A revised price of HTC Androids in Malaysia

HTC Malaysia recently revised the prices of their Android lineups. Checkout the revised prices of the HTC Magic, Hero and Tattoo below.

Malaysia – 9 March, 2010 – Getting ahead of the competition affordably has never been easier with the HTC’s series of Android and Windows Mobile Smartphones. Get ready to be spoilt for choice to integrate the lineup of HTC smartphones, now carrying new suggested retail prices into your work and play repertoire.

The revised prices will take effect immediately.

Android™ Phone Models

Model	Revised Suggested Retail Price
­­­­ HTC Magic Targeted at users seeking a stylish smartphone which delivers a superior mobile internet experience, HTC Magic comes equipped with a 3.2” HVGA touch screen display and features a track ball and navigational buttons for quick easy access.	RM 1,598

Model	Revised Suggested Retail Price
HTC Hero The first HTC phone that embodies HTC Sense™, allowing an intuitive and seamless experience to allow you to personalize a suite of widgets that best suit your personality and lifestyle.	RM 1,899
HTC Tattoo The latest addition to the HTC Android™ family, the HTC Tattoo allows you to fully customize both inside and out. Design a cover or choose from the wide range of cover designs available to make your Tattoo your own.	RM 1,199

We hope to see more of HTC Android phones coming to Malaysia and hopefully software updates or new phones do include the Android Market. :-)

If you have been waiting to get hold of an Android all this while, do tell us if the revised price now would help you to get one?

HTC Malaysia has also has started their own official Facebook fan page which you can join here at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/HTC-Malaysia/209408956698

A contest runs from 12th March 2010 until 26th March 2010, and HTC will be giving one lucky participant a chance to win a HTC Hero.

More details here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HTC-Malaysia/209408956698#!/notes/htc-malaysia/htcs-whos-your-hero/387140295469

CodeAndroid Malaysia attended Android Developer Labs World Tour

When CodeAndroid Malaysia got to know about Android Developer Labs World Tour, we were excited and registered ourselves for the event in no time.
Of course, we also notified you with a blogpost and on our Facebook group.

It isn't very often that we get to meet Googlers from US, what more from those who advocate Android, which is our common interest?
CodeAndroid Malaysia is not going to let this oppurtunity slip away.

While Hong and CodeAndroid Singapore people are already in Singapore, 5 of us (Nazrul, Bernie, Wen Jiun, Marvin and Yasir) took the KTM train and bunked the night on the train, waking up in Singapore.



Google Singapore's Office is in 8 Shenton Way on Level 35. We registered ourselves at the lobby and went up to Level 35 enthusiastically.



Most of the team has seen photos of the office but this was the first time the coreteam are physically there, meeting CodeAndroid Singapore team and Android Advocates as well.
Plus many more Android fans!





Presentation



Bill Rutledge (@billyrutledge) started off introducing the Android Development to participants.



Kenneth Lui (@kennethlui) presented an overview of Android applications in Android Market and shared insights about the inner workings of Android Market.



Fred Chung (@fredchung) presented Android SDK Key features.

It was supposed to be a short break before Code Labs, where we were to learn how to make Live Wallpaper on Android 2.1 when Billy asked how many are having the Nexus One.
There are only about 10 persons from the crowd of around 100, so he asked if the owners mind sharing with the rest.
Then all of a sudden, he mentioned about everyone getting a Nexus One each.
There was silence and or maybe disbelief in most of the participants, until the boxes of Nexus One were carted to the front and that was when everyone cheered!





Is this the first time Google giving out phones in Asia? And giving out to everyone in a Google event?



Code Labs

So after the excitement of queuing to get the Nexus One and having a group unboxing of the phone, the real hands-on begins.



Tony Chan (@htchan) then ran the Code Labs where everyone turned on their laptops, booted up their Eclipse IDE, followed a sample code of Live Wallpaper step-by-step, and finally publishing it onto their brand new Nexus One!

For those who did not attend, you can download the sample code here.



We were done by 6pm according to schedule and everyone left with all smiles while some had dinner with the Googlers.



It was a wonderful trip and we look forward to future events from the Android advocates. :-) (Probably to Malaysia? We need more Android developers and fans in Malaysia to make that happen. Join us and follow Code Android Malaysia!)

More photos from the event:



One for the group (from left to right) : Nazrul, Daniel CerVenTus, Wen Jiun, Yasir, Hong, Marvin, Bernie




Wen Jiun, Yasir and Bernie hacking Live Wallpaper.



Nazrul and Hong working on it as well.


Everyone's running Live Wallpaper.




The various Android phones to test with.