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Now I am posting as one of the unlucky customer of Google Phone Web Store. The story started when I ordered my phone on 6th January which is slightly later than the launching of Nexus One. However, until now I am yet to receive this phone. In 3 more days, I might be celebrating Happy 1 Month-versary of waiting a phone.

Every corporation might look good from outside thanks to professional branding but instead its inside its as ugly worms chewing off its inner core. Google set up a Web Store to sell its first phone from HTC and expecting to combat Apple’s IPhone. As the leading technology company Google is a laughing stock when the Web Store come with absolute frustrated support. You can only post on forum and log report to them while waiting for their staff to email you. Mind you this might take forever to get their reply, I waited for almost a week for a staff to reply my mail.

After a month in operation, I think they just realized they forgot to setup a proper support system. Check this out Vacancy at Google. They just starting to hire support manager for their store.

I do not know what happen to my phone. Tomorrow I might file a dispute against Google for failing to deliver as per request and buy a new phone before CNY as my current phone is failing. Its my fault to order the phone anxiously, next time if I wanted to buy another phone from Google, I will wait for the support to fully function first.

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I am craving for a new sensation in KL now. Its FROYO! What is Froyo? Its short for Frozen Yogurt. Froyo made from different fruits and its frozen. Froyo tastes like ice-cream but healthier. But mind you, the price range is almost on par with Baskin Robbins or Haagen Dazs.

Where to?

I found out there are two franchises in KL that sells Froyo. Tutti-Frutti and Yogurt Boyz.

Tutti Frutti

Tutti Frutti was brought into Malaysia by Naza Group. Priced at RM0.53 per 10grams. In the stores, you will can choose up to 18 types of fruit, mixed them up and add toppings. The final price will be based on how heavy is your cup of Froyo. If you are not cautious, your Froyo might cost over RM10 a cup.

At the time of this article, Tutti Frutti can be found at:

1. Sunway Pyramid
2. IOI Mall
3. CapSquare
4. Bangsar Shopping Centre
5. TTDI
6. Berjaya Times Square

Find out more here:

• Tutti Frutti Malaysia Facebook
• Tutti Frutti Official Site

Yogurt Boyz

Yogurt Boyz offer cheaper Froyo in their stores. Beside Froyo, they are selling other western and kopitiam food as well. The main difference between Yogurt Boyz and Tutti Frutti is they do not offer as much choice as Tutti Frutti. They will serve 2 types Froyo, Original Flavour and Fruit of the day. The price ranged from RM3 – RM6 a cup varies from flavour and toppings.

Currently, I only found Yogurt Boyz at Bukit Jalil which is located at the same row as Kai Woh Pau.

Yogurt Boyz Official Website

27 January (10am PT) is the next anticipated event from Apple. The hottest innovation that we will be looking at is of course the tablet from Apple. Here is the summary of what the rumours had said. I rank the most probable rumour first and descending.

Name iPad, iSlate, iTablet, MagicSlate, Mac Tablet

OS OSX, iPhone OS

Screen LCD, E-Ink, AMOLED, Dual Mode LCD (Pixel Qi)

Screen Size 10″, 7″, 8″, 11″, 9″

Connectivity 3G, Wifi, GSM

Price $1000, $600, $800

Storage 64GB, 32GB, 128GB

Extra Webcam, Stylus, EBook

Tie to Carrier Some edition will be

My views

I think this Apple’s tablet will not be just a tablet like normal and certainly they have learnt from the failure of the Newton. Bringing their old Newton staff to be part of the staff for this all new tablet is a good example they are moving forward breaking away from tablet.

From their past successes on iPod and iPhone, I guess they will be banging on the Online Application store once more but with additional features. Releasing the tablet is not the main attention of Apple but tablet will expand the store more. With iPod, we got iTunes with music store. With iPod video, they have releases video. The strategy of iPhone bring us Appstore. Apple hope to bring video to more audience with AppleTV but AppleTV did not gain much success. With this tablet, the store will not only be selling video to the tablet, Ebook will also be the next hit to download from iTunes. Seeing popularity has risen since the launch of Kindle by Amazon as well as Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Apple sure want a piece of pie in Ebook market. Besides, Apple can provide what Amazon or Barnes and Noble cant provide which is the power of Store that tightly integrated with the writer. Many freelance program developer has gained profit from writing applications for iPhone, Apple maybe the platform for the freelance book writer to release their works. Anyway, this is a good example of the Internet. It revolutionize knowledge and information which used to be one-to-one relationship. Now we can see many-to-many relationship in knowledge exchange.

Be sure to stay tune for this event. Hopefully the tablet will live up to the expectation. For Malaysian, its in the morning of 28th January.

Sources:

• http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/22/rumor-apple-gunning-for-ipad-trademark/
• http://9to5mac.com/apple_event_confirmed
• http://gizmodo.com/5451391/guess-the-apple-tablet-features-win-one-for-yourself
• http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/22/apple-tablet-rumor-roundup-publishers-and-carriers-edition/
• http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/22/tablet-analysis-and-opinion-what-tuaw-has-put-on-the-table/

Guess is about my personal stuff and whats on my mind. Every guess will run for 5 days until someone got it right!. Each day, I will reveal some clue on the topic. In the comment below, you can either ask a question or answer the GUESS! So feel free to comment below and end the GUESS!

1st Round: Favourite Junk Food

1. Purple Plastic
2. Available at most departmental store
3. Made in Malaysia
4. Its an assortment
5. It does not taste sweet
6. No chocolate involve
7. Price is less than RM5
8. 1 packet can fit in my 1 whole mouth

Whoever guess it correctly may request for my treat on this junk food when we meet.. HEHEHE