However, the stock of iPhone was quickly snatched by thousands of iPhone fans within a few hours.  All three operators require the customers to pre-register with them in order to get the new iPhone 4 from them.  For example, Singtel requires customer to book an appointment with them before the customers come to get one during the launch event.  However, many complained that the web site for registration was unresponsive and all the appointments were booked within a few hours.

Well, I guess most of us will still have to wait for more stock to come.

The 16Gb iPhone 4 can be yours for free if you sign up for a 2 years plan with around SGD98 per month.

This latest Samsung Android comes with a pretty good specs:

• 4 inches super AMOLED screen
• WVGA with 800×480 resolution
• 5 mega pixel camera with touch to focus
• Android 2.1

Grab yours and Singtelshop to be one of the first in the world to own this phone.

The DEXT is the first Android phone from Motorola and it comes with a customized interface and social engine from Motorola called MOTOBLUR.  The phone was released in US and Europe few months ago, but it will only arrive in Singapore this weekend.  Hey, Motorola, when is your MILESTONE (DROID) coming to Singapore?

Motorola DEXT is available from Saturday, 23 January 2010 from as low as S$0 – S$248 (on any 3G Flexi Plans) or S$0 – S$348 (on SingTel’s free incoming call plans).

The press release from Singtel is after the break.

Motorola Introduces a Unique Mobile Experience with the Launch of Motorola DEXT, Exclusively with SingTel

Singapore – 20 January 2010 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) introduced in Singapore a unique mobile service platform with the launch of Motorola DEXT™, Motorola’s first Android-powered device.

SingTel customers will be the first in Asia to enjoy this breakthrough social mobile device, powered by the unique MOTOBLUR™ platform and complemented by SingTel’s mSocial service plan.

Developed by Motorola, the MOTOBLUR™ platform is one of the first solutions to synchronize contacts, posts, feeds, messages, e-mails, photos and more – from sources such as Facebook^TM, Twitter^TM, MySpace^TM, Gmail™, work and personal email – and automatically deliver them all to the home screen.

Motorola DEXT™ is the first device in Motorola’s Android-powered product portfolio to come with MOTOBLUR™. Following a string of successful and acclaimed launches of its new generation of Android-powered smartphones in North America and Europe, Motorola brings the DEXT™ to Singapore customers looking for an easy, intuitive and smart way to manage their work and social lives – all with the touch of a finger. Plus, users will have access to more than 18,000 applications through Android Market^TM, as well as the ability to search Google^TM right from the homescreen.

SingTel will offer a newly created value-added service, mSocial, priced at S$5.35 per month for consumers to enjoy unlimited local mobile data using the MOTOBLUR™ platform. These include photo uploads, postings received and status updates on popular social networking sites, including Facebook^TM and Twitter^TM within the MOTOBLUR™ service platform.

mSocial includes 100MB of local data for all other internet surfing and email access. In addition, excess usage beyond 100MB is capped at S$30 per month, giving customers peace of mind when using Motorola DEXT. Also, as a launch promotion, mSocial is free to all customers who sign up for any 3G Flexi plans with the device.

“Life’s a blur. So much to do, so little time! MOTOBLUR^TM connects everyone in your life by blurring the lines among the various social networks,” said Spiros Nikolakopoulos, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and International Distribution, Motorola Mobile Devices. “Today’s mobile phone must be more than ‘smart’. It needs to be social – and the DEXT^TM funnels your entire social life into a single stream, making it easy for you to keep track of all your friends, your conversations, your life. No more reason to be anti-social!”

“SingTel and Motorola have cultivated a longstanding relationship through many years of successful collaborations. DEXT^TM is no exception and the innovative MOTOBLUR^TM platform makes it a breeze for customers to stay connected right from the home screen. With SingTel’s affordable mSocial service, customers’ social networking experience will be taken to greater heights when they engage friends, without worrying about data charges, said Ms Sarah Chua, Vice President, Consumer Marketing, SingTel.

SingTel customers can also access a suite of services to meet their mobile lifestyle needs. The exciting services include: i) MobileTV viewing for Channel 8 Primetime, Channel NewsAsia, Bloomberg  and Football Frenzy ii) TrafficLIVE, an intelligent traffic planning service and iii) Android applications like SingTel’s first “BroadBand on Mobile” data usage application for Android devices. This application allows customers to keep track of their data usage and will be available free of charge soon.

Pricing and availability details

Motorola DEXT^TM is available from Saturday, 23 January 2010 from as low as S$0 – S$248 (on any 3G Flexi Plans) or S$0 – S$348 (on SingTel’s free incoming call plans).  Customers on free incoming call plans who sign up for mSocial will enjoy an additional S$50 discount.

Customers on SingTel’s free incoming call plans (excluding 3G Flexi plans) can sign up for mSocial at a promotional price of S$5.35/month (usual price is S$9.90). mSocial is free for customers who sign up for the latest enhanced 3G Flexi plans that come with 12GB of local data, starting from S$39/month, with local data usage capped at S$30.

To purchase DEXT^TM, visit any SingTel retail store or SingTel Exclusive Retailers, and SingTel’s online store, www.singtelshop.com

To experience DEXT^TM with MOTOBLUR^TM, please visit www.motorola.com/motoblur. For the latest product news and promotions, customers can go to the Motorola page on Facebook and Twitter.

ImSocial

With the arrival of the much anticipated DEXT^TM, SingTel will launch a social media marketing campaign, ImSocial (I am social) today. ImSocial is a campaign calling out to social networkers to form the first photo mosaic created via a social media platform.

A dedicated Facebook Page will be created and users can join as fans to upload a photo showing them at their ‘social best’ on the page. Selected photos will also be featured in SingTel’s marketing campaign for Motorola DEXT.

The winning entry will get a chance to win an all expenses paid private party on a yacht with 10 of his/ her friends from social networks.

The public can experience this social media campaign on the 23 and 24 January 2010 at a popular shopping mall in the city area. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ImSocial.

If you are in Singapore and want to have the latest Google Nexus One Android phone running Android 2.1, Singapore is one of the three countries outside US (the other two are UK and Hong Kong) that Google will ship the phone to.  For USD529 + shipping (around USD30) and 7% GST (I can’t confirm as I have not ordered the phone), you can get the phone from Google’s web site – http://www.google.com/phone.  According to the FAQ, Google will process your order 15 minutes after you place it.

I logged in to Google’s web site and tried to order the phone but there were some issues.  First, you need Google account and also Google Check Out account to order the phone but these are not the show stopper.  For some reason, there are problems when creating the Google Check Out account – Singapore apparently is not on the country selection list.  While selecting other countries will make the card type (credit card) dissappear.  Hopefully Google will fix the problem soon.

If you are waiting for a subsidized phone from the 3 operators, SingTel, M1 and Starhub, you will have to have to wait a bit longer.  There is no information on when the phone will be sold through them.  At the moment, Google is only working with US and European operators.  I will keep an eye on our local operators and will update you once I have more information.

For the moment, pick up your credit card and order from Google if you can’t wait and want to be the first batch of people to own the Nexus One   And let me know if you are able to order one.

Update: I have found Singapoire under the country list, it is called Rep. Of Singapore.

The launch of the HD2 is overshadowed by the iPhone war in Singapore started few days ago.  The coverage from media and the operators are much lesses the iPhone.  However, this super Windows Mobile 6.5 phone from HTC is still generating a lot of interest from the market.  Those who preordered the phone have been collecting it from the operators.  And now, it is available for general market.

The phone comes with a huge 4.3″ capacitive touch screen, a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU and it is the first HTC Windows Mobile phone that comes wih Sense.  It is top of its class.

Prices?

Starhub: Starting from SGD698 from a low plan to SGD398 for a high plan.  There is an extra SGD100 off for data plan sign up.

M1: Starting from SGD838 from a low plan to SGD638 for a high plan.  There is a discount f SGD100 for data plan sign up as well.

Singtel:Starting SGD838 from a low lan to SGD488 fo  high plan.  There is a SGD50 discount for MobileMailExchnge sign up.  No discount mention for data plan sign up on their web site yet.  (update 12 Dec: Out of stock according to the Singtelshop web site).

Well, if you have been waiting for this, go and grab it from the operator of your choice.

Original bundled with 10Gb of data (and it was the highest until Singtel and Starhub raised theirs to 12Gb), M1 is now bundling 12 Gb of data and cap the data charge at SGD30.

For Starhub, it has thrown in free IDD (international) calls to 18 countries for free, instead of paying SGD5 for monthly subscription.  Take that, Singtel and M1 where we have to pay SGD5 monthly to enjoy that.  This is a good news for people like me who need to call some countries like US, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia quite often.

Do something Singtel and Starhub, I don’t want to pay the extra 5 dollars for this service.

Singapore consumers, you are now free to choose your iPhone operators.  And we are seeing the prices and bundles keep changing from the 3 operators these few days.  M1‘s iPhone plans were bundled with 10Gb of data originally, and now they are bundled with 12Gb of date after Singtel and Starhub increased their bundled to 12Gb.  And Starhub data usage charge is capped at SGD30 (from SGD48) now, after Singtel changed the data charge to be capped at SGD30.

And I am not sure when this will end.  If you are planning to buy one, I suggest you wait till everything settles down

At the end, the consumers win.  And yes, Apple will win too, because the iPhone market in Singapore will now be expanded.

The news plans apply to the new iPhone customers, as well as the existing iPhone plan holders.  The new plans include 12Gb of data bundle and a cap of SGD30 from 9th December.  The existing iPhone plan holders have started to receive the notification SMS already.

Below is the table for the price plans (in SGD):

The prices and the data bundle now look competitive to the other operators now.  And hey guys, if you are waiting for this moment, go and grab one from any of the operators now.

The price?

Starhub: SGD 198 if you subscribe a 2 year high end plan.  But it will cost you SGD498 for a SGD20 plan and SGD398 for a SGD25 plan. There is an additional SGD100 off if you subscribe a data plan.

M1: SGD198 for a low plan (SGD25) or take it home for free for a 2 year SGD83 plan.

The phone is not available from Singtel yet.

Go and grab your if you are waiting for the phone.

Damn, should have ordered one when it was listed as S$98 for the high plan.

• S$98 for high plan (S$82.93/month and above)
• S$198 for middle plan
• S$298 for low plan
• S$398 for a super low plan (S$15/month)

Pretty good deal, huh.  However, it is currently out of stock.

This make me really wonder why the other two operators are not able to give such good pricea as Singtel does.

[updates 25 Sep] The HTC Hero phone posting has disappeared from Singtelshop web site and came back again with a different and higher price?!

INQ Mini 3G is here in Singapore. It was launched yesterday (14 September) at Singtel Supperclub.  It will be available from 19th September 2009, exclusive to Singtel.

The INQ Mini 3G is the first social mobile phone to be fully integrated with Facebook, offering ‘always on’, one-click access to this popular social networking application, as well as Twitter. It also merges contacts on the mobile phone and Facebook to create the world’s first ‘live’ address book. Customers will see the caller’s latest Facebook profile picture with every incoming call. Another impressive feature is that the main Inbox will contain separate folders for Facebook messages, pokes and requests, as well as emails and SMS, all on the same page.

Mr Yuen Kuan Moon, SingTel’s Executive Vice President of Consumer, said: “SingTel is pleased to partner INQ and be the first in Asia to bring the INQ Mini 3G exclusively to our customers.  The device complements our efforts to transform SingTel into an integrated multimedia solutions company, helping to strengthen our foothold in the social networking space, especially with the youths who are active users of Facebook and Twitter. We believe that INQ’s unique features provide an ideal platform for our customers to enjoy a social music experience and at the same time always stay connected to their communities.”

Read the press.