With 6230i, look at "G" symbol on the screen (top left corner).

Plain G = GPRS.
G with square box around it = EDGE.

I always find the latency horrible using Digi. Okay for checking email and surfing web, but not for anything interactive.

I checked the phone manual. Looks like I was wrong.

It says plain G means GPRS is available and "always connected" was chosen. Square-G means connection is currently established. There seems to be no indication of whether it's GPRS or EGPRS, or of what the data rate is.

Digi is already much cheaper than that.

With Digi prepaid, EDGE costs RM150/month (RM5/day).

With Digi postpaid, EDGE costs RM33/month (RM1/day).

Can the supplementary SIM be used for voice calls as well? Did you try?

Right now I am using Digi with a very small HP.

I would like to get a Nokia E61i too, but it is too large to carry everywhere; for instance if I am going to pasar malam I don't want that giant thing in my pocket getting smashed or stolen. Those times I want to keep carrying the small phone. I don't want to have to keep moving the SIM card back and forth between the phones; it would wear out the phones and I would always be resetting the clocks.

So I would like to have two SIM cards on the same number.

With Maxis you can do this, it's called "One line Multi-SIM". But nobody at the Digi shops could answer whether it's possible with them.

I would really prefer to keep Digi instead of Maxis because Digi rates and web site and IDD are so much better (that Maxis 132 thing is so stupid, can't dial numbers straight from my phone book, have to remember them and re-type them for every call).

Seems pretty useless to have an email account that you will lose if you switch to a different phone company. Yahoo, Gmail, etc., you keep it for life.

Kind of off-topic, but is that a real newspaper? The English grammar in the quoted article (in spoiler tags) was horrible; it looked like something written by a school student and never edited prior to publication.

Likewise the linked interview even had a spelling error in it! A disgrace.

Or just use a client and server that support IMAP IDLE.

Really? Unlimited usage? That's pretty damn cheap. Available for prepaid, or postpaid only?

I'm still waiting to hear when there will be 3G coverage in KL (except for a little corner of Ampang).