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For celebrities who would like to follow the trails of Indra Bekti and the like, you might want to try the iMirror. Don’t worry, it will sync well with your shiny new iPhone 3G!

Available at your local Apple resellers, iPhone sold separately, brain not required.

Here are some quotes of them during the iPhone launch by Telkomsel yesterday at Pacific Place.

Indra Bekti said:

“Selain buat video call sama pacarku yang sedang kuliah di Malaysia, aku juga sering baca detikcom, lho, lewat 3G.”

From detikInet.

Yes, Indra Bekti, you can always do a Video Call with an iPhone using this technique:

Yes, I know it’s inconvenient, but you seemed to be excited about it.

Dhini Aminarti said:

“Beli iPhone 3G biar keren aja. Hehe, ini bukan handphone biasa lho, ini iPhone,”

From

I deliberately stayed up late last night (or technically, this morning) to catch up with Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 event held in their HQ and to do my own microblogging report. They showed an early preview on the upcoming OS update that is due Summer. The update would be free for iPhone users and a $10 upgrade for iPod Touch users.

The 3.0 software covers a lot of things that many of us considered missing from the iPhone in the last couple of years since its birth, namely the phone-wide Cut-Copy-Paste, Bluetooth A2DP, MMS, communication with accessory features, In-App Purchases, P2P over Bluetooth, Contact VCard forwarding, new voice-recording app, and even down to a re-engineered Push Notification system that uses a quarter battery drain then other mobile OS’s. And that’s just a glimpse of what Apple offered within their new 100 features and 1,000 new APIs in this OS update. They also managed to bring Spotlight into the system, and as a bonus, landscape mode to every Apple app.

The event also featured some demos of upcoming softwares from application developers that utilizes some, if not all, of these new APIs and features. This includes companies like EA with their upcoming The Sims 3, ngmoco:) with LiveFire and TouchPets Dogs, and Smule with the upcoming LeafTrombone, a multiplayer music app.

For iPhone and iPod Touch users, this answers all the common “why, Apple, why?” questions that often get thrown to them, and this would definitely be worth the update, but too bad some features like the MMS an A2DP won’t work on the original iPhone. But as I said before, overally, there is no mobile OS but the iPhone that has this kind of API and feature development coherence. With 30 million iPhones and iPod Touches sold worldwide, you can say that they’re going on the right track as a newcomer in the mobile business. And as for me, I might skip the 2.2.1 firmware update and go directly with the 3.0 when it comes out.

You can read more in-depth reports on the iPhone 3.0 OS on regular sites like Engadget, Gizmodo, or Macworld.

Could this mean that the wait is almost over? When I woke up this morning, a lot of things has been going on around. Several things for sure are of the following:

• Telkomsel is now accepting limited pre-orders for the iPhone 3G. Supposedly, you can find more information on it at www.telkomsel.com/iphone/. But the site is experiencing a very slow load since this morning, at least. Everybody’s probably going there right now. I just got the chance to pre-order after five reloads.
• You can also pre-order the phone by dialing 111 from your Telkomsel number. Thanks to Yona for this info.
• Aulia Masna posted on his tech blog that Telkomsel’s External Corporate Communications confirmed that they will be bringing the iPhone 3G here.
• Indonesia is now listed in the country list at www.apple.com/iphone/countries/. This is confusing, since it’s suddenly there. While Thailand, who confirmed the iPhone first for their country is still listed under “Coming Soon”.

However, Telkomsel have not released any word on pricing or availability. Rumors said that it will be released on February 25. So, I guess we’ll just see in a month. But in any case, this is a very good news today, unless, of course, if suddenly they decided the price to be IDR 10.000.000.

When I drove Arleen home tonight, she showed me a gift she received from BCA. Apparently, it’s an instant gift that the bank gave out for their Batman VISA card applicants. And it’s an iPod Nano! … Well, alright, it’s a fake Nano! And apparently, it’s this one:

The one BCA giving away is the black one, complete with it’s own Batman/DC-branded box, a Batman logo on the front face, and a complete Batman engravings on the chrome backside of the unit. The unit features an on/off slider button in place of the hold button, a very “catchy” interface complete with its own hourglass (Yes, and when an iPod Nano has an hourglass as a part of its interface, it snows in hell), and bundled with the song “Say You Say Me” at the very least. And no, the scroll wheel does not work at all.

Now my question is this: If there’s a DC logo there, and with the fact that this is a part of the Batman VISA promotion, and not to forget that BCA would obviously require a legitimate license to brand the cards and the promotion with Batman or DC, how the hell could these legit brands ended up on a shitty and fake iPod Nano, given away freely by Indonesia’s biggest bank? Could this be one of those merchandising schemes that DC wasn’t taken into discussion with? Hmm…

And oh yeah, there’s another gift option from BCA for this promotion, it’s a portable CD player. Hmm… Fake Discman?