And now, I found a friend who uses Android too and he’s Kenny, a geek like me, just signed up for DiGi’s DG Smartplan and bought the HTC Legend on a discounted price. I guess more and more people will go for Android already because Maxis and DiGi are selling it.

HTC Google Nexus One still rocks with bigger screen. Haha, but my rival HTC Desire is cool!

I have been using this new Google Nexus One phone for two weeks already and I am very satisfied with the new phone, love it a lot although there’s still don’t-like about the phone.

I live in Malaysia and it’s not listed in the shipping destination of four countries. There’s United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. Luckily, I have a brother who resides in Singapore, he helped me to order and shipped to his address in Singapore, only then he bring it back to Malaysia during the Chinese New Year holiday two weeks ago.

The shipping from USA to Singapore was pretty fast, it took DHL 4 days and hand delivered on a Sunday.

The package comes with the phone and another order of the Europe-Asia AC Adapter, it’s actually useless because the two-pin works here too!

Inside the phone box, there’s the phone, a pouch, earpiece, USB cable and 2-pin adapter.

I like the earpiece because the microphone is tiny, although not as tiny as the iPhone’s but still it camouflaged into the media key and not many will notice it’s actually an earpiece with mic for the Nexus One. People will think that I am either talking to air, or just listening to MP3.

I was on Symbian, familiar with iPhone OS and it’s my first time using Android 2.1. Very unfamiliar with the UI and not very friendly at first, the keyboard was not as sensitive as the iPhone but I am getting used to the OS already. Although Android apps are not as many as the iPhone apps, but I believe it will grow, perhaps is because that it’s still new.

Another thing I dislike is the capacitive touch screen doesn’t feel good as the glassy one on the iPhone, and last dislike thing is the 4 touch sensitive button below the screen are annoying, because I always touch on it accidentally.

Afterall, I like my phone, I am satisfied with it. I can’t dislike the battery life because all smart phone’s battery life is like that.

If you want this phone, you need a data plan because it syncs a lot.

Here’s mine LIKES and DISLIKES.

Likes:

• Larger than iPhone’s screen.
• Capacitive multi-touch screen.
• Thin and lightweight.
• Solid built.
• 5MP Camera.
• Android open-sourced platform.
• Google Account and Facebook sync.
• Cheaper than iPhone.
• Unique because less people own it here at my place.
• Pouch with Android cute logo.
• Earpiece.

Dislikes:

• Less apps.
• Can’t buy paid apps here in Malaysia.
• Screen not as sensitive as iPhone.
• Battery life.
• Speaker phone not so nice.
• Facebook Application for Android. SUPER LOUSY.
• 4 touch sensitive buttons below the screen.

I think that’s all. =)

What do you think?

When it’s Google, it’s Android and it’s the latest Android 2.1, only on Nexus One at this short moment. I believe there will be a 2.1 update very very soon for other Android hardware.

I am quite interested in this phone because it’s running on the 1GHz Snapdragon processor (same as the HD2) and sounds like faster than the iPhone and the Motorola Droid, the real speed need to be determine after some times of usage first.

photo by engadget.

After seeing many photos of the phone, it looks good, sounds good, seems good, but the one problem is how do I get it? Google is selling it online, they don’t have any concept stall and soon will be going into some major company like Best Buys and via telco’s shop.

The latest source is that the nearest country that will getting the Nexus One is Singapore, then Hong Kong. Phone demand in Malaysia is low especially an Android device. Hopefully someone here will bring in the Nexus One or else I’ll ask my brother to get me one in Singapore.

I want to wait for it, gonna put iPhone, Motorola Droid or the N900 back, guess I’ll switch from Symbian to Android now. =)

[source]

The only thing I can try with the dummy set is feel the size and compare it. The HD2 will probably not be my wanted phone because it’s too huge. Although it’s thin, light, and the screen is extremely big, yet it still feel big, wide on hand and in the pocket. 4.3″ is a little bit too big IMO.

I haven’t tried a Android device before. It’s all looking on Youtube and reading about user experience in before, HTC Hero is the only Android device in Malaysia currently and, still I don’t get to try on it. Boring.

If you are looking for a phone, I recommend you to wait for Motorola’s MILESTONE or the new HTC Hero replacement in early 2010.

I was doing window shopping at Gurney Plaza last weekend and saw a few mobile phone with low price tag on shelf. It’s all used units and in very good condition, with the low price and good condition, it’s a good buy. I am using my Nokia N95 and 6280, I want to replace my 6280 with a better one, but then money is the problem and moreover, new iPhone will be announcing next month, so let’s wait for it. =)

Last weekend, I was walking around Prangin Mall and saw a line of people lining up beside the Sony store. I saw the Sony Cybershot T90 poster and thought that they were one of those who want to be first to get their hands on, I thought they were hardcore fan of the camera so the line up for it. I was wrong, I was wrong, I got everything wrong until I went to Gurney Plaza.

There’s no line then because it’s like a few hours after 3pm. Only I knew that for the first 10 customer that buy the latest Cybershot T90 will also get a Sony Ericsson W595 Walkman mobile phone. That time I was like “wtf, why didn’t I check properly and join in the line?!”. It’s like killing two birds with one stone, a camera and a phone.

I wonder why they knew about it and I don’t. I should have be more informative and check on something out properly instead of just guessing around. I was so silly that I miss a good opportunity. Oh gosh.

By the way, Cybershot T90 is pretty becaus it has HD video recording and it’s slim. I like, but I don’t really know about the picture quality yet. One thing is good about Sony is that they always makes good looking camera with so-so but not superb quality digital camera.

Fellows in the United States have already get their hands on the T-Mobile G1 or also known as HTC Dream. Somehow, I can’t find HTC Dream on HTC’s website instead G1 is what I got. Selling for $199 (with subscribtion plan) which I’ll say not expensive and the data plan from T-mobile is seems to be more worthful than the iPhone 3G plan from AT&T.

What’s so great about this phone is it runs on Android, the open-source OS by Google. Focusing on apps on the mobile, especially web apps. I am a person that adore the Internet a lot and G1 is a must for me. Unfortunately, it’s not available in Asia.

It’s an iPhone rival. People do actually queue up long for the G1 and there’s a launch party for the G1 too.

The nice part of the phone is it’s side sliding QWERTY keypad and the touchscreen. I like QWERTY and I like touchscreen too. QWERTY is very good for texting and sending emails and touchscreen is for navigating web page and perhaps almost everything.

There’s a iPhone Apps Store like software in G1 and that is the Android Marketplace where you can find a lot of software and application to be installed on the phone. Mobile applications are the popular one right now, the fame of iPhone is because of Apps (besides it’s design and Steve Jobs). In Marketplace, there’s paid and free application.

Camera (3.2Megapixels) is available on the back but the front facing camera is lacking which made the G1 not perfect. I believe not much people uses 3G video call and that’s why no camera for video calls.

“The wait is over.” is what T-mobile is trying to tell everyone. It’s up in store in the States, you can get one now. Europes will get theirs by next week.

Will G1 hits Asia or perhaps other continent like Australia or Africa where there’s no T-Mobile?

My first phone was Nokia 3120, got stolen and after that I bought no cell phones. Brother gave it to me, as if it’s a second hand phone to me. Currently using a Samsung D500C and the Nokia 1680 Classic.

At current moment, a new cellphone is in the top of my shopping/wish list. =)

Let’s talk about the Nokia 1680 Classic which I just got it recently. Maxis, one of the telco in Malaysia gave it for free for subscribing to their postpaid plans. In fact, T-Mobile offers it for free too in the United States. Since it’s free, I’ll just use it, nothing lose on me. I need a second phone for texting, I text a lot, my previous Nokia 3100 went dead with no signal bar.

Nokia 1680 Classic is quite a new phone though the specification and function is definitely not interesting. Though one cool thing is, it’s the cheapest Nokia camera phone (VGA/0.3Megapixels). Design is sleek but hands on is very plastic, due to cheap built quality.

Nothing much I can do with the phone, I just use it for texting and some Twitter updates and Gmail checking. It lacks Bluetooth or Infrared for data transfer, so you can hardly transfer music, ringtone or photos to and out of the phone except using GPRS.

It might not be fast, lag sometimes while loading the message inbox. I’m using 1.6MB on Messaging as I have about 1.6k messages in my inbox. I am not gonna delete it. Haha. It’s about 7.6MB of on board memory, no memory card expansion, it’s for your pictures, contact and message.

Don’t expect much, this is a cheap, very low price, in fact free (by subscribtion) candybar camera phone by Nokia for those who want a temporarily phone.

Check out the package, it’s has a relatively small box with a small phone, a charger and a small manual. That’s all.