DiGi & Palm Pre?

There were talks about DiGi that it is trying to bring Palm Pre to Malaysia. I have no idea if they are currently any negotiation between Palm and DiGi right now but a source close to the company said that they(DiGi) had plans to bring Palm Pre to Malaysia.

For the consumer market in Malaysia, Maxis has its iPhone while Celcom has big plans to offer Blackberry on a prepaid plan. Although DiGi has good tie-up with phone brands such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Nokia, it lacks a strong partnership with names that are making the buzz in the mobile industry right now such as the iPhone, Android, and Palm.

Celcom at the moment has a 52% market share for Blackberry in Malaysia while Maxis is the official carrier for Apple's iPhone in the country with no specific numbers on how many devices where sold. DiGi on the other hand recently made partnership with Blackberry but only business packages where offered to its customers.

The partnership with Palm will allow DiGi to regain market share that it has been losing to Celcom and Maxis over the past one year.

Thanks to an update from reader Edwin, it seems DiGi's average 3G speed on the phone is between 700Kbps-900Kbps. Hopefully DiGi will be able to launch its 3G service with the Palm Pre or at least sign a deal for the newly announced Palm Pixi.

http://www.palm.com/my/products/smartphones/pre/

P.s: Maxis could also be in talks for the Palm Pre

Hands on Palm Treo 500v

Here is how Telco Talk Malaysia looks on the Palm Treo 500v.

Celcom and Palm offers Treo 500v

Celcom and Palm has launched the Treo 500v in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

The Treo 500v is a 3G phone with bluetooth 2.0, 26MB flash and 64 ram. It runs on on Windows Mobile 2006 Standard Edition with an exclusive Vodafone user interface.

See the full spec here http://enterprise.vodafone.com/site/enuk/product_solutions/handsets/palmtreo500/p_palmtreo500.jsp

The Treo 500v is not a 3.5G(HSDPA) phone, but due to Celcom's cleverness, it is offering an Advance package that offers speed up to 3.6Mbps and another package called Basic that offers speed up to 384Kbps, for Treo 500v users.

The Basic package cost RM68 for unlimited use while the Advance package cost RM98, for unlimited use, monthly. Both data packages are targeted to Celcom business users.

At the launch yesterday together with Palm from Singapore, Celcom Corporate Vice President, Corporate Enterprise, Global Enterprise Division, En. Mohammed Farid Mohammed Yunus say the Advance package with speed up to 3.6bps is offered although the Treo 500v does not support it as Treo 500v users could use the sim on other phones with HSDPA(3.6Mbps) capabilities.

Palm has done a good presentation before that about how perfect the Palm Treo 500v is, does this mean Celcom is saying that the Treo 500v is not good enough? This a real insult to Palm.
Anyway, Celcom is in the picture with the ONLY reason that Celcom has a partnership agreement with Vodafone.

Other Vodafone partners in other countries has already or in the midst to offer the Palm Treo 500v.

For those who want to buy the phone, it cost RM1588 and available at selected Celcom and Blue Cube outlets.

Celcom & Palm

It was Celcom+Vodafone, after that it was Celcom+Blackberry. I have heard a new rumor, that Celcom and Palm is up to something.




One thing for sure, it will be revealed next week.

P.s : scamboy uses Tungsten E2, it was his first and it might be his last Palm. Do you use a Palm?