Dell shows off a complete Alienware desktop gaming experience

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Not only did Dell release a new Inspiron laptop with Max-Q design, they also have something in store for those of you that would like a sit at home on your comfy gaming chair and play away on a desktop. The company has introduced the new Alienware Aurora Desktop, a curved gaming monitor and a keyboard and mouse to complete your full Alienware desktop environment.

Alienware Aurora Desktop

The desktop comes with an 8th Generation Intel Core processor and dual-graphics card setup all in a mid-tower case that will be able to tackle games like Forza Motorsports 7 and Superhot in VR. It also features a customisable AlienFX lighting, premium materials such as anodised aluminium, magnesium alloy and steel reinforcement.

Alienware Monitors

They featured two monitors, a 34-inch curved gaming monitor and a 25-inch gaming monitor with the first coming with either a WQHD or WFHD resolution and features AlienFX lighting and ultrathin bezels that gives an added immersion. It is also integrated with NVIDIA G-Sync for a smoother gaming experience.

As for the 25-inch monitor, it comes with either G-Sync or AMD FreeSync and offers fast 1ms responsive gameplay with virtually no input lag and native 240Hz refresh rate, making it perfect for any gamer.

Keyboards

Alienware Pro Gaming Keyboard comes with an optional palm rest giving comfort for games that go through long gaming sessions. It also has a dedicated volume roller and 13 zone-based RGB AlienFX backlit options and the onboard memory allows users to save keystroke combinations.

Alienware Advance Gaming Keyboard offers gamers the power of brown mechanical keys for more precise inputs and five keys dedicated for macro commands giving gamers an added advantage. In addition to that, Alienware Control Center allows gamers the ability to configure all keys to the desired commands.

Mice

Alienware Elite Gaming Mouse offers gamers customizability with swappable grips, 13 programmable buttons perfect for MMOs and four variable levels of weight adjustment providing ultimate control

Alienware Advance Gaming mouse fuses ergonomic design for increased comfort and intelligent software by offering multiple configurations with a DPI switcher between precision and speed style gameplay. It also comes with nine unique buttons for in-game customisations.

Prices for the mention products are as follows:

Alienware Aurora Desktop (Intel 8
th
 Gen)

From RM4,999.00 (Core i5) – available 3 November

Alienware 34” Gaming Monitor w/ WQHD (AW3418DW)

RM 5,599.00

Alienware 34” Gaming Monitor w/ WFHD (AW3418HW)

RM 5,079.00

Alienware 25” Gaming Monitor w/ NVIDIA G-SYNC (AW2518H)

RM 2,699.00

Alienware 25” Gaming Monitor w/ AMD FreeSync (AW2518HF)

RM 2,199.00

Alienware Pro Gaming Keyboard (AW768)

RM 569.00

Alienware Advanced Gaming Keyboard (AW568)

RM 369.00

Alienware Elite Gaming Mouse (AW958)

RM 429.00

Alienware Advanced Gaming Mouse (AW558)

RM 229.00

All the mentioned products are available for purchase now through Dell and all its authorised partners.

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Dell unveils the Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 and Inspiron 15 7000 that comes equipped with 8th Gen Intel Core processors

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Today, Dell Malaysia held a celebration on the launch of their revamped Dell Exclusive Store in Lowyat. The launch was also accompanied by the introduction of the new Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1 series that is powered by the 8th Generation Intel Core processors and an announcement that the acclaimed XPS 13 laptops will be getting the 8th Gen upgrade as well.

Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1

This 2-in-1 device is designed for the mobile multi-tasker in mined and will be available in Era Gray brushed aluminium, making it look sleek and provides a good performance. The screen is an FHD IPS screen which supports touch inputs and a digital pen for drawing, writing and note-taking. The laptop also comes with SmartByte which can detect the type of application that is running and if it’s a streaming service, it prioritise that service over the others by redirecting bandwidth to it.

Under the hood, you will be getting the latest 8th Gen Intel Core processors, DDR4 memory and a range of I/O ports like the USB Type-C with support for DisplayPort Power Delivery. Storage options are also good as you will have the option of using SSDs or PCIe NVMs SSDs.

Dell Inspiron 15 7000

For those of you that prefer the tradition clamshell laptops, the Inspiron 15 7000 is the perfect companion for you. It comes with an FHD IPS display with an addition of UHD option that covers 100% AdobeRGB. The laptop will also be equipped with the latest 8th Gen Intel Core processors and biometric login which will use Windows Hello. Similar to the Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1, it will have a range of storage options including PCIe NVMe SSD. There are two options for colour on the Inspiron 15, Platinum Silver or Pink Champaign.

Dell has also updated the Inspiron 13 2-in-1 laptops with the 8th Gen Intel processors and DDR4 memory. In addition to that, the Dell XPS 13 has also been updated to the 8th Generation processors making it 44% more powerful compared to the previous generation of the XPS 13. The Inspiron 15 7000, Inspiron 13 7000 2-in-1 and Inspiron 13 5000 2-in-1 will cost RM4,449, RM 5,449 and RM3,599 respectively. The upgraded XPS 13 will be available in October.

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Dell unveils new Inspiron 5000 and 7000 series 2-in-1 and sleek laptops

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Dell has today unveiled four new Inspiron laptops on its 5000 and 7000 series, available in screen sizes of 13 and 14 inches, they come in the 2-in-1 and standard laptop form factors.

For the 7000 series, the company has unveiled the Inspiron 13 2-in-1 (7386) and Inspiron 13 7380 laptops, which both sports a very premium design with thin display bezels and is powered by Intel’s 8th Gen Core U processors.

Both laptops will come equipped with 8GB of DDR4-2400 RAM and 256GB of PCIe NVME storage for the base model, they sport a battery life of up to 9 hours and 31 minutes and charges via USB-C Power Delivery or Dell’s standard AC adapter.

The Inspiron 13 2-in-1 in particular can be configured with an optional 4K display, and it is the first laptop to feature a 2.7mm miniaturised webcam that offers great low light performance with a Temporal Noise Reduction technology. The laptop also comes with Amazon’s Alexa assistant preloaded as an alternative to Microsoft’s Cortana.

As for the Inspiron 13 7380, you do get a pretty impressive LED display that features a 180-degree hinge, specs are pretty much the same like its 2-in-1 sibling, while you get a standard SD card slot rather than the MicroSD card slot, the display bezels are also noticeably thicker and comes with a plastic frame. The Inspiron 13 7380 will also support Dell’s CinemaColor, CinemaStream and CinemaSound that elevates the movie watching experience with better colours and sound.

The mid-range 5000 series are pretty attractive devices too, there’s the Inspiron 14 5000 2-in-1 (5482) and Inspiron 14 5480. Like the 7000 series, these laptops are also powered by 8th Gen Intel Core U processors, however they both offer entry-level discrete graphics, the 5482 uses a GeForce MX130 while the 5480 uses a GeForce MX150.

Apart from launching the new laptops, Dell has also taken the opportunity to introduce two new entry-level gaming monitors with 144Hz refresh rate and AMD Freesync in 24” and 27”. Available starting today on Dell’s online store and authorised resellers, prices of the new Dell Inspiron 7000 and 5000 series are detailed as below:

Inspiron 13 7000 (7386) 2-in-1 – from RM4,699

Inspiron 13 7000 (7380) – from RM3,759

Inspiron 14 5000 (5482) 2-in-1 – from RM2,919

Inspiron 14 5000 (5480) – from RM2,869

Dell 24” Gaming Monitor (S2419HGF) – RM979

Dell 27” Gaming Monitor (S2719DGF) – RM2,099

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Dell updates the Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming with GTX 1060 Max-Q chip

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Dell may have the Alienware brand spearheading its gaming laptop business, however the Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming series laptops have always been really appealing to those shopping for a gaming laptop on a budget. Today, Dell is updating the series by adding the option for a GTX 1060 Max-Q GPU model, and it starts from the price of RM6,599, making it one of the most affordable laptops with a GTX 1060 GPU.

With a GTX 1060 Max-Q graphics processor, the Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming should have better power efficiency and less noisy, NVIDIA’s Max-Q GPU design has a lower base and boost clock speed than the original but maintains the same memory bandwidth and CUDA cores, therefore users will still experience a significant performance improvement over the GTX 1050 despite of that. In other hardware specs, the refreshed Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming comes with an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, customers can choose either a 256GB PCIe SSD or a standard 128GB SATA SSD solution, and a 4K resolution display. The laptop also comes with a generous amount of ports, including three USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, one USB-C port supporting Thunderbolt 3 and HDMI 2.0

If you are interested, Dell has already listed the refreshed models over at its website, they come with the usual 2 year Premium On-Site warranty, which you can also choose to extend it with accidental damage protection.

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Dell will be the only OEM equipped with the Threadripper throughout 2017

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If you are looking to buy a system that comes with AMD monster of a processor the Threadripper, then your only option is going to be the Alienware computers from Dell, as they will be the only OEM that will supply the processor for the remainder of 2017. However, if you are looking to build your own PC with the Threadripper then you are still in luck as it will still be available to be purchased as an individual component.

The Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition PC will come factory overclock on all cores and will feature up to 64GB of DDR4 2933 RAM, up to 1TB of M.2 SSD storage and the option of GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards in SLI or Radeon RX 480 in Crossfire. Those of you that prefer Intel over AMD are still in luck as Dell will also offer an i9 variant of the PC, where users can choose the Intel 6-core Core i7-7800X, 8-core Core i9-7820X, and the 10-core Core i9-7900X

The AMD variant of the PC will be able to order on July 27 and the Core X-series processors will arrive on August 22, pricing, however, has still not been announced for any of the variants.

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Dell XPS 15 (2014) First Look & Impressions

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Dell
 hasn’t been a big name in the consumer laptop market recently, but we have to admit that their products are still darn good in terms of build quality and reliability. What we’ve got here in our labs is the company’s high performance premium laptop – theDell XPS 15, which we totally fell in love when we receive it from
Dell
 Malaysia. The review unit that we’ve got over here is the base spec model, which has an Intel Core i5-4200H quad core CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB Hybrid Hard Drive with 16GB Cache, 15” Full HD LED Touch Display with Truelife and Corning Gorilla Glass 3, Intel HD 4600 Graphics, WiFi 802.11 AC with Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, and a 6-Cell Battery.

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 XPS 15 (2014) First Look Video

What makes the
Dell
 XPS 15 so attractive is how well built it is, the laptop is built with an aluminum and carbon fiber material which can be found on Apple’s MacBook. Despite being a huge 15-inch laptop, it measures a mere 18mm of thickness and weighs only at 2.01kg according to official specifications, which is almost a KG lighter than most 15-inch laptops in the market.

Lift up the lid of XPS 15 and you will find a spacious LED backlit chiclet keyboard, which has already impressed us with the nice and solid feedback when we type on it and one thing we love about it is that Dell doesn’t cramp the keyboard with a unnecessary number pad area which is available on most 15-inch laptops in the market. The Touchpad is also a big one and has a glass integrated button, which allows us to press the touchpad anywhere we want, again, a similar experience to the MacBook.

Even though we don’t get to see the optional QHD+ (3200×1800) resolution display, the Full HD display is still drop dead gorgeous when you look at it, the screen has a brightness of 400 nits which makes it possible for us to see the display clearly when we are using it outdoors despite being a glossy display. On first impressions, we are happy to report that the display’s color saturation and viewing angles are really good, touch response is remarkable as any touch enabled Windows laptops out there.

Dell has been generous by offering a great number of input ports on the XPS 15, there’s 3 USB 3.0 ports with PowerShare, 1 USB 2.0 port, 1 HDMI port, 1 Mini DisplayPort,
SD Card
 Slot and a Kengsington lock port.

The Dell XPS 15 retails from RM4,999 and up to RM6,399 for the higher spec model that comes with a Core i7 quad-core CPU and that impressive QHD+ display with a few memory component upgrades. Stay tuned to our full review of the XPS 15 coming right up which we’ll be performing benchmarks and tests on the device.


New Dell XPS 15 (7590) with 9th Gen Intel processors and GTX 1650 are available in Malaysia

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Creators and professionals will be excited to know that Dell has finally refreshed its premium XPS 15 laptop with the latest 9th Gen Intel processors and GTX 1650 graphics.

The new XPS 15 is now readily for purchase over at Dell’s Online Store, customers can spec up to an Intel Core i9-9980HK processor, a 4K AdobeRGB 100% display, 32GB of DDR4-2666MHz RAM and 1TB of PCIe NVMe storage, yet having a rather enticing price of under RM10,000, giving the MacBook Pro 15-inch, its closest rival, a good run for its money.

In terms of other features, the XPS 15 7590 comes with a USB-C port that supports Thunderbolt 3, two USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A ports, one HDMI 2.0 port and a standard SD card reader, it is also Dell’s first laptop to feature WiFi 6 connectivity with the Killer AX1650 wireless radio.

Starting from RM6,499, the XPS 15 7590 comes with a 1-Year Premium SupportPlus warranty and Windows 10 Pro preinstalled. Head on over
here
 to find out more.

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Dell XPS 15 (Late 2013) Review: Beautiful, Elegant and Fast, worth to burn a hole in your pocket

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Everybody wants a sleek looking laptop, and that’s how the term ‘Ultrabook’ appeared in the dictionary. Because an Ultrabook is meant to be slim and conservative on power consumption, they have slow Ultra Low Voltage processors, slim form factors that don’t allow you to upgrade the internals and lastly, they aren’t the cheapest laptops out there, just like a Hybrid vehicle. If you can pay a premium to buy Ultrabooks, you should really check out the
Dell
 XPS 15, a laptop that looks extremely sleek and premium with powerful internals to boot.

Dell
 XPS 15 (Late 2013) Hardware Specifications – Base Model

Processor:
 Intel Core i5 4200H 2.8GHz Dual-Core, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz

RAM:
 8GB DDR3-1600 (upgradeable to 16GB)

Storage:
 500GB Hybrid Hard Drive with 16GB Cache

Graphics:
 Intel HD 4600 Graphics

Display:
 15″ IPS Full HD (1920×1080) with 10-point Multi-Touch and
Corning Gorilla Glass
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Connectivity:
 WiFi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC

I/O Ports:
 1 x HDMI, 3 x USB 3.0 with PowerShare, 1 x USB 2.0 with PowerShare, 1 x MiniDisplay Port, 1 x SDXC Card Reader, 1 x 3.5mm Combo Jack

Battery:
 61Wh 6-Cell Non-Removable Battery

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 XPS 15 (Late 2013) Video Review

Luxurious and Elegant

We haven’t seen 15-inch laptops for a while since the ASUS N550JV, it was heavy and bulky but it packs great performance under the hood. The
Dell
 XPS 15 is simply a power user and road warrior’s dream laptop, it weighs only at 2KG and measures 0.7-inches at its thickest point, making it one of the lightest and slimmest 15-incher out there and you simply can’t feel the weight when you are carrying it in your backpack.

The XPS 15 is also built using machined aluminum on its chassis with a carbon fiber body, lift up the lid and you will be greeted by the stunning 15-inch touch display protected by
Corning Gorilla Glass
.

A matte
surface
 surrounds the working area of the laptop and it feels really nice when you lay your hands on it, the backlit Chiclet keyboard is simply beautiful and we love it despite lacking of a numpad area, it doesn’t make the keys cramped together and makes typing speedy yet precise, the keyboard area is maintains a warm and comfortable temperature when the system is loaded.

The glass integrated Touchpad is one of the best that we’ve used on a Windows laptop, it work brilliantly with ample touch area and navigates accurately, I actually never thought of connecting an external mouse to the laptop because it works so well that I can even use it to edit our gadget review videos.

The Dell XPS 15 is a beautiful and elegant looking laptop, it doesn’t come with fancy colors, but it does have a serious appeal that will make every professionals or power users wanting to own one.

Beauty + Snappy Performance = A Perfect Marriage

The Dell XPS 15 isn’t all about luxury and premium, it packs pretty decent performance under the hood, our review unit is the base model and Dell does offer a more expensive configuration with a Core i7 Quad-Core processor, optional SSD, and a 4K display. Despite not being able to enjoy the best configuration out there, we simply love the XPS 15’s zippy performance in performing our daily task, it may not have the speed to do fast video encoding or run the most demanding apps but it works fine in most cases.

Thanks to the hybrid hard drive, the XPS 15 takes less than 15 seconds to boot up on a warm boot and resumes in less than 3 seconds when it’s on standby, the experience is just seamless and it simply makes you feel that you are carrying the most powerful machine in the world.

The XPS 15 not only surprises us in its usability but it is really good in its cooling system, the cooling vents are located beneath the display or slightly above the keyboard area, similar to the MBP with Retina Display, there are two cooling fans which dissipates heat efficiently and it’s really silent even at heavy loads, simply imagine a quiet V8 engine running on it – Yes, we mean it. Lastly, you don’t want to work with the XPS 15 on your lap as it can get really hot underneath.

The Perfect Entertainer

Most laptops today may have a beautiful screen but doesn’t come with good speakers, the XPS 15 has one of the best sounding speakers out there thanks to MaxxWaves Pro Audio Enhancement, the speakers are located below the laptop and produces decent volume and some amount of bass to be able to enjoy some action packed movies on it, even music listening is pretty good on headphones as well.

Audiophiles will certainly not prefer to have audio enhancement enabled and they can simply tune it to their liking with a custom equalizer. To road warriors, the XPS 15 is going to save you from bringing a portable speaker along.

Amazing battery life for a 15-inch laptop

As always, people simply can’t change their mentality on 15-inch laptops, they can pack the most powerful hardware onboard, bulky and heavy yet offering a subpar battery life. The Dell XPS 15 surprisingly impressed us with its 61Wh 6-Cell battery, we have the Dell
Extended Battery
 Life option enabled, which underclocks the processor down to 760Mhz and do lightweight stuffs – writing editorials, browsing the web, YouTube video streaming and Spotify music streaming, we did of course put the device on standby at times when while we are on the go (nobody would sit for hours in front of a computer), the XPS 15 managed to last around 5 hours in total on a full charge.

Our Full HD video drain test lasted around 3 hours and 15 minutes. Dell does offer a 91WH 6-Cell battery option on the higher end configuration of the XPS 15 and claims a battery life of up to 11 hours.

The Dell XPS 15 is the best 15-inch Windows laptop you can buy

We hate to say this but we find almost no flaw in using the system during our review period, unless you are complaining that you want a
tablet
 hybrid form factor found on the XPS 12. The XPS 15 is the most impressive 15-inch laptop that we’ve ever come across – beautiful hardware, lightweight and powerful internals, it’s really rare to see such a perfect combination in premium laptops. And yes, when we mention the word ‘premium’, the XPS 15 doesn’t cost cheap as the base model starts from RM4,999 up to RM6,399 for the top of the line model. This is the perfect Windows laptop that is worth paying for, simply put, buying the XPS 15 is like owning the best sports car in the world.

Verdict

Beautiful, Elegant and Fast, the Dell XPS 15 offers beauty and performance in a lightweight package that is worth paying and burning a hole in your pockets.

The Good:

+ Fast and zippy performance

+ Extremely enjoyable touchpad and keyboard

+ Stunning touch display

+ Premium build materials

+ Superb sound quality

+ Great battery life

+ Generous amount of input ports

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– Expensive

The Dell XPS 15 gets a full 5 star award from us, keep it up, Dell!


Dell’s Alienware Concept UFO is a portable gaming solution that could come true

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CES is an event where you get to see extremely weird stuff that sometimes won’t make it to the market, but sometimes you wished certain things can actually be purchased eventually, and that’d be the Alienware UFO Concept handheld gaming device, which is technically a ‘Alienware-fied’ Nintendo Switch that actually runs full blown PC games and regular Windows 10.

In fact, the hardware is pretty good to impress the lot already, you have an 8-inch 1200p display, two detachable controllers and two USB-C connectors that lets you charge the device or connect peripherals. The Concept UFO weighs around 900g when held in hand, which is considerably hefty if you were to game for long periods, which is why you also get to have a hub that lets you slide both controllers into it to play wirelessly.

Credit: The Verge

The Verge reports that the Concept UFO actually has a skin running on top of Windows 10 that serves as the console’s user interface, which makes a lot of sense considering that you are not going to use it as a typical PC with a mouse, however when you run things like Rocket League it will still call up the Steam launcher, and you can expect the same when you run other PC games that depend on a game launcher, it is probably the reason why this thing could only just remain as a prototype unless the company gets serious about working with developers to optimize the user experience.

The thing that will curious many is that how Dell has managed to pack all that gaming firepower into a Nintendo Switch form factor, considering that the Nintendo Switch runs on an ARM based NVIDIA Tegra X1 Tegra chip that doesn’t require a powerful cooling solution, I could hazard a guess that it could be running a
Ryzen 7 4800U
 chip that was announced today, since it is the only x86 based processor that has good integrated graphics.

I would really love to see this come into production once Dell manages to sort out the perfect hardware for it.

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Dell’s Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme is coming to Malaysia next month

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Dell has just announced a 12-inch tablet called the Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme. Why the name? Because this table is made to cater for workers in “harsh environments”.

The 12-inch tablet features a 1000 nits FHD display topped with anti-glare coatings so that its users doesn’t face difficulty with the display when they’re out in direct sunlight. In addition, the tablet supports the new Rugged Active Pen and also glove-capable multi-touch functionality so workers won’t have to remove their gloves whenever they want to use the tablet.

The Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme is also durable even in extreme environments as it has an IP65 rating in addition to being able to withstand 1.2m drop test and -20 to 145-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. With a built-in infrared camera, the tablet uses Windows Hello facial recognition for ease of access; users can also opt to use its next-generation fingerprint sensor.

This tablet can be powered by up to i7-8665U Intel processor, in addition to getting up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. It has an integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620 and runs on Windows 10 Professional. With various different accessories, the Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme can be used at the desk, in the vehicle or even at work fields. Weighing at only 1.33kg, this tablet sports a 34Whr dual hot-swappable battery-architecture.

The Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme will be arriving early December in Malaysia and the pricing will be revealed then.

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Dell’s SuperMassive 9800 next-gen firewall to bring powerful enterprise level security

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Dell
 today announced the release of the
Dell
 SuperMassive 9800 Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and complementary management and reporting Global Management System
(GMS) 8.0
. The most powerful model in Dell’s
SuperMassive 9000 Series
, SuperMassive 9800 provides the highest-performance deep-packet inspection firewall available, allowing customers to benefit from reduced capital expenditure and reduced rack, power and cooling costs in the future. The new GMS solution offers enhanced value to both customers and partners, by making NGFW management simple and efficient, helping to ease resource consumption, reduce overall risk and adhere to compliance requirements with a new workflow automation feature.

The largest enterprises are no longer the biggest targets for malicious activity, which has forced organizations of all sizes—including government and educational institutions—to prioritize building a continual defense of their networks from a growing list of threats from new technology, new devices and new ways users work. Mid-sized organizations are finding themselves next up on hackers’ hit lists. Too often, their security strategies have employed outdated firewalls, web-filtering proxies, and intrusion prevention systems that lack the necessary context-aware, connected intelligence required to blunt today’s more advanced attacks.

As the most powerful model in Dell’s SuperMassive 9000 Series, the SuperMassive 9800 delivers to both mid-size and enterprise organizations the same protection and performance as Dell’s flagship SuperMassive 10000 Series firewalls. It includes all the performance-enhancing capabilities, with lower operating expenses and total cost of ownership. Key benefits of SuperMassive 9800 include:

Up to 20 Gbps of DPI performance to solve complex and demanding data centers’ increasingly massive data and capacity requirements. Provides ultra-fast parallel inspection processing for scalability to higher throughput and connectivity

Best-in-class security with 97.9 percent security effectiveness without compromising performance. Patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) single-pass threat prevention engine searches more levels of data, every element of every packet, to identify threats while operating on a scalable foundation that grows with organizational needs

Reduced deployment and management costs with an integrated NGFW, IPS, SSL inspection and application control platform for mid-market and enterprise organizations that require the deepest level of network security

Industry-leading price-performance ratio, reducing power, cooling and space costs with power optimization design that produces optimal compute performance per Watt (Gbps\W) packed in a space-saving two-rack unit appliance

Support for up to millions of simultaneous connections at near-zero latency for higher throughput, concurrent/ simultaneous TCP connections and connection per second to respond to increased user count, user device count (BYOD and IoT) and demand for network connection

New enterprise-level capabilities and resiliency including support for IPv6, A/A clustering, SNMPv3 and Advanced Switching to organizations that previously found the cost of entry for these advanced capabilities too expensive

Comprehensive set of sophisticated capabilities for organizations of all sizes when coupled with Dell’s SonicOS 6.2 fully integrated operating system.

GMS 8.0 simplifies management of network security

GMS 8.0 complements the SuperMassive 9800 and other
Dell
 NGFWs by enabling organizations to easily consolidate the management of security appliances, reduce administrative and troubleshooting complexities, and govern all operational aspects of the security infrastructure – including centralized policy management and enforcement, real-time event monitoring, analytics, and reporting. GMS 8.0 also meets the firewall change-management requirements of enterprises through a new workflow automation feature that assures the correctness and compliance of policy changes by enforcing a rigorous process for configuring, comparing, validating, reviewing, and approving policies prior to deployment. Auditing and reporting of policy changes assure that the firewall meets compliance regulations. Management of network security is improved by dramatically simplify the lifecycle management of overall security environments, rather than managing on a device-by-device basis.

The
Dell
 SuperMassiv 9800 will be available worldwide (except Brazil) and GMS 8.0 will be available in early 2015. For more information, head on to
www.dell.com.my


Delphi will test out a self-driving taxi service in Singapore

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Singapore will be playing host to a self-driving vehicle pilot program soon, but unlike various other self-driving vehicle test, Singapore’s test will allow almost everyone to try it out, as the country will be playing host to a self-driving taxi service pilot program.

Automotive technology parts supplier Delphi has announced that it will be entering a partnership with the Singapore government to start a pilot program for an on-demand autonomous taxi service. This pilot program will see Delphi deploy six autonomous cars which will travel along a four0mile route in a business park on the western edge of the city. The service is expect to be similar to other ride-hailing services like Lyft and Uber.

This pilot program is expect to run for three years with the first year being dedicated to laying out the technological groundwork with the self-driving vehicles being deployed in the second year. Passengers will be chosen to test the system from a cross-section of the Singapore population. Should the program produces favourable results, Singapore and Delphi are looking to transition the program into a fully operational service by 2022.

Source:
Engadget

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Denuvo DRM may potentially be cracked

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Denuvo is a name that is infamous among the pirate scene. This particular DRM was said to be so hard to crack, a Chinese cracking group once said that Denuvo may signal the end of pirated games. This has changed over the past two days as it appears that Denuvo can be defeated after all, with pirated copies of Rise of the Tomb Raider being the first game that runs on Denuvo to be properly “cracked.”

Up until this week, crackers that work on the Denuvo DRM have mostly relied on bypasses to get around the DRM. While these games can be pirated without too much of a hassle, the fact of the matter is that Denuvo has not been cracked. Indeed, a new bypass was found just this week as a cracker by the name of Volski has managed to create a Denuvo bypass through a loophole in Steam, allowing many Denuvo-protectle titles to be played for free. Unfortunately, this bypass has since been fixed by Denuvo.

Shortly after the bypass was fixed, something big happened. Scene group CONSPIR4CY released a torrent of Rise of the Tomb Raider, with Denuvo being legitimately cracked. Since then, the torrent has ran wild on various torrent sites.

While the Rise of the Tomb Raider crack has proven that Denuvo is not infallible, you shouldn’t expect other Denuvo-protected games to be released over the next few weeks. Seeing as it took six months for RotTR to be cracked, it is possible that cracking Denuvo is just that complicated. Besides that, you can be sure that Denuvo is working hard on their end to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. In short, the arms race between pirates and DRM creators rages on.

Source:
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Department of Justice asks court to suspend order to compel Apple to assist in cracking iPhone

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The encryption saga between the FBI and Apple has taken a weird turn as the FBI asked a federal judge to vacate a hearing on whether Apple should assist the authorities in bypassing the passcode of the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone.

According to the documents filed by the Department of Justice, an outside party has demonstrated a possible method to unlock the iPhone in question to the FBI. The FBI would now test said method to determine if it is viable. Should it be viable, the FBI would no longer need any assistance from Apple to unlock the iPhone.

One thing to note though is that the Department of Justice has merely asked to suspend the order and not drop it entirely. Should the method in question fail to provide satisfactory results, Apple and the FBI will continue their lawsuit as if nothing happened. The FBI will need to file a status report by the 5th of April.

Meanwhile, Apple’s attorneys have indicated that they would insist on talking to whoever is providing the exploit and wants to know about the vulnerability.

Source:
Engadget
,
Ars Technica

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Designex 3D Launched Poseidon X 3D Printer

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Designex 3D, a pioneer in the desktop 3D printing technology industry in Malaysia, launches its all new Poseidon X 3D Printer at Metaltech 2015, Malaysia. Designex 3D is the first Malaysia 3D printing company that designs, manufactures and distributes quality 3D printers for consumers.

The Poseidon X can print an object size up to 300mm3 and it is constructed almost entirely from acrylic, rigid aluminium structural components and stainless steel hardware. On top of the great material build, it has high-quality linear guide ways plus special grade stainless steel which provides high positional accuracy, superlative smooth motion, long life and unrivaled reliability. In addition, Poseidon X also comes with a full-featured LCD control panel with jog-dial that allows direct control of the printer’s functionalities.

The Poseidon X and Designex 3D’s full range of 3D printers will be showcased at the METALTECH 2015 exhibition at booth number 3752.

To learn more about Designex 3D, please visit
here
.


Detailed specs of Samsung Galaxy S10 line of phones leaked – Snapdragon 855, triple camera setups and more

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Just a week before the Samsung Galaxy S10 series of phones are to be officially revealed at MWC 2019, it appears that detailed information of the phones’ specifications has been leaked.

According to GSM Arena, most of the leaked specifications fall in line with rumors which surfaced prior to this.

Image credit: GSM Arena

Based on the leaks, the Galaxy S10 will be equipped with a 6.1-inch display with a Quad HD+ resolution 3040×1440 pixels. The Galaxy S+ will receive a larger 6.3-inch display with similar resolution outputs. The baseline Galaxy S10e is said to have a snug 5.8-inch screen with Full HD+ display. All three phones are equipped with the Dynamic AMOLED HDR+ display.

The Infinity “O” display will make an appearance as well, similar that of the Samsung A8s.

The S10 and S10+ will come with in-display fingerprint scanners while the S10e will have a side scanner.4

As for the camera, the S10 and S10+ will have a triple lens setup (12MP f2.4/ 12MP f1.5/ 16MP f2.2 fixed focus). The S10e will only sport two lenses (16MP f2.2 ultra wide/ 12MP 1.5 wide dual aperture).

Image credit: GSM Arena

Under the hood, all three models share the same components – the new Exynos 9820 processor, at 6GB RAM, and the Snapdragon 855 chipset. For the baseline model to sport these specs as well is a welcome surprise.

We can expect the phone to come with Android 9 Pie out of the box and if Samsung’s
hints
 are anything to go by, we’ll be able to see the real thing at Unpacked 2019 in San Francisco this February 20.

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Details of Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors leaked

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Chinese tech site BenchLife has leaked some Intel slides, and said slides reveals that the Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors will be coming to the market in the second half of 2017.

As the slides indicate, the Kaby Lake-X will be the lesser of the two leaked processors. For starters, the Kaby Lake-X processor will come with only four CPU cores and eight threads. It will have a max level 3 cache of 8MB and is stated to have a thermal design power (TDP) of 112W.

For the Skylake-X, the processor itself will be taking a page out of Broadwell-E in that it will be available in six cores, eight cores, and ten cores SKU versions. The Skylake-X will have a maximum of ten threads, a max level 3 cache of 25MB, and a TDP of 140W.

Most importantly however is the sockets. Both the Skylake-X and the Kaby Lake-X will be based on the LGA 2066 CPU socket, which is the Basin Falls-X platform. This particular board will have 55 more pins compared to its predecessor, the LGA 2011 socket. Speaking of LGA 2066, BenchLife has mentioned that Intel intends to replace it with LGA 2076 in 2020, with the final chip available for Basin Falls-X to be Cannonlake-X.

While the leaked slides paints an interesting picture for Intel’s near future plans, none of these plans have been confirmed by Intel itself. Therefore, take this info with a grain of salt, as Intel may decide to change up their plans at any time.

Source:
WCCFTech
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BenchLife

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Details on AMD Radeon Vega graphics card surfaces

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An update from Linux has unveiled more details about the upcoming AMD Vega graphics card and it sounds really powerful according to HotHardware. The Linux direct rendering manager (DRM) update showed that a Vega GPU will be equipped with 64 next-generation compute units, resulting in 4,096 stream processors. For comparison sake, the recently released AMD Radeon RX 580 comes with 36 computing units and 2304 stream processors, making the Vega almost two times more powerful than the 580.

When it comes to teraflops, the Vega will consist of 12.5 teraflops compared to the RX 580 which has 6.2 teraflops supporting the double in power. Another big change is the memory structure, as Vega will be using second generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) instead of GDDR5 which is being used in conventional graphic cards from Nvidia and Radeon. The benefits of HMB2 is the ability to achieve higher bandwidth, use less power and is physically compact since the dies are stacked on top of each other.

There were also leaked results where a Vega based GPU was running on 3DMark benchmark Time Spy 1.0 and scored a 5721, for comparison sake, the Nvidia GTX 1070 scored 5699 and the GTX 1080 scored 7152 but it is unsure if this is the mid range or high range GPU of the Vega family. Stay tuned as we will update you when more information surfaces.

Source:
Gamespot

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Dev kits of Microsoft HoloLens start shipping today

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It’s officially and finally announced that Microsoft’s HoloLens dev kits will start shipping today to Windows developers and Windows’ enterprise partners. HoloLens, dubbed “the first and only, untethered holographic computer”, was announced January last year and since then, Microsoft have been teasing and updating us with the latest developments regarding the device, along with a demo of the HoloLens’ simulation at Build 2015 and a Microsoft event, showing off shooting lasers and destroying aliens.

The Galaxy Explorer, the most voted app to be developed for Microsoft’s HoloLens, was a community developer project by Microsoft called “Share Your Idea”, whereby the community contributed over five thousand ideas for the apps that can be build for the holographic computer. Built in a mere six weeks, the Galaxy Explorer app is now available in the Windows Store, and the source code for the app will be available online at GitHub, which can then be applied to your own projects if you happen to be an aspiring developer.

It is said that HoloLens will impact the technology of augmented reality in the near future with companies and organizations adopting it. For instance, BlueScope Buildings’ plan to rethink the whole construction planning and Japan Airlines envisioning the use of holographic computing in their training of pilots and aircraft operation. HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman claims that HoloLens will eventually move on to production. Let us know your thoughts!

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Developer installs Windows 95 on Apple Watch, and it works

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The legacy yet revolutional Windows 95 operating system still remain in the hearts of many tech enthusiasts and developer hobbyists alike. The more than two decade old operating system still had modders trying to run it on different devices in different ways, ranging from intel-operated smartphones and the ease of running the OS of a webpage. Recently, developer Nick Lee managed to get Windows 95 operating on an Apple Watch, and it’s definitely functional.

Apple, known for its super secure operating systems, gave Lee a bit of a hard time during the process of getting Windows 95 running on the Apple Watch. According to him, the specs of the Apple Watch are more advanced than a Windows 95 computer, which isn’t surprising at all, given the 20-year age gap in technological advancement. Installing Windows 95 on the Apple Watch of course, isn’t a straight path.

Lee was required to tweak Apple’s own development software, turning Windows 95 into a Watch app. The Apple Watch’s display also tends to go off after being idle for a while, hence he kept the Watch crown running with a motorized tube that he set up. Lee uploaded a video showing the operation of Windows 95 on the premium wearable, which shows a pretty slow process in general. As slow as it can be, Windows 95 was proved to function well on the Apple Watch. Watch how Lee operates a two decade old OS on a one year old smart watch
here
.

Source:
Nick Lee
  Via:
The Verge

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Developers can soon port iOS and Android apps effortlessly over to Windows 10

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In Microsoft’s Build developer conference, the company has shown how developers will be able to run reworked Android and iOS apps on Windows 10 effortlessly, this has been a rumor back then however Microsoft has begin to realize it by allowing developers to use Java and C++ for Android apps and Objective C code for iOS on Windows 10’s app development, this is an extremely huge advancement for a closed mobile operating system like this which Blackberry once failed to address properly.

What Microsoft has done right here is pretty smart as well, instead of using the same APIs (application program interface) from Android and iOS SDKs, the company has created its own equivalent APIs so that developer could easily convert their codes from these platforms with Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Apart from that, Microsoft has been using its HyperV technology to make universal apps across Windows 10 devices, one of the participating apps would be Adobe Photoshop Elements, in which Adobe and Microsoft are working hard together to make the equivalent features of the app available on both PC, tablet and smartphone environments, which is considerably ambitious if the company is able to achieve a fluid user experience.

Windows 10 is the key to Microsoft’s success in the mobile space and when the company is willing to lower down its initial ego by supporting other more established mobile operating systems, this effort could be one of the best selling points of Windows devices in the future, whether developers will primarily choose Windows 10 as their main developing platform, that is still a challenge that Microsoft will need to overcome.


Developers of The Witcher 3 says there will be a new game in the series after Cyberpunk 2077 is released

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So.
..there’s
 going to be a new Witcher game according to CD Projekt Red President Adam Kicinski. He revealed that the game will be in development once Cyberpunk 2077 hits the shelves.

The Polish developers’ upcoming FPS RPG is set to release this September 17 and is already for pre-order across all platforms – so we can expect the new Witcher game to start development sometime September too at the earliest.

It’s unsure if the new game will be the successor to the award-winning The Witcher 3, and it doesn’t seem likely to be Witcher 4 honestly. CDPR had once told the press after the launch of The Witcher 3 that it would be the developers’ last foray into
Geralt’s
 story in the series. With this in mind, we could see a spin-off title, or a new one that continues
Ciri’s
 adventures.

But then again, that depends on which ending you got – spoiler alert, she either becomes a Witcher, a queen, or she dies.

Image credit: Netflix

So
 for the story to somehow twist and turn to lead to her becoming a Witcher in the new game just for the sake of it, would be a betrayal to the main story line – imagine if in your playthrough she died, but somehow she didn’t in the new game.

We also can’t help but think this revelation has something to do with the success of Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of the franchise. We’re not saying the developers are cashing in. And we hope it isn’t – so we’ll have to see next year, when the game has found its legs, what the new Witcher title is all about.

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Developers sue Apple for monopolizing app distribution on iOS

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After setting the tech world alight with their keynote presentation at WWDC 2019, Apple have both impressed and disappointed fans and developers alike with their announcements – OS updates were met with cheers, and the unveiling of the third-gen Mac Pro’s (read Mac Pro Stand) prices were met with jeers.

It’s always a roller coaster of emotions when it comes to WWDC announcements, year in, year out – and Apple are used to it; what they’re not so used to is opposition by iOS developers themselves. Reports have surfaced that two app developers have sued Apple, seeking a class-action law suit over Apple monopolising the distributing of iOS apps and games.

Apple takes a 30 percent cut from a sale, and although it is up to the developer to set the price of their own apps; the unnamed plaintiffs are miffed that Apple doesn’t allow their programs to be distributed to third-party app stores; and that the 30 percent cut is too much.

The suit contends that Apple shuts down all competition from access to the iOS, effectively making the App Store the only avenue for distribution and consumption of iOS apps; and according to ZD Net, Apple has gone on to admit that the above statement is true.

In an ideal situation, Vendors like Amazon and Microsoft could and should host their own app stores on iOS; similarly like on Android where phone manufacturers could do the same with their own stores.

No reports have been published yet as to the result of the law suit, but we reckon are too big of a powerhouse to lose; but it’s refreshing to see people challenging Apple’s authority in the market.

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Diagrams of LG G5 confirms its MWC appearance

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More rumors have surfaced about LG’s next flagship device prior to next month’s MWC (Mobile World Congress). The LG G5, under many watchful eyes, is expected to take on Samsung’s flagship handset which will most probably be called the Galaxy S7.

According to “leaked” diagrams by Android Authority and Shai Mizrachi, it is revealed that the G5 will be thinner, but taller and wider than the G4. The G5 is expected to measure at 149.4 x 73.9 x 8.2mm compared to the G4’s 148.9 x 73.9 x 8.2mm.

Sources have also tipped that the new flagship will most likely shift its volume rocker buttons to the side instead of at the back like on previous iterations. However, the power button is said to remain at the back, with a fingerprint scanner beneath.

There are also reports of a metal body G5, making it the first of its own kind and it will sport a 5.6-inch QHD display. LG has confirmed the unveiling of the LG G5 at MWC 2016. With the LG G4 and the LG V10 having shook the smartphone market last year, we’re certainly expecting LG to continue its fighting spirit this year. What features would you like to see? Leave your comments below!

Source:
Shai Mizrachi
 Via:
Android Authority

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Did Google just pull an Apple?

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When Apple launched their MacBook with only one port – the USB-C, there were many complaints. Now, Google just launched its new Nexus 5X, which also uses USB Type-C cables, however they won’t be providing you a Standard-A plug. In order to connect your Nexus 5X to a computer that doesn’t have a USB-C port, you would need to spend more – US$12.99 to be exact, to get a USB-C to USB Standard-A plug cable.

Now, before you head off to scream unfairness at Google, there are other ways around this problem. For one, the Nexus 5X actually comes with 2 cables in the box. One of it has a USB-C on one end and the other end a 15W wall socket; and the other cable has USB-C on both ends of it. So, you can at least charge your phone on a wall socket; you just need a USB-C to USB Standard-A cable to use connect to your PC or to a power bank.

One funny thing though; the Nexus 6P comes with a USB-C to USB Standard-A plug cable on top of the other 2 that you get with the Nexus 5X. Strange for Google to not include such an important thing for all of its new phone models.

Another thing to note is that despite how many were ohh-ahhing about the Apple MacBook using the USB-C (whether in a good or bad way), there are also other laptop manufacturers who are using this port such as the HP Pavilion x2, Chromebook Pixel and some of Dell’s computers.

The next question we should ask instead is, when will USB-C be available for all future computers? I sure hope it won’t be the only port on the whole computer ala Apple-style.

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Did Lee Min Ho terminate his ambassador deal with Oppo Malaysia?

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The Oppo R9s is a great smartphone and Oppo has certainly spent big bucks on marketing campaigns, however it would seem that things aren’t so rosy in the company now, as posted by Facebook user Darren Yim, the cardboard figurine of the famous Korean actor Lee Min Ho has been dumped at a refuse area and it certainly doesn’t look like a prank. While most of the time we do see marketing materials like this to be dumped if the products are off the shelves, the Oppo R9s is still on sale and it would make sense for Oppo to collect them back if a dealer happens to not sell their smartphones.

Korean actor Lee Min Ho and Malaysian actress Min Chen serve as the ambassador of the Oppo R9s here, a quick check on the Oppo Malaysia YouTube channel also reveals that the video of both actors promoting the phone has also been removed, which makes sense if the Korean superstar terminated his contract with Oppo. Oppo Malaysia hasn’t released an official statement about this, and sales of the Oppo R9s has exceeded the company’s expectations in the country. Will the removal of Lee Min Ho affect the future sales of its devices? What is the reason that Oppa decided to stop promoting the R9s? Below is a fan uploaded video of the Oppo R9s featuring both Lee Min Ho and Min Chen, save it if you love it because it might be gone forever.

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Digi activates the 900MHz spectrum, works even at underground

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On this beautiful morning, the folks at Digi has treated us fellow medias to the MRT Challenge to demonstrate its newly activated 900MHz spectrum, which has went live on the beginning of July, we were treated to a number of challenges, which include streaming videos and music below 40 metres underground, and the test went pretty well with speeds ranging from 30-40 Mbps and average ping of 15-20ms, daily commuters who ride on Malaysia’s Mass Rapid Transport system will finally experience smooth Internet speeds when they are on Digi’s 4G LTE network.

The 900MHz spectrum is aimed to improve indoor coverage and reaches further as compared to the current 1800MHz and 2600Mhz spectrum, the lower frequency spectrum is made to penetrate walls better, making it ideal for homes and office buildings with dead spots for cellular signals. As of now, Digi has activated the 900MHz spectrum on 15% of population coverage and is focused on residential areas, the telco aims to expand beyond that percentage throughout the end of this year.

Early February this year, the Malaysian Communications Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has announced to reallocate the 900MHz bands for four major telcos (Maxis, Celcom, Digi and U Mobile) to their 4G networks. After Digi, the rest of the players should be making some announcements really soon. For more information on Digi’s 900MHz specturm and 4G LTE coverage, head on over to digi.my/4GLTE.

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Digi announces iFleet tracking solutions to connected vehicles

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Digi has been a really active player when it comes to the Internet of Things, the telecommunications company has announced today that it is investing RM9.5 billion into the IoT space with Connected Vehicles strategy, which the company believe that will benefit both business and consumers in years to come. In this case, the company has rolled out iFleet, a solution that will enable connectivity in vehicles of all class and benefits both businesses and drivers.

iFleet isn’t just a great leap forward for the company, as the solution intends to help customers track their fleet of vehicles and drivers on the road by delivering real-time analytics, which customers are able to take necessary action should any incidents occur. Furthermore, iFleet is in fact a total solution that comprises of hardware, software and connectivity, which Digi has priced it competitively at RM90 monthly per vehicle installed, the company will offer installation, maintenance and lifetime support for the hardware installed in the vehicle, there’s also no need to tamper with wiring as the hardware is powered by the vehicle’s battery.

In addition to its tracking solution, iFleet also aims to disrupt the motor insurance industry by offering its usage-based insurance (UBI) solution, which translates valuable data into actionable insights, such as the score of driving behavior, to allow Insurers to price their motor insurance premiums more accurately. For instance, an insured vehicle owner could pay a much lesser premium despite of its vehicle value due to good track record of safe driving, which is somehow more attractive on top of the usual No Claims Bonus (NCB). UBI is ready to be deployed when insurance tariffs are liberalized on July 2017, a call by the national bank of Malaysia.

For a limited time, Digi Enterprise customers will be able to enjoy a discounted rate of RM75/month per vehicle when they sign up for its iFleet solution, Digi is already piloting the solution with a few companies, which includes Peugeot, Perodua, Citilink Express and Gamuda. For those who are interested in the solution, you can always head over to
iFleet’s website
 to find out more.

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Digi announces Internet Sharing Feature for postpaid customers

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At long last, Digi is upping its game with its high data quota postpaid plans by starting to offer the internet sharing feature, that means you will be able to share your data quota up to six supplementary lines. The new sharing plan will continue to have key features such as unlimited social messaging with WhatsApp and WeChat, unlimited music streaming with Digi Music Freedom, a one-year subscription to iflix and 100GB of cloud storage on capture, which is currently the most fully featured and affordable supplementary postpaid plan in the market.

Through the MyDigi app, the principal postpaid user will be able to assign a certain amount of quota to the supplementary user at any time. In addition, supplementary lines can also enjoy unlimited calls to family members from as low as RM10, all you need to do is to simply subscribe the service through the app, saving the need to visit Digi stores. Should the customer only require an additional SIM to share quota to their gadgets, you can also do that by paying RM10/month per SIM.

“Sharing and managing internet quota has never been easier with the introduction of the new Digi Postpaid plan. We know it matters in the way our customers use the Internet and we want to ensure that they have the best options tailored for them and their loved ones.” quoted Loh Keh Jiat, Digi’s Chief Marketing Officer.

For those who are still unaware of Digi’s network expansion plans, the company has already started offering LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) and Voice-over-WiFi (VoWiFi), which users are able to enjoy faster Internet speeds and crisp voice call quality. For more information on Digi’s new sharing plan, head on over to
www.digi.my/sharing

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Digi brings back Challenge for Change, challenges Malaysians to develop ideas and apps for social good

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Digi’s Challenge for Change is back and much like the last edition, the telco is inviting the Malaysia public and local developer communities to ideate and build innovative mobile apps for social good.

Open to all Malaysians, the seventh edition of the Challenge for Change is scheduled to start from mid-June until early October. The competition will be divided into three phases. The first phase would see Malaysians submitted their ideas at
this website
. Ideators that were shortlisted will then be engaged in planned activation sessions and pitches to select the best three issues facing Malaysians that will be developed into mobile apps. The three winners will walk away with RM 5,000 each.

The second phase will be a Hackathon as various developers will be challenged to build mobile apps in addressing the three issues by participating in HACK!@DigiCFC7. Three finalists will be selected from the Hackathon to enter phase three where they will undergo a 30-day validation period. These finalists will need to show Proof of Concept by running their product in a chosen beneficiary group or community. The winning team stands to win a grand prize of RM 50,000 and they will be invited to participate in the Digital Winners Conference that will be held in Oslo, Norway in October. Runner-ups will be awarded with cash prizes of RM 10,000 each.

“Over the years, DigiCFC has evolved to create relevance while keeping the fundamental value of empowering change constant. This year we are challenging Malaysians to come up with ideas to address some of the most pressing issues faced by children, youth and women in the country. We’ll then work with the developer community to create mobile apps that serves as a conduit to engage the various communities,” says Albern Murty, Chief Executive Office of Digi.

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Digi has built a open concept store and is offering three Freedom Packages for customers

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Today, Digi has announced two new services that are targeted for its users’ convenience. The first of these services comes in the form of an open concept store that is located in Bukit Bintang, where customers can walk in and browse the services and devices that Digi is offering.

What is even more attractive in this store is that customers do not need to take a ticket if they need an enquiry answered, as all they need to do is approach a Digi expert in the store and get their questions answered. Customers can also pay their bills and convert to Digi at this store.

The other service that they are offering is the 3 Freedom Packages, the first being Video Freedom, where prepaid members can pay a low price of RM1 to get an hourly pass that will stream standard definition videos from providers such as YouTube, Twitch, Astro Go with iflix and TonTon coming soon. Postpaid members, however, will get 3GB of high speed streaming for an hour and if you purchase the RM5 plan, it will entitle you to 24 hours of high-speed streaming capped at 10GB for both prepaid and postpaid customers.

Next is the Music Freedom plan, where Digi users that have been with them for 6 months and have an active Internet connection will be able to stream from providers such as Spotify, JOOX, and Smule without any internet charges.

Finally, is the Gaming Freedom, where users can charge their gaming purchases directly to their billing every month and if you are not a Digi subscriber, you can top up your game credits using Digi Reload cards but currently, it is only limited to games that are published by Garena.

All of these Freedom Packs can be activated from the Digi website after you log in with your phone number. For more information on these and other Digi services visit their official site
here
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Digi, Celcom and Maxis sign MoU to improve fibre infrastructure in Malaysia

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As the country preps for the imminent arrival of 5G technology this Q3, telcos are busy prepping offerings to entice customers into opting for their services when 5G comes. But brands aren’t always at each other’s throats – sometimes, they play nice.

This time around, Celcom, Digi and Maxis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore joint efforts in developing the fibre infrastructure of Malaysia. The move sees resources poured into bettering the country’s 4G connectivity, and eventually 5G connectivity. This is also in line with the government’s National Fiberisation and Connectivity Plan (NFCP) program.

As 4G infrastructure improves, there will be a stronger base to implement 5G across the nation – and it is clearly the best interest in Celcom, Digi and Maxis’ to see improvements in these areas. Afterall, if availability is poor, customers won’t bother signing up for a 5G plan anyway.

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission had announced earlier this year the 5G band allocations and that the mass rollout is gazetted for Q3 this year – this meanins, as soon as July, we can start using the latest in networking technology. In lieu of, brands like Huawei, OPPPO and Samsung have announced or launched their 5G-ready smartphones to arm Malaysians with a device to enjoy the new connectivity standard.

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Digi celebrates 'Digital Day', aiming to transform digital lives by year 2020

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Digi had a big day in its D’House today, as the company celebrates its first ever Digital Day by showcasing various digital products and solutions from its partners. From online services to IoT products, Digi hopes to be able to power them with its 4G LTE network and become its customers’ favorite partner in their digital lives by year 2020.

The event showcased an array of technologies in the fields of financial services, IoT, virtual reality, robotics, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, nanotechnology, bone-conduction technology, and other cool projects. Attendees were also inspired by some eye-opening speaking sessions from the following experts: Engineer Mohd Izmir Yamin on developing low-cost robotics to explore the moon, Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Imagineering Institute on tricking your tastebuds to make vegetables taste like chocolate, Founder of Incitement Mohd Zikry Kholil on mobilising social movements with digital crowdfunding, Social entrepreneur Dr Rajiv Bhanot on easy access to clean water for rural areas with nanotechnology.

Among others, Digital Day showcased the company’s MyDigi app, which it said will be key to its customers’ digital journey moving forward, its Mobile Sales Agent app, a new retail concept which it will rollout nationwide, 57 square and recent investments in startups such as LocalUsher and Vase, new digital learning platforms to build new skills for its employees, and refreshed Digi headquarters that supports the culture of everyday innovation.

In addition, Digi has been the leading telco to be working with GreenTech Malaysia, the company that is responsible for bringing in Tesla cars, to provide Machine to Machine connectivity for the first batch of Teslas. Digi CEO Albern Murty mentions that the company is definitely seeking and open for opportunities to work with other car makers in providing this service.

“We believe we are well positioned to serve our customers and seize growth opportunities in the digital space, leveraging the strength of our core to move into new verticals such as financial services and IoT, and Telenor’s global innovation network with acquisitions such as New York-based Ad Tech company Tapad, and licensed money services business Prabhu in Malaysia,” quoted Digi CEO Albern Murty

To find out more Digi’s digital services, head on over to www.digi.my

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Digi completes northern region 4G LTE rollout for Twitter campaign

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Last year, Digi announced that they’ve established the
first ‘People’s Tower’ in Setia Alam
. Yesterday, Digi officially announced that they’ve completed their network rollout at four locations located at the northern part of Peninsular Malaysia.

The towns that received Digi’s 4G LTE rollout includes Lunas, Batu Gajah, Jejawi and Arau. The rollout is part of Digi’s ‘You Tweet, We Build’ campaign whereby Digi customers could highlight locations they wish to enjoy high-speed internet coverage by tweeting the hashtag #DigiWeWant4G and the location name. The campaign began in mid-November and concluded on 15 December 2015.

“Following up from our 4G LTE rollout in Setia Alam in the Klang Valley, we are now happy to announce that we’ve completed the rollout in the four towns up north where Malaysians have tweeted their desire for Digi’s 4G LTE coverage in their areas. As of this week, we have deployed and switched on our 4G LTE infrastructure to serve customers in Lunas, Batu Gajah, Jejawi, and Arau. In total for the northern region, we now have 64% population coverage of our high speed 4G LTE network serving customers in 34 cities, districts and towns,” says Siew Chee Kong, Digi’s Head of Northern Region.

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Digi discontinues Postpaid 80 Infinte plan

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Now that was fast, shortly after a few days announcing its unlimited postpaid plan, it seems that Digi has pulled the plug off the Digi Postpaid 80 Infinite plan, its most affordable unlimited plan that costs RM80/monthly with a decent amount of tethering data and speeds capped at 5 Mbps, Digi has initially made these unlimited postpaid plans available at an online exclusive deal and is valid until 24th June 2017, which is surprising as we are still quite far from approaching the promotion end date.

At this time of writing, the Digi Postpaid Infinite product page shows the word ‘Sold Out’ on the cheaper plan, however the flagship unlimited Digi Postpaid 150 Infinite is still available for new sign ups and port in. A quick check on the plan’s terms and conditions shows that there’s only one fine print on the cheaper RM80 plan, which the first 10,000 subscribers will only be eligible for the Free Digi Hotspot Pass for the first 12 months and 5GB of data, hence this clearly doesn’t explain why the company has decided to remove the RM80 unlimited plan.

Assuming if this is due to a network performance issue, Digi should have stopped offering both plans and not only axeing one of them, has the telco been too eager in beating webe’s unlimited postpaid plan or showing its competitors what it could do? We hope this is an error and the plan will be open for registration again.

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Digi established the first "people's tower" in Setia Alam

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Power to the people is the keyword this weekend as Digi has powered up the first people’s network tower in Setia Alam over the weekend.

In mid-November, Digi asked customers to help them rollout their network by nominating their towns to be the next in line to get 4G LTE via its #DigiWeWant4G twitter campaign. Digi promised to expand its 4G LTE network to the top ten most voted areas, in addition to its original network rollout plan.

Setia Alam was one of the locations in the top ten and as such, Digi has kept their promise and powered up the first “people’s tower” as a great way to close-off the year for Digi customers in the area.

“We wanted to give our customers a special year-end surprise and what better way than to gift 4G LTE – that’s why we’re powering-up 4G LTE in Setia Alam today. We’re calling this the first people’s tower and that’s what it truly is – the people’s choice. The enthusiastic local community of Setia Alam campaigned hard to put their area on the rollout map, we heard them and we’re delivering 4G LTE right to their doorstep,” says Christian Thrane, Digi’s Chief Marketing Officer.

Other locations that we’re in the top ten list of most voted areas are as follows :

Jejawi, Perlis

Lunas, Kedah

Arau, Perlis

Batu Gajah, Perak

Limbang, Sarawak

Papar, Sabah

Tenom, Sabah

Bau, Sarawak

Simpang Renggam, Johor

The remaining nine locations will have their own “people’s tower” sometime in the near future as Thrane has said that Digi will continue to steadily fast-track its network rollout to enable more Malaysians to enjoy consistent high-speed internet services on-the-go.

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Digi excites customers the iPhone 7's arrival with a memorable and thoughtful midnight event

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The iPhone 7 is now official in Malaysia and Digi has celebrated the launch with a party at D’House yesterday, the telco has made tremendous effort in attracting a decent amount of crowd over, we were also present to find out what Digi has under its sleeve and how the company tends to differentiate itself in offering a unique launch experience for its customers. From my perspective point of view, the event was a memorable and thoughtful one, while it is also one of the more organised events that I’ve seen on Malaysia’s iPhone launch history.

Instead of having customers queuing up for the iPhone 7, Digi has allowed both new and existing subscribers to perform a walk-in purchase, there’s a dedicated registration counter with service advisors assisting the customers to sign up its postpaid plans, an iPhone 7 and 7 Plus counter was also set up so that customers could just buy their phone cases on the spot to avoid any accidents, and if you aren’t keen on getting the iPhone 7 just yet, Digi has even offered older iPhone models at an attractive price tag.

Since the sale of the iPhone 7 only goes live at the strike of midnight, Digi has been rather thoughtful of allowing its customers to roam around D’House for some fun activities, which includes an open theatre with bean bags to rest on to enjoy movies, two massage chairs to get you relaxed, and a couple of food trucks to quench your thirst and hunger while waiting for the iPhone 7 to go on sale. To be honest, I was rather impressed on how Digi has gone all way to keep its customers satisfied, it is simply commendable yet effortless.

As midnight struck, medias and customers were invited into a hall where the sale of the iPhone 7 begins to take place, Digi’s customer advisors were seen wearing gloves as they assist customers in unboxing and setting up their new phones without smudging the devices with fingerprints. In this case, I was really impressed as they do treat this as a rather premium purchasing experience.

The first two customers to sign up for Digi’s iPhone 7 deal both purchased the iPhone 7 Plus, they were both very excited about their new phones and have been waiting to get it since day 1. On top of that, we surveyed that most customers have in fact opted for the iPhone 7 Plus due to the better camera it has over the iPhone 7, Digi has given goodie bags worth RM277 to the first customers who purchased the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, while providing convenience of free GrabCar rides to and from their destinations. Overall, Digi’s iPhone 7 launch was a rather successful one and different from its previous launches, customers who can’t make it to the event can still walk into any Digi stores or dealers to sign up for the iPhone 7 if they are interested. For more information on Digi’s iPhone 7 plans, head on over to www.digi.my/iphone7

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Digi expands broadband coverage by collaborating with TIME

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Digi is now partnering with TIME dotCom to increase its Digi Home Broadband offerings in Malaysia — covering residential condominiums and also apartments.

Using TIME’s fibre broadband infrastructure, Digi hopes to expand their connectivity footprint so that their customers can enjoy Digi no matter on their phones or in their homes. “Being customer obsessed, we are steadfast in our ambition to deliver the best value, with a wide-range of service offerings to suit our customers’ needs wherever they may be,” said Loh Koh Jia, Digi’s Chief Marketing Officer.

Digi also expressed confidence in TIME’s fibre broadband infrastructure who promises to continue increasing their area of coverage and bring high-quality connectivity in Malaysia. As of now, Digi has five broadband plans — three postpaid plans and two prepaid plans.

Apart from that, Digi also has four Home Fibre plans up from 50Mbps for RM99/month to 1Gbps for RM199/month. For more information, check out its official site.

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Digi extends free 5G trial to prepaid and postpaid plans

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While Digi has flipped the 5G switch on for a while now, the telco is now extending its 5G Booster to other Digi Postpaid and Prepaid plans.

Previously, Digi’s 5G Booster is only enabled for customers subscribed to Digi Postpaid 90 and above, and with this initiative, it will enable all of its customers to experience 5G speeds at no extra charges until 30 April 2023.

Thereafter, Digi Postpaid and Prepaid plans that doesn’t have the 5G Booster included will be required to pay RM10 per month to be connected to the telco’s 5G network, which isn’t too bad if want to hop on the 5G bandwagon.

Meanwhile, customers already on Digi Postpaid 90 and above will continue to enjoy the 5G Booster at no extra charge after the trial period ends.

To activate 5G Booster, all you need to do is to launch the MyDigi app, tap the ‘+’ button on your data quota and you will find the 5G Booster option there to be purchased.

For more info on coverage areas and Digi’s 5G plans, visit
here
 to learn more.

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Digi faces service interruption; repair in progress and estimated to take 4 hours

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Digi followed U Mobile’s footsteps this morning when it suddenly faces service disruption, causing dissatisfaction among Digi users when they woke up in this morning.

Users reported that there’s no service at all, hence they couldn’t call, text or even use their mobile data. Those with Twitter accounts are flooding Digi’s Twitter account, reporting the issue and also seeking for a solution.

We are truly sorry for the service interruption which is due to an unexpected system outage. Our tech teams are working to resolve the issues as soonest possible. We thank you for your patience and appreciate your understanding.

— Digi (@digitelco)
March 28, 2019

Digi in return asked its users to make an official report through the new MyDigi app, and apologised for the sudden service interruption. According to Digi about an hour ago, the service is currently being fixed and will take about four hours.

The service interruption is an unplanned incident, and not every Digi users are affected. There’s also evidence that the fix is ongoing, as some users have gained back the service and could use their mobile data.

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Digi Fibre Broadband: Get unlimited 50Mbps internet for a low RM90/month

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It’s back to the stone ages for us without internet access – but sometimes having that access can be pricy; with Digi however, you can have internet for your home for just a low RM90 per month!

Their new affordable Internet Freedom plan gets you 50 Mbps of internet while paying only RM90 per month; but if you’re looking to get faster internet, then the also new Internet Freedom 270 with 800Mbps broadband is a good pick.

What’s interesting is that the company is now offering mobile internet bundles with the Internet Freedom
fibre
 plans with even more savings. You need at least the Internet Freedom 130 (100 Mbps) to enjoy getting up to two mobile lines with the Internet Freedom Mobile 60 plan – it gets you unlimited all-day internet with no speed caps.

The savings come when you compare it to the Digi Postpaid Infinite 100 plan which offers the same thing as the Internet Freecom Mobile 60, except the former has a speed cap while costing RM40 more. Should you utilize your two allocated mobile lines, you’re saving a whopping RM1,920 after your 24-month contract.

All the Internet Freedom plans bar the Internet Freedom 90 comes with a one-year free
Viu
 subscription which saves you RM5/month.

We know, we know – lots of numbers, very confusing; but that’s essentially what you need to know about Digi’s new offerings. To learn more about the higher speed plans, visit Digi’s website
here
.

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Digi Fibre Broadband: The real UNLIMITED plan for your home and smartphone

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The internet is so important to us that it’s hard to imagine a life without it – nobody would say no to an endless supply of fast-speed internet, but what often stops us is the hefty price we have to pay every month in exchange for that.

Digi Internet Freedom 90, 130, 190, 270, 290

Good news is, the
Digi Fibre Broadband
 that is recently introduced offers five different Digi Internet Freedom plans that cater to different users with different needs. Casual users can enjoy unlimited internet for only RM90/month while frequent users can go for the 100Mbps or 500Mbps plan priced at RM130/month and RM190 respectively. If you’re constantly using the internet to stream HD content, game and work online, then perhaps the 800Mbps or even 1Gbps plan is the better option – the former costs RM270/month and the latter costs RM290/month.

Digi Internet Freedom Mobile 60

Digi Internet Freedom plans aren’t the only merits in this package; Digi also has an unlimited mobile plan called the Digi Internet Freedom Mobile 60. It’s an exclusive plan that is only available for Digi Internet Freedom 130 and above users and offers unlimited high-speed internet paired with unlimited calls and 20GB tethering data for only RM60/month. Plus, being able to pay all your subscriptions in a single bill via MyDigi App makes it more convenient and time-saving.

Why should you subscribe to Digi Internet Freedom Mobile 60?

Digi’s unique mobile plan is similar to the current Digi Postpaid 100 Infinite that costs RM100/month. However, when you sign up for Digi Internet Freedom 130 and above, you can subscribe to the mobile plan at RM60/month which is RM40 less than usual. In addition to that, Digi did not cap the internet speed for the new mobile plan, unlike the Postpaid 100 Infinite that is capped up to 10Mbps.

Digi Fibre Broadband – more options, more value

With five Digi Internet Freedom plans, you can pick a plan that fits you most. Get unlimited internet with up to 100Mbps download speed and up to 50Mbps upload speed when you get Internet Freedom 130. The 100Mbps plan is more than enough for a small household to watch videos, browse social media and even play online games. In addition, you’ll be entitled to two postpaid lines, meaning you’ll be saving more while also enjoying unlimited data when you’re out and about.

On a tight budget? Digi also has the more affordable Internet Freedom 90 – for RM90/month, enjoy 50Mbps of unlimited internet access. You can also sign up for any Digi Postpaid plans, including Digi Postpaid Start which starts at RM38/month.

Free streaming service

Can’t stop bingeing on Asian dramas and movies? Well, lucky you! Digi also offers up to 24 months of
Viu
 premium access for those who sign up for Internet Freedom Mobile 60. Do a movie or drama marathon with your friends using Viu without needing to pay for a single cent!

How much are you REALLY saving?

Ultimately, all we want to know are the numbers and how much we can save. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll be saving when you sign up for each plan – do note that all Digi Internet Freedom plans are tied to a 24-month contract.

1 x Internet Freedom Mobile 60

2 x Internet Freedom Mobile 60

3 x Internet Freedom Mobile 60

4 x Internet Freedom Mobile 60

Digi Internet Freedom 130

RM40

RM80

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–

Digi Internet Freedom 190

RM40

RM80

RM120

–

Digi Internet Freedom 270

RM40

RM80

RM120

RM160

Digi Internet Freedom 290

RM40

RM80

RM120

RM160

Basically, you’ll be saving RM40/month for each postpaid line you sign up for. Digi Internet Freedom 130 allows up to 2 postpaid lines while Internet Freedom 270 and 290 allows up to four lines. Since Digi Fibre Broadband is tied to a two-year contract, you’ll be saving RM960 per line – that’s RM3,840 if you have four mobile lines. In addition to that, Digi’s free premium Viu service will also help you save more. Instead of paying RM5/month, Internet Freedom 130 users will get a one-year subscription which saves them RM60, while Internet Freedom 190, 270 and 290 users will save RM120 since they’ll be getting two years’ worth of free access.

How to subscribe to Digi Fibre Broadband

Digi Fibre Broadband
 which consists of the five Digi Internet Freedom plans and the Digi Internet Freedom Mobile 60 is already available and can be signed up at any Digi Store. You can also check your coverage
here
 to save time before going to the stores, or chat with Digi online via its
chatbot
. For more information, check out Digi’s
official site
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Digi has finally activated Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) on its network

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Voice over WiFi can be a rather useful when it comes to poor cell reception areas, and Digi has quietly enabled that service today, reported by local tech site Soyacincau.com, users who are using iPhone 5C and above should receive a carrier update that enables the WiFi Calling option in the Settings app. Earlier this year, Digi had launched VoLTE (Voice over LTE) with support for iPhones, followed by the Galaxy S7 edge and Huawei’s latest flagship devices.

The timing is right for the launch of VoWiFi, as the telco has announced in the beginning of the year to improve its network coverage this year by riding the 900MHz spectrum and activating VoWiFi meanwhile. VoWiFi will help to solve coverage issues if the phone is connected to a Internet enabled WiFi network, which even without a cellular signal or roaming, users are able to make voice calls via WiFi on the Digi network.

Currently, Digi and U Mobile are the only telcos in Malaysia to have fully implement both VoLTE and VoWiFi calling technology on their networks. To enable VoWiFi on your iPhone, simply launch the Settings app, go to Phone -> WiFi Calling -> On.

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Digi finally supports eSIM for the latest iPhone models

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Finally, Digi customers will also be able to enjoy eSIM, a technology that offers you “embedded” SIM so you’ll no longer need to rely on a physical SIM.

eSIM will soon be widely used because it is super convenient and also simple. Basically, you just need to scan a QR code from Digi that comes with a SIM profile that is exclusive for your device.

For iPhone devices, this means they can finally equip the dual-SIM function that has been integrated in them. For the rest, it simply means you no longer physical SIM cards. That being said, iPhones seem to be the only eligible devices to use Digi’s eSIM for now — the rest will have to wait for a later announcement.

Image credit: Digi

According to Digi, all Digi Postpaid, Prepaid and Broadband plans will support eSIM, and these eSIM is available at all participating Digi Stores. Whether you are a Digi Postpaid user or a Digi Prepaid user with a physical SIM, you can get the Digi eSIM for free — for a limited time — by going to the nearest participating Digi Store and requesting for a SIM Replacement for eSIM.

After you’ve obtained your QR code — which is your eSIM, you’ll have to connect to a Wi-Fi network, select Cellular or Mobile Data, tap Add Cellular Plan and scan the QR code. You can also opt to receive the QR code via email.

For more information, visit Digi’s
official site
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Digi offers AirSIM for Apple Watch, priced at RM10/month, gets you LTE connection on your watch even without your iPhone near you

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Digi has introduced AirSIM, a number-sharing feature that lets you enable LTE connectivity on your cellular Apple Watch. This is the first time we’re seeing AirSIM being offered in the country.

This means that with your Apple Watch now connected to the internet, you can stream music, make calls, send messages and more even without your iPhone near you.

Image credit: Digi

The catch is that you’ll need am eSIM on your iPhone with a Digi Postpaid plan above RM80 per month – from there, you’ll need to sign up for Digi AirSIM for RM10 per month to get the service. But here’s the best part, Digi is offering your first 6 months with AirSIM totally free of charge!

AirSIM is supported on Apple Watch Series 3 and 5 with cellular support as well as iPhone 6s and newer. To get more information on the service, visit Digi’s official portal here.

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Digi is giving free 1GB data for all existing customers

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Christmas spirits are still up high and Digi wants to give its customers more reasons to enjoy by offering free 1GB of data to all customers that have signed up before 15 December 2017.

To redeem your free 1GB of data, log in to the MyDigi app, tap on the menu icon and press Add-ons. Finally, scroll down to the Internet section and you will see a Thank You Gift 1GB which you will just need to tap and on and press the redeem button. Digi has mentioned that the free 1GB data will be used up first before using your original data quota, don’t forget to redeem your free data as they have also mentioned that the reward will be available from 26 December to 28 December 2017.

For those of you that need more information can visit
Digi’s Official website
 or download the MyDigi app, available on both Play Store and App Store, and check out this and other promotions they have through the app.

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Digi and Grab to offer in-car infotainment tablet starting next month

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Digi and Grab has announced a year long collaboration today in offering an enhanced customer experience. Starting from next month, customers can expect their Grab rides to be even more entertained with an in-car infotainment tablet powered by Digi’s 4G Plus network, which can be used to browse the web and stream HD multimedia content while you make your way to your destination, a concept that is similar to in-flight entertainment works, but on the ground. On top of that, Digi users will now also be able to redeem Grab ride credits from MyDigi rewards, while Grab users can also redeem Digi Prepaid credits with GrabRewards, making this an unrivaled partnership.

For a start, 1000 cars within the Klang Valley area will be installed with the tablet, which will then be rolled out in subsequent stages for Grab Partners who are keen to have the device in their cars. Sean Goh, Country Manager of Grab Malaysia, has also said that Grab partners will also receive extra incentive for installing the tablets in their cars, they also do not need to invest the hardware. Additionally, Grab has also taken the opportunity to announce that exclusive Grab Digi Postpaid plans are in the works to ease the living cost of their drivers.

Digi hasn’t given much details on what type of content will be available on the in-car tablet, there’s also no mention if there would be a charge for viewing certain content, but all we know for now is that the company is working on getting content partners to have their content loaded on to the tablet.

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Digi has some exciting data deals this August

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If you are looking for some awesome data plans and deals, Digi has continued to introduce new data goodies this month with its Juara Internet Malaysiaku campaign, where you can score some freebies when subscribing to selected Digi Prepaid, Postpaid or Fibre services, the campaign will last till 30 September 2022.

Among these deals, Digi Postpaid customers will stand to get the most out of this campaign, the RM15/month off for 12 months for Postpaid 90 above plans are pretty worthwhile, and if you decide to go on add-on or device contract, you could even get a Gadget SIM that’s usually priced at RM10/month free for two months.

For customers signing up to Digi Prepaid NEXT, you will receive 65GB of High-Speed Video quota that’s valid for one month and up to two times, the streaming quota can be used on services such as Netflix, Astro GO, YouTube, YouTube Gaming, YouTube Kids, Viu and Dailymotion.

As for Digi Fibre, the telco is offering a 500Mbps plan for RM130/month and 300Mbps plan for RM100/month if you are an existing Digi Postpaid customer, a free WiFi 6 router is also given during the installation, but you are bound to a 24-month contract which is similar to other Fibre broadband services.

To find out more on Digi’s Juara Internet Malaysiaku campaign, head over
here
.

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DiGi In-Flight Data Roaming Review: Getting online 35000 feet above sea level has its compromises

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Getting on a plane can be really exciting when you are headed for a country you have never been to, at the same time I also wished I can always get connected on the plane instead of spending precious hours watching outdated in-flight movies or sticking to my seat doing almost nothing, hence I was introduced to DiGi’s in-flight data roaming service a couple of weeks back on a sponsored trip to Australia by no other than DiGi themselves. My mind was of course, racing with excitement at that time, getting online at 35000 feet above sea level is becoming a reality for us common people, and download speeds should be fast enough since we should be leveraging on satellite connectivity. DiGi’s in-flight data roaming service is provided by Aeromobile, a UK-based telco that specializes in providing in-flight communication services to many airlines worldwide, Malindo Air is the first Malaysian airlines to utilize the company’s system on its Boeing 737-900ER planes and it is made available to both DiGi and Maxis subscribers, the connection leverages on the KU Band sattelite, which is commonly used for broadcast transmission in Malaysia. In terms of charges, DiGi is offering its subscribers a flat data roaming fee at RM32/day, while voice calls are priced at RM17/min and SMS at RM0.99/SMS, which isn’t really too affordable for the masses.

Welcome back to the 2.5G Era

You read that right – 2.5G, for RM32/day you are only getting EDGE speeds on 35000 feet, which means browsing the web and uploading a simple photo to Facebook is a pain even on the ground. I admit that I wasn’t immediately disappointed, as the folks at Aeromobile told me that I should be able to get a theoretical download speed of up to 256kbps on a best effort basis, so I thought that should be reasonably good for those who wants to get their e-mails and instant messages sent to friends, family and co-workers while on the air, no wonder I was told not to stream videos prior to the trip.

The in-flight roaming service is activated once the plane is on its safe altitude and seatbelt signs turned off, so you are still required to activate Airplane mode when the plane is taking off. My Sony XPERIA Z5 Premium got connected to Aeromobile’s service in about a minute after turning off flight mode, I then toggled the Data Roaming option in the phone’s settings and the data transfer animation started moving, I am connected!

A productive but painful 5-hour journey

I was serious about using the in-flight data roaming service, I immediately fired up WhatsApp and texted my team that I am safely onboard, my first message was successfully delivered in a matter of 10 seconds, which is reasonable on EDGE speeds.

Next, I fired up Instagram to upload a photo that I’ve just taken on the plane, and I was expecting it to be up in about a minute, assuming Instagram uses extremely little amount of data for a photo upload, the EDGE connection then becomes very intermittent, I was so close to the ‘Finishing Up’ process and it decided to gave up on the end, I finally managed to upload my first Instagram photo on air in 3-minutes after hitting the retry button for at least 5 times.

My team on the ground texted me if I could make a WhatsApp call back and so I did, it is the most painful experience ever with a 1 second delay in both parties, both our voices were distorted most of the time, the call kept disconnecting in a moment of seconds and it can’t even reconnect at times. Frustrated, I switched our call to Facebook Messenger, which leverages on Skype’s VoIP technology, it performs slightly better with clearer voices on both ends and lesser disconnects, but still it wasn’t enjoyable. Finally, I decided to make a GSM voice call back to the office with the expectation of crystal clear voice, and the end results weren’t perfect either with delays in calls and broken conversations, the call costs me RM34 for two minutes.

Overall, sending instant messages and e-mails were never an issue on Aeromobile’s network, you just have to try hard not to get used to the speedy 4G LTE connection you have on the ground, I would conclude that my five hour travelling time a productive one but painful at the same time as I wasn’t able to do much with the extremely slow and intermittent 3500ms data connection.

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New Digi Internet Freedom plan includes rebates for postpaid lines

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Digi
 has revealed its new internet plan called the Digi Internet Freedom, starting from RM130/month.

Digi Internet Freedom 130, 190 & 290

Digi Internet Freedom offers three plans in total, the lowest plan (RM130/month) has unlimited internet that comes with speeds up to 100Mbps. The Digi Internet Freedom 190 and 290 also comes with unlimited data, but the former comes with up to 500Mbps download speed while the latter has up to 1Gbps speed.

FREE 6-months of Amazon Prime Video

Apart from offering high-speed internet, those who register for Digi Internet Freedom will also be entitled to
6 months of Amazon Prime Video
 (APV) subscription for free. After six months, users who choose to continue subscribing to APV can do so for RM27/month via EasyAdd by Digi.

Up to 20% rebates on postpaid lines

Those who subscribe to Digi Internet Freedom 190 and 290 can also get
up to 20% rebates
 when they sign up for any Digi postpaid plans that are worth RM80 and above. The more postpaid lines a user sign up for, the more rebates he or she will get.

Free router and standard installation

Digi will also provide a router and a standard installation for free to those who register for the new plan. You can check if your area is within coverage
here
 and find out more about Digi Internet Freedom
here
.

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Digi introduces new broadband plans with streaming quota

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As Digi continues to promote streaming on its network, the telco has now extended this benefit to its broadband plans, which starts from an affordable fee of RM30/month with up to 50GB of all-day data and 10GB of on-demand streaming quota, the allocated streaming quota can be used on up to over 40 popular audio and video streaming services without using up the base quota, which is certainly beneficial to those who doesn’t have access to a fixed line broadband and wants to stream without worrying about using up their quota.

Three packages are avaialble for sign up and only two of the higher priced plans are offered in postpaid, the base Broadband 30 plan already offers free unlimited streaming data for 19 services, which includes YouTube and major local radio stations, however should you require the additional data for streaming other services such as Spotify and Netflix, you could always purchase an addon 10GB of streaming data for RM20, other value added top ups include RM5/month for unlimited usage of WhatsApp and Viber, and RM25 for 10GB of all data usage. On top of that, Digi is giving away two months of complimentary iFlix access and 30 days of Astro On-The-Go trial subscription, which is rather decent. Lastly, existing Digi Postpaid customers will get to have RM10 off their broadband bill for life.

To find out more about Digi’s broadband plans, head on over to www.digi.my/broadband.

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Digi introduces new postpaid plans with all-day internet and unlimited calls

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If you are getting sick of all that weekday and weekend data quota, you’d be glad that Digi has finally updated it’s postpaid packages to feature all-day high speed Internet and unlimited calls. The new postpaid plans will start from RM120/month, where users will get to enjoy 40GB of monthly quota and unlimited calls to all networks, and it goes all the way up to RM190/month which comes with 100GB of monthly quota and unlimited calls to all networks. The new postpaid plans also come with 5GB of roaming data, 60 minutes roaming and IDD calls in 10 countries, which serves as a strong contender to Celcom’s and Maxis’ postpaid offering.

Despite of that, Digi isn’t stopping users from signing up the Postpaid Infinite 150 plan, which offers unlimited high speed data and the same benefits as the new postpaid plans for RM40 lesser than the highest tier postpaid plan, though you won’t be able to sign up for device contracts under the plan. With the new postpaid plans, Digi is also offering a number of Android phones for RM1 when you sign up for Digi Postpaid 190, devices include the Vivo X21, Samsung Galaxy A6+, Huawei P20, Samsung Galaxy A8+, Vivo V9 and Huawei Nova 2i – Of course, this offer is subjected to a 24-months contract with the telco.

Check out
Digi’s Postpaid
 site if you are keen to sign up.

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