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Boycott iPhone this friday! *Edited* (Oh Whatever! iOne plan with iPhone is decent. iFlexi plans are crap.

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This is a call out to all potential iPhone buyers this friday. We should be boycott these nonsensical plans and prices!

If Singtel doesn’t have enough buyers this friday, their launch will be marred.

We should let Singtel know that Singaporeans are not just a bunch of “carrot heads”.

P.S. Speaking after the initial anger, this was what I predicted all along. To many Singaporeans this price is “Alright” and they will still be buying the iPhone this friday.

Oh Whatever.

Edited: Change of heart here. After looking at the official Singtel plans, the iOne plan is decent for 26 dollars per month and $850 dollars for the 16GB iPhone. They are not forcing data plans on us. Decent.

Fuck Singtel

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Judging from the response on twitter after the news of the Singtel iPhone plans broke, we only have one thing to say.

FUCK U SINGTEL.

No wonder they don’t want to release the prices yet. They are afraid of a Rogers-like backlash here.

Leaked info about Singtel’s iPhone plans

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Taken from the hardwarezone forums, leinad(moderator) posted;

“Three new data plans (all prices with GST)

iFlexi Value – $56 – 300 MB Data – 200 Mins Outgoing Voice – 500 SMS
iFlexi Plus – $95 – 500 MB Data – 500 Mins Outgoing Voice – 500 SMS
iFlexi Premium – $205 – 1500 MB Data – 1500 Mins Outgoing Voice – 1500 SMS

Additional data usage charged at 1cent for each 2KB extra. These plans also come with 3 value added services free (Voicemail, roaming and Caller ID)

Handset price (varies depending on the price plan)

Plan 8GB 16GB
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iFlexi Value 348 508
iFlexi Plus 49 208
iFlexi Premium Free Free

if you do not want to sign up for the above plans, and want to use your existing voice only plan and add the mobile on broadband plans, then the handset price will be more expensive and you will have to sign either a 24 month or 30 month contract

8GB – $568
16GB – $728”

Important: Please take note this information was taken directly from Hardwarezone Forums and I am just doing proxy reporting. I have yet to call up Singtel to verify the news.

Singtel announces iPhone 3G for Singapore on August 22nd

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Singtel sent the following email to all its customers who reserved the iPhone. One interesting fact is that Singtel claims that the iPhone runs on not only 3G, but 3.5G (HSDPA). If that is the case, our iPhone will run much faster than the US one. Wonder how true this is.

Edit: As our commenter points out, the iPhone 3G has always been HSDPA right from the start, somehow the comments over in the states about having only speeds around the 700kbps mark always gave me the impression that it was 3G rather than 3.5G.

Email from “iPhone@Singtel”

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Yes yes, I know I should have posted this long ago. I was lazy. Here’s it anyway. The email from Singtel basically announcing that the iPhone will be in by the end of the month.

Singtel to launch iPhone in August after all? (Updated: MacRyu original reports are confirmed by Reuters)

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Apple, at Q3 financial earnings report yesterday, announced that another 20 countries will be getting the iPhone on August 22nd.

This coincides with early rumors reported by MacRyu that the iPhone will come to Singapore in August, instead of the widely reported September release date.

Singtel has yet to release any news, but we will report as soon as we get more news.

Updates:

Apple has changed the SG Apple site’s iPhone page from a “coming soon” status to a “how to get ready” page that was similarly shown on the first 22 countries before their launch this month. Coupled with the recent announcement that the iPhone will debut in another 20 countries by 22nd August, this looks like the confirmation that we are getting.

PS: We also do have reports we received from an old source who said that they are now setting the exact date at Singtel and the official confirmation should come soon.

Update: Reuters has put out news that Singtel is indeed putting out the iPhone in Singapore in August. This goes to show that the news you get from blogs such as MacRyu are way way way way way more accurate than crap put out by the so-called “mass media” such as Digital Life and Mediacorp News.

This is definitely a big win for new media in Singapore.

Windows 95′ lead architect is a Mac user

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Cult of Mac has an interview with Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect for Windows 95, who had converted to being a Mac user since two years’ ago vowing never to use a PC again.

Nakajima is also the President of Big Canvas, a company dedicated to developing for Apple’s iPhone platform.

You can read the whole story here.