The mobiles

Just an entry inspired when I was bloghopping to Rev’s.

Warning! This entry could be the most corny post you’ll read here though pretty much every post here is kinda cheesy lolz~

Back in 2002 I got my first mobile phone. Yes I have a phone but I got no mobile number. Particularly because at that time prepaid starter pack cost alot. Averagely RM250 per number and that price tag is insane for a secondary school student like me. Got it from my uncle. Couldnt remember the make but its limited edition version got Siti Nurhaliza initial on the flip cover. Phone got lost actually although i securely hid it inside my wooden locker.

Then after SPM I finally got the courage to ask for a mobile phone from my mother. During the school break saved up some money and I did some survey. So the first mobile phone i bought is the Nokia 3530

The simcard? I took my sister’s number. Lulz. Particularly because my sister got too many number and I kinda like the number arrangement. Kudos to my sister for having a great skill in obtaining a nice number huhu.
Had a blast with this phone, while most of my peers still have black and white pixelated screen, I am on the cutting edge with a 256 colour screen phone and polyphonic ringtones~ Remembers back the time when I was learning at driving school and the phone rang and everyone is amazed on the sweet polyphonic music churned through the speaker. This phone lasted till my first year of studies in Uni.
Mid 2003, most of my peers have already own at least colour screen phone. And thank to my education sponsor for giving me a sum of 3.5k for computer purchase purpose and since I have already own a laptop that time I decided to use part of the fund to purchase a Nokia 6230.

Reason of purchase? I found this phone to cater all my need. The VGA camera, memory expandibility with the memory card slot, rich multimedia option, and better screen.
Sold off this phone for Nokia 6670

Thanks to Ameir who decided to take me to greentown to advice him on which phone to buy for his girlfriend, and I ended up purchasing for myself one. huhu. Reason? even better larger screen, its the Megapixel age, and the phone runs on Symbian which i could find plenty of free-if-you-know-what-i-mean softwares.

Ditch the 6670 for O2 Xda Mini II. I wanted to try the windows mobile during internship. And pretty glad it could sync with the company’s email account. So my morning routine would be plugging in the usb to my phone. Let it download all the email (is not much either) and read it on the go when I went out for breakfast. Hehe

After the Window mobile era I turn myself to the Samsung SGH E720. Its a flipphone, kinda fad that time with koreans and japanese flips. A little bit late joining the flip bandwagon as the earlier version is too fugly to use. Like this phone for the double display, dedicated keys for music though I dont put much music in it to listen to. Huhu.

Then after graduation I bought myself a slider phone, Samsung D900. Reason : razor thin (applicable to that time lah~) sure can find much more slimmer slider at the moment im typing this. Unfortunately slider doesnt fit me well. Ribbons keep on struggling to be replaced. The propietery OS is nice with MMS-like SMS features its just cannot get better. Apart from sluggish performance of processor.

I bought a Nokia e61. Primarily because I dont have internet access at the house Im renting at Lumut, and WiFi is available almost anywhere there. Been eyeing for e71 actually but budget is not on my side. Pretty contented with the QWERTY and large screen.

Nokia 5310 Expressmusic came in to replace the problematic Samsung D900. its a candybar phone, no ribbons involved, its razor thin, have dedicated music player, a 3.5 driver for normal earphone (apart from the popular 2.5 which is not helping on the availability of good earphone) and its an Expressmusic phone.

I replaced the e61 with a Samsung Omnia Pro B7320. It has the same QWERTY keypad though a bit smaller, GPS module which i need and its a window mobile platform so tonnes of *outdated* application is made available at zero pricetag. Grins

The most recent purchase is an LG KM900. A thing i have with capacitive touchscreen got me the urge to have this phone. Camera is decent but the interface is kinda laggy. Holding on to the phone for about 1 month and passed it on to my younger sister.

I wanted to ditch the current Nokia 5310 for an iPhone 4. But series of events have rendered me not possible to do so. Guess I will be getting iPhone 4 on 2011 instead or wait for iPhone 4s to come out first. Lulz

Photo Credits : GSMarena.com

The iPhone 4

been hunting like mad for this phone last week. still couldnt get my hands on one. ~_~” there are 2 telcos that are bringing the iphone to our Malaysian shore which is DiGi and Maxis. Though both offer comparable package, i have considered to purchase the iDiGi 88 plan together with the iPhone 4 32gb. Mainly because of these reasons

1) its cheap! RM 170+ for 24 month contract, internet quota of 1gb with 200mins talk seems enough for me. Digi’s plan is better as if you use more than the internet quota, ur connection will be throttled instead of keeping the same speed at the cost of additional charges of PAYU (pay as u use, nothing related to the female lump lulz)
2) have a credit card now. i can charge them but yeah they will deduct almost RM5k from my credit limit. huhu
3) considering exclusive item like iPhone is the least phone to have a price cuts, getting the phone as early as it launches will be beneficial. not forgetting the jailbreak support etc.

sounds good? stop! its not all bright and shiny, since the stock is very effing limited. here’s chronology of my experience trying to purchase one
28/09/2010 – after much consideration i decided to purchase the iPhone from DiGi. used the DiGi chatz service and the operator told me that their Kuantan branch got no stock for 32gb
29/09/2010 – was split between purchasing the iPhone from Kuantan or took a gamble and head to Kuala Lumpur instead. called up customer service. was bit happy to be told by the operator that there is stock for both 32gb and 16gb. i went straight to Kuantan around 4.30pm. (yes my working hour is supposed to end at 5.30pm lulz) when i reached Kuantan Berjaya Megamall the person at the front desk told me that there is not a single iphone in their stock. Told her that ive talked to their customer service operator and she told me to take a number. Shortly after entertained by the customer service and found out that i have to book first and promised that the item shall come by Saturday.
30/09/2010 – called up the customer service again to check if Kuala Lumpur got stock. same reply, you cannot reserve by phone and you have to walk in to their counter. Id say F you DiGi for wanting me to drive straight to KL, having no guarantee i can secure a phone, line up, and possibly find out that I have to sign my name up your F list as the stock that you have is already booked.
01/10/2010 – went to Kuantan for leisure purpose but i do drop by Berjaya Megamall. talked to the customer service and definitely not surprised when she told me stock is not in yet. but what do surprised me is that the next batch will come like 2 weeks more.

today am waiting for the call since at the first place they promised that the item would arrive on saturday. will be giving the pleasure to wait till midnight. if i get no call then FU DiGi. For being the one who raises my hope high and crash it instantly. bwahahaha

A test

A recent visit to iTunes store got me to this apps, the wordpress. I thought I could draft something on the go but it seems that I do need Internet connection to compose. A pretty nice app if I decided to update the blog out of the blue, simple yet practical. Nothing much to be updated now, as per any company staff changes is inevitable, particularly people tend to hop form one job to another for it’s lucrative incentive and stuff. Like a football team, though player used to pick the team that in their eyes have the prestige, nowadays they were after the cash per week slept in the contract. Thanks to the foreign cash flow from multi billionaire, team like Manchester city and Chelsea rose crushing the top 3 : Manchester united, arsenal, and Liverpool. Not as in crushing them over triumphant victory but more toasted buying power of hot young talented player which shines during the recent worldcup held at Africa.
Off to work then, this week is the calm state before incoming tedious workpiles.

iPhone OS 4.0

specifically for OS 4.0 it said to bring in the most updates for both iPhone and iPod touch to make them “more relevant” to current pace of technology. Only have a second generation iPod touch and was contemplating on feelings that the hardware have been left out from the mega updates. thanks to jailbreak though, multitasking is made available. After a few hours spent downloading the trinity
1 – the os 4.0 ipsw
2 – itunes 9.2
3 – redsnow
its time to cook out some JB. snapshots of milestones are provided as follows;

the last snapshot of 3.1.2 with custom theme using winterboard

restoring ipod since i cant straightaway update. (error 3002) was said to have something to do with itunes. source : halifi

setup copying files needed for jailbreaking stuff

jailbreaking in progress.. the famous running pineapple logo

Rebooting ipod

Multitasking is made available thanks to jailbreak

OS 4.0

Folders stole the limelight in OS4.0 updates.. for me at least

iPhone OS 4.0

so its out already now… the much awaited OS 4.0. Nope, they were not waiting to taste the multitasking options, nor the tailored e-book reader, but more to the promised jailbreak and unlock. Apple is a bitch when they updated their 3.1.3 firmware with upgraded baseband and prevent user from reinstalling previous released firmware. A bitch considering the upgrade is just to fix minor issues on battery display on iPhone 3Gs. many have fallen to be victim in this 3.1.3 menace from as early as February! causing user to lose their jailbreak, and unlock.. rendering their precious gadget to be no more than a mere paperweight.

ive applied a credit card today just for the sake of having the option to purchase the iPhone 4.0 when it is released here in Malaysia. Not for the hype of the added features in the iPhone but more to the data package that comes bundled with it. I need one simply because of
1 – I’m planning to get a new phone
2 – I want to subscribe to a mobile broadband package
3 – Its an iPhone lulz
4 – my iPod touch couldnt enjoy almost half of the “whats-new-in-iPhone4.0″ though multitasking have been solved way back with backgrounder

keeping my fingers crossed so that iPhone package is available with DiGi. Since Maxis proves to be a total bitch when it comes to pre-ordering and stuff. But to be real, I dont think I will get my hands on the iPhone this year. Might as well use the fund to get a decent telephoto lens, a new camera body or a macmini.

For the meantime guess I will have to settle with OmniaPRO + iPod Touch combo. Playing ProEvolution Soccer on iPod just for the lulz of the worldcup. “Waka waka eh! eh!”