*** The Official Samsung Galaxy Note II Thread ***

Just to confirm, received my Note 2 this morning from T-Mobile and I could use my Orange sim in it.

I see no T-Mobile branding on the phone itself or bloatware installed, so it all seems good so far. Will give it a whizz when i'm on lunch.
 
Absolutely love the phone, much prefer the screen to my iPhone 4.

I can confirm my GT-N1705 from T-Mobile is network locked, not a big deal but hey ho! :)
 
Mine is here as well! Not played with it much as it's an upgrade and i'm waiting for the SIM to activate...still its up and running on WiFi, what a screen!
 
Meatball said:
Absolutely love the phone, much prefer the screen to my iPhone 4.

I can confirm my GT-N1705 from T-Mobile is network locked, not a big deal but hey ho! :)
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Thanks for the confirmation Meatball. It is a big deal to those of us trying to procure the N7105 from Orange or TMobile for use on another network!:)

Incidentally, did you discover this by putting in a microsim from another network (I assume this is the only way you can tell)
 
olisun said:
Seems the EE prices have been leaked and they seem to be very expensive.

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...ariffs-leaked-and-theyre-not-shocking-1106111

Original link here http://www.stuff.tv/news/phone/rumour-mill/ee-4g-pricing-leaks-ahead-of-official-announcement
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£160 for 128GB...
I still wonder how much for lets say up to 5gb...
5gb should be plenty for streaming music all days long and www etc..maybe not movies but some youtube...

£5 on top of 3G plan seems a lot anyhow...still depends what you get for a fiver..
 
bastic said:
£160 for 128GB...
I still wonder how much for lets say up to 5gb...
5gb should be plenty for streaming music all days long and www etc..maybe not movies but some youtube...

£5 on top of 3G plan seems a lot anyhow...still depends what you get for a fiver..
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it appears these prices could be incorrect, tomorrow will be the big reveal on tariffs.
 
Gutted....cant upgrade with Voda until Aug next year.

Have to do some number crunching and weigh up between paying off remainder of time and getting new plan against getting handset SIM free and sticking with Voda on current plan (£31 per month for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500Mb of data).
 
Shelster said:
Gutted....cant upgrade with Voda until Aug next year.

Have to do some number crunching and weigh up between paying off remainder of time and getting new plan against getting handset SIM free and sticking with Voda on current plan (£31 per month for 300 mins, unlimited text and 500Mb of data).
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What phone do you have currently?

It will almost certainly work out cheaper to stick with the current plan, sell your current phone, and buy a new one SIM-free. If you buy out your contract and go for another, you'll need to get a new contract (costing around the same amount, if not more per month), and it will be for 24 months (not the 10 months you have remaining now).

As a rule of thumb: Buying out long periods of high-value contracts generally works out as poor value.
 
Ok peeps, latest from the grapevine.

Mobicity are now shipping the 16gb LTE but have very limited stock and a fair few back orders to fulfil which they reckon should be cleared in 5-7 days should stock from Samsung continue to "trickle in". New orders will then be fulfilled on a first come first served basis.

I had an online chat with Orange UK. They have an estimated 30 day lead time on the LTE, which you can order on pay monthly. PAYG is being offered (unlike TMobile) but cannot be ordered until in stock and sets you back £600. Good luck with that one; pay monthly are clearly the priority for UK networks $$$$ cant blame them they are running a business and PM is where the margin is.

Interesting debate ongoing on whether LTE underperforms on battery and general processing as compared to non LTE, whether it lacks the FM radio (!) and whether the standard flip case fits the LTE (er, why wouldn't it?) on an Aussie forum

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1992836
 
Surreytoon said:
Interesting debate ongoing on whether LTE underperforms on battery and general processing as compared to non LTE, whether it lacks the FM radio (!) and whether the standard flip case fits the LTE (er, why wouldn't it?) on an Aussie forum
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Well I can 100% confirm that the flip case fits the LTE version - I have it fitted right now, and it's snug as a bug in a rug.

As for the rest - battery life seems roughly in line with what others have been reporting with the 3G version, but it's hard to say for sure without explicit quantitative data to compare to. It was at about 55% battery when I got it 10hrs ago, I've been fiddling with it plenty since (about 4hrs screen-on time at a guess) with wifi and GPS always enabled, and it's down to 9% now.

As for the FM radio - any easy way to check?! I would never normally use that feature...
 
Duff-Man said:
battery life seems roughly in line with what others have been reporting with the 3G version
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You can't meaningfully tell the effect on the battery of the LTE radio until you've got a 4G transmitter to connect to. (Though searching for weak (or non-existent) signals is pretty hard on battery life with 3G...)

As for the FM radio - any easy way to check?! I would never normally use that feature...
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You should have an app called FM Radio? :)

BTW, what does the manual say about LTE bands? The Mobicity site only shows 1800 I think, but if this is a generic N7105 it should have 800 and 2600 too - albeit not usable in the UK until next year. Oops, I take that back, Mobicity is showing all three bands now.

Sam
 
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