Instant hotspot and continuity in iOS 8

Hi everyone, I hope somebody can enlighten on the following:
The day iOS 8 was launched, I installed it both on my iPhone 5 and iPad Air.
I tested a few features, among them instant hotspot that worked remarkably well. I could see my phone's name in the iPad's wifi screen, just tap on it that it would turn hotspot on in the iPhone, lock the ipad and it would turn it off, flawless.
Handoffs worked equally well, and I noticed that both devices (the iPhone and the iPad) had a bluetooth pair to each other, that could not be removed. In fact, since I had paired my devices before upgrading, I had two pairs, one could be removed, the other could not. I also noticed that as soon as I open the messages app or the email app on either device a bluetooth connection would be established automatically and the app icon would show on the other device lock screen.
So far so good but, I got an iPhone 6, and got rid of my iPhone 5. The iPhone 6 was by default named Ricardo's iPhone, like my old device. Two weird things happened.
1) I had two bluetooth devices named Ricardo's iPhone on my iPad, neither of them could be forgotten.
2) The instant hotspot feature stopped working.
I figured out that the iPad was seeing my old device, so I changed the name of my new iPhone to Ricardo's iPhone 6, just to distinguish them. Here is what happened.
1) I still have two iphones as paired bluetooth devices, but named Ricardo's iPhone and Ricardo's iPhone 6, not too big of a deal but annoying nonetheless.
2) More serious, my iPad still sees my old iPhone (e.g. Ricardo's iPhone) for instant hotspot, and does not see the new one (Ricardo's iPhone 6).
3) I can see my iPhone 6 the old way, if I turn hotspot on, I can see Ricardo's iPhone in the list of wifi network and I can connect to it, I tried that and enter the password hoping the iPad would recognize it, but not, still sees the old one.
I tried rebooting both devices, resetting network settings but no luck. I am thinking that I probably need to restore the iPad to fix this problem but it would be indeed annoying if every time you have a new device this happens.
For now, I am waiting for iOS 8.0.2 (after it has been PROPERLY tested) hoping that I least the installation will fix this, but Apple needs to fix this.

No its not their, I can see cellular options but hotspot option is missing. Attached are the screenshots.

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