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If you are a Starhub mobile phone user, sorry to disappoint you with this piece of news…

When Singtel launched the IPhone in Singapore few months ago, the other local telcos (Starhub and M1) are saying that they will be selling the 3G Apple Iphone by the end of the year December 2008.

Nevertheless Starhub has announced in November 2008 on the newpapers that their IPhone launch will be delayed. This is bad news for many people because I know a lot of people are waiting for the 3G Iphone to be launched in Singapore by the other telcos..

I intend to get mine in March 2009 when I can recontract my Starhub mobile line.

Few years ago, I would have jumped on the bandwagon as soon as the Iphone is being launched in Singapore… Nevertheless I have learned to master the art of not satisfying my instant gratification if I want to retire by age 40… I am a slower starter in my financial literacy training, if not, I would have set my retirement age at 32 or 35.

I think I should be able to get the Apple Iphone at least for a 50% discount when Starhub launches it by redeeming my Starhub Rewards Points for a $150 to $200 voucher. On top of that, I think I will write in to request for a phone voucher for my phone line recontract…

Why pay more when you can get it less, or for free??

For those Apple 3G IPhone fans, here’s the official good news:

Singtel has confirmed Apple 3G IPhone launch to be on 22 Aug 2008, Friday.

Those who pre-order online with Singtel will be the first to get their hands on the new handset. Currently there are already tens of thousands of pre-orders with Singtel.

Starhub and M1 will carry the new Apple 3G IPhone before the year end.

Everyone will be carrying a 3G IPhone on the streets pretty soon, so there is no hurry to get one right, since you are not going to be the exclusive one holding it. IMHO, 3G IPhone will start to flood the Singapore streets just like the previous Razr V3 from Motorola, very soon.

Some countries’ telcos are offering the 3G IPhone for free when you sign up the highest data/voice plan with the respective telcos.

News are out that Singtel will launch Apple IPhone in Singapore by end of August. Although Singtel declined to comment on the actual date of the Apple IPhone, my guess is that it will be on 22 Aug 2008 because previously Apple has announced that it plans to roll out IPhone across many more countries on the date 22 Aug 2008.

All telcos will be offering the Apple IPhone by end of 2008 I guess. I will get one for myself in March 2009 when I can renew my yearly contract with Starhub.

If you are a person who like to go for exclusivity, I think you will be disappointed when you get a IPhone for yourself because in no time, you will see the streets flooded with people using the IPhone.

Looking at what Steve Job and his team presented lately during the Developers Conference about the new IPhone, the 3G IPhone will definitely enjoy much bigger successes than its previous first-generation IPhone, not just on the consumer market, but surely on the Enterprise/Corporate environment.

Times ahead are exciting for Apple IPhone as the Apple IPhone becomes one of the 3 core pillars (Mac, Ipod, IPhone) of Apple’s phenomenal successes.

I was just finishing up my last blog post about a few minutes ago regarding my bad experience with Nike  before I hit the Publish button to publish my latest post.

Nothing to do at this hour (6.40am Singapore time), I went to Google.com again and search for Nike’s global running event on 31.08.2008.

To my surprise, my latest blog post which was just published a few minutes ago was already indexed on Google search results. It was ranked number 5th. My earlier blog post about Nike Human Race event was ranked number 4th. (See my screenshot below)

While getting top rankings for my various online projects are nothing new to me, I am just quite amazed at how fast Google spiders are indexing my web pages.

Like what my Internet Millionaire mentor told me, blogs are great ways for fast search engines rankings! Now I really see the true power of blogs!

Also, looking at my own traffic logs for this blog now, apparently a lot of searchers are finding my singaporelifestyle blog when they are searching for Nike’s 31.08.2008 run event.

So my conservative estimates about the number of readers reading about my bad experience with Nike will easily be in the range of hundreds, if not thousands.

Talking about this, I remembered another incident with another local start up company last year (company name to be withheld).  This new startup is supposed to pay me my due commissions after I marketed and sold their products online for them and made myself a few hundred dollars. Despite numerous emails back and forth with their company staff for weeks about my commissions which they said they are going to send, but the cheque never came.

Eventually I ran out of my patience, and so I warned people about this company at an online blog.

Surprisingly, just a couple of days later, their staff called me up for a meeting to pass me my commission cheque as well as to meet with their Vice President (also the owner of the firm).

I am happy with this outcome and I also learned an important lesson here.

“Beware of your reputation online, it may make or break your business.”

You can quote me above.

Since the very first launch of Apple IPhone previously, many people in Singapore has been anticipating the arrival of the Apple IPhone in Singapore. Those who can’t wait for the IPhone to come, actually managed to get their hands on one by “sneaking” in from outside Singapore.

It seems that our wait is going to end soon when it comes to Singapore in Sep 2008 (hope there will be no change about it on the date). And based on the announcements by Apple not too long ago, we will be getting a 3G version of the IPhone. Great news for business users like me because a phone without 3G function is like owning a gun without ammunitions. We need the higher data speed transfer in order for us to do our work remotely from office.

I think I will get one Apple Iphone for myself next March when I can renew my phone contract with Starhub (hopefully by then, all the telcos in Singapore are carrying it. Based on what I have read online, all Singapore-based telcos will be selling the IPhone by the end of the year. Good news for all those IPhone fans).

Apple is great with their marketing, I must say. Many companies can try to learn something from them when it comes to marketing.

Nevertheless, I have got numerous friends who owned the first generation of the IPhone and they did not like it, and so they sold it off. I had to make a decision between Apple Iphone and Motorola Q9H about 6 months ago when I was getting a new handset. Apparently, I had chosen Motorola Q9H over the IPhone because of its 3.5G feature and the QWERTY keyboard. In my opinion, Motorola Q9H is a great business phone too and I loved it, especially its keypad and loud speakerphone!

Back to the IPhone, given its cheaper price coupled with a mobile phone contract plan, I wonder if the IPhone will spark off mainstream adoption in Singapore. Having an IPhone in hand will mean that you can do away with your IPods from now on (maybe unless you are a music and video fan that requires bigger storage space on your Ipod, if not, I think IPhone should be able to do a nice job of replacing your Ipod for many users!)

BTW, the 3G Iphone sells a million units in its first weekend of launch!

For more information about the much sought after IPhone, please see Apple web site here

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