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Hi,
I'll be taking my family to Hong Kong for a few days next month. I have a mind to see if I can find an HTC Diamond Touch Pro, any recommendations on a good place to shop for phones in HK?
Any other recommendations for cool stuff to do in HK, good restaurants, or hotels with character are very welcome! Thanks!!

I'm from Hong Kong!
Yay! Another Hong Kong tourist.
Firstly (and most importantly, of course), there is a gadget heaven in a shopping district called Mong Kok (yes, feel free to giggle; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_Kok ), a street called Sai Yeung Choi Street: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Yeung_Choi_Street
Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&h....170265&spn=0.009627,0.019312&z=16&iwloc=addr
All the big shops there are legit and quite competitive, so don't forget to haggle!
Hotel-wise I don't know what your budget is, but the one that I usually put my clients in is the Royal Plaza Hotel, which is also in Mong Kok and is above a great shopping mall: http://www.royalplaza.com.hk/
If you're looking for a budget hotel, the Shamrock Hotel in Jordan (near Tsim Sha Tsui - another shopping heaven; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsim_Sha_Tsui
) would be a good choice: http://www.shamrockhotel.com.hk/en/index.html
Obviously you should try to book via travel agents, which will make it a lot cheaper.
Restaurant: if you can read Chinese, there's a fantastic online guide for HK restaurants. I've personally picked three, one of which I have been to before (the second one):
Super Star Seafood Restaurant 鴻星海鮮酒家:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3391
(map) http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3391&mapType=1
East Ocean Seafood Restaurant 東海海鮮酒家:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=690
(map) http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=690&mapType=1
Tack Hsin Restaurant 德興火鍋海鮮酒家:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3423
(map) http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3423&mapType=1
They are all in the Tsim Sha Tsui district - just an 8-minute underground train (we call it the MTR) journey from Mong Kok, and it is another shopping heaven. However, don't bother visiting those so-called "tax free" electronics shops, as we don't have value-added tax anyway plus they have many scamming tricks up their sleeves, just for tourists.
The buffet restaurant in the hotel is also very nice, and I think they do afternoon discounts which would be great for your family.
Other attractions and links:
Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong - my favourite shopping mall in HK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Walk
Central - a financial district with the skyscrapers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central,_Hong_Kong
IFC - a shopping mall in Central: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_International_Finance_Centre#One_International_Finance_Centre
Wong Tai Sin - a Taoist temple, very popular in Hong Kong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Tai_Sin
Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_Tan_Buddha
Tai O - a fishing town on Lantau Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_O
Ocean Park - a theme park on Hong Kong Island with REAL animals (unlike our tiny HK Disneyland): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Park_Hong_Kong
Kam Shan Country Park - a nice walk with wild monkeys everywhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Shan_Country_Park
http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_ks/cou_vis_cou_ks.html
Repulse Bay - the best beach in Hong Kong, in my opinion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repulse_Bay,_Hong_Kong
Transport in HK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Hong_Kong
Feel free to ask me any questions.

Richard,
Wow, thanks for so much great info!! I'm planning the trip now and you have made my life a heck of a lot easier, my wife also thanks you for saving her from one of my "it will be an adventure..." trips!! I really appreciate the links to attractions, restaraunts, etc. Also thanks for the heads-up about the "tax-free" shops...apparently I was scammed last time I was there
You rock!

No worries
My pleasure. Enjoy Hong Kong!

More attractions
Just remembered some more places that I missed out:
Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden - beautiful countryside park, requires bus to get to but definitely worth it. It is something that you'd never expect to see in such a crowded city! http://www.kfbg.org/kfb/homepage.xml?lang=en
Mong Kok Computer Centre (again, for us lads really): http://maps.google.com.hk/maps?f=q&...4.17107&spn=0.004814,0.009656&z=17&iwloc=addr
Popular (and also my favourite) street markets, most are in Mong Kok: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/touring/popular/ta_popu_open.jhtml
Of course, you can always refer to the official Hong Kong Tourism Board's website - plenty of tips there: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/index.jsp

Thanks again for all the help, I've got a pretty good-looking trip planned based in no small part on your advice. I did find a good website that has pretty good prices for hotels, www.agoda.com
Thanks!

Wow, that's a neat website. I'll recommend it to my friends in the future. Thanks a lot.
Just out of interest: which hotel did you pick in the end? Still in the Mong Kok area?

Yeah, I booked at the Prudential Hotel, which appears to be right on the border between Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui, seems like a good place to be. I read about 100 positive reviews of the place on various travel forums, the MTR stop is actually in the basement of the hotel and supposedly you can easily walk to the markets. Which is good since I am traveling with two women who's primary goal in life is to die with the greatest number of shoes
Do you have any experience with this hotel?

Shamrock Hotel, which I recommended, is also directly above the same MTR station (Jordan). I don't know much about the hotel you've chosen, but the 100 reviews can't be wrong (unless they are fake, of course) so you should be fine.

Good. Thanks.
That's good! thanks. I used the sinohotel.com, booked the Shamrock Hotel.

Movember - Tom Selleck & The Magnums

Hi Guys,
Don't know if any other countries do this but in OZ the month of November is now known as MOvember.
Why, you ask?
MOvember is the month when guys grow moustaches to raise funds for research into Prostate Cancer and Male Depression.
A few guys at work and I have formed a posse - Tom Selleck and The Magnums - and put together the following website -
www.tomselleckandthemagnums.com
in order to garner support for our Mo growing exploits.
Please check it out and if you could spare a few $$$ it will be going to a good cause.
Cheers!
Justin.
PS: I'm the ugly bugger on the bottom left of the donate page.

down in the south some people do "no shave november" -GUYS AND GIRLS-
its sick, and maybe it came from cancer research, but everyone down here i think just does it because they are lazy (because i've never heard of the whole raise money for cancer and don't shave thing)....

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down in the south some people do "no shave november" -GUYS AND GIRLS-
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Those poor boyfiends...
It's pretty big her in Oz (I think it started here) but there are official sites for NZ, UK, USA, Canada, Spain and Ireland as well...
www.movember.com

Stanley Cup Finals

Who are you rooting for? Me? Canucks, usually a Rangers fan, but enemy of my my enemy is my friend. I hope the Bs lose, they knocked the Rangers out if first rounds, and hurt Callahan breaking his leg.

I used to be a huge hockey fan but I lost interest. I guess the Canadian inside me is rooting for the Canucks /lack of Canadian pride, hahaha.

Definitely the 'Nucks for me!!

Lost interest when the Red Wings got knocked out. At leas San Jose isn't there!

I found my love of hockey when I was living in Calgary during the 2002 Olympics. Definitely supporting the 'Nucks. I live in NW WA now, and can even get a couple radio stations out of Vancouver.
The Bruins have enough cups, dammit.

cbronson41 said:
Lost interest when the Red Wings got knocked out. At leas San Jose isn't there!
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Same here! If I have to say I would rather the Nucks win. I don't really care for Boston.

3 more wins! No reason we shouldn't win. Canucks are way too deep for Boston to handle.
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Petition Against ACTA: Second Round for the WIN!

Im going to post their letter in its entirety and hope you guys sign the petition as the first petition has influenced the E.U. Parliament to wash its hands off ACTA and submit it to the court. We need a second petition to bash ACTAs Head in
for good.
Dear friends,
In days, the European Commission will try a last ditch attempt to revive ACTA. But we can shine a light on their dirty trick and foil their plans.
Governments are turning their back on ACTA one by one, so the EC is asking their Court of Justice to give the treaty the greenlight and renew its momentum -- but they plan to manipulate the process by giving the court only a narrow, uncontroversial question to consider, hoping it will lead to a positive outcome.
We can push the court to see though the EC's ploy and look at all the legal implications of this censorship treaty on our freedoms -- forcing a negative decision that kills ACTA for good. Click below to sign the call:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/acta_time_to_win//?vl
The European Commission spent five years negotiating ACTA in secret with corporations, but in the last five weeks we've blown the ACTA debate into the open. Now the Commission is fighting to keep ACTA alive by getting the blessing of the EU’s highest court. Unless we step in now the Commission, well-versed in bureaucratic dodges, may only present the court with a narrow question, preventing it from assessing ACTA's impacts on our freedom of expression, privacy and democracy.
We’ve forced governments in Poland, Germany, Bulgaria and other countries to freeze ratification. And now, if we win this battle in the European Commission, we can stop ACTA for good. If the EU does not ratify, ACTA will never become a global agreement and negotiators will have to go back to the drawing board to produce a treaty that stops genuine abuses but protects our rights.
Let's urgently call on the Commission and Court to give ACTA a full and fair hearing, and make sure the whole truth about this threat to our fundamental freedoms is revealed. Sign now and send this to everyone:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/acta_time_to_win//?cl=1633964172&v=12965
Millions of us joined together to fight for Internet freedom and stop the US censorship laws. We won, but now this threat is back on a global scale with ACTA. We've done what no one thought we could and stopped the treaty's march to ratification. Let's finish what we started and beat back ACTA, for good!
With hope and determination,
Alex, Pascal, Laura, Alice, Ricken, Dalia, Diego and the whole Avaaz team
PS. Check out the media coverage of our 2.4 million strong petition delivery to the European Parliament on Tuesday -- we caused quite a stir!
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Insurance claim/received 3 phones!

Made an insurance claim on my wife's S4 active when she fell and broke the screen. Checked the mail today and I was sent THREE phones! Anyone else have an experience like this?
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eachitandi said:
Made an insurance claim on my wife's S4 active when she fell and broke the screen. Checked the mail today and I was sent THREE phones! Anyone else have an experience like this?
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Gimme one :|

One to me also
Hey wait wait. wait.. wait... wait....
Brought to you by my own mmmmuuuuffffffffiiiinnnn

And for me
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Screw the other ones, i'll give to 20 bucks for one of them.

I will give ya 25 bucks. Screw lord
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I'm thinking I'm going to wait about 6 weeks to see if the extra 2 get blacklisted. If they don't I'm putting them on ebay
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Well aren't you lucky...

Pics or didn't happen...
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Pics or didn't happen...
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The first box is sealed up with the broken phone ready to be shipped off...

eachitandi said:
I'm thinking I'm going to wait about 6 weeks to see if the extra 2 get blacklisted. If they don't I'm putting them on ebay
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You will make sure to install flappy bird on them.
Hey wait wait. wait.. wait... wait....
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HUNTER said:
You will make sure to install flappy bird on them.
Hey wait wait. wait.. wait... wait....
Brought to you by my own mmmmuuuuffffffffiiiinnnn
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Lol that damned game stole so much of my life. My highest score was 278. Nothing compares to those cheating bastards on the leader boards...
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2 of those are "gifts" from the NSA.
Choose wisely.?
[A gorilla dies for every smartphone.
Stop using gorilla glass and save planet earth]

never happened to me! awesome luck dude! enjoy the phones!

eachitandi said:
The first box is sealed up with the broken phone ready to be shipped off...
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OP delivers

Dear Respected One,
GREETINGS,
Permit me to inform you of my desire to get one of your devices. I got your contact from the International web site directory. I prayed over it and selected your name, eachitandi among other names due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person I can do business with and by the recommendations I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am Wumi Abdul; the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs George Abdul. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discus on a business deal. When my mother died on the 21st October 1984, my father took me and my younger brother HASSAN special because we are motherless. Before the death of my father on 30th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $12.500.000 (Twelve Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in Abidjan, that should be used on a mobile device, such as you have.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance his from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it to buy a device from you. Sir, we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To provide a Bank account where $10,000,000 would be transferred to, so i can get a device from you.
2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a girl of 26 years.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards.
Miss Wumi Abdul

LordManhattan said:
Dear Respected One,
GREETINGS,
Permit me to inform you of my desire to get one of your devices. I got your contact from the International web site directory. I prayed over it and selected your name, eachitandi among other names due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person I can do business with and by the recommendations I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am Wumi Abdul; the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs George Abdul. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discus on a business deal. When my mother died on the 21st October 1984, my father took me and my younger brother HASSAN special because we are motherless. Before the death of my father on 30th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $12.500.000 (Twelve Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in Abidjan, that should be used on a mobile device, such as you have.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance his from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it to buy a device from you. Sir, we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To provide a Bank account where $10,000,000 would be transferred to, so i can get a device from you.
2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a girl of 26 years.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards.
Miss Wumi Abdul
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Lol...

Damn. I should fall too.
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LordManhattan said:
Dear Respected One,
GREETINGS,
Permit me to inform you of my desire to get one of your devices. I got your contact from the International web site directory. I prayed over it and selected your name, eachitandi among other names due to it's esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person I can do business with and by the recommendations I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.
I am Wumi Abdul; the only Daughter of late Mr and Mrs George Abdul. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discus on a business deal. When my mother died on the 21st October 1984, my father took me and my younger brother HASSAN special because we are motherless. Before the death of my father on 30th June 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has a sum of $12.500.000 (Twelve Million, five hundred thousand dollars) left in a suspense account in a local Bank here in Abidjan, that should be used on a mobile device, such as you have.
He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth and some huge amount of money his business associates supposed to balance his from the deal they had that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a God fearing foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it to buy a device from you. Sir, we are honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways.
1) To provide a Bank account where $10,000,000 would be transferred to, so i can get a device from you.
2) To serve as the guardian of this since I am a girl of 26 years.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God Bless.
Best regards.
Miss Wumi Abdul
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I always believe African royalty, but this is a lie. There are no girls on the internet.
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[Guide] Headphone/Earphone Buying

jRi0T68 said:
I always believe African royalty, but this is a lie. There are no girls on the internet.
Excreted from my Nexus 5
[Guide] Headphone/Earphone Buying
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You have crushed my African heart
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