In the past few years, there have been numerous time I’ve seriously considered buying a smart phone like HTC, iPhone, but the technology wasn’t really ready yet by then.

However things changed with the raise of HSPDA and particular the launch of iPhone 4 early this year.

It’s time to CHANGE finally!

Today I’ve got an iPhone for me finaly…technically speaking, it’s not for me, but actually it’s for her. Compared many plans from different service providers in Hong Kong, finally located SmartTone mainly due to it’s network coverage and reliability and HK$398 unlimited plan is the best to go for a 32GB version. It took about 1 week to order and the customer service is excellent!

In additional, SmartTone embedded something called X-Power which allows you to view flash movie on Youtube and many other web sites that’s definitely a PLUS, as for normal users they really have no idea how to “JailBreak”.

For me, a network guy, I found the most useful tool is WYSE PocketCloud which provides the best RDP mouse control ability among its category and I am going to manage the whole data center through a little device like iPhone 4, wow…that’s awesome really! Basically this is ONE AND ONLY reason I surrender to iPhone, nothing else really.

Probably I will try Dropbox later which allows me to synchronize MP3/documents between my desktop and iPhone, but putting sensitive information on their server will be a big concern for many.

Finally, the 3G roaming service is still very disappointing, NO UNLMITED usage when I go to other countries even SmartTone/3/One2Free provides things called HK$168 daily UNLMITED PLAN with HIDDEN clauses that you can ONLY use email and browse web pages, and anything else like RDP/VPN/FTP/SKYPE will cost you HK$0.01/KB, so it’s absolutely USELESS when traveling aboard, only Wi-Fi works, but again why do I need to buy an iPhone without using 3G then? It’s like driving a HK$3M Ferrari on country road only and you are not allow to drive on highway.