Directd is selling it now for rm1555 with Brightpoint 24 months warranty

What's the difference between brightstar and brightpoint?
What implication would there be with BB device?

Both are authorized Blackberry dealers in Malaysia ; it is safe to get sets from them as both are listed in Blackberry site
Don't understand your question " implication" ???? It really doesn't matter where you get your Blackberry - you still need to sign up a Blackberry service with your telco to use BIS. And the telcos couldn't be bother the source of your sets

eh z30 and z10 don't use BIS anymore.

LOL. here I thought takkan you lupa. Heck.

By the way, just make sure double check that its not STL-100-1. Mine is STL-100-1, (no LTE) and for some reason DiGi's signal keep dropping (can see the BB icon, but no data transfer LOL)

maybe isolated case.

i had this issue with my Z10 (OS - 10.2.1.1925)...
try to disable your SIM card PIN and just maintain your device password
this should make your boot up process back to normal
hope this helps

wanna ask, is Z30 can be use with Celcom xpax MI38 plan? for internet...

It doesn't  matter what data plans & packages you are in, BB models like the Q5, Q10, Z10, Z30 are not longer locked with the BB Plan.
You can use any data plans out there to get yourself hook up with the internet using a Blackberry that runs on OS10 and above.

anyone here upgraded to Z30 from Z10 ?

considering to upgrade.. any views would be nice : )

The downside (depending on how you look at it), is being unable to find any form of case for the device. Incipio doesn't have feather cases which I used for my Z10. So running the device naked, which interestingly isn't too bad.

Nokia MS strategy is different.
All other OEMs for Android, with exception of Google, runs on economy of scale. Especially the fact that the core OS itself doesn't need much R&D, since Google has done most of the heavy lifting for them. Not to say that they don't have costs, just not as high as how Google has to pay.

On the other hand, Google doesn't need to sell their Nexus with profit. They sell it with near-zero margin. Where does Google earn their money? By profiling users. Ads, profiles, etc.

BlackBerry sells I think less than 3M BB10 per quarter, and from their quarter reports, from January indicates that they have produced about  (that's assuming 90 days is considered a quarter, give and take). Therefore BlackBerry does not enjoy the economy of scale to mass produce even the low end on low prices)

I don't think BlackBerry can lower their price point at this stage even if they wanted to. With recent news of their hardware partners unable to produce due to low demand, I think if BlackBerry wants to achieve the economy of scale with or without profit they'll need to

b) elect or partner with new hardware vendor that can meet up with BlackBerry's super strict QA on security (they have some very strict QA on their products in their factories, its a well known fact) yet achieve the economy of scale.

c) make deals with Qualcomm so that they won't lose out being first partners. Or, jump to Intel? (In the past the deal with TI-OMAP used to be very good, until TI-OMAP suddenly reversed its decision and abandoned the SoC market, and decided to only focus on the embedded chipset market, much to the chagrin of BlackBerry (where they have to re-code the entire thing from scratch)

If you compare it with Moto X, yeah.

But for the fact that its one of the phones that can piggyback BB10 and Android OS, its quite the bargain actually.