nakedmolerat:sidders80:nakedmolerat: I applaud Samsung for doing the right thing here. A great move to stop parallel importing!
What about when you go travelling overseas?
I use intl roaming.
not everyone prefers to
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nakedmolerat:sidders80:nakedmolerat: I applaud Samsung for doing the right thing here. A great move to stop parallel importing!
What about when you go travelling overseas?
I use intl roaming.
nakedmolerat: I applaud Samsung for doing the right thing here. A great move to stop parallel importing!
nakedmolerat:sidders80:nakedmolerat: I applaud Samsung for doing the right thing here. A great move to stop parallel importing!
What about when you go travelling overseas?
I use intl roaming.
stevenz: I've got a Telstra SIM that goes in my phone when I'm in Australia as the roaming charges for data make it totally uneconomical given that it's a personal expense. Losing the ability to do this would be a real nuisance. The TelCo's would love it though.
It's sounding like it's ONLY for units purchased within the EU though at this stage, so we may be ok.
Badboy2303: There goes that idea..
Seems like Samsung have put region locks at the SIM level. If you insert a sim which isn't from the region the phone is meant to be used in, you are unable to access calls (cept emergency), text or data..
Regards,
Old3eyes
old3eyes:Badboy2303: There goes that idea..
Seems like Samsung have put region locks at the SIM level. If you insert a sim which isn't from the region the phone is meant to be used in, you are unable to access calls (cept emergency), text or data..
From what i heard this morning it was at the request of the EU carriers to keep up their roaming revenues.
stevenz: I've got a Telstra SIM that goes in my phone when I'm in Australia as the roaming charges for data make it totally uneconomical given that it's a personal expense. Losing the ability to do this would be a real nuisance. The TelCo's would love it though.
It's sounding like it's ONLY for units purchased within the EU though at this stage, so we may be ok.
XinfinityoO: why only telecom.. hope other telco companies bring it in too ..like voda and 2deg
langers1972:old3eyes:Badboy2303: There goes that idea..
Seems like Samsung have put region locks at the SIM level. If you insert a sim which isn't from the region the phone is meant to be used in, you are unable to access calls (cept emergency), text or data..
From what i heard this morning it was at the request of the EU carriers to keep up their roaming revenues.
That doesn't quite tie in with the news from the EU:
End of EU Roaming charges
Regards,
Old3eyes
blakamin: Doesn't sound as bad as first thought... at this stage. Region locking is only for the first activation to stop parallel imports.
http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-note-3-region-lock-more-details-emerge
Wade:blakamin: Doesn't sound as bad as first thought... at this stage. Region locking is only for the first activation to stop parallel imports.
http://www.androidcentral.com/galaxy-note-3-region-lock-more-details-emerge
Read to the end of the article and mention is made of an update for S4 adding regional sim lock in selective markets. I wonder if it could affect pi'd handsets locally
evolution17: I've asked handtec to pop their own simcard in, boot it up, go through setup and send a SMS. power it down and then send it to me. I prepaid so they already have my money.
we'll see how we go. either way I'm installing a custom ROM so I void the warranty, however I may wait until there is a fix to prevent the knox from changing count. but I've never had a warranty problem before on my s2, s3, note1, s4 or note 2... all from handtec
a guy has already opened up the phone CSC or something and the list it displays blocks certain country codes. NZ isn't in it, but Australia is (sucks to live in aus :p) which means we can have it sent here WITHOUT having someone pre load their UK/EU simcard and it'll work fine on our NZ network, being 530 MCC.
we'll wait till mon/tues when I get a reply from handtec. I'm moving to the UK end of Jan so I could wait until then to buy it... but who really would?!? xD
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