Android 2.2 Video Walkthrough
By now if you’ve been dropping by SoyaCincau.com on a regular basis you would’ve heard of Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) and that it is now available for download for Nexus One owners.
We’ve seen pictures and you’ve read about what it can do with Flash support and mobile WiFi router capabilities. It looks like a pretty decent upgrade with very worthwhile improvements. While we wait for the download to be available for other Android devices, take a look at this brief overview of the key highlights of the Android 2.2 OS.
Head over to after the jump to check out the video.
U Mobile rides on the World Cup bandwagon
The World Cup fever has begun and we can see loads of brands trying to leverage on the one of the biggest events this year. Our local telcos are in it in a big way too with Maxis leading the way becoming the official mobile broadcaster for the ultimate football event.
U Mobile – a telco that’s still looking to find a strong footing in the local market – has just started a promotion campaign around the World Cup theme. Like DiGi’s Bola! Bola! Bola! campaign there’s really not much value in it for the customers.
The U Mobile U Football Mania campaign is just offering some very generic subscription based content on football trivia and news along with SMS alerts on the latest scores and results from World Cup matches. There’s also some free mobile downloads if you’re interested. Although, we had a look at it and it doesn’t look interesting to us.
We don’t get why telcos see SMS alerts and the like as a feasible business proposition when more and more people are getting their updates for free from social media networks like Twitter.
Very simillar to DiGi, U Mobile is also running a contest that offers free travel to anywhere around the world. The difference here is that it’s not for football fixtures. Still, its something we don’t see adding much value to the subscriber. Apart from Maxis – who will be the first telco in the world to broadcast World Cup matches live to mobile phones – it’s funny how telcos are paying big money to associate themselves to the World Cup but at the end of the day really not giving anything of value to the consumer. We think that’s just a waste of money.
What we would like to see is, for example, a competition where we get to choose a country and if that country makes to the World Cup playoffs we’ll be rewarded with free talk time or a free phone or something – for example. That would be more interesting and fun, not to mention cheaper than paying for trips around the world.
Oh well, that’s just us.
In any case, if you’re interested to find out about the U Football Mania, click here.
We highlighted DiGi‘s “ride the wave” promotion campaign building up to the World Cup earlier.
It’s nothing out of the ordinary, with contest that offers free SMS and trips to any football match in the world as prizes. DiGi’s also offering special edition prepaid top-up cards along with some paid content services revolving around football updates based on SMS and MMS with news alerts, caller tunes and fantasy football availabe for purchase.
Pretty standard stuff. What caught our attention was a series of curious viral videos produced to promote the campaign. Earlier, DiGi had released three mysterious videos that looks something from 24, we could make out what the videos are all about.
Now with the release of the latest and final video, its pretty clear that the videos were just buzz builders to highlight the promo. Nevertheless it’s pretty funny we think.
Check out the video after the jump.
Our coverage on the Baraka-DiGi fallout caught the attention of one very interesting reader – the CEO of Baraka Telecoms, Ishsal Ishak.
We wrote that the mutually terminated agreement with DiGi was a sign that the Islamic telco would not be making a debut in the local Market. But Ishsal claims otherwise, saying that Baraka is looking at a different approach and is “reconsidering the MVNO business in Malaysia” and the role that the company wants to play in the local telco industry.
In the comment Ishsal added that Baraka is currently in talks with “a number of parties at the moment” to partner with to launch its mobile services; but the CEO tells us that it is too soon to divulge any details.
Though Ishsal did put out a timeline on when Baraka will be able to give us more details, saying that it will be around three to four weeks, “at the earliest“.
Android 2.2 Froyo Manual Download for Nexus One
Nexus One users will slowly be updated to the latest Android 2.2 OS codename Froyo via OTA. If this is a nerve wrecking process for those who can’t wait, here’s a solution for you!
The guys at XDA Developers Forum managed to grab the link for the Froyo OTA download link and have shared it on their forum. Some members even created a mirror link, in case you can’t download properly from Google’s server.
Head on there now if you own an Nexus One and you can’t wait.
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