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Never off the grid: Smartphone rental for tourists in Hong Kong

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by Zoe Li, Hong Kong Editor

There's no way to get away anymore -- travelers to Hong Kong can now rent smartphones at the airport arrivals hall for HK$88 (about US$11.3) a day with unlimited 3G Internet access.

The fee also includes unlimited local and overseas call time to 17 countries.

The 3G service covers Macau as well, although you can't make free international calls from there.

Dubbed "Handy," the rental service that launched last week is an alternative option to paying data roaming fees to your home service provider. 

"From now on, prepaid SIM cards, paper maps, coupons, frenzied searches for Wi-Fi hot spots and physical guidebooks should be things of the past for tourists," said Terence Kwok, founder of Tink Labs, the company offering Handy.

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