Ah, so I'm back in my hometown for a week (JB), and I'm planning to get my 920 sometime next week.
Been reading through the whole thread, and I'm pretty impressed by what I've seen so far. Good that everyone's friendly when it comes to sharing advice.
Anyway, will update once I get mine.

Oh yeah, I will most probably be getting it from Digi since I'm currently using Hotlink prepaid, and I reckon a postpaid account would be better in the long term when it comes to smartphones and the fact that I wanna be connected on the go most of the times, no?

Transitioning from a SE W995 actually, so this will be my first smartphone since I've never really needed all the connectivity till recently. I'm pretty familiar with both ios and android, so I hope WP8 shouldn't take that long to get used to..

Haha, nice. She's still surviving after all these years actually..

Thanks for the reply, and yup, I pretty much get where you're coming from mate. I've been fiddling around with my friend's 920 for about half a day, and I can say, I am pretty much impressed by what it offers. As for the stability of the OS and the pros and cons, I'm just hoping the updates will take care of that, because according to my friend, he's been using his device since the first launch, and has never experienced any problems apart from having a brief period where it took him about 10-20 mins to upload a photo to FB when he was on full 3G signal or wifi. Its already alright now though. Crossing my fingers and hope I don't get a lemon, that's all. I also like the way it looks and feels in my palm, which is just nice considering I have quite a wide palm

I'm a very simple user who doesn't need tonnes of apps on the go as my working environment would keep me disconnected from the world at most times anyway. The fact that the 920 has the basic necessities such as whatsapp, nokia maps/drive and a good low light camera just ticks all my boxes. The UI is of course something refreshing, and I'm sure the after sales support is pretty good, no? But if I had to be really honest, I'll say its the camera that got me hooked..

I do have an Ipad 3 if I wanna play games and what not, or wanna download different apps that are still not available to W8. Plus, if I ever need an android device, I can always get a secondhand HTC OneX+ or Butterfly or something sometime in the future

Haha, alright, cool. I was thinking of just getting the phone and signing to Maxis for a postpaid plan, but from what I've been reading on forums, once you hit your data limit, you will be charged extra for data usage instead of being throttled like Digi right? That scares me, because I do travel very frequently, and I'm worried that in case I forget and use the data while roaming, I'm gonna end up with a huge bill from Maxis.

What I'm planning to do is to change my current hotlink number to Digi postpaid, and just get another hotlink simcard as I know Maxis coverage is better, and so is its roaming.

Anyone else got any other suggestions?

Gee, thanks a bunch guys, I really appreciate the feedback. Good thing both the Maxis and Digi stores in my area are opposite each other, I'll go check them both out then. Yeah, the Digi plan would definitely give me a better deal in terms of getting the phone bundled together, but I've been using Maxis all my life and I've never had any problems with them where prepaid is concerned. Good to know that they don't charge anything extra once you bust your quota limit now.
Again, thanks for the replies guys

Hahaha, my brother actually asked me to do the same thing, but he asked me to just give him the phone instead

Yup, that's what I thought as well. Was initially considering Digi because of the no charge upon exceeding the quota, but now that Maxis is doing the same, I might as well stick with them.
Like you, I don't mind paying a little more as long as I have good connectivity.

Went to 2 Nokia stores in JB just now, and both actually advised me to wait till after CNY as the new batches are confirmed to arrive then. I asked them about the protico update and they had no clue whether the new ones will come updated. Anyway, they did only have white units on hand, and I want a black one, so I'll wait it out I guess.
Damn that Xperia Z is really tugging my heart as well..

-double post-
sorry

This post has been edited by vinesh22: Jan 24 2013, 01:44 AM

Yup, but depends on certain stores as well. Some might have stock, while others might be waiting for the new batch to arrive..