Category Archives: iPhone

Hands on the iPhone 3G

By Junjie | Published: September 20, 2008
This article first appeared in the Nanyang Chronicle, Vol 15 No 3. For a smartphone, the iPhone is probably quite dumb by today’s standards. It doesn’t allow you to copy-and-paste text, forward text messages, search through emails, record video, share files via Bluetooth, send multimedia messages (MMS), edit Office documents, and the list goes on. It has [...]
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iPhone to launch in Singapore on August 22nd?

By Junjie | Published: July 22, 2008
Chief operating officer of Apple, Tim Cook, said at the Apple’s quarterly financial conference call: Confident enough in production ramp, that will be launching 20 additional countries on August 22nd, bringing total to over 40, and still expect to be selling in over 70 countries by end of year.
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SingTel Optus iPhone 3G plans and pricing

By Junjie | Published: July 4, 2008
SingTel Optus, one of the three Australian telcos that will be offering the iPhone come July 11th, has revealed its pricing for post-paid and pre-paid plans. The pricing details for the plans and iPhone do a great job of confusing everybody, but we can gather that the bundled data usage with the post-paid plans are anaemic, [...]
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Hong Kong’s iPhone pricing

By Junjie | Published: July 2, 2008
The 8GB iPhone to be sold by Hong Kong’s telco, 3, will range from free to S$513 depending on the plan you sign up for. The 16GB iPhone will go for S$24 to S$653. Comparatively a HTC Touch Cruise offered by the same network goes for S$765 with a 18-month contract, while the Nokia N95 [...]
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iPhones sold by SingTel will not be carrier-locked

By Junjie | Published: June 23, 2008
Chua Hian Hou wrote, according to an interview with a SingTel boss: Buyers, though, will have to sign up for a SingTel subscription, although the phone can be used on any mobile network in Singapore, unlike in the United States where iPhones are ‘locked’ to only work with one operator. Does this mean those who [...]
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How much would the iPhone 3G cost you on SingTel?

By Junjie | Published: June 23, 2008
It is true, SingTel will carry the iPhone when it finally hit our shores later this year. The million-dollar questions now for the iPhone hopefuls are when exactly will it come, and how much will it cost? Any attempt to answer the first question is probably wild speculation at best, unless of course you happen [...]
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