Was at klcc to collect my phone. No crowd at all.

So are they letting public in?

Had a chance to speak to the guy in charge of iPhone deployment at Maxis. Good news is that visual voice mail will be implemented within a month or so. Maxis is also working hard to provide localized content and providing support to developers. How much and how - I did not inquire.

I found it remarkable that this was a pure Maxis event with Apple nowhere in sight. My take on this is that Apple regards Maxis as ONE cellular data provider. I do not think that they will be the ONLY one. I was unable to get much information from the Maxis guy with regards to the deal arranged with Apple other than the negotiations took 6 months. I'm assuming that the other telcos are in negotiations too.

From the way Maxis announcing the official iPhone and does not mentioning it's an exclusive deal with Apple...I am guessing it's not an exclusive deal, else Maxis will definitely announce it.

Hopefully can see other telcos working with Apple to promote a healthy competition!

i got an sms from maxis --- "come experience the i3g n its many apps at d maxis i3g launch - lvl3 klcc convention centre from 21-22 march 2009 (11am-9pm)... i assume dat every1 is invited today n tmw lar..its not restricted to pre bookers.

they just launched iphone in indonesia yesterday and today at a shopping mall in Jakarta...

Registration counters were very slow. Had to wait like 2.5hrs just to get to my turn. The counter personnel were slow in their work and couldn't answer some of the questions I posed about the package. First thing that came into my head was 'service like govt'

So anyway, i found that at 8.30pm yesterday, they only sold 300 units so far. Either the response wasn't that great (although there were a LOT of ppl there) or they're just slow in processing. They had a lot of supervisors standing behind the counter personnel for whatever reason. I guess the supervisors would've done better as counter personnel.

Just get a call from my friend..he just grab his iphone at KLCC.
He has key-in the contact, but when the call comes, it appear as +60XXXXX.
Looks like got to wait for 3.0 or jailbreak it to solve the problem

Just found out from a friend who was invited to the launch. Apparently, Maxis is committed to 250,000 units for a year, so they need to sell at least 20,000 Iphones a month. Hope this is true and we shall be seeing more aggressive promotion soon.

they r very slow at processing one customer at a time...detail by detail they r checking n making sure its rite...
it wud be worse if a 'noob' wud cm along n start questioning them even more...
but its k..let them do it their way...
they'll hv to step up if ppl start complaining....

actually i wud like more update on d model numbers. sum forumers have been sayin dat d model number is similair to singapores version..

Mine is MB489ZA/A, i.e. Malaysia. There goes the sg rumours.

incorrect mate.

you will realise that MB489ZA/A also belongs to singapore's SingTel

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Mar 21 2009, 04:36 PM

unfortunately mine is MB500ZA/A ..... here comes back the sg rumours ..

Then warranty claim from Maxis/Singtel?

well even Malaysia's Apple product were originated from Sg... getting iPhone with the same code as Singtel are not a bad thing either.... It is UNLOCKED set after all

I believe on Maxis all calls and sms are in the format of +601x xxx xxxx. For me on Digi, calls are in 01x xxx xxxx, sms is in +601x xxx xxxx. So i need to store both format for a single contact.

Not sure the carrier update for Maxis iPhone users fixes this issue or not?

But it does not negate or confirms the notion that Malaysia may be the dumping ground for unsold Singaporean sets. How does that tell you, with regard to the fact that dumping material being sold at price higher than where they are not wanted?

Yeah agreed, check it out here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937

Scroll to Malaysia and scroll to Singapore, the part numbers are exactly the same

like that everytime singtel cant finish off their product can send to malaysia to SAPU the sisa sisa?
does that mean that our singtel's iphone can claim warranty from MAXIS's center? kekek

This post has been edited by milky: Mar 21 2009, 05:05 PM