Sammobile quoted 2 models for malaysia. Only issue is which will come first?

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/20/your-c...ave-the-answer/

Snapdragon because of LTE
The Exynos Octa chip , I remember reading LTE not available in this region

Ha! Ha! In that sense I am good at not spending such money on my children. My budget rm300-500 only on phones . And all my 3 kids used it till they graduate from university. The youngest graduated last year. Why would a student need a smartphone? They can do those FB/tweeter/email stuffs on their notebooks. Student should prioritise time to study and not play with smartphones. Call me old fashion. And my children never ask such stuffs from me. I will not hesitate to buy a rm5k MacBook air for them as is a more worthy investment

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 12 2013, 02:04 PM

I'd say you have a rich dad and is willing to "spoil" you. I never believe in giving out easy money even I have it . I have trained them to work hard and earn for what they want in life. And best of all, all my kids never ask me for such stuffs except books ( I spend a huge sum of money on these) . They take willingly whatever is given to them. They don't ask for branded goods/stuffs either

Like this, you will value your stuffs more. You will think twice, thrice before changing/upgrading
Those who can easily get money from their parents need not worry about such stuffs. They see something newer /better they will want to change as money is not an issue. When they come out to work, they will realize life is not so easy ( every sen count) unless they are benefactors from their parents business

Singapore launch now move forward to 27 Apr from May

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-s...27-april-update

Week 18 is 29 Apr to May5 : not that far off from S'pore

You can show the week in your calendar - just select it in settings

Having tested the HTC One for just 2 days , I look forward to this S4 to compare. Initially I thought of waiting 2-3 months after launch but probably will change my mind and grab one once available

All Spore sets are LTE and is Snapdragon quadcore only ( NO Exynos octacore available)

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 17 2013, 09:41 PM

Go read the Xperia Z thread and you will find several funny, amusing stories about MAXIS LTE. Basically most of these support staffs are blur about LTE on Maxis and often give conflicting stories among themselves. This Maxis must need to educate them

My experience calling Maxis about LTE activation on my Xperia Z. First she told me LTE only available for iphone and Maxis sales phones only. And Xperia Z is not inside Maxis list. Than I said my phone detected LTE in Damansara area and shows very high download speeds ( exceeding 30000kbps) - how is that possible than ? She put me on hold and came back and at least apologised , saying since my phone can detect LTE automatically , no need process to go through activation as long as I am using one of those new sim cards ( mine was 6 months old)

In summary :
As long as you are using the newer maxis sim card, LTE will be auto detected. Change your simcard if your LTE phones fail to detect
All LTE enabled phones ( on 1800, 2600 Mhz bands) can be supported
There is no extra charge using LTE ; your present data plan can still be used
"Screw" those Maxis support staff at 123 if they tell you otherwise as obviously they are ignorant

S4 launched in Spore tonight and available for sale on 27 Apr
Price : S$998



http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/tech-news-s...4-lte-singapore

I understand all Maxis micro Simcard that was issued in the past 1 year is all LTE ready. If yours cannot detect LTE, just go and have it change to the latest version

I think what he meant was when you can download data faster, you tend to download more stuffs n thus increase your data usage

No longer with me. Just tested it 2 days only n now with my brother
Yes the power button is worse than butterfly. With the TPU case on, Quite difficult at times to press it as is recessed slightly lower down.

9/10 a great phone. But it has its annoyances especially on older apps the menu button appears at center bottom as a 3dot icon making the display smaller to only 4.5 inch. These could be hidden n you have full display in the Butterfly but not this HTC1. These could deter potential buyers. Hopefully a firmware update will fix this.
Those having Butterfly i see no compelling reason to upgrade to it unless he wants a newer n fresher design

This post has been edited by benny888: Apr 19 2013, 08:04 AM

Cheaper than HTC1 which is RM2299

http://www.celcom.com.my/devices/smartphon...g-galaxy-s4.php

Celcom is bringing in the exynos octacore model

Samsung can even afford to sell it another rm100 cheaper if they so wish . HTC would need every ringgit extra to increase their profitability

I think only Maxis will bring in the Snapdragon unit that comes with LTE
Hopefully other 3rd party retailers will bring it in too but most probably will be AP sets