i heard a girl from my school crapping november will be rm650++ in malaysia and iphone 3g now is lagging like shit , nonsense

But honestly, I seriously doubt the number of buyers will be a lot. In my opinion, there are many who wants to get the iphone, but will freak out when they look at the price tag. Imagine NZ, selling the 8GB iphone at NZD979, that is close to about RM2500 after conversion, which is the unlocked version.

With most Malaysians mentality, I'm sure that they would prefer to look to other alternatives, such as the Nokia N95 8GB, with better functions. Frankly speaking, based on my observation, although Malaysians are superficial, but only a few of them will be willing to fork out a large sum of money to purchase the iphone. And according to my observation here in NZ, usually those who bought the iphones are those who are avid Apple fans, lining up with MacBooks, MacBook Pros, Ipod Touches to accompany them, and those of my friends who bought the iphones are those who owns at least a MacBook or iMac. There are not as many Apple users or lovers in Malaysia yet and there are quite a lot of them who dislike Apple products.

That's just a thought I'd share, just my 2 cents.

I would be extremely disappointed if the iPhone does not reach the Malaysian soil, but will also be pissed if Maxis does charge a substantial amount just because they monopolize the iphone like Vodafone NZ

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Added on July 21, 2008, 1:20 pmI don't know about her, but I did see that in some youtube clips, that the iphone 3G is relatively slower than the original iphone. But not lagging like shit la. But that wouldn't change my thought of getting one next month

This post has been edited by lilredridinghood: Jul 21 2008, 01:20 PM

I was in London in April for a week. I was sitting down reading one of their free newspaper and there was a full page advertisement from Carphone Warehouse selling their 8GB 1st generation Iphone for 169 pounds (it was about RM1000 plus at the exchange rate then). It was a 100 pounds discount from its original price at 269 pounds. I think then they were clearing out all their old stock of the first generation 8GB Iphone.

I put down the paper and walked around the corner and there it was, a Carphone Warehouse shop in front of me. I walked in with my friend who has a British VISA issued bank card. I bought the phone with his card, no questions asked. On my last day, I bought another Iphone with another friend's bank card. They require that you have a british issued bank card so that at least they know you're staying there and you're going to use the phone there. You're supposed to take the phone home and activate the O2 account. A few days after the sales started, all the phones were sold out in the whole of UK. I saw a lot of foreigners buying it.

I took it home to activate on Itunes alright... all the way back to Malaysia. I walked through customs and I said I didn't have anything to declare. They didn't stop me then as I was with a VIP. I unlocked it with Ziphone for free (some idiot at Digital Mall wanted to charge me RM300 to unlock it). I'm using one of the Iphone now and I gave another one to my fiance. She's not using it, she just keeps it in her drawer to show off to people, what a waste!

Anyway, I prefer buying the Iphone in countries that has the 3 pin adapter (like Singapore and UK). I've seen some of my friends buying the ones from the US with the 2 pin adapter with US voltage. You'll have to get another wall adapter to charge it.

I personally think the Iphone is never coming to Malaysia because the profit sharing model that Apple uses is not in any of the local telco's interest. I don't think they would want to share their revenues with Apple.

I'm still holding on to my first generation Iphone. The only advantage I see the 3G model has is faster internet and I prefer to use the wifi connection as its free. Just waiting for a windows pwnage version so I can move on to 2.0 firmware. I'm itching to test pwning my fiancee's phone to 2.0 to just see what it looks like. I hope it doesn't brick the phone!

hmm..i wonder if ppl frm M'sia would prefer the one officially frm M'sia(if it comes) or...unlock frm somewhere else..

that depends on how soon can maxis (or the rest of other telcos) deliver and of course, what's the contract plan will be like.

LoL..under my dad's family plan..he forced me to go under him..
Because now he can call me for free...i upstairs he downstairs also he call my phone..imagine that..
But i'm hardly in malaysia..studying in moscow what..

So no worries...he can't haunt you for long...

Aiyo..if i were to get an iphone i want an fully unlocked version..
Just hope maxis will release an unlock version..which i doubt..

i think most ppl here is concerned bout the warranty irregardless of where does the fon comes from. Imagine getting it from US, using it for 1 week in malaysia then suddenly the phone kaput. Im not ready for that, YET. Unless im earning 5 digit income per month

So far, 1 st Gen, have any exp, after using 1 week kaput?

Never heard of anything like that.

No matter what, once after unlock, the warranty still void already.　Some more Malaysia is not one of the official iphone release country, so lagi no official warranty...

So international warranty doesn't apply to iPhone?

The main problem is, there is no Iphone authorized reseller or service center there. Unless you want to send back to overseas for warranty.

If we just wait official launch, i will already missed a lot of fun using 1st Gen.

there is no such thing as unlock unit la or unlock version that u said Maxis have their marketing gimmic they will ask u to sign their contract for 5 years like that ? macam mana!

-hmm.....so malaysia still waiting and waiting...
and ppl will go out to find it..malaysian wont miss to use one of best item....


This post has been edited by Esqandare: Jul 24 2008, 02:40 AM

no more rumours?

I would prefer to hear rumours more than guesses..(don blame me)

But some rumors also originated from people's guess...

hope it will arrive soon.