u guys are confuse between ap and ori. The reason sometimes AP is different from the box its because the phone do not have a box maybe recon, stolen,found, bring in without box. So they simply buy boxes back like in garage sales some ppl phone got stolen or missing they have no use so they sell the box away. This seller will buy it and put the phone in it and look like new

Ap is like original it comes in the box.

Countries like US, Australia and etc they get FREE phones only country like malaysia we are paying full price for it. This guys take those free phone into malaysia and call it AP phones. Only Malaysia have AP phones in other country nobody wants an AP phone because they if they sign a contract with their telco they get free phone in indonesia


Different is the warranty only

Ori by Malaysia avaxx,zitron,arista back by nokia malaysia

AP by some 3rd party company that nothing to do with nokia malaysia.

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Aug 16 2010, 12:24 AM

around RM1000 if i not mistaken..
at lowyat plaza yesterday

1k? very expensive

@aspire2oo6: Thanks for clarifying our doubts.

opera mobile.

But last time when I bought AP, the charger and battery I got is not original one, maybe the dealers already take out and change liao

i thought such phone are call waterset? On the other hand, AP means "approval permit", in Malaysia, SIRIM is the agency that will certify quality of the phone and if they comply with the standard, they will receive the SIRIM sticker

correct me if i am wrong

water set means never pay tax aka no sirim chop. Example u ship 100 units of X6 and got stop by custom as long as u pay for the tax they wont take your stuff. You cant be so specify the word because AP for phones are alittle different

We define them by its warranty because the phone is the same

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Aug 16 2010, 08:06 AM

my one is ORI for avaxx... i checked the serial number also tele with the box... bought from exclusive telecommunication sdn. bhd. (authorised dealer of nokia in perak... got many branches...)... even though i want the aquamarine version... but my wife said that colour will get dirty easily... anybody knows where to get a good screen protector... already got finger prints everywhere...

just for my knowledge here, do you mean once pay tax will get SIRIM chop/sticker?

get a matte screen protector. no finger print problem. there are some ppl selling at LYN garales sales.

Yes thats from my understanding of AP phones.

actually i found it at AP/ORi/Water Set thread b4, so noe abit on it.

The thread is located here
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/857577

Enjoy

read this b4, long long time ago. Recommend especially for ppl who wanna or gonna to buy a phone.

@hongchai888: If the battery/charger/accessories are not original but the handset is original and matches the IMEI on the box. Chances are the seller swapped the accessories to provide a cheaper price.

AP set & Ori set both SAME things in terms of phone quality built(from same factory) only difference in firmware(maybe due to regional code)...easy as abc...

those with AP here will need to flash their phone manually to asia pacific/malaysia firmware or they have difficulties in updating

after that, AP = ORI

indeed. AP almost same as Ori, just warranty term different. But M'sia phone seller always misleading ppl..Everything that not from Ori, they will say is AP, even water set, stolen set and so on... Confuse the buyers only.
Got some dishonour seller even change the accesories to non-ori..too bad..

@Codyx: AP and Original have a difference in warranty terms, right?
I mean that we can send our X6 to any Nokia Care Center but we can't send our "AP X6" to NCC, right?

Our definition of ORI and AP is the warranty. Both are as real as the real phone.

Ori warranty - Cover by Nokia Malaysia
AP warranty - Cover by some 3rd party company nothing to do with Nokia Malaysia and cost incur by themselves.

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Aug 16 2010, 02:36 PM