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On release day, March 24th 2009, I was forced to work late. Turns out, it didn't matter since the phones were sold out 4 hours after the official release.
The next batch that came through lasted longer, but I was having a financial crisis and put off grabbing one, thinking foolishly that the surge was over.
There are 19 T-Mo stores within 100 miles of my house and I am now on a first-name-basis with most of their clerks
Austin is not only home to Dell, SXSWi and hundreds of video game companies, but it is also home to millions of techies slobering over this new gadget.
Two days ago, I was going through my twice-daily ritual of contacting the stores in the area when, on my third store, I heard that they now had 15 in stock.
15?!? I thought that was a joke! I jumped into my car and drove 10 minutes to the store, walking in just ahead of three others. There were 4 phones left.
While purchasing the phone, several others came rushing in, sweaty and begging, but to no avail, the phones were gone. 24 of them between 1pm and 3pm. Those were the only HD2s sold in Austin this week.
I now have my phone and am guarding it like a lost treasure. I don't know what they are going for on eBay right now, but it breaks my heart to think of parting with it after suffering for so long to get it...
I was pretty lucky I guess. I walked in 10 minutes after T-Mobile opened on release day here in Los Angeles, and walked out with the phone 15 minutes later.
Looks like they underestimated the demand, or they are expecting a lot of returns, lol.
I got it the day they were released. The T-Mobile store was giving conflicting prices than what the a T-Mobile call center rep told me and my father on the phone (we both wanted the phone). Store refused to match the call centers prices. Our rep called the store while we were there and not only did we get the phone but they gave us a buy 1 get 1 free. We still had to renew our contracts but I didn't mind, you can't argue with a free phone. The call center rep said they were sorry of the inconvenience and made note on how we have been with t mobile for many years. Two HD2's for only $199.
xeebot said:
I was pretty lucky I guess. I walked in 10 minutes after T-Mobile opened on release day here in Los Angeles, and walked out with the phone 15 minutes later.
Looks like they underestimated the demand, or they are expecting a lot of returns, lol.
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The T-Mo reps on the phone told me that normally the company will set aside a few thousand of the new phones for the employees to purchase, but due to the demand, they've barred employees from purchasing the phone.
This sucks for employees, since they can't actually use the phone on a daily basis and be able to field questions from their customers, but it rocks for everyone else.
Can you imagine how pissed I would have been if I had found everyone at the stores carrying this phone but I couldn't have one? LOL!
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I went to the T-Mobile outlet @ about 2PM on the launch day. I thought nobody would want this phone as it has the 'Marked for death' OS.
I causally asked the rep, how the sales was. he said mine was the last one left, the I went to another shop to get the screen protector as these were out of it.
In the other shop, those guys were so surprised that I was able to get one so late in the day.
With WM7 around the corner I'm surprised this phone is selling this hot.
PS: At the look of it I hate the WM7 with the same disgust I reserve for the iPhones. And I got this because its the last hurray of a beautiful OS. My heart broke when they excluded US from HD launch, so this is like a dream come true. 4.3' capacitive screen with snapdragon. I'm pinching myself. But for the shear 'unique' feel I'll still keep my N900.
Talk about going threw hell to get this phone, I live in Alaska and we dont have T-mobile here so I had to use wirefly to order the phone on a new two year t-mobile contract using my old home Address in CT, and then have the phone sent to my brother (they wouldnt send the phone to a different state then the billing addy) for him to send to me here lol oh and had to sell my Tilt 2 to afford it and have been stuck with my old V3 razor till it gets here on Sat lol The things we do for our Toys lol
I drove 45 minutes to get mine 2 days before launch
HD2
Walked into one Tmobile store at 12:30pm, they were sold out.
Drove 10 miles to the other local Tmobile shop and they had 6 left.
Slapped down 450 dollars, smiled and walked out the door, HD2 in hand, it was like it was Christmas morning.
No regrets, no complaints.
fhaines
I went into a tmo affiliate store the day before to check out the Cliq. I never even considered the HD2. I looked at the screen, then saw it was winmo and spent about 30 minutes talking myself into it after I swore no more winmo phones. After watching about 10 minutes of transformers I was sold.
Biggest plus of winmo is desktop access to my phone via Soti and or mymobiler.
Biggest negative, no ipsecvpn with challenge response -:-( <--I didn't research that part, and a work colleague said they got their Eris working, this is my dealbreaker. Sucks I have to sell, I like everything else about it.
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Biggest plus of winmo is desktop access to my phone via Soti and or mymobiler.
Biggest negative, no ipsecvpn with challenge response -:-( <--I didn't research that part, and a work colleague said they got their Eris working, this is my dealbreaker. Sucks I have to sell, I like everything else about it.
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Wait, you're selling your HD2?
Oh Snap!!!
I talked myself into getting the phone on launch day, called all stores within 100miles from me, nothing all sold out (pretty pissed), as I walk into walmart I see they sell it, had 1 in stock and I bought it. Still smile everytime I take it out of my pocket. I got it for 148.88 yes!!!!
I didn't go through anything because not getting the phone isn't the end of the world.
So I ordered mine on the 25th and got put on a waiting list..No big deal...The phone was mailed and delivered to me 6 days later.
I had it 4 days before its public release.
All I did was; headed into my store when I received a call that the FedEx truck had arrived, unpackaged the shipment, grabbed my reserved unit... and left the store... went home and then slept for the rest of my day off.
Reignzone said:
I had it 4 days before its public release.
All I did was; headed into my store when I received a call that the FedEx truck had arrived, unpackaged the shipment, grabbed my reserved unit... and left the store... went home and then slept for the rest of my day off.
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LOL, you got lucky, 'cause just after that they canceled employee purchases
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Wait, you're selling your HD2?
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I'm trying to trade for a N1 if possible, in marketplace and at work. At the same time I am trying all the different vpn's for winmo (trials) in what seems to be a vain attempt to get vpn working.
Ordered it online on Monday and received it on Thursday afternoon. Paid WAYYY less than T-Mobile. Was willing to pay the $149.00 through a AAA discount but when I called they said it was 199.00. Called a third party supplier and got it for 1/2 the 149 as a new 2 year activation. Was a little reluctant and was even thinking of cancelling with the third party because there seem to be a few bad reviews but I have 14 days return 30 day exchange.
Still can get the 14% off AAA discount off my bill and got the insurance which is now activated. Was a little hesitant but it was manufactured sealed and so far is physically flawless. Have the 3g connect problems everyone else seems to have. Had a SMT5600, 2125, TYTN, TYTN II Kaiser and a FUZE for a week (sold it for more than I paid for it once I saw the HD2). So far its a MAJOR improvement in build quality and usability. The only thing I wish it had was conversation record with RESCO or VITO.
bought it at 2am in the moring !!!
T-Mo online store was out of stock. Then a friend of mine called me up at 2:30 am at night on March 30th to say they are available. Bought the phone while half asleep, woke up next morning to see it was out of stock again
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T-Mo online store was out of stock. Then a friend of mine called me up at 2:30 am at night on March 30th to say they are available. Bought the phone while half asleep, woke up next morning to see it was out of stock again
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Now THAT is HTC dedication!
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I'm trying to trade for a N1 if possible, in marketplace and at work. At the same time I am trying all the different vpn's for winmo (trials) in what seems to be a vain attempt to get vpn working.
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You shouldn't have any problems trading down like that. (Yes, I said trading down. I've played with the Nexus One and it is awesome, but this phone is lightspeeds beyond it IMHO)
So the IPSec/L2TP and PPTP settings won't work for you because you need a "challenge response"? I can't believe that no one has created a "fix" for this somewhere on these forums...
just sat down, ordered online through wirefly with 100 bing cashback.
went to pick my preordered evo but they told me their systems r not functioning because sprint and bestbuy were activating too many lines at the same time.what a luck huh...... and im working full time this weekend so no chance to drop by bestbuy.jsut my day.F$%@#$KKKKK!!!
dude why dint you get it at radio shack? i woke up at 6 am i got it for 150 because i preordered it with 50$ and got a 20 dolar gift card and 10% on accesories and had no problem at all to activated....
same thing is happening at the shack only the early ppl got it.. i tried to get mine at 9 and they couldnt do it...
yea i should've preordered at the shack but too bad for me.so pissed off that im thinking of to wait for the HTC SCORPION
Same thing here....11 AM appt. BB Maize Rd - Wichita......systems are down. 2-2.5 hr wait for activation...started at 9AM. About the time Cali opened. They are going to hold my phone until I can get there after work. Felt retarded leaving work to go get a phone as it was. Oh well.
My Best Buy called in to Sprint and activated over the phone - took about 15 minutes.
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dude why dint you get it at radio shack? i woke up at 6 am i got it for 150 because i preordered it with 50$ and got a 20 dolar gift card and 10% on accesories and had no problem at all to activated....
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i did the EXACT same thing! except me, my dad and my brothers rolled up to the RS expecting to wait, there was NOBODY there.(except employees) in the time it took us to activate 5 lines, not one person came into the store. i'm very disappointed dallas!!
they had to try a couple times with mine but after the system going down for 10min twice in the middle it took almost an hour for me to get everything done. But I also had picked the lowest sales volume store in the area they only had 13 preorders spread through the whole day. They had time to wait on me.
that is a bummer. i was the first to get my preorder at RS. but as soon as the second guy was let it to do his. the system started to slow down. RS uses "snap" for sprint activation and to my understanding so does BB. if thats the case, could be a long day for ppl because when "snap" slows down, it REALLY slows down...
Why not take the phone unactivated and do it on your own time via Sprints site? Are they not allowing that?
No they have to activate in store, part of the deal with sprint.
We ran 7 of our 8 EVO sales fine in SNAP, though it was beginning to take ~5-10 minutes to load each page. Only one customer (of course mine) ran into so many problems that it took 3 hours to complete... I felt so bad
NOTE TO EVERYONE: If you're trying to upgrade a line that has a Data or SMS block on it, CALL SPRINT AND HAVE THEM REMOVE IT FIRST. It's more hassle than it's worth to handle it in store
Yeah took me about an hour. Took the first dude who came in about an hour. System was sloooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....but the phone is beautiful...
Currently having activations issues in Northern CA RS store.. Spent an hour in the store and they are still bogged down.. Hoping to snag the phone at lunch.
Good that I took an appointment for 7.30pm today. Hopefully we should be good by that time.
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same thing is happening at the shack only the early ppl got it.. i tried to get mine at 9 and they couldnt do it...
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Yeah I went there at 9 but I think I was more dedicated than you. After 3 hours and 2 breaks (walking around the mall for food) I walked out with my baby at 12:30.
Great day.
My girlfriend went and got mine took 30 minutes and this was at 10am eastern time. By the way, this was at Radio Shack
(Now I am a cool kid with the sent from evo at the bottom )
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I was the first one in my BB and had to port my number..it took over an hour to do everything and the people after me couldnt do anything.
bad thing is i cant make any outgoing calls or send any outgoing txt msgs..i can only receive calls and txts..
they told me it would be a few hours..its been over 4 hours and still wont work
so its half way working i guess..
walked in the store at 8, out the door at 820 with my phone.
of course, i was a new line. only weird thing about mine was porting my number from tmo.
i miss the colors on my nexus one. wish the evo's screen was amoled. but, i do like the size, i have to admit.
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walked in the store at 8, out the door at 820 with my phone.
of course, i was a new line. only weird thing about mine was porting my number from tmo.
i miss the colors on my nexus one. wish the evo's screen was amoled. but, i do like the size, i have to admit.
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Dude imagine goig from the nexus to palm pre, and then to evo wow such a difference in the 3
I'm going to pick mine up right now. I had to pay an old debt to sprint and they told me if they run my credit twice within 60 days it'll get flagged for fraud, so I'm hoping that doesn't happen. I don't know if they ran my credit when I payed that debt or not.
Let us know how you like yours!!
I have it since 8:10. I'm transferring the information from my Evo to it. I bought a really cool case with it.
Going to get mine at lunch time. Sprint store is about 6minutes away, hopefully they dont take the other 54min to get me paid and activated.
Yeah. Got mine and rooted it already. Waiting for a nandroid capable recovery and nand unlock. Cases at sprint were not that great. I might stop by bb today or tomorrow and get a screen pro put on it and see if they have better cases. Sprint had a neat dock but obviously you can't dock if you have a case.
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Yeah. Got mine and rooted it already. Waiting for a nandroid capable recovery and nand unlock. Cases at sprint were not that great. I might stop by bb today or tomorrow and get a screen pro put on it and see if they have better cases. Sprint had a neat dock but obviously you can't dock if you have a case.
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They had one at Sprint that I really liked. It was back and hard rubberized. And for 15 bucks. Who could argue? I put it on and it feels REALLY awesome.
How's the battery life?
Can you make it two days without a charge?
-----just kidding..
Congrats to you early adopters! Good luck with it and looking forward to ALL the mini-reviews.
....contract is almost up for my Sprint credit..can't wait!
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Going to get mine at lunch time. Sprint store is about 6minutes away, hopefully they dont take the other 54min to get me paid and activated.
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Don't forget 6 min to drive back to work
I have to wait til after work tonight. I hope there is still stock. Going to the Sprint store first to get my wife to see if she likes it. Then to Best Buy to get the instant rebate. If she likes it I have to wait til November. If not then I will swap devices asap!
just picked mine up in the store, i got there at 8:15 thought there would be a line, but there wasnt I was the only one in the store
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just picked mine up in the store, i got there at 8:15 thought there would be a line, but there wasnt I was the only one in the store
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Same here. Another person was there picking up the Epic, but other than that, we were alone in the store.
Initial Impressions
Very quick impressions...
Capacative buttons work absolutely FINE.
Going through the menu setting up various things the phone flies.
Email setup is much more of a pain the BB but I expected that and went through the same thing with the EVO
The phone has less of a 3G signal in my office thatn the EVO did but at least it's a solid one bar whereas my 9650 Bold would drop every call. Sprint sent me an Airwave yesterday to use in the office so once I get that up and running I'll be good to go. I have a strong 4g signal at home so I'll try that out this evening.
Absolutely love the screen. If you don't have an EVO sitting next to it for comparison, the screen is plenty big enough.
Keyboard is excellent
I'm guessing it's tyhe rounded corners...the phone is much more comfortable in the hand than the EVO was and for perhaps the same reason, fits much better in the pocket.
Looks great...I sense no "cheapness" factor to it at all.
I'll have more input after I get a chance to really work with it as the day progresses but I'm very happy with the decision to go with this device.
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Further Updates on Call / Sound Quality and GPS:
Having spent the morning on the phone now, I have to say...for someone who wears hearing aids (me), the call quality both on the earpiece in the front and the rear speaker is simply the best I've ever experienced with wither BB or my previous EVO.
Totally impressed and that alone makes this phone worth it to me.
Interestingly, while the EPIC shows only one bar whereas the EVO used to show 2-3 here in my office, the EVO would drop about every third call and the connection was obviously poor. At one bar, the EPIC sounds darn solid.
GPS locked on in seconds from within my office and put me right where I am.
Fired up Sprint Nav, put my house in for a destination and much more quickly than my BB 9650 ever did, it had me on the way home...even though it's not time to go home
Picked mine up at around 8:15
So far loving the keyboard amd how smooth verything seems to be. Sprin had a really cool case with a ruberized back that I decided to buy and so did te other guy getting a epic.
I miss the big screen of the evo. But the samoled screen is definitely an improvement
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Picked mine up about an hour ago. I was third in line when the Sprint store opened at 8AM. By the time I left about 20 minutes later, there where at least 6 other people there all wanting the Epic. Purchased all of the available accessories including the Media Dock.
Picked mine up at 8am sharp. Wasn't $350 upfront rather $250 like BB & RS are offering. Asked rep if I had to charge the battery when I got home and said no. Powered it up and it was only 50% charged. Tested GPS with google maps, cold locked right in after I turned on locate in settings. No 4g so far and I live between baltimore and richmond 4g areas, rep said I would have it but I know he was just blowing smoke up my arse about those things. He also kindly advised me that I would be receiving an automated survey call tomorrow and to give their store a 5 out of 1 scoring. I'll think about it.
All in all, pretty pleased with the smothness, minor lag when loading up xda page. Asphalt 5(demo) ran smooth, hardware keyboard has a great feel and good key spacing, and backlit keys are a major plus.
Let the custom ROMS begin!
Just got mine about an hour ago. The only downside is the layout on it but I'm sure some custom ROMS will come soon and I can't root so the wireless tether feature is not there. Overall very nice screen and the touch screen is great. I've only played with it for a half hour so I can't say a whole lot more about it.
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Picked mine up at 8am sharp. Wasn't $350 upfront rather $250 like BB & RS are offering. Asked rep if I had to charge the battery when I got home and said no. Powered it up and it was only 50% charged. Tested GPS with google maps, cold locked right in after I turned on locate in settings. No 4g so far and I live between baltimore and richmond 4g areas, rep said I would have it but I know he was just blowing smoke up my arse about those things. He also kindly advised me that I would be receiving an automated survey call tomorrow and to give their store a 5 out of 1 scoring. I'll think about it.
All in all, pretty pleased with the smothness, minor lag when loading up xda page. Asphalt 5(demo) ran smooth, hardware keyboard has a great feel and good key spacing, and backlit keys are a major plus.
Let the custom ROMS begin!
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it was 250 in a corporate store or a 3rd party store?
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Going to get mine at lunch time. Sprint store is about 6minutes away, hopefully they dont take the other 54min to get me paid and activated.
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It's a guarantee they will, it took 15 minutes for me to buy a car charger the other day.
It took me all of 16 minutes to return the Bold 9650, have them activate the EPIC, check that it worked, buy a case and get out of the store.
I didn't bother to have them set up my email accounts as I'll do it myself.
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it was 250 in a corporate store or a 3rd party store?
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Corp store on new contract $260+. Dunno if he was trying to hook me up or if corp is trying to compete with BB/RS pricing. I did mention "that's what BB across the plaza is selling it for" and he just mumbled LOL.
Dang! My upgrade iss due tomorrow and I call sprint because I havee reserved a phone from sprint and BB, but sprint doesn't wanna give me the instand rebate and sprint doesn't wanna transfer the upgrade day to today, so I'm screw. F U Sprint!!!!
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After drooling over the Note via virtually by watching a ton of youtube videos as well as reading up on everything about it I could find, I finally was ready to buy it (after had borrowing the money to get it). I knew I wanted the GT-N7000 version over the US AT&T model, mainly because of the better processor and I really like that Video Maker app, as well as a bunch of other things. I ordered my International Note through Amazon, with Prime Shipping! I placed the order for it last Wednesday afternoon, but it was not scheduled to arrive until Today, Monday. Woke up early, just to make sure I was handed the package and it wasn't thrown to my front door, ... I immediately felt something was wrong when I saw the box. It was in a longer than needed rectangular box, with both sides pushed in, to where you could actually reach in and pull the phone out of the box.
When I opened the box, too look at what was in there, first thing I noticed was that the phone box was not plastic wrapped, second thing, the AT&T logo on the box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wasn't really upset as I should of been, but the feeling of waiting over the weekend for Monday to come started back up again, as I knew I was going to have to return this phone, and wait for it to go through the process of mailing it back, waiting for the refund to go through, then reordering it from someone else, and waiting for it to arrive again.
The dealer I bought it from was MasterDeals Inc on Amazon. I will definitely not be buying anything from them in the future.
What a huge letdown this was, after having that NOTE FEVER for several weeks, then for it to end this way was a big disappointment. I hope the next one that gets shipped to me is the correct model.
I got to hold it for but a brief instance, my baby and I will meet again soon.
Sorry to hear that, it should all get sorted out as the product you purchased was a N-7000 and not the ATT Note.
Man that really sucks I am planning on ordering another note from amazon for my wife and I want to make sure that doesn't happen to me. I just noticed the reseller who is selling through Amazon that I was planning on buying through has two different pictures one for att and one for international ill have to be careful. Good luck on your return I hope they get you all sorted quickly it really is an amazing device.
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When ordering online they don't specify which version it is? I'm sorry to hear that ... regardless, I'm sure it'll get straightened out.
UPDATE: 4/6/12
After what happened, which I posted above, I am glad to say I am now a VERY HAPPY GT-N7000 Note owner.
How it happened.
After opening the package which I had received on Monday 4/2/12, I immediately packaged it back up and sent it back, due to the fact that the seller had sent me the AT&T model, which I did not order.
Amazon's customer service emailed me the pre-paid UPS postage to include on the box, and I went to the nearest UPS drop off location and sent it. This was about 3:45 pm.
On Wednesday, at 12:00 PM, I had received a email from Amazon saying they had received the return, and were processing it and would email me back once the refund was submitted. That evening around 6:00 pm, I had received the email saying the amount I spent on the phone, $609.99, was being refunded back to the card I had used for the purchase. That was good enough for me.
3 Hours later or so, I reordered the Note from Yapper Wireless on Amazon. This was after receiving response emails from them that they were in fact selling the GT-N7000 model, so I placed the order around 9:00 pm that night.
Since I am a Amazon Prime member, I only had to pay $3.99 to have my order sent via 1 day shipping, which I did, as I wanted it before the weekend.
Thankfully, it did arrive this morning, Friday, at 11:00 am. Keeping my fingers crossed, I opened the box, and immediately seen that it was in fact the GT-N7000 WHITE model.
The phone box was not plastic wrapped, and after looking in the box, I noticed why, the seller took out the international plug adapter, and replaced it with the US Samsung one, which I was happy about.
Next I installed a screen protector, which I am not sure I will keep on, then installed my 32GB Samsung Class 10 Micro SD card, and installed my Straight Talk sim card. Followed the instructions on the Straight Talk website, activated the sim, picked the $45 a month Unlimited plan, and entered the APN settings that can be found on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487293 Thanks to Hirudin for posting it.
I first tried a call, Worked.
Text message, Worked.
Took a pic and sent it (MMS), Worked.
Again, I was VERY HAPPY! It's feels good to have unlimited minutes again, after being SO limited as I was with my 300 minutes a month $35 Virgin Mobile plan.
Next step, downloaded Speed Test to test the network.
Turned off WiFi (of course), Began Test.
I noticed in the status bar, It was going from 3G to H+, but then stayed on H+, this test was taking inside my house.
Results:
3.1 MBPS Down
1.2 MBPS Up
I am located in Fremont, CA .. the Bay Area.
I again, VERY HAPPY with these speeds, I would be lucky to get 100 KBPS Down with Virgin Mobile, which of course runs off of Sprints network.
I then went to the Google Play store on my computer, signed in with the email associated with my phone, and went to Devices under account settings, I was once again VERY HAPPY to see that it shows my carrier as AT&T!
The phone is on the charger now, I haven't really got into it yet, but I can say that this is definitely the BEST phone I have ever owned, and yes I did once own and use the iPhone 4. I am so excited to FINALLY have my very own Note, and I can't wait to start using it and customizing it to my liking. I look forward to May 22, when Samsung announces the S III, and hopefully whatever specs this new phones has, hardware wise, will make it into the Note 2. Quad Core/2GB Ram/12-16 Megapixel Camera/etc. I just hope the Note 2 at least keeps the same size screen, if not go slightly bigger!
Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to share my experience with everyone, and yes, the Note/Straight Talk combination works flawlessly! Highly recommended if you don't like spending $100+ on your phone bill.
Long Live the Note/Hail to the King Baby!
Gotta love those happy endings.
And don't worry about the phone being on 3G, mine does the same. It switches to H+ when it starts pulling data, and goes back to 3G when it's finished; i think it's a power saving measure.
Wow from disaster to awesome, all sorted within the week. Sounds like you and amazon worked really fast to fix the problem. Congrats on getting the right note and I could almost feel your optimism while reading through lol!
Too many times ppl get hung up on bad mouthing a company due to a problem and take ages to get it fixed. You on the other hand named and shamed vowing never to buy from again (same thing I would do) and then got on with getting your phone
There really is no going back to a smaller device for ppl who use their phone other than calls. Loved my Dell Streak for year and a half and now I love my note. 5" is the future.
Enjoy your device buddy wd.
TheRealCJ said:
Gotta love those happy endings.
And don't worry about the phone being on 3G, mine does the same. It switches to H+ when it starts pulling data, and goes back to 3G when it's finished; i think it's a power saving measure.
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Sounds cool, thanks for the heads up.
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Wow from disaster to awesome, all sorted within the week. Sounds like you and amazon worked really fast to fix the problem. Congrats on getting the right note and I could almost feel your optimism while reading through lol!
Too many times ppl get hung up on bad mouthing a company due to a problem and take ages to get it fixed. You on the other hand named and shamed vowing never to buy from again (same thing I would do) and then got on with getting your phone
There really is no going back to a smaller device for ppl who use their phone other than calls. Loved my Dell Streak for year and a half and now I love my note. 5" is the future.
Enjoy your device buddy wd.
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Yeah, I am glad it all worked out in the end. I know what you mean about not going back to a smaller device, I don't think I could do it, or at least I know I wouldn't want to.
Actually it bounces back from H+ to 3G as soon as your phone is idle for a couple of seconds or your throughput is below a certain threshold. This is controlled by the network and not your phone. The wireless medium is shared between many users, this is done to free up the limited resources for the users actually needing H+ and throw back everyone who doesn't need it to 3G.
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Come on REALLY!! No one made a star wars joke!
This is not the Droid you are looking for...
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(Yeah its lame but it was 1st thing came in toy head when I saw the title of the post)
Only 5 days to go until the official release in the UK, and I was wondering how many people have taken the day off work specifically to collect their new phone?
I'm not personally, but I have a brother who works for CPW who said their deliveries usually come in on the Tuesday, so I may have mine a day before release!
One other thing, after watching all the videos out there, I feel I am expecting this phone to completely blow me away. Do you guys think it's really going to be all that and a bag of chips?
Cheers,
BS...
I'm taking the day off, but that's mostly because there's no guarantee what time it will be delivered at my workplace and I start early and finish early. I don't want to have to hang around the office all day for it to arrive at 5:00 so I'm taking the day off and collecting it from the VodaGroan shop.
The "all that" thing is going to be largely down to useage and expectations, I'm a heavy user, but I'm just expecting it to be better than my SGS1. This phone isn't going to cook my dinner, rub my shoulders, etc, it's just going to be for browsing the web, listening to music and playing games.
i wouldnt waste a days holiday to sit around waiting for a phone....its just a phone
it will still be there when i get home from work, and a phone doesnt rule my life....
Brownstone said:
I'm not personally, but I have a brother who works for CPW who said their deliveries usually come in on the Tuesday, so I may have mine a day before release!
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Can I be nosey and ask if you got a discount then and how much? Did you go contact or SIM free?
We have a porter in our development so parcels are taken care of. I'm usually at home anyway and I am not planning on going anywhere the day of expected delivery because I know I'll want to play with my new toy as soon as it gets here
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I have a week off
But then I'll be working my volunteer job of blogging in that time...
My day off anyway but if wearher is nice wont be staying in waiting for it, will be at tbe beach!!
However we get an hour timeslot for delivery text to us from the delivery firm vodafone use and I live 2 minutes from beach so bot a problem popping home for an hour......but the phone wont be going back to beach with me.....knowing my luck my boy will bury it
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jayc1980 said:
but the phone wont be going back to beach with me.....knowing my luck my boy will bury it
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Your shiny new S3 would probably make a great spade... New sand castle building accessory
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MrMrMr111 said:
Can I be nosey and ask if you got a discount then and how much? Did you go contact or SIM free?
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No discount unfortunately, and I've gone on contract with 3, moving from a SGS1 on Vodafone. I also have the SGS2 through o2 as my work phone, so I will briefly have all 3 SGS phones, until someone buys my SGS1 off me.
Cheers,
BS...
jayc1980 said:
My day off anyway but if wearher is nice wont be staying in waiting for it, will be at tbe beach!!
However we get an hour timeslot for delivery text to us from the delivery firm vodafone use and I live 2 minutes from beach so bot a problem popping home for an hour......but the phone wont be going back to beach with me.....knowing my luck my boy will bury it
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That hour time slot is good service. Which firm do they use? Are you in the UK?
Cheers,
BS...
I have phoned my local Carphone Warehouse store, and they have told me that they will be getting their stock on the 29th, but they are "not allowed" to sell them until the 30th. They will be available from 9:00am.
General and launch discussion should be directed here.
Thank you.