2. You won’t be able to buy it on Thursday itself, nor this week.

3. When you wake up normally at 7am, your twitter and facebook feed will be spammed with the yummy goodness anyway, be it, RETINA, 8mp cam, or quad core A6 processor. No big deal, this info you will be equipped with before your commute to work.

4. Tech blogs will release full reviews and bullshit reviews by 9am, so don’t worry you won’t miss much.

But if you’re part of the Apple cult (like I was for the past decade), stay up and join the party. Congregrate and celebrate with Apple fans from all around the world on discussion boards like mac rumors, or locally, lowyat.net as we all celebrate another blockbuster product in the making. It will start at 2 am Thursday 8 March in Malaysia and the proceedings will end by 3:30 am Malaysia. It’s like watching Europa League or mid week English football.

As for iPad 3 availability in Malaysia? Subject to regulatory approval (Ala. money sucking SIRIM) look forward for end of March availability at best. (meaning near the gaji day of 25th-30th March lah)

Thanks & regards,

pip@philipkhor.com

Heard it 2nd hand from a dude on the street.

My guesses:

Dual Core

4″ screen

960 x 480 resolution

16GB

Ice Cream Sandwich

Leet nVidia graphics

4G capability — up to 20 mbps mobile broadband with Tethering / Hotspotting.

Speed obtained 300 KByte / sec (or roughly 2400 kbps)

One Gigabyte file will take about 1 full hour to download. It is that fast!

18feb12 300 KBps 2400kbps

Summary: I took screenshots of Yes 4G performance at Kg. Tun Sardon, near Lunas (Kedah) but territorially under the state government of Penang. Check out “Contact Pip” and “Directions to the Village” on the main website philipkhor.com to see where I am located.

This is a performance summary and service review for YTL Comm’s YES 4G Broadband Service.

Comments are welcomed via Facebook, G+ or Twitter @philipkhor

1. Write book, get on iBook store.
2. Short film on YouTube — 100k views!

Deadline: 31 Dec 2012 or end of the world, whichever is sooner!

Yes 4G usage chart

CNY began on 20th Friday as I go back to dad’s village & enjoy high speed access.

It wasn’t cheap, but the availability surprised me. Most 3G networks were unavailable, and my Digi iPhone was not even EDGE speeds. Unsable on most cases. But Yes 4G had good decent 3 mbps download speeds (upload was around 0.4 mbps good enough for Facetime)

10 years ago I followed this Internet thread discussion: Dix hill fiber

It started when a neighbor asked this guy ‘Oxygen’ whether he can share his Business line from Level 3 (tier 1 ISP service).. Later he served two streets in his neighborhood and about 12 houses with GigE LAN and 100 mbps Internet. Remember back in 2002, most people were still on 56k or ISDN 128kbps at best

But back then in New York / New Jersey, another Cable company called Optimum Online was providing 10 Mbps download speeds! In more developed countries, DSL technology was either 768kbps or 1.5 Mbps but OOL was champion for NY customers.

I once had a dream of building an ISP. But now the telcos are too huge, costs involved go into millions, making this dream improbable! I bet Time dot com CEO @afzalr had this dream for Malaysia.

my membership

In 10 minutes, it can download a full 1 hour TV series (eg. Lost, Survivor, Apprentice) or two episodes of a Sitcom (House, Friends, etc).

350 Megabytes (MB) in 10 minutes.

That’s light speed.

The smartphone industry is now scrambling to match and better Apple’s offering. Google Inc and Microsoft Corp will likely want to cash in on an explosion of interest in an area they have invested in for years, without getting anything like the attention Siri is attracting.

And that sums up what Apple is all about.

Discuss here

Loving’ it.