If you pay attention to the news recently, you'll know that Apple just opened an
online store in Malaysia! Now you can shop for your favourite iPods and get it delivered to your doorstep within 2-3 days. What's more, Apple is offering free engraving for your iPod so that you'll have your personalized message permanently printed on the back of your iPod. Cool huh?
As much as we'd like to see iPhone for sale in Malaysia, but nope...iPhone is still not available in the store yet. You'll still need to get overseas unlocked set if you want to buy it in Malaysia. Not that it is difficult to get... with the help of lelong and mudah, you can basically get your iPhone anytime. But hey, why buy outside if you can directly from Apple.
Before we even settled down with Windows Vista, Microsoft now planning for another OS release by end of next year. Yes, the Windows 7. Windows 7 includes a number of new features, such as advancements in touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements. Microsoft also claimed that Windows 7 will run on any PC and work with any program that works today with Windows Vista. You can get the latest info from
Microsoft website.
While all these looks spectacular on paper, whether or not Microsoft will be able pull it off this time remains to be seen. We all know how resource hungry is the Windows Vista...heck, the lappy with Windows Vista I'm using now has 4GB of RAM installed with Core 2 Duo processor! Hopefully we don't need another upgrade next year on our hardware...
Though there is a pre-beta version floating around on the net, we don't feel the urge to try out yet...
With latest PSP firmware update ver 5.01, we can now signup and access Playstation Store on our o'PSP :) hurray, right? Well, not exactly...after signing up a new user using Malaysian contact info and address, we were greeted by a simple message from Sony that Playstation Store is not available in our region yet. Duh! why let us sign up then when we can't access the store?
Then, I remembered that I had previously created a Playstation Store account in Hong Kong when I got myself a PS3...so I key in the username and password and viola.. I am now able to access Playstation Store! Why Malaysia always lack behind on stuff like this!?
Like PS3, Playstation Store allows you to purchase a game online (according to region, of course!) though your WiFi connection. You can browse the games available using the simple user interface and download different contents for your PSP. The best thing is, there are some Trial version of PSP games available for download, how cool.
You can also download Themes to change the look of your background and XMB for free..
Though the concept is great, the interface and implementation still not as good as the iTunes store. This will probably change with future firmware upgrades but lack of convenient user input method for PSP may mar the user experience with the Playstation Store. :P
