Anyone in the US ordered from overseas and got it?

[mightymoose02]

I don't understand why some of you would pay double the price for the Note. I also wonder if you can use these phones from overseas, on the Verizon 4G LTE network? Finally, I assume if you have your own phone you are not bound by any contract periods but are you paying less monthly fees and what do you do if it breaks?

Even if you have to wait a few extra months, which I really don't want to do, perhaps you'll be getting a better phone with Ice Cream Sandwich & Samoled+ and I guess that's it. I doubt you'll get a quad band before the second half of 2012 at least, but the OS and screen and the debug time might be worth the wait and give apps makers a chance to adapt their software. No? I would love to have a 4G LTE Verizon Note by Chanukah and Christmas but what is, is.

I am a bit skeptical that it's going to arrive in the US by Christmas.

It's going to take some time for them to announce it and then introduce it at some conference here. And then give it another delay for AT&T or Sprint to actually roll it out into their stores.

S2 took forever and RECENTLY came out. Galaxy Nexus is already guaranteed a release with Verizon. Not sure if Samsung would give Americans the Galaxy Note so quickly.

For other nations, it's reasonable to get the Galaxy Note NOW since the Galaxy S2 has been out for awhile now.

 

[qraider]

Mine cost $890 australian dollars from mobicity. Took 4 days to be delivered, comes with 12 months insurance but for some reason the bloatware is polish. Fantastic phone, just love the screen. Could never go back to a smaller screen. Its like a mini tv.

Mine cost about the same in $NZ from Clove.co.uk.

In my hands 5 days later ...

 

[colnago]

I don't understand why some of you would pay double the price for the Note. I also wonder if you can use these phones from overseas, on the Verizon 4G LTE network? Finally, I assume if you have your own phone you are not bound by any contract periods but are you paying less monthly fees and what do you do if it breaks?

I pay "non-subsidized" prices for my AT&T phones (for T-Mobile acct. as well) because any "unlocked" phone allows me to keep my grandfathered "Unlimited Media Net" data plan, for "non-smartphones", which only costs $15/mo., vs. the $30/mo. I would be paying for a subsidized plan/phone. I'm saving ~ $25/mo. on T-Mobile by going with the "Even More Plus" plan.

So any savings I achieve, just goes to buffer the cost of a phone. $20/mo. for 24 mos. is $480. If it breaks, I'd have to get the mfg. to repair, or just buy another...or find/buy the part and replace it myself.

FWIW, pricing at Techno Trading House has dropped to $728 + shipping

 

[mobilebuddha]

you can also buy accident/normal insurance from squaretrade. i've been using them since like 2008(?) and been happy with their services.

with your old grandfathered plan, are you getting full HSPA+ speeds?

I pay "non-subsidized" prices for my AT&T phones (for T-Mobile acct. as well) because any "unlocked" phone allows me to keep my grandfathered "Unlimited Media Net" data plan, for "non-smartphones", which only costs $15/mo., vs. the $30/mo. I would be paying for a subsidized plan/phone. I'm saving ~ $25/mo. on T-Mobile by going with the "Even More Plus" plan.

So any savings I achieve, just goes to buffer the cost of a phone. $20/mo. for 24 mos. is $480. If it breaks, I'd have to get the mfg. to repair, or just buy another...or find/buy the part and replace it myself.

FWIW, pricing at Techno Trading House has dropped to $728 + shipping

 

[colnago]

...with your old grandfathered plan, are you getting full HSPA+ speeds?

Where available. Same APN settings as normal smartphone plan, less proxy server, username/password, and APN type.

 

[dlcpa]

I pay "non-subsidized" prices for my AT&T phones (for T-Mobile acct. as well) because any "unlocked" phone allows me to keep my grandfathered "Unlimited Media Net" data plan, for "non-smartphones", which only costs $15/mo., vs. the $30/mo. I would be paying for a subsidized plan/phone. I'm saving ~ $25/mo. on T-Mobile by going with the "Even More Plus" plan.

So any savings I achieve, just goes to buffer the cost of a phone. $20/mo. for 24 mos. is $480. If it breaks, I'd have to get the mfg. to repair, or just buy another...or find/buy the part and replace it myself.

FWIW, pricing at Techno Trading House has dropped to $728 + shipping

Well, that works for you and that forsquare insurance sounds terrific, as I could have used it for my TV, as the retailer, 6th Ave Electronics, to who I paid for a 4 year policy, no longer exists.

I have a $30 unlimited data plan for my BlackBerry on Verizon. So that is grandfathered for the next phone, hopefully the Note. Can I do better than that?

 

[colnago]

...I have a $30 unlimited data plan for my BlackBerry on Verizon. So that is grandfathered for the next phone, hopefully the Note. Can I do better than that?

There is a CDMA version of the note?

 

[Gary86]

Does this support 4G service at all? Who honors the warranty from Samsung since it isn't sold in the US yet?

 

[Rico ANDROID]

Does this support 4G service at all? Who honors the warranty from Samsung since it isn't sold in the US yet?

Very good questions! I have a friend who checked out the Note at a T-mobile store and found that tmo disabled the calling feature on theirs. Anyone else found this to be the case?

 

[boharris]

Tmo doesn't carry the note, are you referring to the galaxy tab 7.0 plus? Cause Tmo did disable voice on it but you could probably get around that using google voice.