If you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably have heard about the Maxis iPhone 3GS announcement. Yes Maxis is officially bringing the new iPhone 3GS.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 9 July 2009: Maxis Communications Berhad (‘Maxis’) today announced that it will bring iPhone 3GS to Malaysia later this month. Customers who wish to register their interest in iPhone 3GS from Maxis may visit the Maxis website at www.maxis.com.my/iphone3gs. More information will be released at a later date.

Apart from what was given, there is not much extra information. What would the plan rate be? Will the current iPhone 3G prices drop? We too are asking those question. We will post any official information as soon as we get our hands on it.

One of the highlights of the Discovery Week at Mid Valley this weekend was Altered Frequency’s performance at the centre stage. They really rocked the show but totally blew us away when they played 2 songs completely on their iPod touches. Check out the 2 videos below:

Cover of ‘Chasing Cars’ by Snow Patrol

Cover of ‘Stand by Me’

The apps they used to replace their instruments were iShred for guitar (iTunes store link), Bassist for bass (iTunes store link) and DigiDrummer for drums (iTunes store link). If you weren’t watching them sit around a table to play it you almost couldn’t tell the difference. It just goes to show how powerful the iPhone OS is and what kind of possibilities it opens up. Simply amazing.

Today is the last day of Discovery Week at Mid Valley. Go drop by to check out the cool deals and performances today by Otam and Qings & Kueens.

It’s a couple of hours away to the Mac+iPod Discovery Week @ Mid Valley Centre Court. Here’s the lowdown on all you need to know for the event.

Deals

Apple Premium Reseller Machines will be offering some great deals at the Discovery Week. MacBooks (previous model) for super cheap plus lots of free gifts. Details here.

iPod nano 3rd gen going for 50% off. Check out the crazy queue that starts each morning at 7am.

Events

The events are the real highlight of the Discovery Week. Highlights include sessions on iPhone application development by MDEC and iTrain, introduction to iPhone OS 3.0, and performances by Couple, Altered Frequency and other local bands. Full schedule here.

Booths

There are 10 booths this time around at Discovery Week–Accessories Boutique, The Service Spa, Discover iPhone 3G, App Store, iPod Station, Mac Station, Centre Stage, GarageBand, iPhoto, iMovie.

I’m betting the iPhone and App Store booth will be popular. Don’t miss it! More details here.

Our Pro-Mac-sionals are ever-willing to explain to you how Macs or iPods will fit into your life.

Last of all, myMacBUZZ would like to thank Discovery Week again for sponsoring the prizes for our  user survey. Stand a chance to win an iPod shuffle 4GB by taking a 5 minute survey. Take the survey now!

Updated 5 July

Apple claims that the new iPhone 3GS is almost twice as fast as its predecessor. In terms of sales, the iPhone 3GS probably sold twice as fast as well.

Apple announced today that the iPhone 3GS model has sold over 1,000,000 units since it’s launch last Friday in 8 countries around the world. Last year the iPhone 3G sold a million units in its first 3 days too, but back then it was being sold in 21 countries.

The news was so awesome that Steve Jobs even made his first press statement since he went on medical leave earlier this year.

“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” Jobs said. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”

Unfortunately, no word of when the iPhone 3GS will be available in Malaysia. Subscribe to our mailing list and be notified the moment we get news.

Thanks to the Mac+iPod Discovery Week, myMacBUZZ is giving away an iPod shuffle and exclusive Gameloft merchandise if you take our Apple user survey. To sweeten the deal, every 10th survey participant will automatically win a Starbucks gift voucher*.

All you need to do is to take either one of these surveys:

For Apple users: http://bit.ly/AppleUser

For non-Apple users: http://bit.ly/NonAppleUser

The survey is only 10 questions long and will take you less than 5 minutes to complete. I’m hoping we get a good enough sample (hopefully 500 responses) so that I can publish an analysis of the results. It would be interesting to know the buying habits of Malaysian Apple users.

Please Tweet this! Click here to tweet this message: Apple lovers & haters! take @myMacBUZZ’s survey for a chance to win prizes thanks to @DiscoveryWeek http://bit.ly/8Om3F. pls RT

* Terms & conditions apply

Legal fluff

1. The survey will be open until 12pm, 5 July 2009. Winners will be announced shortly after.
2. Your personal information is kept private and will not be shared with 3rd parties.
3. Prizes only available while stocks (and my budget) lasts

Updated 22 June: Added contest details, terms & conditions.

Mac+iPod Discovery Week returns with its 4th leg! This time the roadshow will be held at Mid Valley Megamall from 1 to 5 July. Highlights include:

• Official iPhone booths! Come check out the iPhone 3G, and some of the latest third party applications and games.

• International mobile game developer Gameloft will be present and preview some of their latest mobile games.

• Another new addition is the iMovie booth, where you can learn how to record a simple home movie with a digital camera, create the movie in iMovie & then finally upload it to your iPod, iTunes, and on Youtube.

• Have your portrait professionally taken by Ecaz Studios. Your best portrait shot could become a postcard or greetings card. And these cards will be sent right to your home.

• Our very own blogjunkie will be one of the evangelists, try to spot him! He’ll also be blogging from the event.

Check out the official Discovery Week website at www.DiscoveryWeek.com.my

In conjunction with their anniversary, Peggy Tan, Director of CG Computers wrote on their blog:

CG Computers want to be involved in activities – be that community activities, cultural activities, philanthropic activities – whatever it may be, we want to be involved in activities on a by-store basis that are supportive of the locale that we are operating in.

Having come so far in the past 14 years, CG Computers are not content to rest on their laurels but will continue to expand their retail operations and services to provide the best service to their customers.

Congratulations CG Computers on this marvelous achievement! myMacBUZZ takes our hat off to you. Keep up the great work!

Video Monkey while not the most beautiful application on Mac OSX, it feels more Mac-ish compared to FFmpegX.

Video Monkey is a free video encoding application exclusively for Mac. It was created after the demise of the great tool Visual Hub. Video Monkey borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool, both conceptually and from the original code dump posted to SourceForge as TranscoderRedux.

You can now convert all you .avi videos that you got from the Internet into a format that’s playable on your iPod, iPod Touch or iPhone. We not going to discuss in detail on how one get such videos, lets just say you have those.

You can queue up video files to be converted. Start and pause anytime you want. Did I mention it’s free? Only works on Intel Mac though.

However if current specs of MacBook is sufficient enough for you then this is the right time to buy. Check out the price cuts on these Mac laptops, MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Savings from RM300 to RM2,600.

Check out Machines website for more information.

Update 13 June: changed title of post

It’s also the time where I would stayed up hitting the refresh button on Safari to view live coverage of the event. So here is the brief run down of what went down at WWDC this year.

The keynote starts with new unibody MacBook Pro announcements. The MacBook Pro line now comes in 3 sizes, 13″ inch, 15″ inch and 17″ inch. Every MacBook Pro now comes with a built-in long-lasting battery. Another noticeable hardware upgrades is the SD slot on the side.

Next up was Snow Leopard. Just as expected, Snow Leopard is basically an Leopard update, that adds more refinements then features. It’s better, faster and easier with some new core technology that I’m pretty sure most developers just can’t wait to take advantage of it.

Snow Leopard now has built-in Microsoft Exchange support. So now there is no excuse not to get a Mac in your corporate business environment.

Snow Leopard is $29 for Leopard users, it’s just an upgrade basically, not a brand new OS.

The star of the show is none other then the iPhone. They recap what was announced during the iPhone OS 3.0 event, held previously. Cut, copy and paste, landscape mode on key apps, Spotlight search throughout the phone, iPhone safari supports HTML 5 which will enables HTTP streaming of audio and video. The iPhone OS 3.0 now also supports MMS, finally.

There are a few notable features, one of them is Find My iPhone. You can log into MobileMe and basically locate your phone then make it play a sound even if it’s on silent mode. If you found out that your phone is stolen, then you could wipe the contents remotely.

Also iPhone OS 3.0 supports tethering either via USB cable or Bluetooth. However this is only subject to telco provider that choose to supports it. No idea if Maxis going to support it or not.

And for the moment everyone is waiting for, new iPhone hardware, dub as the iPhone 3G S. At first glance, it looks no different to the previous iPhone 3G. Under the hud however, is a whole other story. It’s twice as fast compared to the iPhone 3G. As much as I would like to think that the ‘S’ in iPhone 3G S stands for ‘Steve’, it’s actually stands for ‘Speed’.

Speed is not the only major upgrade on this phone. It now has a 3 megapixel camera with auto focus, and the camera does video too. You can even edit the video on the phone.

A digital compass, now not only that the phone knows where you are, it also knows which direction you are looking at or what you are looking at.

Voice control lets you talk to your phone to make it do something, make calls, play music and stuff.

Of cause the all API to this new hardware features are made available to developers, so expect to see some cool apps that uses these.

New iPhone comes in two colors, black and white and two versions, 16GB and 32GB.

We’ll post the availability of everything mentioned here in Malaysia once we got the information. We’ll also have an in-depth review/write-up on everything announced at WWDC. Till then, stay tune. It’s 4 a.m. already and I’m signing out.