Free Apps and Games for iPhone

Now that iPhone finally came into Malaysia no thanks to the slow moving Maxis, users would be looking at all the applications that’s available for the device right? Now, unless your iPhone’s jailbroken, you’d have to practically pay anything from USD0.99 upwards for the games and apps. But have no fear, there are also some free ones that’s available for download into the phone.

Just want to share some of the ones I like and uses. You could also download these applications if you have the iPod Touch too. After all, these Apps are FREE!

Social Networking Apps

1. Facebook
Facebook has such a strong presence these days that just like Twitter, people wants to update it frequently and let people know what’s happening in their lives. What better way than to use the Facebook App on iPhone right?

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Installing iPhone Apps

I’m posting this cause I was asked by not one, not two but quite a number of new iPhone users about how to install stuff into their iPhone. And so, the not so Tech Savvy person occasionally asked, how the heck do we install apps and games into the iPhone? Need to pay ah? Which Website to go? Well, hopefully this will help answer your questions.

Cool Jedi pic from Gizmodo

Well, if your phone’s jailbroken and you want to install free or paid apps without paying for it, you can give it a try with this helpful tip by Gizmodo. If you’re new iPhone users with phones purchased from an official iPhone dealer or Telco like Singtel (for Singapore) or Maxis (for Malaysia). You can just go straight into the App Store button on your iPhone and shop away. Look for the icon on the first page of your iPhone. (more…)

iPhone 3G coming to Malaysia!

Almost 1 year after Singapore brought in the iPhone 3G to their citizens, Maxis finally announce that they’ll be bringing in the iPhone 3G 8GB for free on its iValue 4 plan from March 20.

Maxis chief executive officer Sandip Das said in a statement: “We are very pleased to launch iPhone 3G in Malaysia as many of our mobile users have been eagerly anticipating this revolutionary phone.”

“They will really enjoy the many embedded and downloadable applications from the first time they use iPhone 3G.” You can read more about it here.

Maxis will offer the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G models with four specially designed postpaid plans called iValue, all of which are voice-data bundled price plans, starting from RM100 per month.

I’d say it’s about time they bring it into Malaysia. I guess like the saying goes, it’s better late than never. Right?

Mobile number portability

I read this article in the Star with interest about users now being able to transfer their mobile numbers to other telco. (click here to read the whole article)

An except of the news:
Mobile phone users can now enjoy the freedom of switching network service providers without having to forego their original phone number (including the prefix).

Effective Friday, the service will be extended to users with prepaid mobile phone numbers in the Klang Valley. Postpaid users can start enjoying the facility in two weeks.

Now, why am I excited? Quite simply becaue over the past couple of months, I’ve been getting terrible and I really mean TERRIBLE reception from Maxis around my housing area. And I’ve been thinking about switching over to other Telcos. Even though I had a very nice number to use from Maxis, the negative about not able to receive and making calls through your only mean of communication to your clients are just throwing me off.

So with this good news coming up, I believe I could safely keep this number which most of my clients would already know by heart and yet get a better reception that is provided by another Telco, in my current state of choice, DiGi. I will still maintain a Maxis number but that’ll only be used for among personal contacts and is never revealed to my clients. At least that way, if I don’t want to be disturbed by irrating calls from certain quarters (namely spammers using unidentified numbers). I could just safely switch off my 017 and leave the other line open as the one that should need to contact me be able to reach me.

Anyway, we’ll see how this goes especially with some of the Telcos guaranteed to lose their market shares to the better players, will they buck up their services or will they just sit there and enjoy their current success only to see it plummet at a later stage when their competitors climb above them?

Any Maxis officers reading this? I know there’s one or two of you cause you actually contacted me the first time I posted up a complain about your bad reception in my housing area. Anyway, if you’re reading this. It’s time you look at strengthening up the service in Kota Damansara (among a few other areas where I have identified) as well as look at the possibility of even providing HSDPA connection speed in some parts of the place for your Maxis 3G or you’d be seeing alot of people dropping you off and hoping over to your competitors that is providing better services and coverage area.

Nuffnang WILD Blogging Party Photos!

The Nuffnang WILD Blogging Party has come and gone, everyone had some fun, quite a number of people actually blogged from the venue too. As for me, it was camwhoring session …. now, you suffer the consequences of my camwhoring session with LOADS OF PHOTOS!!!!

with the Nuffies!

with Hanis and Adeline watching me blog.

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