Comments on: Should you buy an iPhone 3G from Maxis?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:17:07 +0000

This comes a little bit late, I know. :)

The more I look at the iPhone packages, the more ridiculous I think the plans are. Not only one is paying almost 2 times more than the cost of an “illegal” iPhone, the basic features are not up to par compared to most phone’s. It’s more for the cool/wow factor when you use the iPhone, but iPhone is so common these days that it’s not cool anymore.

Comparing plan with plan, I think Digi’s phone bundle plans are more “reasonable”. A simple survey on the street price for the phones available, you can see that Digi isn’t trying that hard/obvious to rip you off. The phones are actually cheaper when you opt for the correct plan.

For my case, the SE W760i does go cheaper as my average monthly usage fee is between RM50 to RM600. I get almost RM150 off (comparing to its RPP) and just slightly above the street price (about RM10). Sounds fair to me. :)

Anyway, back to the point, should you buy Maxis iPhone? Nope, not now, but probably later when iPhone isn’t that exclusive anymore.

By: hafiz

hafiz — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:45:31 +0000

My experience in with Apple Japan (not malaysia):
1. If the iphone is broken Apple will replace with new one on the spot, they not gonna repair it. My senior iphone always hang, he went to apple store and they give a him a new one without asking too much question. I myself own ipod touch. I went to apple store as my ipod cannot charge, they give me a new one also plus the warranty also extended 1 month.

By: gee

gee — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:03:30 +0000

hi Ben,

how did you buy the iphone from US? i m interested.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:37:53 +0000

I got a 16gb iphone 3G shipped in from the US for RM1900 including shipping. Then easily jailbroken and unlocked using Pwnage and yellowsn0w. Much better deal this way i reckon.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:43:02 +0000

Respect Colin,
Your words express my true feelings.
I do appreciate what you have wrote here.
I have been support MAXIS for so long tot of waiting for IPHONE such a long time. FYI, before MAXIS announce the package, I knows MAXIS going to launch IPHONE in past 8 months. Therefore I wait and wait … MAXIS really makes me DOWN! I called and quarrel with those top management but no prevail.
Most MAXIS loyalty customers guarantee stick with MAXIS service no matter what plan it is, but the result out is IPHONE which MAXIS selling is far more expensive then we get from others.
you try ask yourself… if your IPHONE having problems. Do you think MAXIS personal will attend you 1st?
they sure ask you to get a number sit down.. wait for your turn. Once you’re at the counter they will check this and tat. The worst let you wait couple of week until the problems solve. SO what you get was an “Idiotic”-PHONE

By: On the mobile data business, and iPhones | Colin Charles Agenda

On the mobile data business, and iPhones | Colin Charles Agenda — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:50:20 +0000

[...] business: Maxis. Lets decompose the article. (And yes, the answer is still that you shouldn’t buy a Maxis iPhone 3G.) “We are seeing exponential potential in mobile data growth. With the launch of iPhone, I [...]

By: Nin

Nin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:57:41 +0000

Oh btw, I just saw the iPhone ad on the local tv here.. lol
Never thought I live to see the day an apple ad on the local tv here…
Koool!!! But still maxis, too pricey!

By: Nin

Nin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:55:23 +0000

I hate to be a FanBoy… but with Macs, things just… work.. ALOT better.. (oh boy here comes the Redmont team) lol

By: Reno

Reno — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:52:39 +0000

I have to agree with Nin: Windows Mobile devices never, ever play well with Windows computers. The irony of it.

By: Nin

Nin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:45:44 +0000

I’ve tried almost every smartphone out there.. from Palm, Backberry, LG, Samsung, SonyE, HTC to Nokia E series (PHEW! my family is gadget crazed).. I can say with confidence, despite the lack of some important features on the iPhone, it is by far the easiest and most fun pda+media+phone device out there. (we currently have 2 jb iphones n a couple of ipods around)

We have Macs and PC’s in the house and find that the iphone does play well with Windows. The same can’t be said for the palm, windows mobile and symbian OS =(

Anyway, back to the topic. I agree with sHin0bi. I love to get my hands on the iPhone, but seriously Maxis, the plan package is just too dang expensive, especially for something thats about to be updated in less than 4 months! I don’t think I’ll b ready too cough out that much money that soon (KA-CHING! KA-CHING!) =O lol