Christmas with DiGi

Christmas is not in another 1 week plus or so but santa has already dropped by to visit DiGi. That’s because finally DiGi is getting the Samsung Galaxy S. Maxis sold the ‘great’ Samsung Galaxy S since the phone was released in June. To join the fun, the Samsung Galaxy S will be sold on DiGi on contract with a ‘younger sibling’, namely the Samsung Galaxy 3. Both phones are available from DiGi without contract, or you can sign with DiGi Smart Plan contract (RM63/month for 3GB of data only, calls and SMS are additional) for 1 or 2 year contracts and get discounts on the phone. Check the pics below for prices on DiGi. So, if you’re on DiGi, would you get the Samsung Galaxy S, or the slightly cheaper (by RM100) 4.3″ HTC Desire HD?

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Good to DiGi for finally building up some smartphones to sell with the phone plans.

HTC Desire HD on DiGi Smartplan

You’re on Digi and you waited so long to get a big chunky sexy phone?

Wait no longer, DiGi has finally revealed price plans for HTC’s biggest screen Android phone yet.

The retail price is RM2299, but is available for discounted prices of RM1699 and RM1399 under 12 and 24 months contract respectively.

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I bet a lot of people are excited because this is officially going to be DiGi’s first high end Android smartphone. Previously they only carried smaller phones such as the HTC Legend and HTC Aria, not to forget the Garmin A10. Previously all of the big screen and high end Android phones would go to Maxis, eg:  Samsung Galaxy S, Sony Ericsson X10, etc bla bla bla.

Both the HTC Desire HD and the Desire Z are released at the same time, and at the same price of RM2299 (unbelievable). Seems like Maxis has enough of big screens and decided to get something different instead, the HTC Desire Z, which is the slide out QWERTY version. High end QWERTY Android phones are not very common. For example, the only one i can remember right now is the Milestone from Motorola (or known as the Droid in US).  So Maxis has made a smart move by grabbing the rare keyboard Desire Z and left the DiGi users to enjoy the Desire HD.