my friend's mum, who works in Digi in Kuching under marketing department just told me that it should be out in December. She said she doesn't know date, plan or pricing, since she doesn't work in that department, but apparently Digi has already collected payment from many of their platinum dealers who are authorised to sell iPhone

yep i do.. because digi is very strong in kuching, 90% of anyone i know is using Digi, and they got a lot of employees. But so far i only ever quote two, which is my college mate in JB working part time at Digi Store and my high school friend's mum who has been working in Digi for years. i only tell what they tell me, but now also it's not confirmed. My JB friend just told me orders has just said these dates, but like the 2nd nov, 26th oct dates, it could be delayed.

Those countries available by mid Dec already make known. So I don't think it will be mid Dec in Msia
Jan is a high possiblity

the S3, the 1st Galaxy Note, and probably the Note 2 (I guest it will be too) are the reason why I've switched to IOS, the iPhone 5 that is. These phones has well proven that Android is very sluggish, you feel it even more annoying when you are used with IOS environment. I'm utterly disappointed with the S3, it supposedly one of the world fastest phone ever made, but the user interface is very sluggish for an unknown reason. Same to the Note, I doubt the Note 2 will feel really fast at all due to the Android environment. Google is putting just too much stuffs to Android I think, it is pretty over do to my taste. I won't go for the S3, I've been years with smartphones, I can assure that the S3 is no way feeling as a responsive phone, surprisingly my S2 was much more responsive. It is kinda joke to me