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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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Smartone-Vodafone Still Doesn’t Understand [Updated]

August 18, 2010 iPad

After I published the Open Letter to Smartone-Vodafone in April, I thought Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) finally understands the needs of its subscribers when they released the new tariff plans for the iPad in July. When the dust is finally settled I finds out SMV still doesn’t understand what subscriber needs.

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Smartone-Vodafone Prices for iPhone 4 [Updated]

July 28, 2010 iPhone

As we are only 2 days away from the official iPhone 4 release in Hong Kong. One of the three Apple mobile carrier partners, Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) released their contract prices for the iPhone 4. Note that the only difference among iPhone 4 sold through mobile carrier partners, Apple authorized resellers and Apple HK store online [...]

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Micro-SIM Availability in Hong Kong

June 21, 2010 iPad

Recently you may have just purchased one of Apple’s latest gadgets, the iPad WiFi+3G, from the 9 countries officially selling them, or plans to get one of the iPhone 4 from either Canada, France and UK. This is because all iPad WiFi+3G (except the ones sold in Japan) and iPhone 4 sold in Canada, France, UK and Hong [...]

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Smartone-Vodafone Accepting iPhone 4 Registration in Hong Kong

June 18, 2010 iPhone

As many of you already heard Phase 1 of Apple’s iPhone 4 launch is planned for June 24th, and the initial demand at the phase 1 countries: France, Germany, Japan and USA, were higher than expected. So much so that AT&T and other resellers in USA had stopped receiving pre-orders.

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Internet Deprived in Shanghai

April 30, 2010 Opinion

As I stay in Shanghai on my 6th day I am staring to get Internet withdraws. It is not that I do not have access to the Internet. I do have access to my online store, my emails, my blog and some of my favorite sites. Although this is possible the mainland Chinese government has [...]

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Open Letter to Smartone-Vodafone

April 2, 2010 iPhone

Of the seven mobile carriers in Hong Kong: CSL’s One2Free, CSL’s 1010, Hutchison’s 3 HK, PCCW Mobile, Smartone-Vodafone (SMV), China Mobile and China Unicom, SMV may be the one that tries to deliver the best quality of service the hardest. This is why I am writing this open letter to SMV, hoping that the CEO [...]

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Smartone-Vodafone Heartless to Its Most Loyal Customer [Updated]

February 17, 2010 iPhone

From January 31 – February 14 I travelled to three US cities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. As you all know I am a long time iPhone user, someone who is very familiar with the Internet and various technologies. Hence, I was surprised to received a SMS from Smartone-Vodafone (SMV) on Feb. 5th, [...]

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Cryptic Smartone-Vodafone SMS

January 15, 2010 iPhone

All of a sudden I received the following cryptic SMS message from Smartone-Vodafone: Voicemail system migration has been completed. Your greeting & PIN have been reset. To check messages before system migration, dial 138 & press 5. The thing is that there was no prior message to say that the Voicemail system is to be [...]

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