Hmm, probably just activation then. Guess the maxis staff got it wrong

for those of u want iphone from maxis...
why dunt just buy using the prepaid plan...just pay and use it?
cant ah?

Yes you can. Just buy the iPhone from any maxis center and you can buy it without signing up the prepaid plan.

if it's true that to date maxis only sold 11,000 units, then they still have stocks about 139,000 units. in terms of value that's RM139 million (assuming maxis cost is at dirt cheap of RM1,000 per unit). at this rate they will lucky if maxis can sell another 50,000 units. if the maxis new plans doesn't push sales, i'm sure another plan will be introduced or maybe maxis may just reduced the price. if we can be patience for another 1 or 2 months, we maybe we'll in for some better deals from maxis. i maybe wrong but only time will tell. anyway not able to use iphone now does not make your life miserable, no money makes my life miserable.

its inevitable for us to compare prices, even with neighboring country (i don't dare to uses the taboo word S**g**l). it help us decide whether we want to buy iphone from maxis. In my opinion that's not off topic.


PS:i have mentioned maxis many time here so that some people does not think my opinion is off topic. i rarely write so much, i hope some people does not get offended with this statement and decided to flame me or delete my post. i am just like all low yat forumers, just wanted to express my sincere, honest and humble opinion. thank you and have a nice day.

nobody saying u cannot compare the price form other places in this forum, just that the question being ask so many times, its kindda irritating..... anyways about the price.. u can always google and search for the price and compare... no offense there bro.... i also did the comparing using google and asking my friends from oversea...

duh... i got a warning from davidgary73... my 1st since i was a member...
BTW we are just comparing... i don think that is violating the rules...
our price here is too high!!!!
my fren just got it for $400 with a $65 plan...
here... RM1510 with RM100 plan...

I'm not warning you mate. You can "duh" all you want and feel that this is your first warning. I'm merely asking you to stick to the thread topic. We are staying in Malaysia and so happens Maxis is the only telco that offers 3G iPhone plan. So..this thread is made to facilitate to the upcoming buyers who choose to buy from Maxis may it be expensive(with warranty, repair solutions and one to one exchange for faulty units).

Everyone knows it's cheaper to get from S'pore but we are not living/having citizenship in Singapore which is required to signup a plan. Another option is to buy S'pore 3G iPhone units from Garagesale sellers. Simple as that.

No hard feeling intended mate. Just prefer to keep this thread to help those who plan to buy/signup Maxis 3G iPhone plan.

Cheers

This post has been edited by davidgary73: May 25 2009, 12:47 PM

Please do some research before you simply compare the iphone cost by mistake.

RM1510? Don't be kidding, you need to pay RM400 more for prepayment.

In total you need to pay 1.9K to get the iphone on the spot instead of 1.5K.

Price too high? but hassle-free...

er... hassle free... i duno woh... since there are no official Apple service center can accept this iphone...

I reckon air is saying that it's hassle free as Maxis provides warranty, repair and one to one exchange for fault 3G iPhone units purchased from them without having to travel far and wide.

Btw, Maxis does repair 3G iPhone according to xaw5126 post.

This post has been edited by davidgary73: May 25 2009, 01:00 PM

Yeah, there's a prepayment of RM400 if you have not been with Maxis for more than 6 months with a minimum of RM250 per month on the bills. However, if you've been a Maxis 'loyal' customer (basically more than a year) the person in charge can waive this requirement as they have done for my case. However, they also have a right to limit your choice to a few plans to 'minimize their risks'.

Coming back to what is being offered by Maxis, I think we can see that Maxis is increasingly progressive in offering the iPhone (by introducing more plans). Especially the prepaid one time off payment which I can see is designed to knock off gray imports. But I would stick with iValue plan if you have been using Maxis. You get the phone at a lower price. Of course, some can argue that the overall cost of ownership is high, but hey... we need telephone service anyway so it doesn't really matter. By the way, 512MB is a lot to use. I've been FB-ing, chatting, email and Google Mapping (don't use satellite imagery, it uses more) as much as I can and I only hit 80MB++ with still room for youtube. Trick is, stay off the Safari browser. Use apps for accessing FB, etc they're more efficient. Use RSS to pull stuff from your favorite sites.

And for those who claim that oversea telcos offer cheap/free iPhones with an affordable monthly cap. Here's the explanations. Most of these plans offer like AUD$49, 79, etc but given credit time worth AUD$350 so on. Most people would think gee... thats a lot to use, very value for money. Wait... the per minute cost is not printed. Look at the fine prints, AUD$0.80 per minute with 30 second block. Thats like almost equivalent to our minutes (RM0.15, 30 seconds block) offered by Maxis if you would compute. The point is their per minute charges is high, Malaysia is still very competitive in the mobile communications rates. Of course we pay for the phone, but its unlock and we're free to choose our telco service. Phones from elsewhere is free but locked and you pay additional costs for unlock which is the same in the end (lets not venture into 'illegal' means).

Conclusion? Apple phones are not cheap stuff hehehehe unfortunately but they are highly desirable. If you're residing in Malaysia, just get one of Maxis's plans or you can wait for better offers.

This post has been edited by davidmak: May 25 2009, 01:40 PM

more over we're lucky that our prepaid plans dont charge for receiving sms lol

Is there an official one in singapore then? "duh"

This post has been edited by nokia2003: May 25 2009, 03:01 PM

if the price of iphone from prepaid plan is the same as unlocked one...
so what the hell there's still a lot of unlocked been selling out there..

for me...dun buy it..just the same.better get the official iphone then

and summore, yesterday i went to Mines to check out price of iPhone and some seller offered me RM3200 for UK iPhone. what a joke.

and he said.. UK iphone is better than other set (Singtel and Maxis set) because UK set is officially unlock whereas Maxis set is locked. haha i am so pissed off with the seller.

haha yest me also went to mines... but i din check with those counter i straight walk to maxis centre.

whats the iphone package for the prepaid??

well explained, brother!

now I'm talking on SG but you pulled to Oz... is ok...
but i still maintain that my sis in sg always get free phone by contract or very low price phones...

anyway... if not mistaken by my fren in SG apple do support Iphone in SG...
i'll double check that with my sis...

because i believe, he was actually pointing/explaining a fact to you (and not comparing). now, please learn how to differentiate

and maintain all you want, but the fact is you are currently in malaysia and this thread is dedicated to the maxis bound iPhones. as a matter of fact, there is a designated thread here


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do i see singapore in the list? and don't be ignorant as premium resellers are completely off tangent.

and just in case you miss this one




This post has been edited by nokia2003: May 26 2009, 10:30 AM