In case you don’t know, I tweet and send a lot of photos to my mobile blogging site, Away From Computer. You can check it out too.

Because that my line is under the SME business plan, it troubled me a bit for to subscription and activation, I have to write in and call them for the activation, it’s pretty troublesome, but afterall, it’s activated and I am on.

I ran some speed test today via mobilespeedtest.com.

The first result I got was pretty shocking and suprised. The speed was rocket high to 8.5mbps. That was freaking cool but I realized that I was running the test through Opera Mini and Opera Mini has some sort of proxy to minimize site loading.

I re-run the test with the normal Symbian browser and the speed was not so satisfying for a 3G connection. It’s supposed to be 3.5G, running on HSPDA, with speed up to 3.6mbps but I didn’t see it goes near to it.

How’s your mobile internet speed? By the way, ignore the ugly keypad of mine, I am a heavy text user.

Yesterday, I took the bus to town and I was lucky to be in one of the 3 bus that offers free Wifi. The last time I was on this bus, the free wifi was not working. My iTouch was running low on battery so I took out my Nokia N95 to try the Wifi to see whether it’s working or not.

It worked! I was prompted with a Welcome Screen like those when you are surfing at Starbucks Coffee. Surfing the net on N95 is not fun because it’s hard to navigate around.

Surprise to see that the Wifi service is powered by DiGi 3G Broadband. I thought it was Celcom or perhaps P1 Wimax but good to see that it’s DiGi.

I did not surf a lot with the connection, just check on some Twitter, email, Facebook and Plurk.

The speed was quite fast for those mobile optimized site, I ran a speed test on it and found out that it’s running on the slowest 3G speed, it’s not even HSPDA yet. If so, I believe they are running on the 384kbps DiGi 3G Broadband package. For light surfing, I think the speed is pretty fast already.

Good to have such service on public buses, hope it can expand the service to other bus route. Now, it’s another reason for you to take the public transport.

The Rapid Penang public bus company announced trial testing of Wifi connection on a route bus a few months ago. It’s only available on a few bus route (101 to Batu Feringghi and 401 to Airport). Only on last weekend, I got a chance to get on those Wifi bus while going home from school.

I was excited when I see the Wifi logo on the bus and quickly took out my iPod to try it out.

I found a the wireless connection, connected to it, then launch the Safari web browser on the iPod.

I waited and waited but still no connection activity and I suspect the Internet connection was not on, it’s so unfortunate. Got on a Wifi bus but with no Internet connection. That’s sad.

It’s said to run on a 3G network. I log into their 3G router modem with the default username password again and I see no Internet connection. I thought maybe they had forgotten to click connect so I tried to connect to the 3G network, nothing works.

Too bad, they just don’t do their work well. Hopefully the Wifi on bus will be up soon but then I will be driving my own car soon and not taking the public bus. If there’s Wifi on the bus, maybe once in a while, I’ll go on walking. Hehe.

Today is the release of iPhone 3GS in 3 country, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. I wonder why Singapore is just right beside us and can get their iPhone faster than us.

There’s still no confirm date on the iPhone release date, but it will be in July and the rumored (according to some discussion board) release date is 31st July 2009 which falls on Friday too.

According to Apple’s website, MMS support and Internet Tethering (using iPhone as a modem) are available for Maxis, so it will be good if you sign up for an unlimited data plan.

Yes I want an iPhone, the 3GS but not the normal 3G version. The last time, iPhone was not that good yet, but it improves on it performance a bit right now but yet still lack a front-faced camera and a better quality camera, though the application and OS is powerful.

Last time, it was an iPod that is a must-have for me, now, iPhone has became a must-have for me and every geek.

I think many of you guys have already knew about the iPhone 3G in Malaysia. The official telco for iPhone is Maxis. Maxis is promoting the iPhone 3G everywhere right now, you can see ads in the TV, radio, newspaper, billboards and roadshows.

It’s good to have iPhone officially launched in Malaysia so that we can no worry of warranty and service by Apple if we got a faulty iPhone. However, buying the iPhone 3G with the plan provided by Maxis is very expensive.

That’s an iPod touch, not an iPhone. I have sucky China iPhone at home. =)

The plan is quite expensive if comparing to iPhone plan in UK and United States. The cheapest iPhone in the plan is priced at FOC for 8GB and RM260 for 16GB but you need to have a monthly commitment fee of up to RM374 for 24 months contract.

Check the iPhone 3G plan here.

After going through all the plans, I think I would rather buy an unlock iPhone 3G for around RM2000 without contract for a 8GB unit. My monthly phone bill is always below RM100 and I have no way to pay a monthly commitment of RM100. Make phone calls or not, you still have to pay RM100 for every month for the 12/24 months contract.

If you would want to buy a iPhone 3G now, I suggest you to wait as the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference that will happening in June will probably announces a next generation iPhone 3G with video camera and perhaps a better camera. Let’s hope for a improved feature next gen iPhone. =)

My dad went to China recently and he did not get scam from the Chinese phone dealer. He knew it’s fake and he bought back for me to try out the phone to see whether is it a good fake phone or not. After playing for 30 minutes, I got fed up and kept it back into the box and not to touch it any more. It sucks.

The phone is cheap, both the built quality and the price. It’s not very cheap but is cheaper than the real iPhone for like more than 50% (this is definitely). Dad bought it for 600RMB in Shenzhen.The phone size look the same, the box look the same, but when hands on, it’s heavier and the screen is very plastiky feeling. Another obvious difference is the smaller screen.

The fake iPhone got no 3.5mm headphone jack, it’s removed from the cover. I thought Chinese phone has a good camera but it’s just VGA quality and very sucky.

One thing very cool is that the phone come with an extra rechargable battery and the capacity is 5800mAh and it’s a big number. You can’t change iPhone battery in the real one but in this you can. Besides that, you can load 2 SIM card into a phone, so you can have two line operating at the same time. This is an common Chinese phone’s feature.

What I hate the most is the crappy and sucky software of this Chinese iPhone. It’s just a clone of real iPhone OS but their cloning work is bad, the font is ugly and the icon too is ugly.

It’s not easy to navigate around the phone, it lags and the SMS feature sucks the most. There’s a very very tiny qwerty which most probably needs a stylus but it doesn’t provide a stylus. The GPRS Internet setting is hard to configure too.

They loaded a lot of games into it but none of them works. It’s just cosmetic icons in the phone.

Overall, this thing is a bad copy and I hate it a lot. Now I hate copy, it’s better to buy a typical Chinese TV/Dual Sim/Loud Speaker phone more than a clone iPhone which doesn’t really work. What a bullsh*t. Sorry for the rudeness as I just hate it.

Maxis just set up a 3G Internet Experience Lounge in New World Park, Penang. This is to promote mobile Internet to locals. However, I believe not much local aware about mobile Internet, only some tech savvy person like me does.

I wonder who do really Twitter on the go or read some news on the go. Mostly, they got a Blackberry, they don’t need m.gmail.com anymore. Malaysians are more onto Plurk then Twitter, so again, not much will go to m.twitter.com.

The only site they surf on the mobile I believe is Facebook and Friendster. Though this 2 sites, I have never went in before on the phone.

Personally thinking, the only way to promote mobile Internet is lowering the unlimited mobile data plan first, currenly the cheapest offer is from Digi and Celcom. Though Digi has only Edge network. If data plan is cheap, I’m sure I’ll be the first one signing up for it.

However, somehow I can’t get the Internet and data to work on the N95 with my Maxis line. I have already activated by 3G and GPRS data connection, have all the settings but it says “Packet Data : Connection Not Allow” when I am trying to connect to the Internet with 3G or EDGE GPRS.

I went to the Maxis service center and the people are noob, they just download the setting agains and asked me to wait for a text message contain the data setting, then restart my phone. I wait, the setting came, restarted and it’s still not working.

I get frustrated and called Maxis up. After some guidance from the lady, I am now able to connect to the Internet again. It’s pretty easy to edit the setting, it’s something to do with the connection setting on your phone.

1. Press menu key.
2. Go to Tools > Setting > Connection
3. Scroll to the last one or just press up key. You will see APN control. A pop up message will appear “Connection restriction….”
4. Press Option > Deactivate Restriction.
5. PIN2 is 1234.
6. When it’s says deactivated/inactive, restart your phone.
7. Turn on again, surf the net now.

Pretty easy right? Try it now. If it does not work, call Maxis at 123. That’s what I always do.

iPhone 3G is in Singapore now by SingTel. Unfortunately, it’s pretty expensive after signing up for the plan unless you are an real iPhone fan.

Hopefully, whatever telco that is bringing iPhone into Malaysia will provide a nice price and plan for us. I am am getting not excited for it now after seeing the expensive plan in Singapore and it’s so not worth for it. It still cheaper in United States comparing to other country right now.

Let’s wait and see, the telco contract plan for iPhone will sure drop. When it comes, I gonna get it. Don’t rush for it yet as there’s bugs yet to be fixed on the new iPhone 3G. Stay cool.