Acer A1 in Hong Kong (Fifth Android phone in HK)
Acer A1 is the 5th android phone here in Hong Kong, with HTC Magic, HTC Hero, Samsung Galaxy and HTC sense. The first network carrier is CSL and the promotion page is http://1010.hkcsl.com/jsp/whats_hot/news_and_promotions/acer_liquid.jsp?language=eng.
Here in HK HTC Hero is making some noise, but network carriers has a huge problem of not updating their customer to the latest OS and i bet they don’t care. I know someone who happen to learn how to update the OS by themself coz their network won’t do that. Now i want to see how CSL would live up to their android customers.
Since HK has laws that phone can’t be locked to a network unlike most country, phones by default are more expensive in the end even if you subscribe to a network. Acer A1 is requires you to have 18 months contact with $218+15 (around 30US) and you have to pay 1500HKD for the device plus the fact that the internet is not unlimited, while this might not sound that much to some, my G1 (dev phone) is under China Mobile using Edge/GPRS but i’m paying 110HKD (15USD) per month. And i download podcasts on my G1 therefore i use gigabytes of data and imagine how much my bill will be if switch to use A1 on CSL. Now since HK has no locked carrier, i’ll try to see if how much will the phone be without the promo (not the listing price).
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