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New Google Maps starting to run for some users

liciece — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:17:35 +0000

New Google Maps was introduced one day ago during Google I/O 2013 keynote.It’s redesigned to be simple,clean with rich information.Applying the latest WebGL technology,the new Google Maps runs very smoothly in Chrome browser. I requested to have a try on the latest Google Maps and luckily I’ve been in first group of people to try [...]

U Mobile adds UMI 38 Plan with Free Messaging

liciece — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:20:08 +0000

U Mobile today introduces new unlimited Internet prepaid plan UMI 38 with 500MB high-speed quota,200 minutes talking time and 30 sms for 30 days.It’s said to be the best balanced plan and should fit most people’s daily use. Well,U Mobile also informed that a new service called ‘Free Messaging’ is available to all UMI 28, [...]

New Balance Classics 500

liciece — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:31:13 +0000

I was considering to get a pair of new sports shoes for quite a long time since my last one was dead after years of usage.However,I can’t find one with a reasonable price and good comments until I found New Balance Classics 500 on Zalora( the sister company of Lazada) days ago. It’s a bit retro [...]

Viber comes to desktop

liciece — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:24:28 +0000

Viber is a very popular mobile communication app and now it comes to desktop for Windows and Mac,being the most active competitor to Skype. Before this,Viber had supported iOS,Android,Windows Phone,BlackBerry,Nokia and Bada. With the support of desktop system,you could contact people by either one conveniently. The installation process is just simple as several clicks.After running [...]

Celcom 4G LTE is coming tomorrow

liciece — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:17:23 +0000

Celcom finally reveals the date of officially launching 4G LTE service on the website.It’s tomorrow (23 April 2013) with limited offer for first 1,000 subscribers who sign up for Celcom First Data Pro. Celcom First Data Pro needs to be paid RM138 monthly for 10GB data volume up to 50Mbps .However,if you’re one of the [...]

Hotlink social edition

liciece — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:14:40 +0000

Hotlink today released a new starter pack and hot ticket – social edition ,for people who like to enjoy the social life. For new users,the starter pack will cost you RM 10 and give you some freebies such as 50MB data,RM5 for talk & text and unlimited access to Facebook,Twitter & Whatsapp .The freebies would [...]

Spotify finally reaches Malaysia,Singapore & Hong Kong

liciece — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:03:58 +0000

Spotify is one of the most popular online streaming music service which has millions of songs in the database.It’s really a gift for the music lovers and that gift is finally reaching Malaysia and Singapore now. Spotify works on almost every platform:PC,mobile,tablet etc.You just mean it. You could share what you’re listening and recommend the [...]

Facebook Home hits in Google Play Store

liciece — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:20:17 +0000

Facebook Home is finally landed in Google Play Store.However,the start is not so great.In current around 1500 ratings,44% of people only rated it for 1 star. I wanna install and try it in my Samsung Galaxy S3 to see whether that is so bad as other people thought.Well,I can’t do it now because Facebook Home [...]

How to enable 4G LTE on iPhone 5

liciece — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:08:30 +0000

Maxis is the first carrier in Malaysia using 1800Mhz 4G LTE network officially which iPhone 5(Model A1429) could run on that frequency.However,users need to update the carrier setting to enable 4G LTE function.It’s only some simple clicks to go and the only thing you need to ensure is you have a Maxis SIM in your device. [...]

Xiaomi(Mi Phone) 2S and 2A release

liciece — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:08:09 +0000

China’s innovative smartphone company Xiaomi just releases their new products Xiaomi 2S and 2A which are the upgraded version for the previous Xiaomi 2 which launched 9 months ago. Xiaomi 2S is the higher spec product of this release.It’s running 1.7Ghz Quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor with 2GB RAM.It’s said to be 25% better performance and 5% [...]

Maxis 4G LTE network update

liciece — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:42:15 +0000

Currently,some Maxis iPhone 5 users have received update for enabling 4G LTE service on Maxis network.It has been reported on MalaysianWireless in this morning.Since iPhone 5 is not supporting 2600Mhz 4G LTE network which is initially applied on Malaysia’s 4G LTE network,the current carrier update from Maxis implies that Maxis has been supporting 1800Mhz 4G [...]

Facebook “Home” and HTC First

liciece — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:52:06 +0000

Yesterday Facebook held up an event for Android platform.Many people guessed that Mark Zuckerberg would release a Facebook phone and they were curious how would that phone differneciate with other smartphones.Now we know that Zuckerburger is not really building a Facebook phone with sort of Facebook OS,he’s making a phone with Facebook-centric app(launcher). Facebook is [...]

TuneTalk Prepaid Review

liciece — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:28:06 +0000

I‘ve tried many mobile telco services since MNP available in Malaysia.At first,I changed to DiGi from Maxis as it’s cheaper at that time.However,I gave it up soon because of its bad coverage,especially 3G. So U Mobile got to be my second choice:better plan and quite good 3G coverage as well as speed.Well,after more than one [...]

Samsung Galaxy S 4 unveiled officially

liciece — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:47:07 +0000

Hours ago,Samsung unveiled its latest flagship Android smartphone,the latest successor of S series,Galaxy S4 on the stage of Radio City Music Hall in New York City and also provided the live video broadcasting on Youtube as well as on the big screen on New York Times Square. Frankly speaking,I don’t think it’s so shine [...]

U Mobile expands 3G network in East Malaysia

liciece — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:20:12 +0000

Months ago,U Mobile started to share with Maxis for its infrastructure in order to expand its 3G network to nationwide.Since then,the 3G coverage on U Mobile in West Malaysia came to be good.Well,recently it started the expansion in East Malaysia and the major cities and towns there had 3G service already. The areas having 3G service [...]

(Fake) Samsung Galaxy 4 pics sneak out

liciece — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:18:12 +0000

For Samsung fans,March 14 is a magical day because the next remarkable smartphone will be released on that day.More and more rumors spread out everywhere and some of them seem to be so real. @evleaks always has some ways to reveal information before the official release including this time. You can see some specifications.But from my [...]

IE 10 coming to Windows 7

liciece — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:31:46 +0000

IE 10 was originally designed to run in Windows 8 and now it has been tested and could be stable to run in Windows 7. IE 10 is claimed to be at least 20% faster than IE 9.It could also support 60% more web standards than IE 9(CSS 3 transformation,animations,gradients etc).It enhances the security features [...]

The new flagship phone coming – HTC One

liciece — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:04:33 +0000

Yesterday night,HTC held two events synchronously in London and New York to release the latest flagship product-HTC One(previously coded as ‘M7′). Hardware: Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 1.7Ghz Quad-core processor 4.7 inch full HD 1080P display with 468ppi 2GB RAM,32GB/64GB storage Gyro sensor Accelerometer Proximity sensor Ambient light sensor 4G LTE,NFC,Bluetooth 4.0,WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n HTC UltraPixels camera(front:2.1megapixcel;rear:13megapixel with [...]

BlackBerry 10 opens up a new era for BlackBerry

liciece — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:53:55 +0000

BlackBerry is a strong name for a mobile platform dedicated to those businessmen and politicians who prefer more secured communication and good typing experience.However,with the fast growth of Android and iOS,BlackBerry lost a lot of existing customers as some of them felt bored to play with the platform.That move made RIM(just changed the name into [...]

U Mobile introduces UMI 48 into unlimited mobile internet family

liciece — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:00:38 +0000

U Mobile quietly introduces one new unlimited mobile internet plan UMI 48 for their prepaid users. It’s a bit similar with UMI 28 which includes 100 mins talking time and 30 sms monthly,but for UMI 48,it gives 2GB high speed data quota compared to only 500MB monthly for UMI 28.Therefore,this plan is more suitable for people who [...]