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    My crazy company

    My crazy company is providing me with a SIM card but no handset.

    Where is the best place to buy a handset without a contract?


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    At a mobile phone shop. Plenty around. Where are you?


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    Any mobile phone shop 3G, Smartone vodaphone, CSL, PCCW even fortress and broadway.


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    It is often very difficult to see mobile phone shops here, I mean they are practically as rare as rocking horse poop.


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    I would recommend shops that sell parallel imports.

    There are a few at Peninsula Centre in East TST. The one I go to for handsets is called Ying Wui. Picked up a T-Mobile Blackberry 9700 for a friend the other day for HKD 3,650/-.

    Quote Originally Posted by Geoff:
    It is often very difficult to see mobile phone shops here, I mean they are practically as rare as rocking horse poop.
    The gummint's working on this. We are getting more shopping malls.
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    Thanks, I'll check Ying Wui out this weekend.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnought:
    I would recommend shops that sell parallel imports.

    There are a few at Peninsula Centre in East TST. The one I go to for handsets is called Ying Wui. Picked up a T-Mobile Blackberry 9700 for a friend the other day for HKD 3,650/-.


    The gummint's working on this. We are getting more shopping malls.

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    I'm currently commuting between Causeway Bay and Taikoo Shing. I prefer not to pay the full retail price at a typical retail shop. I definitely welcome parallel import shops.

    Thanks in advance.

    Quote Originally Posted by Claire ex-ax:
    At a mobile phone shop. Plenty around. Where are you?

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    Go to Mongkok if you want a wide range of greymarket phones. Sin Tat centre. http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/thread74699.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by jgl:
    Go to Mongkok if you want a wide range of greymarket phones. Sin Tat centre. http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/thread74699.html
    Thanks, read the thread. Seems like Sham Shui Po is a safer bet...

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    Lots of mobile phone shops in and around Apliu street Sham Shui Po and around the Argyle Centre in Mong Kok. You wont be disappointed, but make sure the phone has a decent Hong Kong warranty, and check the box before you leave the shop, that it actually does have the phone you bought, inside.

    Like everything in life, caveat emptor....

    Last edited by Skyhook; 05-08-2010 at 02:33 PM.
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