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SingTel iPhone 3G Package

skyfish — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:32:37 +0000

iPhone 3G

After very long await to SingTel iPhone 3G price release, finally it is released!! Last week I received the news about SingTel iPhone 3G will be launched on 22th August 2008 (that’s tomorrow!!). I keep searching for it selling price or selling package.

There are new packages available in addition to the existing SingTel Plan:

These iFlexi Plans are loaded with BONUS mobile data for Mobile Internet Browsing, and extended free Wireless@SG. Broadband on Mobile.

For Existing Plan, the price will be:

Singtel iPhone Standard Price Plan

This iPhone 3G is another dream gadget that I wanted but it seems out of my budget at the moment. Maybe grab it some other time or just give up for this gadget. :’(

The packages below are compared:

Comparison iOne Plus, iFlexi Value and iTwo Value

	iOne Plus	iFlexi Value	iTwo Value
Free Wireless	NO	YES	NO
Free Local Call	100 mins	200 mins	300 mins
Free Local SMS	500	500	500
Subscription	SGD$25.68/mth	SGD$56.00/mth	SGD$48.15/mth
iPhone 3G 8GB	SGD$698.00	SGD$348.00	SGD$348.00
iPhone 3G 16GB	SGD$848.00	SGD$508.00	SGD$508.00

For 2 year subscription:

iFlexi Value (200 mins, 500 sms, wireless)
SGD$56 X 24mths = SGD$ 1344
iPhone 3G 16GB = SGD$ 508
Total = SGD$ 1852 (8GB= SGD$1692)

iOne Plus (100 mins, 500 sms, NO wireless)
SGD$25.68 X 24mths = SGD$ 616.32
iPhone 3G 16GB = SGD$ 848.00
Total = SGD$ 1464.32 (8GB=SGD$1314.32)

iTwo Value (300 mins, 500 sms, NO Wireless)
SGD$48.15 X 24mths = SGD$ 1155.60
iPhone 3G 16GB = SGD$ 508.00
Total = SGD$ 1663.6 (8GB=SGD$1503.60)

Here comes the headache problem again, if I plan to buy this gadget, which plan should I take? sigh.. I think I will go for 8GB/16GB iOne Plus package, to save my $$$ in long run because I don’t think I will use more than 100mins for phone calling within Singapore.

iPhone 3G Black or White

Black or White? Need to see the actual color of real device before I make the choice.

Due to the very demanding of the iPhone 3G. To purchase the iPhone 3G from SingTel, customer required to make a reservation online or via Hello! Store. By the way, I just check www.singtel.com/iphone/booknow, the reservation is closed!! Means what? Only walk in reservation at Hello! Store is available now. SingTel do provide a very detail FAQ section to answer your common question.
Links:

Ipod Nano for only RM370!!

skyfish — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:10:14 +0000

Earlier of May I found that BonusLink will run a new promotion for few items from 26 May 2008 to 31 August 2008. This promotion event called MAD MAD DEALS. There are total 7 items now, as below:

Sony Cybershot T2, RM1399 –> RM1129 (-RM200), 14% off
**iPod Nano 4GB, RM569 –> RM375 (-RM194), 34% off
Nintendo Wii (US version), RM1699 –> RM1259 (-RM440), 26% off
Philips 32″ LCD TV 32PFL7332/98, RM3499 –> RM2089 (-RM1410), 40% off
Philips DVD Micro Theater MCD299/98, RM1599 –> RM1059 (-RM540), 34% off
Philips Docking Entertainment System DCM230/12 , RM929 –> RM629 (-RM300), 32% off
Philips Clock Radio AJL308/98, RM729 –> RM499 (-RM230), 31% off

As you can see, these items discounted from 14% ~ 40% of original price. What I can say is.. It worth to buy!

Do you see the highlighted item? IPod Nano 4GB, this is the gadget I want the most among the items. It only cost RM375! The first day, 25 May 08 where this MAD MAD DEALS begin, the time I browse to Ipod Nano found that it is OUT OF STOCK, WTF. However, it is in stock on the next day but I have no $$$ for that at this time. =(

By the way, of course there are certain rules. You must have at least 550 bonuslink points and MUST use Maybank2u.com for payment.

Link: BonusLink Mad Mad Deals

Sony Ericsson’s Price [01 MAY 2007]

skyfish — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:32:14 +0000

I have just updated the Sony Ericsson’s Price of 01 MAY 2007. Please click on the following link to view the price.Updated on 01 MAY 2007. Hope this might help you guys

Click here to see Sony Ericsson’s Price

Nokia’s Price 01 MAY 2007

skyfish — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:21:57 +0000

I have updated the Nokia Price. Please click on the following link to view the price.

Updated on 01 MAY 2007. Hope this post really helps you guys.

Click here to see Nokia Price

Sony Ericsson’s Price 26 JANUARY 2007

skyfish — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:18:43 +0000

I have just updated the Sony Ericsson’s Price of 26 JANUARY 2007. Please click on the following link to view the price.

Updated on 26 JANUARY 2007. Hope this might help you guys

Click here to see Sony Ericsson’s Price

Nokia’s Price 26JANUARY 2007

skyfish — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:14:13 +0000

I have updated the Nokia Price. Please click on the following link to view the price.

Updated on 26 JANUARY 2007. Hope this post really helps you guys.

Click here to see Nokia Price

Nokia’s Price [02 NOV 2006]

skyfish — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:18:59 +0000

I have updated the Nokia Price. Please click on the following link to view the price.

Updated on 02 NOVEMBER 2006. Hope this post really helps you guys.

Click here to see Nokia Price

Sony Ericsson’s Price [02 NOV 2006]

skyfish — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:14:57 +0000

I have just updated the Sony Ericsson’s Price of 02 NOVEMBER 2006. Please click on the following link to view the price.

Updated on 02 NOVEMBER 2006. Hope this might help you guys

Click here to see Sony Ericsson’s Price

My new Sony DSC-N1 Digital Camera!!

skyfish — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:46:26 +0000

I just get my 2nd gadget, Sony DSC-N1 Digital Camera last few weeks. It is the replacement camera for my family existing Konica Minolta Xg (review link1, link2)

which was bought at 2 years back. I’m very disappointed at Konica Minolta Xg due to it’s battery life, flash features (which i hate the most), slow response time.

Xg was recommended by shopkeeper when I approved them for Digital Camcoder. At first, I decided to buy a digital camcoder for my parent’s Shang Hai, China trip. I have no knowledge and did not do any researh on the digital camera and digital camcoder. I realized that digital camera doesn’t offer high resolution for photo shooting and the shopkeeper try to convince me to purchase one digital camera and another one digital camcoder. And he did close the deal, at the end I bought one Konica Minolta Xg and Canon MV730i Camcoder.

And now is 2 years later (Sept 2006) after first digital camera, Xg, my parent will have another trip to Yunnan, China on October 2006. As I felt that the existing Xg camera is kinda weak, so I decided to buy a new camera for their trip. I was clever at this time, I take a week time to do research on digital camera. I only plan to go for either Canon or Sony brand’s camera. After the research, only Canon’s camera catch my eye because I doesn’t know much Sony as well and most commonly seen is Canon. Even among Digital Camera review sites, Canon always stay at higher rank. So, I made up my mind for Canon IXUS 800 (Canon SD 700 IS), Canon A700, and Canon A540.

On 16th September 2006, I was told that there is a Canon Digital Camera fair at Gurney Plaza, Penang which was held by KY digital Photo. I went to Gurney Plaze with my fellow Bryan for the Camera but we didn’t head for the fair. It is because Bryan’s friend is one of the staff of KY Digital Photo so we planned to visit their shop. His friend is very friendly and having jokes with us. I asked him about the comment of Canon IXUS 800, A700 & A540. He told me that A540 (which I want the most) is out of stock and give me another better choice – Sony Cyber-shot DSC-N1 . He claimed Canon LCD CCD 90% will be broken around 2 years time. I believe his word because my existing Canon Camcoder MV730i’s CCD was broken after a year.

The reasons he recommended Sony DSC-N1 are:

Cheaper than Canon IXUS 800
3 inch LCD screen
Touch Screen
8.1 Mega Pixel
Carl Zeiss lens
Slide show features
Internal memory and Album features.
Resized or cropped images at any Mega Pixel without losing image quality
Image Paint feature.

The guy told me that night shot of N1 is better than Canon and giving us sharp images. After I tried the camera, the flash is very strong, and the images really very sharp and detail when I view it in PC. I like the trimming features which we can zoom the image from camera and crop/trim it. We can save the trimmed/cropped image in any mega pixel resolution. For example, if my current image is shot in 3 MP, we can crop the image and save it as 8MP, or 5MP as we want. It even can resize VGA resolution image into 8MP quality image without losing its detail. That’s amazing features provided by Sony DSC-N1.

And don’t be fooled by CNET editor review of Sony DSC-N1. I found that CNET editor only rate it 6.6 out of 10. When you look at user rating and user opinion, it has higher rate as 8.6 out of 10 from 42 users. User rating is more important than CNET editor rating because there are 42 user compare with only ONE CNET editor who rate the product. You could read the review and user opinion from following link:

Useful links (recommended Camera):

Downgrade PSP 2.5/2.6 to 1.5 is REAL!!!

skyfish — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:43:15 +0000

This is a breaking news for PSP firmware 2.5/2.6 users like me. Have you ever heard someone said “It is impossible for PSP 2.5/2.6 to be downgraded!!”, “haha, too bad dude, you got a stupid 2.5/2.6 PSP that cannot be downgraded and play ISO UMD”, “You will be regret if you plan to go for white PSP 2.5/2.6″. That is what we heard in the past time.

Now PSP 2.5/2.6 can be downgraded to 1.5 except PSP that having TA-82 motherboard. I have downgraded my White PSP with Factory firmware 2.5 to 1.5 successfully 2 days ago, right after Dark_Alex released final version downgrader along with Mathieulh and Yoshihiro. We also give BIG THANKS to Hitchhikr who make exploit possible in PSP 2.5/2.6 via GTA eLoader. After Hitchhikr successfully unlocked PSP 2.5/2.6 kernel, beta version of downgraders are released in short time. We shall thank to those brave PSP users who had been trying to downgrade their PSP during Beta version. There are some people who bricked their PSP during downgrading their PSP. So sorry about them and we must appreciate those brave guys who point out the failure reason for developer to improved the beta downgrader.

As you noticed the following date are when the Kernel was unlocked and downgrader was released. Downgrader is released within A WEEK time after Kernel is unlock!!!
27th June 2006 – PSP 2.5/2.6 Kernel Mode Unlocked
30th June 2006 – Downgrader V5 Beta Released which having more than 90 percent success rate.
2nd July 2006 – Downgrader Final Version Released < -- I'm using this final version to downgrade my PSP 2.5

source>QJ.NET PSP Updates

updated on 30 October 2006:
Faisal’s Guide to Downgrade your PSP from 2.71 to 1.5

2.71 to 1.5 GuideHi everyone,

First of all I would start by introducing my self, My name is Faisal from Saudi Arabia. I am doing this step by step guide which is part of my quest to 1.5.

Now some of you may find this lengthy and boring. Well…. The idea behind writing this in such detailed way is to ensure I cover all the topics that are required to achieve a successful 1.5. Also this is intended for Noobs like my self who ask for more eachtime. So here it goes:

What PSP I have:

I bought my PSP 1 month ago. It was a factory 1.52FW PSP-1007K WS259 “C”. This is the Taiwanese version. For those of you who don’t know the previous versions of the Software downgraders were unscuccessful with a PSP-1006 & 1007 (Asian versions). But that’s not the case with Dark Alex’s Easy Full Downgrader 2.71>1.5 by XTRUSION.

History of UPGRADE Before getting 1.5!

As mentioned above, I had a factory 1.52FW, so in order to play the new games I upgraded to 2.60FW using the GTA disc FW upgrader that came embedded in my GTA. It is a US version of GTA (PATCHED ONE!!!!). believe me the reason I decided to use the new 2.71 Easy Full DG is because I couldn’t find the GTA unpatched version here in Saudi. For those who don’t know the previous Dark Alex DG 2.5/2.6 required an UNPATCHED Copy of GTA LCS (it is as hard to find these days as a factory 1.5… TRUST ME). (How to tell if you have a UNPATCHED …. The ONLY way is to put the UMD in, if it asks for a version 2.0 upgrade it is UNPATCHED otherwise it is PATCHED.

So on 1st September when I came to know about the new downgrader 2.71 > 1.5 I went to the dl.qj.net site and downloaded a copy of the 2.71 FW to upgrade. Successfully upgraded to 2.71 I believe it was the North American version. So once I had the 2.71 I was all set to get 1.5.

Checks before downgrading

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MY POST…. READ CAREFULLY. All the information here will help you decide weather you qualify for a Downgrade or not. Pls. Pls. people don’t flood forums by posting 100s of questions with out doing your home work…. As for my self…. I studied about a month from various forums….. trust me the knowledge and person experiences of others really eased my quest…. Anyways…. This is a list that should be followed A-Z no if’s and but’s :

1) Dark Alex Easy Downgrader 2.71 > 1.5 by Xtrusion is ONLY for 2.71.
2) Don’t use it on 2.70 or 2.80. IT WILL BRICK. For 2.70 owners upgrade to 2.71 first.
3) Owners of TA-082 IC1003 (text is on right, if on left behind UMD casing no probs as in my case it had IC1009 behind UMD casing). Don’t do it if you have TA-082 MB, it’ll BRICK.
4) DO NOT forget to plug the power cord all through the process. VERY IMPORTANT.
5) I used a 1GB Sandisk Pro Duo MS. Formatted using my PSP. (u can use 32MB as well).
6) Ensure you use the FULL VERSION of the DG 2.71 > 1.5 using. Don’t use the LITE version. The Full does the job for you, don’t have to worry about placing files and folders in the right places.. The full version is the best way to go… YES It includes the 1.5FW dump… no need to ask for links anymore. Just get the full version and you’re good to go. I got it from RAPID SHARE. It is an EXE file 15.6MB has voice acting funny hehe… especially the “PSP” one….

The Actual Downgrade:

Ok, so after you’ve gone through the above check list, you’re good to go,,,, although the most important thing that you need to understand is : “You’ve been Warned !!!!! This could potentially brick your PSP. Your best chances of doing it right is if you follow the above list and ensure that you’re ready to accept the outcome, Don’t blame anyone…. IT IS YOUR DECISION.!!!

• Connect you PSP to the power adaptor.
• Format your memory stick using PSP.
• Connect to the PC using USB cable
• Run the Dark Alex Easy DownGrader 2.71 > 1.5
• It will ask you if your PSP is compatible or not. Proceed to the next screen and identify drive letter.
• Next the program will start copying the files on the MS for the 1.5 dump.
• Once done, it will ask you to disconnect from USB and go to Photo to run the DG.
• VERY VERY IMPORTANT: It may not run on the first try due to an instability of the TIFF exploit. For my case it took 5 tries until it Finally worked. Just remember don’t worry if you go to Photo and screen FREEZES. This means you need to restart. Don’t worry… you restart manually by holding the ON switch for 10 seconds. You’re still at 2.71 NO HARM to your PSP. According to Dark Alex the code will either execute Fully or Not at all. So don’t worry. I also encountered memory still flashing for about 20 seconds but no red screen. Also one time out of the 5 tries MS light just stayed ON until I manually switched the PSP OFF.
• REMEMBER you are only looking for a FULL RED SCREEN, this is the point of no return. Once you get the RED Screen just DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING!!!!! It should flash for about 2 Minutes and then your PSP will go BLACK. Again give it another minute don’t RUSH!!! Now the software will advise you to switch ON and see the BLUE ERROR screen.
• Just switch it ON using and you will get the BLUE Screen with a lot of text saying “System setting are corrupted press “O” to goto default settings. Now press the O button and wait for the hand of fate…………… You’ll get a reboot and it’ll ask you to set date time etc…. once done you will have a 1.5 FW… YAAAAAAAAAYY.

Special thanks to Dark Alex, Yoshiro, Fanjita, Xtrusion and other developers who made this so easy and possible. Also special thanks to POX & RAGGABLE of PSPHACKING101.com. You guys are unbelievable.. Watched all your 18 episodes… awaiting the next one anxiously.

So in the end guys, trust me it is not difficult at all….. it is really easy with the voice interface. And the process is only 5 minutes total.. so don’t deprive your self of the wonders of 1.5.. HOMEBREW, ISOS, DEVHOOK here I come!!!!!!!

Good Luck to all.!!!!!!

PSP users who successfully downgraded their PSP to 1.50:

skyfish (me)
Stf
Faisal
demonjay
ngx
koi
Danny