postpaid and prepaid covered. It is up to you now to decide which one best suits your needs.

Disclaimer: Every effort has been made to make sure the information present here is as accurate as possible, but does not guarantee that it is up to date.

Admin 11 November 2009 telecommunication , , , , , , , , , , , No Comments

Blackberry 8520 speed test in Celcom EDGE network

These videos recorded to demonstrate the speed of Celcom EDGE network, when it is use to browse internet using Blackberry Curve 8520 hand held. From here, you’ll would know if the speed is suffice to influence in getting one for yourself.

Forgive me for the bad quality video, taken from iPhone 2G.

Performance may vary depend on various factors such as location, coverage, type of website you’re loading and etc. On both test, I’m keep the default setup without any tweaking.

In the first video, I use Techmeme.com as the sample, simply because it is one of the website that I visit frequently before.

It took 23 seconds before you can start seeing the web page to load and it is completely loaded in 42 seconds. For comparison, using my notebook run on Wifi (streamyx), Techmeme.com loaded in less than 9 seconds.

Move on to the second video, I choose Google.com as the sample which also the default search engine in the browser. This test to shown how fast Google return the result upon query.

Google has massive resources that powers its search engine from behind, and you can expect the page to load faster than the previous video.

Using ‘Blackberry’ as the search term, the page completely loaded in 17 seconds.

What I’m trying to show in this testing is, different websites with different resources,  will return different outcome. Other factors such as the existence of multimedia such as Flash, Silverlight should be factored as well.

So what do you think about Celcom EDGE network? Fast? Slow?

I’m pretty much satisfied with the speed, although sometime I wish that it could go faster, but the lack of 3G support dampen the hope. Anybody else has run similar testing? Mind share your experience?

Admin 16 October 2009 telecommunication , , , , , , No Comments

Unboxing Blackbery Curve 8520 Celcom Set

Celcom throws a party at the The Republic, Sunway Pyramid last Saturday to unveil Blackberry Curve 8520 . The live music and the crowd bring the atmosphere to be even more lively than just regular boring gadget launch, a stark contrast to the Windows Mobile 6.5 event that happen to be nearby.

I’m among the first few users who bought the Blackberry Curve 8520 that day, after weeks of long wait. The fact that the phone is priced at RM888 (although they were ‘forcing’ us to buy RM50 top up) made the decision easier. With Celcom, you’re not bound to any contract to enjoy full Blackberry services such as BIS and internet from RM2.50 perday.

Before that, this is not a phone review (although couple of friends ask me to do so), merely the due ‘unboxing’ post supposed to be posted over the weekend. But Eid Mubarak Open House had delayed that till today.

So here is the first image, the whole packaging with blue color plastic bag.  Hard paper bag will give more exclusive looks for the phone, but yeah, this is budget Blackberry.
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The Blackberry Curve 8520 in a black color box. Finally I own one… honestly Iphone packaging is superior than this one..
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I was too excited and forgot to shot the very first moment, when the box is opened, and reveal the plastic wrapped phone. Anyway, the phone is a beauty even at the first glance. IMG_5192

Nothing special with the accessories, you got charger, USB cable and earphone. The black leather holster is free for those who purchased the phone during that event. Another freebies, the ‘exclusive’ phone skin is going to be posted later. There are bunches of guides as well as a CD inside as well.
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Other Blackberry Curve 8520 photos, shot from a different angle.

Front view
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Left side view
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Top view
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Right side.
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Back side view
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I include this image to show how to setup your Blackberry browser to enjoy Blackberry internet service, because some first time users, including me had experienced the credit dried out immediately such as at this post.
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Overall, physically Blackberry Curve 8520 is a one beauty smart phone with slightly cheap built. But it was compensated with awesome Blackberry service. What would you expect from Celcom’s EDGE connection and does it fast enough and sufficient to get you online?? Stay tune.

Admin 13 October 2009 gadget & hardware, personal , , , , , 7 Comments
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