Hey,
My family are planning to fly to Greek, and it will be much cheaper for me to buy it there then buying it in Israel.
There is a popular store there, like Clove or something?
Thanks
You mean Greece
'Germanos' are the first electronics chain that brought them, AFAIK.
Now Vodafone stores have them too, for about 550 euros.
There is a number of greek internet shops that stock them too, but I don't know if any can be considered 'popular'.
The phone was only very recently released in Greece, so the choices are limited. Most Greeks that have it, have ordered it from abroad.
I found a store on skroutz, which listed it for 490, just a week before the greek introduction by cosmote. It doesn't have greek as a keyboard option though, while the OS can be changed to greek. For me this wasn't an issue, but you should be carefull where you buy yours from, if you re looking for T9 and a greek keyboard, .
On the other hand I dunno if the one Cosmote or Vodafone offer, lists greek as input option either.
I don't need a Greece keyboard. I'll flash it and then install hebrew fonts and hebrew keyboards.
550-500 euro is very very high! look at clove price
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Just found out I have been sold a Czech phone by handtec.co.uk even though I am in the UK and so are they. Seems I can't get Manila 2.5 upgrade unless someone knows where I can get it from - or if I can HTC think it may change my language to Czech. Main question is do I have a claim against Handtec as I wouldn't have bought a Czech phone for the price I paid. Unfortunately I bought the phone in June 09. If I have no claim does anyone have any advice on upgrading a Czech phone please.
japeron said:
Just found out I have been sold a Czech phone by handtec.co.uk even though I am in the UK and so are they. Seems I can't get Manila 2.5 upgrade unless someone knows where I can get it from - or if I can HTC think it may change my language to Czech. Main question is do I have a claim against Handtec as I wouldn't have bought a Czech phone for the price I paid. Unfortunately I bought the phone in June 09. If I have no claim does anyone have any advice on upgrading a Czech phone please.
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Assuming its an authentic HTC you can flash hard SPL and change your ROM to whatever you want.
Not sure about the claim stuff, sorry.
The hardware is the same no matter what country you buy it from (assuming it's not a copy) You can download an official Eastern European manila 2.5 rom here: sunnysoft.cz/htc/ (it will be in English by default)
I too was sold the Eastern European (EE) version by Handtec. They claimed that they could legally source any unit from one EU country to another without breaking any consumer protection law. Not sure they are right but don't have time to contest it.
However, the EE versions also support English and you can upgrade from the relevant country site and still read it. Happily the upgrade itself has an English title even on the Czech site. I think you are prompted for the language you want when you run the upgrade - I've certainly done it without any trouble.
The only two issues are:
a) upgrades for minor markets (e.g. EE) lag behind the 'major' ones by some weeks (and I suspect some won't appear at all);
b) some ROM applications appear with EE defaults (eg the clock comes with Warsaw and Budapest times not London, Paris, New York).
b) is trivial but a) can be a pain. I certainly won't be buying from Handtec again as I think this is a con.
Is the tab available in germany yet?
I'm going to Bremen next week, any retailers there who have it in stock?
What price?
Thank you in advance
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Is the tab available in germany yet?
I'm going to Bremen next week, any retailers there who have it in stock?
What price?
Thank you in advance
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Its available in germany from last week only. I bought it here for 729 euro after 40 euro discount.you can try in media market or saturn, but no idea about stocks. You can also get it from amazon.de for around 700 euros online
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Thanks man.
Hopefully I will be able to find one in stores..
One more question:
If I buy it in Germany, how easy is it to change the language to Norwegian or English??
delete123 said:
One more question:
If I buy it in Germany, how easy is it to change the language to Norwegian or English??
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its pretty easy.. as easy as just going to language settings and select your choice.....
its pretty easy.. as easy as just going to language settings and select your choice.....
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Not from what I've seen. The Tabs being sold at Media Mart and Saturn can't
change their languages. At least not via the simple settings/menu. Trust me I've
tried on many devices at different stores. Its whats holding me back from buying
one.
Just bought it yesterday in a vodafone store. Unbranded.
There's an apparently called more locales or sommit. But it does seem strange that you can't change language without it.
Hi,
i'm considering getting a Galaxy Tab, but there is a huge price difference between Amazon.co.uk (~560 euro, 1 year warranty) and local shops here in Slovakia (670-740 euro, 2 year warranty).
My question is if the version sold at Amazon.co.uk does come with central european localization (Czech, Slovak, Hungarian) or not. Before someone says "Ask Amazon.co.uk" - i did it, and they pretty much said in their own style that they don't know and sent me the link to Samsung UK website, which of course doesn't have this information.
So if any owner of a Galaxy Tab from Amazon.co.uk could make screenshot(s) of languages in the Settings>Language & Keyboard>Select language menu (or something like that), i would be very happy.
Thanks
Language support is not a dealbreaker for me, but could be a major factor for a resale value here in Slovakia.
Hey,
sorry, I can't answer your original question, but I might can give you a hint... I bought my Tab from T-Mobile in Hungary. I attached a screenshot from the localization settings about the languages you can choose (to be more precise the screenshot shows only the part of the list you probably are interested in).
As you can see it's quite strange: all the central-european languages appears (polish, romanian, hungarian, etc.) but I can't find Slovakian language, while there seems to be 2 instances of Slovenian. You will know better than me whether it's a typo or I'm just under-educated not knowing Slovenians have two languages... BTW Czech language is also present, which is quite close to Slovakian as far as I know, maybe that can be an option, too.
Bottom line: if this rom is ok for you, you can go for it later, no matter where you buy the tab. Hope this helps somewhat in your decision...
Update:
Ok, I'm an idiot, no matter how strange it sounds for me, "Slovencina" does mean slovak language. Conclusion: Google before you write Pls skip that part of the above post...
Slovencina (Slovenska Republika) = Slovak, Slovenian (Slovenia) = Slovenian. I know the versions sold here in central Europe have those languages, as you just shown me, but i want to know about the version sold at amazon.co.uk, because flashing ROM (even a official one) equals to lost warranty, and i don't want that, even if the warranty is in UK.
In the end, i decided to buy it from Amazon.co.uk. 100 euros is not something i can walk over, even if it means 1 year extra warranty.
I was also thinking about Archos 70 8GB - but it's nowhere to buy (Amazon is out of stock, Expansys can't confirm any date) or Commtiva FM6/N700, but that one has serious video playback limitations.
So in the end, i decided to go Galaxy Tab route, i hope i won't be dissapointed.
PS: Fun note, i ordered Galaxy Tab with one PC game at once. Guess what Amazon did ? They will send 2 items as 2 separate packages. They love to do this, they did it with nearly every order i did so far .
Have you bought an EU version of the Galaxy Note either from Amazon.de or one of the UK retailers selling them, like Handtec?
Are the manuals, box and documentation etc in English, or are they in German etc?
I got from eBay, the guy shipped from Germany so it's most likely the German version(Especially since the default language was set to German). The box was in English and the quick start guide came in English and German.
I'm awaiting delivery from amazon.de but I have already downloaded and browsed the user manual....
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...GT-N7000_UM_EU_Gingerbread_Eng_D08_111006.pdf
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Have you bought an EU version of the Galaxy Note either from Amazon.de or one of the UK retailers selling them, like Handtec?
Are the manuals, box and documentation etc in English, or are they in German etc?
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Mine is polish I assume (the box says www.samsung.pl )
and I have one non-english manual.
I already downloaded/read the english manual though, from the german samsung website.
- Frank
Where did you purchase yours from Frank?
They're comming out at around £480. What did you guy pay?
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Where did you purchase yours from Frank?
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Handtec. Shipping was international priority and blazing fast, left there 1pm UK time, arrived USA 10am next day.
- Frank
Dang thats fast!
If you bought your phone from amazon.de web site, was it intended for german market or is amazon re selling units for other world market? There was an issue with guys purchasing Samsung Galaxy 2 from amazon.com where they find out that their unit was meant for Chilean or Vietnamese market. I am going to purchase from amazon.de and want it to be with german firmware version.
Can you please check? Thank you
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If you bought your phone from amazon.de web site, was it intended for german market or is amazon re selling units for other world market? There was an issue with guys purchasing Samsung Galaxy 2 from amazon.com where they find out that their unit was meant for Chilean or Vietnamese market. I am going to purchase from amazon.de and want it to be with german firmware version.
Can you please check? Thank you
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Initially on bootup it is in German. At the wizard press the bottom right button. Select English. Then that's it its an English OS.
Some issues with the market. Its suggestion German ones to me like amazon app and google translate. Fix will be easy.
The instructions are EU and first language is English. Also note it comes with an EU plug.
Also some of the pre-defined browser shortcuts are for .de websites - notably Samsung. Again no problem.
A similar "localisation" occurs wherever you buy it from.