Looks like I over-played Football Manager since this morning, as my phone has dropped to 16%, and it's just lunchtime!

Gotta get it charged when I get back to the office, as I'm with a colleague having lunch appointment and didn't bring my power bank!


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Four years with Android? Not bad, as I also lasted only a year but switched between TWO Samsung phones before ditching the last one for an iPhone 5!

Hmmm, I think mine is due to playing too much Football Manager, as that's one heck of a battery-eater, as well as heavy usage of LTE-based apps like Safari, Google+, WhatsApp, and Facebook!

But I suspect that this issue with the battery has something to do with the new iOS 8.2 as well, as I don't recall my battery falling that fast!

This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Mar 20 2015, 05:16 PM

Well, I used a Samsung Galaxy Wonder before switching to the S Advance. Didn't really like using Android firmware though, as I had an iPod touch at the same time and preferred the one from Apple!

In the end, I dropped the S Advance due to poor battery life, considering I only used it for making phone calls, sending text messages via WhatsApp, and the occasional Google Maps. As well as preferring a convergent device using iOS, which is why I went for the iPhone 5, back in early 2014!

This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Mar 20 2015, 05:14 PM

Which Reseller was offering these promotions on EOL stuff, just to ask?

I received such a sticker from the courier guys appointed by Apple, when I bought my iPhone 6 in December. Can't really remember how it looks but that sticker does seem similar to the one posted here!

What about telcos? While I know the off-the-rack price is indeed pricey, people still have the option of signing up for a two year contract with the four players offering the iPhone (DiGi, Maxis, Celcom, U Mobile) and voila, they can get their prized gadgets without burning an immediate hole in their pockets!

Of course, there's also the 12-month installment payment for those who don't want to be tied-down with telcos and prefer to buy the phone on-the-spot!

Yup, and resulting in a slower-moving technology sector at least for the next six months as forecasted by PIKOM (especially among the big corporate buyers, who usually make bulk purchases), until things stabilize, no thanks to the GST!

This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Mar 31 2015, 03:03 PM

Sorry to bring in politics here but don't we have an idiot like Chua Tee Yong as Deputy Finance Minister? He certainly does not know what to do with our weak $$$, unlike a more brilliant strategist like Tun M!

And since today's GST Day, I want to just pay a visit to Digital Mall and Jaya SC (both are very near my office) and see how the crowd is, when it comes to buying IT stuff, especially the two Apple Resellers in the area - [i] Store and Mac Studio Live. I won't be surprised to see fewer people for the coming days, as the effects of GST implementation bites hard!

Yes, that's what I'm doing nowadays. I prefer to wait and see whether the phones of those who installed the new updates are negatively affected, before deciding to follow suit.

Of course, if the initial release gives a ton of problems (not surprising, by the way), I'll just delay the installation and wait for firmware updates instead!

This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Apr 1 2015, 10:13 AM

Most likely, although this is how this iPhone 6-taken photo of the Big Three towers in Shanghai look, when I was there on holiday last week.

The image quality's still good actually, when blown up in a PC monitor, but I also wonder how they actually magnified the photo on to a big billboard, without noticeable pixelation (even my photo is a bit grainy here)!



This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Apr 1 2015, 10:20 AM

But this one takes the cake - it's surprisingly crisp and clear, considering that's also an iPhone 6-taken photo of the Big Three from ground level!

By the way, for this Shanghai trip, I didn't take my regular digital camera and used only the iPhone to take photos. And the results were better than expected, to be honest!



This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Apr 1 2015, 10:26 AM

So our friends in JB are lucky, since they can just cross the Causeway or Second Link to get their Apple stuff, resulting in Machines, Switch, etc. losing sales to the Resellers in the Lion City!

Whilst us here have to purposely make a holiday or business trip to SG just to get ours, haha!

Lag is one of the worst things that any new update can do to our phones, but another irritating thing is the poorer battery life, especially in certain versions of iOS 8!

This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Apr 1 2015, 10:25 AM

I know right? So the iPhone 6 indeed has one of the best cameras of any smartphone today!

What a HUGE difference, compared with the camera of the iPhone 5S, what more my ageing iPod touch 5!

This post has been edited by THTgadgets.com: Apr 1 2015, 10:29 AM

Yup, probably those rich businesspeople, CEOs of multinational firms, or Sunway / Monash university students (haha!) can still buy their Apple stuff without blinking an eye!

Unlike the rest of the general Malaysian public, who will see a BIG hole in their pockets when deciding to buy ANY smartphone from today onwards!

By the way, I want to create a new thread for iPhone 6 photography. Or has such a thread been opened previously and is currently dormant?

Okay, thread created already, check it out!

(Someone mentioned that there's one for mobile photography but it's bombarded by Nokia enthusiasts, am I correct?)

Here you go!

iPhone 6 photography

Si beh expensive to buy an iPhone or any other top-end smartphone today, that's crazy!

No thanks to our poor exchange rate and the implementation of GST!