Air France sent a plane back to United Statesyesterday after they found of a mobile phone that was mislaid by someone who had taken an earlier flight on the same aircraft.
Unfortunately the U-Turn wasn’t made to return the mobile phone to its owner, instead it was for security reasons. Flight AF639 was obliged to make the U-turn 30 minutes after takeoff as no owner of the device was identified on board. [...]
REDtone International Bhd (REDtone) unit, REDtone Technology Sdn Bhd, has sold 65 per cent of its equity in REDtone Mobile Sdn Bhd (REDtone Mobile) to Teh Beng Hock and Tee Yew Yaw, reports Bernama.
REDtone Mobile is a MVNO(Mobile Virtual Network Operator) powered by Celcom Axiata, launched its mobile service in July 2009 targeting the small and medium-sized enterprises(SME) and SoHo.
Teh and Tee are shareholders of Elepoint Sdn Bhd, the largest Celcom re-seller for the corporate segment in Malaysia. [...]
Samsung recently has said that the Samsung Galaxy S(I9000) and the original Samsung Galaxy Tab (P1000) may not get the Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 upgrade.
The South Korea-based Samsung blames the limited memory capacity in both devices and specific elements like TouchWiz UI, video calls, Samsung widgets, carrier and country customizations makes it difficult to run on the new OS smoothly.
However latest update points out that Samsung may be providing a Value Pack to Galaxy S users instead of a full Android 4.0 upgrade. Although the phone will stay at Android 2.3, the Value Pack will enhance some features like improved web browsing, multi-tasking, new widgets and more to bring the experience as close as Android 4.0. [...]
The “Batam-Dumai-Melaka” (BDM) high bandwidth optical fiber submarine cable system between Malaysia and Indonesia is now live. BDM is a result of a Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) signed between PT XL Axiata Tbk and PT Mora Telematika of Indonesia back in February.
The BDM cable system consists of 4 fiber pairs, designed to provide 1.28 Tbps adopting Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology to provide upgradable, future-proof transmission facilities. The BDM connects approximately 400 km distance between the two countries with two routes, Melaka-Batam and Melaka-Dumai. The landing station in Malaysia is provided by TM while the Indonesian landing stations is established by XL. [...]
Samsung Electronics claims that it has shipped over 1 million units of Samsung Galaxy Note since it was made available early November.
The South-Korea based electronics giant reports rising worldwide sales of Galaxy Note in Europe and Asia including France, Germany, Hongkong and Taiwan. The Galaxy Note phoneblet will soon be available in the US next year, however Samsung did not reveal any time frame. [...]
Update 1: This whole thing could likely be nothing but just a joke. Read THIS.
The Argentinian Government made a surprising decision to ban the import and sales of foreign-made smartphones, especially the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones, among others.
Somehow, the ban does not affect Nokia, Samsung, LG and Motorola as they have already built plants in Argentina. The Government says that the ban is temporarily and will be removed once the economy improves and becomes stable. [...]
The ex-employee of DiGi Telecommunications, S. Stanley, 40 was found guilty at the Sessions Court in Shah Alam with 14 counts of taking bribes worth RM415,000. He is sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of RM2.07 million.
Stanley who is the senior procurement officer at DiGi about 3 years ago, is said to have accepted bribes from Syarikat Nakhoda Sistem Sdn Bhd on 14 occasions from Aug 13, 2007 to Oct 22, 2008 as an inducement to choose Nakhoda as the supplier of cables and telecommunication equipment for DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd. He committed the offence at a Maybank branch in Taman Kinrara in Puchong. [...]
We’ve just got word from our friends in the mobile industry that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be priced at RM2099 in Malaysia. Not a bad price, we think.
If you have been reading MalaysianWireless.com for sometime now, you would find it usual that we leak insiders or details like this before it happens. So here’s more! [...]
DiGi recently revealed that its plans to be Malaysia’s 1st LTE-equipped network by the end of 2012.
MalaysianWireless would like to note that DiGi is probably the last operator in the country to express interest on LTE. Earlier this year, P1, U Mobile, Maxis & Celcom have already shown interest to deploy LTE. In fact, we believe that U Mobile & P1 both have a LTE-Ready network pending software upgrades(U Mobile confirmed its network is LTE-Ready).
I hope DiGi could make a correction on what it claims.
Back in May, I expressed my view that DiGi has the worst 3G network in the country. By writing it, I thought DiGi would make a change by improving its 3G network and listen to customer complaints, but I was wrong. Its almost 7 months now since writing that comment and DiGi 3G still remains the same.
In summary, these are the problems with the DiGi 3G network(in my opinion):
Maybe this is just me and my experience but consider digging up all the old post in Lowyat.net forum, you will discover lots of disappointing DiGi customers as well. Of course DiGi Broadband is cheap if not the cheapest, but that does not mean that customers get “cheap experience” as well. DiGi claims to own a “Turbo 3G Network” with download speeds up to 14.4Mbps, why can’t customers enjoy a faster speed? All DiGi Broadband competitors such as Maxis, Celcom, P1, U Mobile are giving consumers the option for faster broadband speeds. [...]
As part of a Christmas promotion, Celcom is offering 8 BlackBerry devices with special offers. The BlackBerry Playbook is available with contract at RM1088.
The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is available at RM1438(RRP) and the BlackBerry Bold 9780 at RM1338(RRP), both comes with 6-months free BlackBerry Advance Plan for prepaid users. [...]
Local mobile operator DiGi has revealed a plan to upgrade its network to be LTE-ready within the next 1 year. The company claims that it currently has 5,000 base stations in the country and plans to upgrade 400-sites on average, every month.
The ambitious project includes expanding the current 3G and 2G network to cover 95.8% of the human population in Malaysia.
At present, the DiGi Turbo network promises speeds between 700Kbps to 1Mbps. DiGi claim its upcoming LTE-ready network will offer fibre speeds allowing customers to use social networking, online video streaming, digital music downloads and cloud services.
As the upgrade involves physical change of hardware at DiGi’s network towers, customers might experience up to 4 hours downtime per day, over a period of 7 days at areas where the upgrades are taking place. During this period which includes peak and off peak hours(office hours might be affected), customers will experience service disruption including the difficulties to make or receive calls, and use the Internet.
MalaysianWireless is not sure how DiGi plans to compensate customers for the downtime. [...]
Computer chipset maker, Intel is making a big come back into the smartphone market. The chipset giant has just unveiled its latest Medfield smartphone and tablet reference designs.
Intel’s Medfield is the latest in its “Atom” line of mobile chips. It will compete with ARM licensees like NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.
The phone prototype seen by Technology Review was similar in dimensions to the iPhone 4 but noticeably lighter, probably because the case was made with more plastic and less glass and metal. It was running Android Gingerbread where else the Tablet was running Ice Cream Sandwich.
According to MIT’s Technology Review, “The phone was powerful and pleasing to use, on a par with the latest iPhone and Android handsets. It could play Blu-Ray-quality video and stream it to a TV if desired; Web browsing was smooth and fast…..Intel has built circuits into the Medfield chip specifically to speed up Android apps and Web browsing,”.
Based on the reference designs, both devices were able to capture 8 megapixel images at a rate of 15 fps. [...]
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