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Smartone-Vodafone & iPhone in Hong Kong

July 15, 2009 Advice

Last Friday I reported that I was stuck at a Starbucks that did not have a reliable WiFi connection, so I decided to give the iPhone tethering a try. That trial ended up lasting 4 hours of work on my Mac. When I decided to use it, I was not 100% certain how Smartone-Vodafone was going [...]

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Smartone-Vodafone Tethering Now Exposed

August 17, 2009 Advice

Today all PCCW Home Netvigator (one of the largest Broadband ISP in Hong Kong) customer encountered problems accessing web sites outside of Hong Kong. It started for me some time around 14:00 and is still an issue. Fortunately, many people who has an iPhone was able to tether their computer to their iPhone’s HSDPA connection. [...]

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Smartone-Vodafone & iPhone Personal Hotspot

March 15, 2011 iPhone

After Steve Jobs’ announcement at the “iPad 2 Event” that the Personal Hotspot feature will be available in iOS 4.3, people have been wondering if their mobile carriers will allow the feature to work, and how will these carriers charge for the usage of this feature on their network. Like these users I wonder about it for [...]

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Tethering Finally Returns to SMV iPhone Users in HK

January 15, 2010 iPhone

Starting January 23, 2010 Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) will become an official Apple carrier partner in Hong Kong, along with 3 HK. May be this will mean that the two long awaited features: “Visual Voicemail” and “Tethering”, will also be officially available to SMV customers (old and new). I was not able to get an official confirmation about [...]

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To iPhone 3GS or Not?

June 12, 2009 Advice

The question that many are asking themselves after Apple’s keynote announcement on Monday (June 8th, 10:00 US EDT) is, “should I upgrade to the new Apple iPhone 3GS?” This is a reasonable question to ask as rumors of the cost of the new iPhone models are in the USD600 and USD700 range without a new [...]

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Smartone-Vodafone Unlimited Plan for iPhone

August 4, 2009 iPhone

Finally Smartone-Vodafone released a tariff plan that address the usage habits of iPhone users in Hong Kong. The yet unnamed “iPhone Unlimited” tariff plan from Smartone-Vodafone will cost HKD238.00/month + HKD12.00 (MTR fees) for unlimited HSDPA data usage along with a 18-month contract. Most mobile Hong Kong phone users and readers of my blog know, [...]

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