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The Malaysian mobile industry celebrated the GoMobile Awards Night on May 10th, 2012.

Dato’ Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Information, Communications and Culture was the guest of honour.

Also present were Dato Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, Chairman of Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, CEO of Multimedia Development Corporation, MDEC, Che Azemi Haron, Deputy Secretary General(Communications), KPKK and top officers from service providers and mobile companies.

Dato Joseph Salang said  “The platform that GoMobile has created to acknowledge the best in the Malaysian Mobile Industry is important to spur and encourage development, improvement and originality, in other words innovation and creativity. More importantly, almost the entire mobile ecosystem is being recognised tonight.”

He acknowledged the efforts of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC),particularly MCMC’s Creative Industry Development Grant (CIDG) worth RM100million and the MSC Malaysia ICON2 programme.

Ten mobile applications received inOvation Malaysia Awards for best products and services of the year. 

The inOvation Malaysia Awards, presented since 2008, are a joint initiative of Maxis and GoMobile. 

Maxis launched a developer initiative called NextApps for developers with innovative new apps and services for their subscribers.

Among the companies awarded inOvation Malaysia Awards were Endeavor Mobile, an Android Medical Image Software, m2u Mobile Payment app by Maybank, Augmented Reality Muslim Toolkit by Limkokwing University of Creative Technology and SecQ.me a mobile personal safety application; and Studio 212 and Ahead Mobile. Three startups under the MSC ICON2 mobile app developer programme were ARMS  F&B (Restaurant POS), iLiufa S8 and TableFour.Us

Maxis swept top honours at the GoMobile Operators Awards, receiving Operator of the Year, Best Mobile Broadband and Best Mobile Content and Services. 

U Mobile (Best New Service), Celcom, TuneTalk, DiGi and P1 also picked up awards.

The HTC One X received the Best Mobile Device of 2012 at the event. 

Other brands that won awards for being best in various categories at the Mobile World Star Awards 2012 were Asus, ZTE, Sony and Acer. 

The Asia Pacific Mobile Learning & Edutainment Advisory Panel (APACMLEAP) Mobile Learning Initiatives Recognitions for 2010 were awarded to five local and international organizations recognized for their efforts in the area of mobile learning including Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya.

Kashminder Singh, co-organiser of GoMobile 2012 said that the awards have become the premier mobile awards in Malaysia. “The GoMobile Awards is an event that the Malaysian mobile industry can truly call its own,” adding, “We are especially delighted with the increasing number of local applications and services that are beginning to emerge. The partnership efforts between the Government and industry to grow the local content industry are bearing fruit. We hope to put up an even more spectacular show next year where we believe this sector would have blossomed even further. Our vision is to make GoMobile the hub of this region’s mobile industry.”

Winners at GoMobile Awards Night below:

The inOvation Malaysia Awards
· Endeavor Mobile medical appUniversiti Sains Malaysia
· Tonton mobile appAlt Media
· m2u Mobile Payment Maybank
· Masatu Agmo Studio
· Augmented Reality Muslim Toolkit  Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
· Lightopus gameAppXplore 
· Battle of the Sexes Techninier
· Ahead MobileFinder 301
· SecQ.me SECQME
· Studio 212

ICON2 Most Promising Startups
· ARMS  F&B (Restaurant POS)· iLiufa S8· TableFour.Us

Mobile World Best Devices of 2012
· THE MOBILE DEVICE OF THE YEAR: HTC One X

· The Best Malaysian Brand: XiMAX

· Best Value Phone: ZTE V880E

· Best Design: SONY Xperia Arc series

· Ground Breaking Device: ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime

· Best Smartphone: HTC One X

· Best Tablet Device: ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime

· Best Ultraportable: ACER Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 

GOMOBILE OPERATOR OF THE YEAR
· OPERATOR OF THE YEAR 2012 AWARD: MAXIS

· The Best Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO): TUNE TALK

· The Best Prepaid Service Award: DIGI

· The Best Postpaid Service: CELCOM

· Best Mobile Broadband: MAXIS

· Best New Service: U MOBILE

· Best Mobile Content & Services: MAXIS

· Best Home Wireless Broadband award: P1

APACMLEAP Mobile Learning Initiatives Recognitions
· Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya

· Mobile ICT

· Ignite Asia Co.Ltd.

· Pixatel Systems Inc.

· Rehan School

Starting from May 11, for new subscribers, P1 is cutting its consumer broadband plans to half the original price.

New P1 subscribers might also win a Volkswagen Golf TSI and other prizes worth over RM180,000 as part of the “iPunya Buy & Win” contest.

New subscribers can opt for P1’s “Try Me Broadband Sale" plans like ForHome, ToGo and OnePlan at a promotional price for the first few months. 

The ForHome plan offers new subscribers 50% off the original price for the first four months. It comes with a fixed wireless broadband, instant service activation and 4G. 

The ToGo plan costs RM1.30 per day for all-day-all-night unlimited 4G speed and up to 10 GB of quota. 

The OnePlan has broadband on-the-go, at home and a phone line at RM93 for four months. 

If you'd like to subscribe to P1’s limited time ‘Try Me Broadband Sale’, go to  P1 reseller outlets at Seremban- 65, Jalan Tuanku Munawir, Tesco Seremban 2 and Terminal One; Nilai- Giant Nilai and Tesco Nilai; Ipoh- Bandar Baru Medan Ipoh, Greentown Business Centre and Kompleks Yik Foong; Melaka- Taman Melaka Raya, Mahkota Parade and Tesco Sentral Melaka; Kuala Terengganu- Giant Kuala Terengganu and Mydin Kuala Terengganu; Kota Bharu- Kota Bharu Mall, Taman Koperatif and Mydin Mall Kubang Kerian; Muar- 199-1, Jalan Abdullah, Giant Muar and Wetex Parade.

Or browse to www.p1.com.my to buy or for information.

RIM has finally made the BlackBerry Curve 9320 official.

The 103 gram BlackBerry Curve 9320 runs on OS 7.1. It has FM Radio and a BBM dedicated button. It comes in various colours.

The 7.1 OS adds has Mobile Hotspot or WiFi sharing to five devices.

It has Parental Controls to limit or restrict certain phone numbers, websites, and various social networking apps.

It has a 3.2 MB camera,a 2.44-inch 320 x 240 non-touch LCD display, a 'super charged' 1450 mAh battery, 512 MB RAM,a QWERTY keyboard and a microSD slot.

If you are a BlackBerry fan and are looking for a Twitter page to follow, you can now go to http://twitter.com/#!/BlackBerryMY

You can still go there even if you are just a customer who has bought or intends to purchase a BlackBerry device.

You would find tips and tricks on anything BlackBerry, along with the latest updates on events, news and exclusive giveaways.

Android has made the jump to car stereo systems and it all happened in Malaysia. Clarion, the makers of car audio systems is boldly bringing out a 6.5 inch touchscreen "in-vehicle infotainment system" that was developed in Penang.

It connects to the Internet through a smartphone and beyond being able to buy and play music; it can also run services such as Google Maps and Facebook. Don’t go out and look for it though; Clarion is looking to sell it as OEM to car manufacturers.

Also, Clarion announced a tie up with UK company Prodigium Mobile to bring DRM-free music into these systems.  Prodigium claims that it has the Asian rights to 18 million songs, including big record labels, on its cloud-based music store.  When launched, the Prodigium music service will be available on phones, PCs and, yes, exclusively on the Clarion Mirage systems. Pricing has not been announced but is supposed to be ‘competitive’.

During Intel’s keynote, the CEO of Motorola was invited as a guest to speak about the deal between them and Intel.  

In essence, some of Motorola’s upcoming smartphones and tablets later this year will come packed with Intel processors. This partnership looks to be pretty big and is a multi-year and multi-device deal, although specifics are still pretty vague. Of course, these products will be based off Intel Atom Medfield Z2460 processors. These Medfield processors offer better performance, battery life and security, which are ever-growing concerns.

Scheduled to ship in the second half of 2012, more details will probably be disclosed at future events, like Mobile World Congress next month. There is also a high possibility that these phones will be running Ice Cream Sandwich when the time comes.

Pop into any cybercafe and the monitor you see might be a ViewSonic, but it looks like the company has hopped onto the tablet bandwagon and is now adding a couple to its list.

Both of these tablets are 10-inchers and, weirdly enough, do not run Android 4.0 but 2.3 Gingerbread instead. The tablets are known as the ViewPad 10pi and 10e. The 10pi ( 3.14159265, anyone? ) is the more powerful one with an Intel Oak Trail z670 processor, 1280 x 600 IPS display and a 3 megapixel camera while packing in 2 GB of RAM and comes with a 64 GB SSD. Its front-facing camera is of 1.3 megapixel resolution and it also has a couple of USB ports, a microSD slot and a 3200mAh battery. 

The lesser of the twins, the ViewPad 10e is a 9.7-inch tablet, also with an IPS display, albeit at a slightly lower resolution of 1024 x 768. Powered by a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor and 512 MB of DDR3 RAM, the 10e also has 4 GB of internal storage and a microSD slot. Oddly enough, this baby has no rear camera but it does have a 1.3 megapixel front camera. 

While they might not be at the top of the class, they will certainly appeal to the masses as they are bound to be priced affordably.

ZTE recently launch its new flagship Android smartphone called ZTE Skate. Featuring a 4.3-inch screen, the company claims that this will be the best price device in the 4.3-inch display market. The name is taken from its inspiration from the skateboard. Before this, their previous flagship phone was the ZTE Blade. 

The Skate comes with a 5-megapixel camera and is equipped with 800MHz processor and Android 2.3. According to ZTE, their latest device will be targetting students and young adults aged between 16 and 26. ZTE Skate is currently available in Malaysia at a RRP of RM999.