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.

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

yes you got it rite... but still i insist that the phone with contract here is overly priced...

compare to SG... well we are neighbors... and you can feel the difference...

that is my point of view... cheers... -=/\/=-

yaaahhhh ...i assume that our "maxis" is doing a "jual Mahal" marketing planning during the 1st launch ... now ... the marketing plan kena back fire laahh ..

just looking at the plan from launch of " i value" then to " no contract " prepaid (now ) ... it is very clear that ... they need to "get rid" of the stock ...


who knows .. it maybe going for " buy one free one " tactic ...lohhh...


kawan kawan semua ... let's play the waiting game .. and see what "maxis " will be up to .....

Lol buy one free one!?? Impossible, anyway maxis has agreed to replace my iphone with hairline cracks developing. It seems they have never encountered such problems before. I think they really are getting rid of their stocks. Was afraid they categorized those cracks under wear and tear. But it all rounds down to their staffs. If you get someone who knows bout this major issue in white iphones, you'll definitely get a replacement.

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Added on May 26, 2009, 11:52 amowh ya another thing. they said have to wait for 2 -3 weeks for stocks to arrive...is this true? If maxis is having trouble to get rid of their iphones how come got no stock lol!!

This post has been edited by patience18: May 26 2009, 11:52 AM

i think they need to send back to Apple or some one else to Verify...
the dare not replace for you 1 to 1 la...

lol i duno but they already print the receipt thingy and the reason for repair for me

If you convert SG currency to MY currency their prices are similar. No difference

??? 400 converted... not even RM1000... for the lowest plan not stand alone...
cheers... don wan to argue about that...

Actually its very hard and complicated to compare dollar to dollar or dollar to conversion because these prices are obviously positioned in consideration of their social structure, purchasing power, various tax structure, culture, etc which is different. We're just picking one component from one country and compare with ours. I have to agree that because of this, one type of product is cheaper in some countries and what is not. I mean, lets not even compute purchasing power parity (because thats the most accurate apple to apple comparison, by computing everything orange, lemon, watermelon you name it into a baseline comparison).

I think its a bit funny to just look at how Apple iPhone is cheap in a country while it is expensive in the other because their individual social structure is different (other goods are expensive, for example). You may say that I'm going too far as out of topic but the conclusion is simple:

Don't look elsewhere. If you're residing in Malaysia and want an iPhone, get it from Maxis (not because you may say I work for Maxis and support it, but because it is the only sound choice available). Malaysian consumers value one thing, product support and Maxis can give that to us. Singapore may have better pricing and also a warranty, but unless you live in Johore, I don't see a point of troubling yourselves to go there and get support. Lets not even say, ooo my sis stays there and can do for me. Lets talk general practicality.

Tell you the truth, I notice that Apple products all baseline to their selling USD prices. That is convert it to your local currency and you get a selling price for your country (most of the time). The iPhone price strategy has hidden costs as in it is partnered to a service plan. Dig deep enough, you will see that all these cost eventually add up and is similar from country to country one way or another. Apple's cut for every iPhone their telco partner sell is the same. They're built the same and from the same places in the world (China, etc). The LRAC (long run average cost) is quite consistent.

Last saturday i bought new iPhone 3G from MacStudio shop without Maxis contract for any package. I just need to buy a maxis prepaid 3G(hotlink) for value Rm8 only (free 500mb data transfer, if im not mistaken) just to official unlock this iPhone, and can throw away my hotlink prepaid if i dont want and used my existing Celcom. They inform me that this only valid within promotion time. But you have to buy this iPhone full price, not like value plan that Maxis currently offered.

This post has been edited by ron4: May 27 2009, 11:00 AM