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Maxis offers iPhone 4S on Value Plus Internet & Internet Value Plans
Posted:
March 16, 2012
By: soyacincau
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If you’re planning to get an iPhone 4S, Maxis now offers additional plans for bundle. Now you can get the iPhone 4S on the recently announced Value Plus Internet plan and Internet Value Plans which comes with affordable monthly subscription fees as low as RM30/month (for supplementary Value Plus Internet plan).
For the light users, there’s the Value Plus Internet 30 (For supplementary) and Value Plus Internet 50 which comes with 250MB of data and bundled calls and SMS. For the slightly heavier data user, you have the Internet Value 50 & 75 which offers 1.5GB and 3.5GB respectively. Being a lighter commitment plan, the subsidy is quite minimal as compared to the standard iValue plans for the iPhone 4S.
For more information, head over to Maxis.
i4Siri: Siri for your iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad
Posted:
March 11, 2012
By: soyacincau
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Siri, Apple’s voice assistant is still exclusive to the iPhone 4S. Even the latest new iPad is not getting any Siri loving. If you’re using an iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad or even iPod Touch 4th Gen, you still can get Siri on your device with i4Siri.
To get started, you need to have your device jailbroken and it must be running on iOS 5, 5.01 or the latest 5.1. The full step by step instructions are available here or you can watch the video after the break.
Apple Launches All-Out War Against Samsung. Demands Ban on Galaxy Nexus in the US
Posted:
February 14, 2012
By: ccsoya
42 comments
Apple is pulling out all the stops in the on-going patent wars against Samsung seeking a preliminary injunction to ban the Galaxy Nexus in the US saying that the Korean tech company infringes multiple key Apple patents that could cause “irreparable harm” to the Cupertino tech giant.
In the filling Apple claims: “Absent preliminary relief, by the time Apple prevails in this case – and Samsung’s infringement is so clear there can be no serious dispute that Apple will prevail – Samsung will have rushed the Galaxy Nexus, which misappropriates many patented features from the iPhone, to capture market share from Apple that Samsung will be able to retain long into the future,”
“Even worse … the full harm to Apple cannot be calculated, making it impossible for Apple to be compensated by money damages.”
Apple says the Galaxy Nexus and its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS violated four of its patents: predictive text; a data-tapper feature, which recognises data such as phone numbers and provides a link directly to the dialler, for example; a voice search feature that Apple believes is imitative of Siri; and even the popular Face Unlock feature.
In addition, Apple says that Samsung is using a “follower” strategy to steal market share knowing that customers often stay with their first smartphone OS because it’s often an inconvenience to switch platforms. Apple asserts that Samsung doesn’t mind having to fork out on these patent infringement cases because the damage to Apple’s market share will already have been done.
Data suggests that iOS apps crash more often than Android apps
Posted:
February 4, 2012
By: ccsoya
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Crittercism — a mobile app monitoring startup – painstakingly compiled data of mobile app crashes between November and December 2011, covering over 23 different permutations of the iOS operating system and over 33 Android versions, and over 214 million app launches between all those OS versions.
The data shows that iOS apps crashed more frequently than comparable apps on Android. As you can see in the data presented, iOS apps on iPhone, iPad and iPods Touch make up nearly 75% of total crashes in the period that the data was gathered.
The researchers suggests that the reason why Android apps see far less crashes than iOS apps is because the Android platform allows developers to send out updates faster and users are able to set their Android devices to auto-update apps which allow bugs to be fixed much faster than can be done on iOS. On iOS developers pushing updates have to go through an approval process which can take weeks and there is no auto-update for users using iOS.
From our own experience, we agree with the data. On a day-to-day basis we do see more app crashes on iOS than on Android. The apps that we use that crash on a daily basis include Safari, Twitter for iOS and Facebook for iOS, just to name a few.
So iOS and Android users, offer your thoughts, is the data indicative of your own user experience? Let us know.
A more detailed break down of the data sets is available after the break.
Not funny
Posted:
February 2, 2012
By: ccsoya
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Funny or tasteless? Your thoughts? Another example for discussion after the jump.
Madly and deeply in love with Siri
Posted:
February 1, 2012
By: soyacincau
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The recent Big Bang Theory episode features Siri, which is Raj’s new digital companion. The interaction is simply hilarious.
Enjoy the 5 minute clip!
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By the Numbers: Apple’s Earnings, Sales and Revenue Figures. What does it all mean?
Posted:
January 25, 2012
By: ccsoya
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Apple concluded its Q4 financial report earlier this morning and as usual, the numbers are phenomenal. What makes the figures even more amazing is that they surpass even the most optimistic of estimates affirming Apple’s position as the largest technology company by market value in the world.
Apple sold 15.4 million iPads and a staggering 37 million iPhones, making the last quarter its best ever. These are certainly impressive numbers but what does it all mean? Let’s put these figures into perspective.
Market value of almost $400 billion
Apple is hovering just a whisker off its record high. Many on Wall Street target $550 to $600 per share as an achievable milestone: assuming no change in existing shares, that would accord the Silicon Valley titan a value of as much as $560 billion, equivalent to the annual Gross Domestic Product of Switzerland.
Exxon has a market value of $420 billion, annual revenue about four times Apple’s and twice the tech company’s roughly 46,000 employees.
Revenue grew 65% from US$43 billion to US$108.25 billion in fiscal year 2011
That is akin to creating a Fortune 500 company from scratch. For instance, a revenue of precisely $43 billion would place the company below Intel Corp and Sears Holdings Corp – 56th and 57th, respectively, on the 2011 U.S. Fortune 500.
Near $100 billion cash reserve
One of the reasons Apple’s shares trade at a relatively low multiple is because it has huge amounts of cash that investors say can be put to better use. Its cash balance stood at $97.6 billion at the end of December, roughly equivalent to California’s 2012/13 state budget
Apple’s $13 billion profits surpassed Google’s entire revenue of $10.6 billion. Apple’s profits for 2011 exceed Google’s revenue in the same period.
iPad
Apple sold more iPads than HP sold personal computers – 15.4 million iPads versus by Gartner’s estimates of 14.7 million HP computers sold
iPhone
iPhone sales double with every new model:
In 2009, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007 and 2008 combined
In 2010, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007, 2008, and 2009 combined
In 2011, Apple sold 93.1 million iPhones, slightly more than it did in in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 combined
It is estimated that Apple has surpassed Samsung’s smartphone sales figures, with 37 million iPhones sold versus an estimated 35 million Samsung smartphones sold in the same period. This puts Apple back in top spot as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
Apple sold 92.94 million iPhones and 40.43 million tablets in the 2011 calendar year. If you laid these devices end-to-end, they would just about stretch halfway around the Earth’s circumference that’s over 20 million thousand kilometres.
Just think about that for a moment.
[source: Reuters, PhoneArena]
Maxis extends Free iPhone 4S 32GB Promo on iValue 4
Posted:
January 17, 2012
By: soyacincau
3 comments
For this Chinese New Year, Maxis is offering the iPhone 4S 32GB for free if you subscribe its iValue 4 plan of RM375/month for 24 months. Actually this isn’t new as it is an extension of its earlier promo which ended on 15th January 2012. Normally the iPhone 4S 32GB is offered at RM350 for 24 months on iValue 4.
For more information, head over to Maxis iPhone 4S page.
So how much does an iPhone 4S ownership cost on different telcos? Check out our plans comparison here.
Singapore selling iPhone 4S without cameras
Posted:
January 14, 2012
By: soyacincau
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Thinking of getting an iPhone 4S but your work doesn’t permit anything that take pictures? You might want to check out Singapore as they are offering iPhone 4S with its front and main camera removed.
In Singapore, military staff are prohibited from bringing in any form of camera devices into their bases. Aimed at catering for these folks, telcos in Singapore are offering special iPhone 4S bundles which include “Camera removal service”. On M1, the 32GB version is going as low as $49 on iPhone Max Plans or as high as $649 on their iPhone value plan.
It is interesting to point out that such modifications performed by telcos will automatically void the standard Apple warranties. As a result, the telcos are reported to offer warranty coverage of their own. In Singapore, the iPhone 4S is not the only device with “camera-less” options as we’ve found out that M1 is also offering a similar version for its BlackBerry Bold 9780. This certainly goes to show that the military market is rather substantial for Singapore and this ruling doesn’t necessary have to restrict them to dumb feature phones.
Apple Store delivery time for iPhone 4S reduced to 3-5 working days
Posted:
January 13, 2012
By: ccsoya
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We just noticed that Apple Store Malaysia has reduced the delivery time of all iPhone 4S versions from 1-2 weeks about a month back to just 3-5 working days now. This is good news for those who want to get the iPhone 4S but don’t really want to be tied-up with a contract.
A quick check with operators and resellers revealed that there seems to be ample iPhone 4S stocks at the moment. You can walk into most DiGi, Maxis or Celcom outlets and walk out with an iPhone 4S on the spot. This was very different from 2010 when the iPhone 4 was launched, many will recall how difficult it was to get one from anywhere, this went on for a few months back then.
Things has indeed changed and we can think of two probabilities of why it is much easier to get the iPhone 4S than the iPhone 4 previously – 1) Supply is not an issue for Apple allowing operators and resellers to bring in more stock, or 2) Not many Malaysian are buying iPhones anymore. According to the people we spoke to, the latter seems to be the likely reason.
What do you think?