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7 Things You Love to Ask About iPhone Unlocking

December 24, 2008 Advice

Over the past year and a half I had assisted many people with the unlocking of their iPhones. Many more people ask me about unlocking. So instead of answering each of these people over and over again, I thought I post an article in my blog, which I can refer them to for more details. [...]

Is Smartone-Vodafone’s IOM Value Pack Right for iPhone?

December 13, 2008 Advice

Over a month ago I decided to switch to the Smartone-Vodafone “IOM Value Pack“. You can read why I make this move in my previous post, New Tariff Plan from Smartone-Vodafone for iPhone. I had shared my experience here on my blog with my experience of using the iPhone in Hong Kong since June 2007. You can follow all [...]

New Tariff Plan from Smartone-Vodafone for iPhone

November 15, 2008 iPhone

As I still found my Smartone-Vodafone charges too high, I decided to look for alternatives, including those from competitors, like: PCCW, Three and People. For those of you who’ve been following my ideal iPhone tariff plan search in Hong Kong, you will know that I had been using Smartone-Vodafone’s 3G voice plan (HKD128/month) + Internet [...]

Another Chinese Decision

April 20, 2008 Opinion

China’s going to launch their own mobile TV technology in time for the Olympic games’ opening ceremony on August 8, 2008. Mobile TV standards have been largely incompatible, with systems in the North America, South America, South Korea, Italy and Japan. Now we see yet another incompatible system to be introduced in one of the [...]

Smartone-Vodafone Really Doesn’t Know

October 3, 2007 iPhone

Over the past 3 months in preparation of my eventual iPhone usage on the Smartone-Vodafone network, I began testing to see which is the best combination Smartone-Vodafone data plan to subscribe to. Prior to August of this year I subscribed to Smartone-Vodafone’s “HKD118.00/month Data Plan”, which gave me 10MB of usage per month and a [...]

VoIP from Your Mobile

August 13, 2007 News

Repost from: Vinko’s Satellite Blog As many of you may have heard of VoIP (Voice over IP). There are some very popular service like: Skype and Gizmo Project. Last year EQO Communications launched the EQO service, which extends these VoIP service back to the mobile phone, and in addition to offering free IM (instant messaging) [...]

Blue Sky squeezes GPS onto a SIM

April 27, 2007 News

Blue Sky has developed a technology to allow one to add GPS capability to a mobile phone without buying a new phone. I had always believe in location based application. I even lead a team while employed by Arthur Andersen to come up with location based solutions for a client way back in 2000.I think [...]

Choosing a Technology

April 26, 2007 Advice

I still hear people say, “It’s about time I learn how to use xxxx”. You can replace the “xxxx” with almost any technologies now a days. From SMS (text messaging) to Instant Messaging (IM), doing word processing on a computer to downloading HD (High Definition) movies from the Internet, video chatting to voice over IP [...]

Apple Store Japan (Mobile)

April 14, 2005 Apple Inc.

Apple launched a new Apple Store Japan for mobile phones users in Japan from their AU and NTT handsets. To be able to use this new Apple Store, you will need to be within service coverage of the NTT and AU handsets, since Apple had programatically blocked access to this new store from users other [...]

More on Convergence

March 10, 2005 News

In an blog entry back in January, “Digital Convergence I pointed out some of the trends of converging the functionalities of different technologies into the same digital device. Well today Samsung has done it also. The maker of various digital devices from LCD TV to mobile phone, cameras to rice cookers, has launched their “SCH-V770″ [...]