Malaysian Likes Bargain

Last Friday afternoon, I was at Pavilion. When I walked to the al fresco area and I saw this.

And this

What's all this about? Well apparently a telco is launching the new BlackBerry Bold 2 and Storm 2. On that day itself, they are offering 50% discount for the BB Bold 2 for the first 150 people to sign up for the plan. Storm 2 will be offered later.

Malaysian really does like to look for bargain like this. It's a working day you see. No need to work meh? lol Later I heard from Joshua that they extended the 150 people limit to 300 people because the crowd is very encouraging. The queue went on till night.

Talking about bargain. For those of you that already got your BlackBerry should find some BlackBerry plan that gives you a bargain. Malaysian like bargain mah. If the BlackBerry is 50% off can get this kind of crowd. What about free BlackBerry Access? So that you can download your apps for your Facebook, Twitter and etc. Most people now use BlackBerry for social networking more than to use it to check emails. It's the Xpax Big Freekin Sale man. Use the RM 2.50 a day Xpax BlackBerry Advance (2.5G) for 5 consecutive weekdays and the weekends subscription will be free. Now that's a bargain. Free wei! Not discount. It's free lol. Malaysian out there bargain is everywhere, you just have to know where to look.

For business person too will be able to take advantage of this bargain. BlackBerry is initially design for business people that want to check their emails on the move. Now it gets even better because it can now support up to 10 POP3 personal email accounts. They can integrate their Windows Live™ Hotmail, Google Mail™ or Yahoo!® Mail and other email accounts to your BlackBerry so you can always stay connected anytime anywhere. What’s more on the weekends it’s free BlackBerry Access if they used it for 5 consecutive weekdays and why shouldn’t day, they use BlackBerry to make their work easier.

CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service 101

I've been blogging about updating my Facebook status using SMS after activating the CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service. What about the other Facebook options that can be utilized through this 1st Facebook SMS service in Malaysia that only charge RM 1 for unlimited weekly usage? So, today, I'll conduct a simple CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service 101 course here lol. More like a crash course kekeke.

The first lesson is of course to activate your Facebook SMS Service. Click here for my informal lesson or click here for the official lesson of how to activate the service after you got your XPAX Prepaid Package.

After you've activated the Facebook SMS Service, there are a lot of Facebook options that you can use now just by sending text messages or as we say it in Malaysia SMSes.

Facebook Status Update:

This is the easiest to use. Just type in your message and then send to 32665 and voila you have your FB status updated. Note that you'll see a [via Celcom SMS] at the back of the status message when you see it in your Facebook.

Follow your friend's status update via SMS:

After activating the CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service, you'll be able to see a new option called "Subscribe via SMS" when you click into your friend's Facebook Profile. It's just like the Follow option on Twitter only that now any update will be send to your mobile phone and there's no data upload/download whatever calculation involve.

So, for example, I clicked on WeiZhi's "Subscribe via SMS" and I'll be able to get her every status update (especially on food :p) sent to my now Facebook Phone.

Poke your friend:

It's as simple as updating your Facebook Status but you have to add a keyword in your text message. Type poke friend's profile name and send to 32665. For example, if you want to poke me then type "poke yyseow" without the quotation marks of course and send to 32665 and you've poked me (omg, that sounds so wrong).

Okay, I told you this is only a simple course. If you want learn the advance course of CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service 202 and 303, I'll have to charge you for that lol. Just kidding. Click here to learn more on the other Facebook options that you can use. Happy playing around with your CHANNEL X Facebook SMS Service. ;)

Turning My Old Phone Into Facebook Phone

As I've blog before that I have an old Samsung phone that is not in use much anymore except for receiving calls from bank chasing me on my debts :p Recently, I don't even get calls from the banks anymore because I pay my debts on time now!!! Uhuhuhuhu.

Finally, I bought a XPAX prepaid package so that I can turn the old phone into my personal Facebook SMS Service phone.

Following the instruction from CHANNEL X, I key in "F" then text it to 32665. But low and behold, the confirmation that I got is "Sorry, we can't process your Facebook request right now. Please try again." I tried it for the 10th time, still no success. Then I dialed 1111 to call Celcom Careline. Found out from the helpful Careline staff that I need to call out to one credit deductible number first to activate my XPAX line because my line is still in pre-active status. So, those of you that just bought XPAX remember to do this step first before activating any CHANNEL X services first to avoid disappointment.

After activating my pre-active line, just one text to 32665, and I've got my activation code for my Facebook SMS Service. Then I have to login into my Facebook account, go to Settings > Account Settings > Mobile, add a phone. Choose Malaysia for the country and Celcom as the telco. I was be shown the step to text "f" to 32665, since I've done that already, I click next to key in the activation code I received. Voila. I received a confirmation SMS from 32665 telling me that my Facebook SMS Service is confirmed.

I keyed in my first Facebook status update using SMS even thought I am sitting in front of my laptop connecting through Celcom Broadband lol. There my status is updated almost immediately. So easy. Now I can put my old phone to good use. Any of you have old phone sitting around should try this too if you don't plan to buy a smart phone.