Just got a reply from Club Imate and was told the IMEI range for my current smartphone2 and my previous smartphone2 were NOT for NZ's, they're for UAE....

She suggested that I contact Vodafone NZ and tell them about this....

So what will happen to my device support then?????????????? Mauricio? JohnR?... any suggestion or things that you guys can do to check with this? I don't think this is affecting me alone, there's a high chance that many Smartphone2 users out there are not aware of this, and should really look into this and making sure that everyone of us will get the decent device support when we need to update/patch our phone with new updates.

this is the message i got from club imate "Maria Merchak"

"Regarding your issue, the device is not in the range of IMEI's we have
for Vodafone New Zealand, it belongs to the UAE region, and you should
contact your reseller (Vodafone New Zealand) for the device. Your
previous device (registered under chief account) also did not belong to
Vodafone New Zealand."




I'm not very delighted to find this out... I really hope to hear back from Vodafone NZ (or JohnR) in regards to this. Especially if the range of IMEI were not "authorised" to be sold in NZ, why is it in NZ then? :-0