This is an official follow-up to our iPhone 3G 2nd Batch is Coming post.

After a whirlwind Tuesday (that was horrible! – as some of you could attest to, you know who you are!), and an even hectic Wednesday (sorry for the cryptic message, don’t plan to reveal too much on a public blog!), we are now officially in stock for the 2nd batch of the iPhone 3G. Earlier than our original indicative deadline of this Friday (1st August, 2008) to be exact.

Right now, most of the units has already been snapped up as of today (Thursday). We are left with a couple of White 16GB iPhone 3G available for immediate sale. And yes, it is available exclusively over at www.iWorld.com.my, or you can easily place an order over at our eCommerce site over here. Delivery via ABX Express courier is FREE within Malaysia. This is an overnight courier and of which is trackable over at www.abxexpress.com.my.

Remarks : Our iPhone 3G re-stocking would be on a consistent every 3 days from now.
Next re-stocking : Monday (August 4th, 2008).

Invitation : Those who have received their iPhone 3G parcels tomorrow (Friday), you are free to leave us your comments here.

Should you need a brief recap of our reasonable pricing (in lieu of current stock shortage), as well as some pertinent info prior to placing your order, here it goes :

PRICING WOULD BE AS PER THE FOLLOWING
(a) iPhone 3G (8GB) Complete Package @ RM3,399 (Black Only)
(b) iPhone 3G (16GB) Complete Package @ RM3,699 (Choice of Black/White)

IMPORTANT NOTES TO CONSIDER
(a) They are fully activated, jailbreaked BUT locked.
(b) All the features are accessible – from AppStore downloads to Safari surfing, MSN, YouTube, iPod, 3rd Party AppStore Apps, WiFi, etc.
(c) Only Calls + SMSes disabled for now.

Once the Pwnage Tool 2.0 is confirmed to unlock the iPhone 3G, you will hear from us via this blog and the unlock is user unlockable.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
It is easier to secure a set now before the iPhone 3G stock outage, and being able to user-unlock at a later time (which is soon!), than to wait for a proper iPhone 3G unlock to be released and trying to buy the iPhone 3G.

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iPhone 3G Buyers, Own it First.* Talk 2 Us Today!
Email : sales@iworld.com.my
SMS/Call : Reno @ (+6) 012-208 2550

Wholesale Opportunity : We accept bulk orders as well. Preferential pricing would be given. MOQ 10 units per order. Talk to us today!

If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone running the 2.0 firmware, you’ve currently just got the Cydia application for installing new apps, not the old, familiar Installer app that was the far more ‘mainstream’ option up through firmware 1.1.4.

Good news if you’re hankering for Installer though – an update last week on the RiP Dev blog sounds very positive:

Hi folks! Many of you are wondering what’s up with Installer 4. No, we haven’t slowed down the work on it, and are currently in the final stages of hooking the GUI to the back-end. We will be contacting the authors of the major repositories in a few days to invite them into the testing process and to prepare for the upcoming repository changes.

Installer Kicks App Store’s Arse?

So hopefully we are not far off seeing Installer released for iPhone 2.0 – and it’s looking awfully good in the preview screenshots like the one above.  Check out more of them HERE.

After having spent a few weeks with the App Store now, I have to say the content of it (i.e. the number of cool apps) is very impressive.  But … the performance, the actual working of the App Store is not so great.  I’d say Installer kicked its butt in working solidly and just doing its job reliably. 

I say that because I just can’t recall Installer crashing very much, if at all.  The App Store (on both a V1 and a 3G model) is much more flaky, for me at least.  It regularly crashes and individual installs hang up for ridiculous amounts of time, with no ability to stop or pause them.  When an install would fail on Installer it would fail quickly and decisively, would announce its failure, and let you retry or just get on with something else.

Apple get lots of things very, very right on the iPhone – no doubt about that, but in this area, I think they could still learn a thing or five from the guys who develop Installer …

[excerpt from JAiB]

Palringo is the latest IM client to hit the iPhone, and the first multi-client IM to be made available on the Apple App Store.

One nice feature of Palringo is that it lets you add pictures to the messages. This feature is missing from the better alternative in the market – Agile Messenger – although AM is available previously to a wider audience as it is a jailbroken app made possible via Installer.

The one big limitation of the Palringo app due to Apple’s SDK restrictions is that it has no ability to run in the background – so you have to have the program open in order to know when a new message comes in, or carry on a continuous conversation.

Yup, the above header says it all. And that would attest to the popularity of the iPhone 3G variant right now. It has indeed achieve the status of a cult gadget, a status symbol, a must-have for most of us out there.

It is no wonder that major outlets in the States are still dry of supply of the iPhone 3G stock, having to wait for Apple to re-stock them come mid-August. Expect another major shortage before the start of September 2008.

This is what AT&T said :

AT&T also confirmed that sales of the iPhone 3G were “nearly double levels achieved in AT&T’s 2007 iPhone launch” across the 12 days following its US launch. And that’s despite limited availability of the device.

It is nice to know that Quake4iPhone is officially a reality for iPhone 2.0. Recently released under Cydia, original iPhone users who had already done the update to OS X iPhone 2.0 firmware would be able to try out the ported version of this gaming phenomenon that has garnered quite a cult status back in the 90′s.

Check it out and let us know!

We have another limited batch of iPhone 3G available for those who are interested to get them before the complete stock shortage sets in. It should be sometime by August, but we will continue this offer for as long as we can. Until there’s no. more. stock.

PRICING WOULD BE AS PER THE FOLLOWING
(a) iPhone 3G (8GB) Complete Package @ RM3,399 (Black Only)
(b) iPhone 3G (16GB) Complete Package @ RM3,699 (Choice of Black/White)

IMPORTANT NOTES TO CONSIDER
(a) They are fully activated, jailbreaked BUT locked.
(b) All the features are accessible – from AppStore downloads to Safari surfing, MSN, YouTube, iPod, 3rd Party AppStore Apps, WiFi, etc.
(c) Only Calls + SMSes disabled for now.

Once the Pwnage Tool 2.0 is confirmed to unlock the iPhone 3G, you will hear from us via this blog and the unlock is user unlockable.

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
It is easier to secure a set now before the iPhone 3G stock outage, and being able to user-unlock at a later time (which is soon!), than to wait for a proper iPhone 3G unlock to be released and trying to buy the iPhone 3G.

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iPhone 3G Pre-Order Buyers, Talk 2 Us Today!
Email : sales@iworld.com.my
SMS/Call : Reno @ (+6) 012-208 2550

[Updated : This post has a NEW update pertaining to stock availability over at Order Your iPhone 3G over at iWorld.com.my. Ready Stock.]

Holla! Treat this as your personal concierge. A place for you guys to throw the questions at us. A customer support and assistance venue to cater to all your troubleshooting needs. Questions? Answered.

Remember, we have a three-pronged approach when it comes to warranty for the Apple iPhone & iPhone 3G :

(a) 1-to-1 exchange for DOA (Dead on Arrival)
(b) 1-to-1 exchange against hardware failure on a seven (7) days limited warranty
(c) Our Legendary Unlimited Troubleshooting Support via emails, SMSes or calls

We maintain an extensive FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for your convenience. Anything, almost everything, that you need to know, or seek an answer to, would have already been attended to in the FAQ.

For any other troubleshooting support, you can reach us in any, of the following ways :

(a) Email it to sales@iworld.com.my (preferred option)
(b) SMS it to Reno at (+6) 012-208 2550 anytime
(c) Call Reno at (+6) 012-208 2550 between 12pm – 12am
(d) Post it as a comment at our sticky page, it would be delivered to us as an email and we will then revert back to you

Important #1 : Check out the iPhone3G Specsheet
Important #2 : Do not Update/Restore existing iPhone / iPhone3G Firmwares

Here at iWorld, this is our legendary support to you.
Bar none in this industry. Questions, answered.*

If you’re not a customer yet, remember to get listed in our iWorld iPhone 3G Pre-Order List to have exclusive updates pertaining to the iPhone 3G stock availability and ordering info right here at iWorld, Malaysia.

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A separate iPhone3G FAQ + Technical Support can also be accessed by clicking “Support” on the iPhone interactive imagery over at the 100% Macromedia Flash enabled site of www.iWorld.com.my

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iPhoneApps.org, currently the top Google result when searching for “iPhone apps,” offers 10 apps for $24.95, including “much-sought-after MMS and video recording capability”.

But, you would have to jailbreak your iPhone to get the apps to work. According to a post by a disgruntled customer at Yahoo! Answers, the site is only selling ZiPhone, and instructions on how to install the apps shown on their homepage.

This is an outright scam. And they have been around for some time. With a spiffy looking site, to give credit where credit is due. And what about ZiPhone? That is a complete freeware from the wonderful mind of Zibri, check it out … here.

We’ve seen incredible demand for iPhone 3G since it launched — and subsequently sold out — on July 11. Many customers have opted to purchase iPhone 3G through direct fulfillment, which lets them purchase the device at their convenience and return to the store to pick it up as soon as it arrives in to the store. For those customers who have ordered through direct fulfillment, and have not yet received their iPhone 3G, here’s a quick update on our current inventory:

• As of July 23, direct fulfillment customers are receiving their iPhone 3G, on average, 13 or 14 days following purchase.
• Delivery times vary based on the specific model a customer chooses (8 GB, 16 GB white, 16 GB black).

AT&T handles direct fulfillment on a first-come, first-served basis, giving everyone an opportunity for stress-free shopping. As we receive new inventory from Apple, we are shipping it out immediately to fill customers’ orders. We hope to begin re-stocking our stores as soon as we can, but first priority goes to those customers who purchased through direct fulfillment.

[Excerpt from AT&T]

[Updated : Follow up to Published Rates for iPhone3G at iWorld, Malaysia]

I would like to take this opportunity to clear a misconception some of you had – we are not the ones jacking up the prices right now, and I can assure you the same could be said of our vendors/suppliers.

It is the acute demand for the iPhone 3G that pushes the price up, and moreover, the present outage of stock by Apple – at least until the next re-stocking in mid-August – would indirectly affect the selling price for now.

After some lengthy discussions with my partner today, and noting the fact that our present vendors are not able to offer us a more affordable pricing for the iPhone 3G (which is of course tough considering there’s no stock, after all, we are barely 2 weeks after the July 11th launch!) we have to implement a few changes as per the following :

(a) We are sticking to the iWorld iPhone 3G Pre-Order List for now, with priority given to the Top 20 of that list (we have around 100+ names at the moment). For the rest of you who are also on the Pre-Order List, or have already submitted your details to us before, but not within the Top 20, you are entitled to purchase the iPhone 3G (8GB or 16GB) as well for as long as (a) we have enough stock, and (b) we have already given priority to the Top 20 to decide if they intend to purchase or otherwise, (c) you are comfortable with the current pricing. The Top 20 List would lapse within 7 Days of posting.

(b) Sales at iWorld, Malaysia pertaining to the iPhone 3G in both capacity of 8GB & 16GB would be strictly for the benefit of those on the Pre-Order List for now. This is merely an estimation for us here at iWorld pertaining to stock count level and so on. Once we have catered to each and everyone on the pre-order list – including those with bulk orders – would we then release the rest of the remaining units to the public.

(c) We have decided not to implement the rebate scheme as that would complicate matters even further.

(d) Final call for the iPhone 3G (16GB, choice of Black or White). We will start shipping (most likely) from Monday onwards, assuming no further downtime from our vendors. iPhone 3G (8GB, Black Only) would be available by this coming week. After that, let the wait continues … (refer: Sorry, we’re Sold Out.)

(e) Appreciate all those who have given us their input on this, and thank you for the personal messages and calls. All the best to the vendors as well – sorry to hear that one of you barely got pass activation & jailbreak but stuck at the unlocking part, and to another vendor who burnt 2 units in the process.

Thank you.

- Reno / iWorld, Malaysia.

Priority right now would be given to the Top 20 on the Pre-Order List who are in the iWorld iPhone 3G Pre-Order List. We welcome interested parties who are NOT in the Top 20, but have already submitted your details to us for the iPhone 3G Pre-Order List. This is because not everyone on the current Top 20 would be comfortable with the asking price, contactable, the models available (8GB or 16GB) etc. We reserved the right to move down the Pre-Order List in accordance to the models that you have requested for, which corresponds to the current models that we have In Stock.

If you are reading this, ask yourself : “Are you in the iPhone3G Pre-Order List?” No? Then what are you waiting for?! Head on over to iWorld iPhone 3G Pre-Order List and submit your details now!