We’ll be at the Maxis “invitation only” iPhone 4 launch happening late night 23 September to time the release of the iPhone 4 at the stroke of midnight 24 September effectively making Maxis Malaysia’s first telco to launch the iPhone 4 ahead of DiGi.

We’ll be providing you with the latest updates from the launch event via Twitter. So if you’re not already following us, please do. If you already are, thanks for the support.

Also, do comment us if you have questions of things that you would specifically like to know about the iPhone 4 offers from Maxis. If you have questions you want to ask the reps there, we’ll be more than happy to ask them for you. FYI, Sandip Das Jean-Pascal van Overbeke and a few C-levels from Maxis will be attending.

Frankly speaking we’re very excited to see what Maxis has in store for the launch. Granted, most of the details are out already but we have a feeling that Maxis is saving something special for the event. It’s only a hunch and we could be wrong but we’ll see how it goes.

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(Update 21092010) There’s a misprint on the RRP price for the 32GB iPhone 4. It’s actually RM2,690 NOT RM2,490. How silly of us and we’re sorry for the confusion. We’ll update the tables in a bit. Thanks to commenter Berlinwall for pointing it out.

The big news this week is the iPhone 4 launch in Malaysia. It’s a close race between DiGi and Maxis on who will launch it first and what kind of plans will be on the table.

Looks like Maxis has released the first salvo with full details on their iPhone 4 plans and it is confirmed that they will be launching the new iPhone on Friday, 24 September 2010.

In an unprecedented move DiGi will also be launching the iPhone 4 on the same day but DiGi has been very quiet on what kind of plans that they will be offering to counter what Maxis has put out. We’re expecting DiGi to pull something big out of their hats, but it’s not going to be much different from the plans that Maxis has. The main differentiator will be the value added stuff and rebates that both telcos are willing to fork out. The question is how much money is Maxis and DiGi willing to pay in terms of cost-per-customer to win subscribers?

In the meantime let’s take a close look at the new iPhone plans from Maxis and compare them with the old iPhone plans to see if what’s on offer is really good value for money.

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Now that we know how much the official release of the iPhone 4 will retail in Malaysia, how does it stack up against RRP prices from around the globe?

Here’s a listing of the iPhone 4 prices from countries that offer the device unlocked and without a contract with the most expensive at the top and the cheapest towards the bottom. But before you proceed, do note that we’re dealing with numerous exchange rates here which means prices indicated are approximate and not exact. It does however give you some indication of how much the iPhone 4 costs in various parts of the world.

Also, it’s worth pointing out that currently Maxis doesn’t offer outright purchases of the iPhone 4. The device is unlocked but you’ll need to purchase one with a 12 or 24 month contract with Maxis.

1. ITA – RM2,672 / RM3,158
2. BEL – RM2,591 / RM3,036
3. DEN – RM2,554 / RM2,992
4. FIN – RM2,549 / RM2,996
5. FRA – RM2,549 / RM2,996
6. NOR – RM2,505 / RM2,963
7. NZ – RM2,477 / RM2,927
8. UK – RM2,400 / RM2,878
9. IRE – RM2,428 / RM2,834
10. AUS – RM2,416 /RM2,805
11. SUI – RM2,291 / RM2,676
12. MAL- RM2,290 / RM2,690
13. CAN – RM2,258 / RM2,663
14. SIN – RM2,065 / RM2,437
15. HK – RM2,011 / RM2,372

We Malaysians have the fourth cheapest iPhone 4 RRP in the world, which is not bad.

And now, we shall wait to see what DiGi has to say about all this.

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Maxis officially revealed pricing of iPhone 3GS 8GB which is exactly the same as the leaked figures.

As expected, the price for the new 8GB iPhone 3GS is similar to the old iPhone 3G price of the same capacity at the time the iPhone 3GS was introduced back in 2009.

With the entry-level 8GB 3GS introduced, it looks like the iPhone 4 is not far away from being launched in Malaysia. We may be off in our predictions on when the iPhone 4 will be launched but in terms of pricing you can expect it to be roughly if not exactly the same as the iPhone 3GS when it first came into the market here.

Also in terms of plans, we don’t expect much to change from the previous iPhone offerings. But if you recall, DiGi was the first to open registration of interest of the iPhone 4 on its website back in July 2010. So with the added competition from DiGi — who may or may not release the iPhone 4 earlier than Maxis — we’re expecting some deal sweetening offers from both sides.

Although the price of the phones might not change much the two telcos may go out on a limb to offer rebates and value-add freebies to get you to sign-up with them.

It’s going to be interesting to watch.

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Ok, we’ll admit it. It looks like we’ve gotten the launch data of the iPhone 4 in Malaysia slightly off. We predicted earlier that the launch has to before puasa month but that is definitely not going to happen.

So when can we expect the iPhone 4 to come to Malaysia officially? Maxis have been dropping clues on Facebook and Twitter saying that the launch is very soon. In fact Maxis via Facebook have mention that it will be August or September.

We’re still banking on an August launch. Reason being, it appears that Maxis is gearing up for a launch very soon. Today Maxis just sent out EDMs to those who have registered their interest to purchase the iPhone 4 online saying that the device “will be arriving in Maxis stores very soon”.

They won’t just send emails out like this for no reason. EMDs cost money ok. So we have a feeling Maxis is working on a launch within this few weeks.

At the same time, we’re keepinga very close eye on DiGi, they’ve been quite but that doesn’t mean that they’re on idle mode. Could the pull a fast one over Maxis and launch the iPhone 4 earlier? Could be but Apple may want bost telcos to launch the iPhone at the same time.

What do you think?

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UPDATE (20100920) : Maxis iPhone 4 plans for launch leaked. Read about it here.

UPDATE (20100917) : DiGi confirms iPhone 4 stock in Malaysia. To launch week of 20th September 2010. Read about it here.

Ok so the official word is out, DiGi and Maxis have opened registration of interest for the iPhone 4 but little else has been revealed.

We don’t know the pricing, we don’t know the plans and we don’t know when will the iPhone 4 be available in stores.

But we know the industry enough to be able to put out some predictions that’s pretty accurate. Earlier we predicted that pre-order, or more accurately, registration of interest (ROI), will happen after 19 July and it did.

Now that the ROIs are out, we can with some degree of accuracy predict when the in-store dates for the iPhone 4 will be. It will be roughly two weeks from today. If you count the exact days that puts the iPhone 4 launch on 3 August. But we’re going to go slightly conservative on our prediction put the iPhone 4 launch sometime within the week starting 2 August.

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UPDATE: Maxis iPhone 4 plans for launch leaked. Read about it here.

Things just got really exciting really quick! As predicted Maxis opened registration of interest around the time we expected they would.

In less than 2 hours after DiGi broke the word that they are now taking registration of interests for the iPhone 4, Maxis followed suit by opening it’s iPhone 4 registration of interest page.

This is all good but the thing is, there’s no indication of pricing Also, registration of interest doesn’t mean you’re locked down with a particular telco. So you’re very free to change telcos depending on whichever makes the iPhone available here first.

Or if you can wait, it’s best to see what both telcos have to offer to get the best deal.

Head on to Maxis’s site here.

Our complete coverage of the iPhone 4:
BREAKING: DiGi opens pre-order for iPhone 4
iPhone 4 with Maxis: Pre-orders when?
Maxis COO says iPhone 4 could be here in August, iPad 3G in the works
Countries getting the iPhone 4 and when
RUMOUR: DiGi to offer iPhone 4 in second half 2010
OFFICIAL: Maxis will launch the iPhone 4
UPDATE: Apple introduces iPhone 4. Could be in Malaysia as early as August

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UPDATE: DiGi confirms iPhone 4 stock in Malaysia. To launch week of 20th September 2010. Read about it here.

Well, well what do you know, DiGi silently with no fuss beat Maxis to the announcement.

Yes people, DiGi is the first telco in Malaysia to offer pre-orders registration of interest for the flawed iPhone 4.

It also turns out that our predictions on the pre-order date is correct but we got the telco completely wrong. We predicted earlier that Maxis will open pre-orders for the iPhone 4 sometime this week. It turns out DiGi quietly beat them to it.

No launch date has been released but if our predictions are true, Malaysians could be officially getting their iPhone 4s early in August. We wonder if DiGi’s move is actually a pre-emptive strike to defuse something that Maxis is planing to announce soon?

We still have a feeling that Maxis will announce something about the iPhone 4 soon.

Head on over to DiGi’s iPhone pre-order page for details

Our complete coverage of the iPhone 4:
BREAKING: Maxis launches iPhone 4 promo site
iPhone 4 with Maxis: Pre-orders when?
Maxis COO says iPhone 4 could be here in August, iPad 3G in the works
Countries getting the iPhone 4 and when
RUMOUR: DiGi to offer iPhone 4 in second half 2010
OFFICIAL: Maxis will launch the iPhone 4
UPDATE: Apple introduces iPhone 4. Could be in Malaysia as early as August

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(UPDATE 1929hrs 12072010) Maxis made the announcement and sorry guys, it’s not what you think. Still no word on when the iPhone 4 will be here.

Maxis via tweeter today indicated that the telco will be announcing something exciting today.

Naturally, many of you, including us, are wondering if this impending announcement will have anything to do with the iPhone 4 coming to Malaysia soon.

We don’t know. It could be an announcement about the iPhone 4 or it could very well not be. So we’ll have wait for the official word from Maxis.

We predicted that iPhone 4 pre-orders will be open on Maxis sometime around 19 July, could this tweet mean that they are opening the pre-orders earlier? Let’s wait and see.

But if the recent DiGi revision in its own iPhone packages and the recent spate of announcements from Maxis upper management is anything to go by, this announcement could be the one many are waiting for.

Watch this space.

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We’ve pretty much correctly predicted when the iPhone 4 will be coming to Malaysia. Now we’ll look into our crystal ball to see roughly when Maxis will open pre-orders for the device.

In our earlier post we mentioned that the most likely date for a Malaysian iPhone 4 launch is August. We highlighted a few reasons why we think August will be the month, one of the main point is Maxis would want to do get the launch over and done with before Ramadhan kicks in – which will be roughly around the second week of August.

Ok, assuming the launch will be before Ramadhan (roughly around the first week of August), we can work backwards and roughly have a feel of when the pre-orders for the iPhone 4 will open. And judging by Maxis’ previous trends with pre-orders, you’re looking at probably a two-week buffer before the launch date.

This will give the PR and Marketing people in Maxis enough time to create buzz and run some PR stunts and God forbid, run another top 10 review program. Pre-order for the iPhone 4 won’t start more than two weeks before its launch as from our own experience starting pre-orders more than two weeks ahead of the actual launch date of any device will be challenging. PR and Marketing will have a difficult time maintaining the excitement.

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