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SingTel, M1 & StarHub Fibre (OpenNet) Price Plans

Posted by Lester Chan at 14:12 in Blog

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I have put up a comparison of the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) Fibre Price Plans offered by the 3 telcos in Singapore (SingTel, M1 and Starhub) and SuperInternet.

Download Speed	SingTel	M1	StarHub	SuperInternet
25Mbps	N/A	Plan: M1 Fibre 25Mbps Upload Speed: 25Mbps International Speed: N/A Price: SGD$39.00	N/A	N/A
50Mbps	N/A	Plan: M1 Fibre 50Mbps Upload Speed: 50Mbps International Speed: N/A Price: SGD$49.00	N/A	N/A
100Mbps	N/A	Plan: M1 Fibre 100Mbps Upload Speed: 50Mbps International Speed: N/A Price: SGD$59.00	Plan: MaxInfinity Ultimate Upload Speed: 50Mbps International Speed: 15Mbps Price: SGD$68.27	Plan: 100MBps Basic Upload Speed: 50Mbps International Speed: N/A Price: SGD$53.50
150Mbps	Plan: exPress 150 Upload Speed: 75Mbps International Speed: 15Mbps Price: SGD$85.90	N/A	Plan: MaxInfinity Elite Upload Speed: 75Mbps International Speed: 15Mbps Price: SGD$82.18	N/A
200Mbps	Plan: exPlore Home Upload Speed: 100Mbps International Speed: 25Mbps Price: SGD$95.90	N/A	Plan: MaxInfinity Platinum Upload Speed: 100Mbps International Speed: 25Mbps Price: SGD$102.93	N/A
1Gbps	N/A	Plan: M1 Fibre 1Gbps Upload Speed: 500Mbps International Speed: N/A Price: SGD$399.00	Plan: MaxInfinity Supreme Upload Speed: 500Mbps International Speed: 100Mbps Price: SGD$395.90	N/A
Fees	Registration Fee: SGD$53.50 (only for exPress 150) Installation Fee: SGD$80.25	Rental Fee: SGD$2/mth (for Residential Gateway)	Installation Fee: SGD$53.50	Registration Fee: SGD$214

Notes

All price stated for SingTel and SuperInternet includes 7% GST. I am unsure about the stated price for M1 and Starhub.
SingTel has 2 plans for 200Mbps Fibre, the one I stated is the cheaper one.
SingTel bundle lots of crap to their Fibre plans, you will need to check their site for more information.
M1 did not state their International Speed and Installation Fee.
If you are going to reference it on your website or blog, please give the credits where it is due =)

Website

Price Plans

FAQs

Tags: download, fee, fibre, international, M1, OpenNet, plan, price, SingTel, Starhub, upload

Canon PowerShot S95

Posted by Lester Chan at 15:36 in Gadget

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Bought the Canon PowerShot S95 from the Canon Service Center at Keppel Towers for SGD$531 (usual price SGD$669) through the Canon Privilege Purchase Program. This program entice users to purchase another Canon product by allowing trade-in/buy-back of their previously owned Canon products and offering them about 20.5% off the recommended retail price (RRP).

I traded-in my Canon IXUS 860IS which I got from Malaysia back in July 2008 for the new Canon PowerShot S95 which was just launched a few weeks back. The RRP of the Canon PowerShot S95 is SGD$669 and after the trade-in, I paid SGD$531. That is about 20.6% off.

Canon service is excellent! I went to the service center on Wednesday, 22nd September 2010 after work which is about 5.30pm and I was the next one in the queue. Within 10 minutes, I am out with a form for collection. All I have to do is wait for their SMS to inform me when to collect it.

The next day, Thursday, I received an SMS about 4pm saying my Canon PowerShot S95 is ready for collection, but unfortunately I forgot to bring along the collection form with me to office. I went there to collect on Friday instead and as usual, when I reached there, I was the next one in the queue. Did the checking of the camera and paid for it all within 10 minutes! The Customer Service Center is at level 4, but I have to proceed down to Canon Digital Lab at level 1 to collect my 8GB SD Card and carrying case.

When doing the buy-back, Canon does not require anything, just the body of your camera will do. No memory card, no battery, no cables and no charger is needed. You pay upon collection of your camera and you can pay by Cash, NETS, Debit Card and Credit Card. Fore more FAQ, check out ClubSNAP Forum: Canon Privilege Purchase Program FAQs.

Here is the address for Canon Customer Service Centre:
Canon Singapore Customer Service Centre
1 HarbourFront Ave
#04-01 Keppel Bay Tower
Singapore 098632
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.30am – 7pm (closed on public holidays)

PS: I have not played around with the camera enough yet to give a review. Sorry about that.

Whole Package

Box Front

Box Back

Box Contents

S95 Front

S95 Back

S95 Top

Battery And Memory Card Slot

HDMI And Mini USB Slot

Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5vi

Posted by Lester Chan at 22:15 in Blog

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My brother got me the Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5vi from Amazon and shipped to Singapore via Borderlinx as Amazon do not ship certain items directly to Singapore. It cost USD$64.99 (SGD$86) after discount, original price is USD$169.99 (SGD$225) and Singapore RRP is SGD$299. My brother bought 3 and shipping charges for all 3 Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5vi is USD$25.34 (SGD$33.55).

I kinda like the wire of the UE SuperFi 5vi as it does not get entangle easily as compared to Klipsch Image S4i. There are more earbuds included in the package (including foam ones).

The sound quality seems clearer (especially vocals) than the Klipsch Image S4i but bass wise I think it is slightly weaker than the Klipsch Image S4i. The foam earbuds are quite good but the rubber earbuds are not as comfortable as the Klipsch Image S4i.

I want to add that the remote on Klipsch Image S4i (3 buttons) wins the UE SuperFi 5vi (1 button) hands down. Even the build quality of the button is better on the Klipsch Image S4i.

I kinda like the hard carrying case that comes with the UE SuperFi 5vi.

Box Front

Box Back

Box Contents

Ultimate Ears SuperFi 5vi

Remote

Hard Carrying Case

Tags: 5vi, Amazon, Borderlinx, Klipsch, S4i, SuperFi, SuperFi 5vi, Ultimate Ears

Disappointed With PayPal

Posted by Lester Chan at 12:19 in Blog

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*UPDATE* It seems that PayPal restored the access to my account, all I have to do is to remove the Donation button. I have make changes to the button and the code so that it is now a “Buy Now” type instead of “Donation” type. But of course, I will never trust PayPal again.

The email as follows:

Your PayPal Account Access Has Been Restored

Dear Lester,

We have restored your account. But you need to replace other PayPal button with Donate Button on your website. Please understand that Donate button is used predominantly to solicit donations for charitable purpose.

To remove a donate button from your website, you will need to delete the button HTML code that you pasted on to your site.

Delete the PayPal text between the following tags:

< form ACTION="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" METHOD="POST" >

and

< form >

Once code has been deleted, the button will no longer appear. We sincerelyapologize for the inconvenience caused you.

Thanks,
PayPal

My PayPal account has been with me since 2001 and all the while it is a personal account which is verified. My account was flagged with some suspicious terrorist activity back in June 2010. I cleared the flag by photocopying my NRIC and my SingTel bill to them.

On 16th September 2010, I received the email below stating my account is limited because of some non-registered charities and non-profit organizations reasons. But the thing is my account is an individual/personal account, what the fuck does it has to do with charities or non-profit organizations.