ok firstly,
its good that maxis brought in the iphone 3g.
finally right.
and it includes a data plan for rm100/month. that aint too bad but the addition charge needed to purchase the phone is kinda expensive.around rm2500. i think it is possible to get a 16gb one around lyn and still keep your prepaid line.haha.

but secondly, if you opt to use iphone, you gotta have a service provider that has cheap data plan. i dont knw if anyone else is experiencing this or is it just me but my iphone downloads updates from the net almost automatically and at a very high rate! it uses edge/gprs/3g, almost anything it can find. and till now, it cost me a bomb. im not kidding! i went to the maxis centre the other day to have the edge/gprs/3g line disconnected but guess what, it still downloads!
maxis is currently charging 1kb=rm0.01. my current tally is 50+mb so yeah.you can count and see how much im actually paying for this.
if anyone else has experienced this problem too and knows a way to solve this, do pm me.thanks.

but all in all, iphone is finally here. definitely a reason to cheer abt regardless of the price.
peace.

ok heres some additional info i got from calling 123.

No matter which plans you take the warranty will always be 12 months,can walk in to any apple reseller and its a one on one exchange.Sweet for those of you who think buying from garage sales but worried about warranty this is the best workround,safety first right?

You cant trade up with maxis your iphone once the next revision iphone is in.

There's no Iphone only package,everything is tied up to a plan for now.

can claim warranty for the iphone from other countries with Malaysia local apple reseller?

nope iphone warranty is such that its a localized warranty meaning you can only claim from the country the iphone was bought from

why they dont have international warranty ar?
apple wanna be like micro$oft 

very expensive la.. get a standalone unlocked set + unlimited data better..

hmm..maxis's price seems kinda high to me. How come people can get singtel phone for only RM22xx? I want to get one also from Singtel. Can tell me how to get for RM22xx without those subscriptions?

The iPhone is DEAD in the water without data allocation.

@zer0hour,
Well... it's always good to have data connectivity wherever you are, plus generally most of us here do not work and live in KL where there's wifi everywhere!

Yupz, I know, mobile data is important for those outside KL. I'm just saying, for someone like me 2-3GB is way more than enough cos of wifi.
Office (KLCC) wifi, home (Bangsar) wifi, most cafes+restaurants, even my gym, wifi. That pretty much leaves car+kopitiam as places I would use mobile data =p

I purchased my iphone 3G in Aug '08.

Personally, I think most of the free wifi services in kl sxxks. Most of the time, I would rather use the 3G service, as it is fast enough to surf net or other fuctions (I have tried both the 3G services of Maxis and Celcom).. 

So, for me, unlimited data plan is CRUCIAL..

Really? I had the Iphone 2G for a year, and the HTC Touch HD after. Wifi speed>3G speed at most of the places I visit.
Dodgy cafes are the exception of cos, some of those places are terrible.