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at best buy, samsung fascinate is again on the list for tomorrow. if your holding out this would be the best deal.

ordered and will be picked up tomorrow. good by winmo, hello android.

Dropped by and picked up.
good by Samsung Access (A877), Hello Android.

Just got a refund since I was within 30 day remorse period, lol. They did it as a Price Match.

Picked mine up tonight after I broke my other one yet it had been cancelled within 30 days(but forgot to add insurance smh)..long story..I will just take the charge from bum ass wirefly
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Got the wife one. Been pushing Android since I got the Inc. We just stopped by BB to browse and I dragged her to the phones where she saw that the Fascinate was free.
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Got mine yesterday and I'm loving it. Just got a chance to really play with it. Using this forum to learn as much as I can since this is my first android. Coming from a whackberry storm this phone is amazing. Wrote this post using swype. This is sweet!
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I got this from the first Free Phone Friday. I can't believe I've had this phone for a couple weeks already.

WOOOHOOOOOOO, i have now moved to the dark side. this thing is great. now to get some apps. not sure if im going to root just yet. seems to run just fine for now.

Got mine on the 1st free friday. man, I'm just amazed! This is coming from a iphone user of 2 years. Long Live Android

Early upgrade for high value customers...

Fyi, till December 31, in corporate retail stores sprint has a targeted offer to allow upgrades many months in advance for "high value" customers. Basically I've seen customers with bills averaging over 130 getting upgrades available as early as 9 months before true eligibility. Only way to check is to actually go in to a corporate retail store and have them look at your account. Under offers for your line it will say early hup. Manager has to override price but you could hit the upgrade lottery
This will NOT be reflected online, on the phone, or through any other method than physically setting foot in the retail store. Just FYI. Good luck.
Please don't repost this, it's only for my epic brethren.
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THX 4 that info

Is there even anything worth upgrading to yet?
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algorhythm said:
Is there even anything worth upgrading to yet?
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When I was looking a couple nights ago at phones I decided that waiting awhile was the best option for me. :-(

D-Buckner said:
When I was looking a couple nights ago at phones I decided that waiting awhile was the best option for me. :-(
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Yeah I feel the same way.. sure, I can roll the dice and see if I can drop 200$ on an early upgrade E4GT, but it's not THAT much better to burn my upgrade so early.

I got my daughter the epic touch; it is pretty nice. ROMs are still maturing though.
How spoiled are we when custom rom selection effects phone selection

my wife is due for an upgrade in june, but they told her about this in store a few daysw ago. same rep almost sold her an "iphone4g" for 99 bucks saying it was on sale.
im glad i changed the pin number a few weeks ago, or i wouldve had to have stabbed someone.

austin420 said:
my wife is due for an upgrade in june, but they told her about this in store a few daysw ago. same rep almost sold her an "iphone4g" for 99 bucks saying it was on sale.
im glad i changed the pin number a few weeks ago, or i wouldve had to have stabbed someone.
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I'm hoping the sprnt rep lol...
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I'm hoping the sprnt rep lol...
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Yes, lol. The rep, for hustling my wife.
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I just found out about this and walked out with a new Epic touch for the wife and I.
I called sprint to see if I could get around the $36 activation fee. What we ended up doing was the allowed me to buy out my term for $45 each then he credited me $100 on my account and waived the activation fees!
Sweet!
So I went to post it here and found this thread!

No upgrade for me until a decent LTE phone arrives.

That's my plan too. I'm still enjoying my epic, and I don't see any need to upgrade before then

Is there a way to find out if one of those stores are near me?

Yeah, as much as I like new toys to play with (root, rom etc.) there's nothing available that would even tempt me out of my $200.. now if Sprint gets the Galaxy Nexus in the next couple days.. that might be a different story (my buddy keeps sending me pics and updates about which roms he's flashed etc.. he just got the damn nexus today.. lol)

Our account is just over $130/mo with taxes and such... 2x (SeroP + 4G + $8 TEP). Anyways, my wife has been complaining so much about her Evo, and won't let me root/rom it that I want to get her an iPhone just to shut her up...

I managed to pick up an epic touch for cheap without using my upgrade, but I have to say I would hold onto my upgrade if I didn't have other options. Phones in 2012 will be quad core, amoled hd, and lte. But if you are desperate, it is another option for you.
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This could make my daughter very happy.
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No upgrade for me until a decent LTE phone arrives.
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I am happy I didn't jump on the upgrades a few months ago when I could. Now my upgrade comes in July right when the new LTE phones come out. So everything works out if you let it
Thanks OP for the info though.

Yup this is no bull. All of my lines are eligible.

shane6374 said:
This could make my daughter very happy.
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got mine the epic touch; she had the htc shift. she is all now.
haven't rooted it yet, letting the roms mature a bit before putting anything on it.
it is very nice, the sgs3 though is looking like a sweet phone, i'm waiting to see what all unfolds next year.

Samsung galaxy s3 i9300 ready for pickup in store in nyc!

Just picked mine up in white. Store has brand new sealed units in stock. Mine was unbranded and unlocked! I paid $850 but no one has these available anywhere else in New York City (or even available online!)
Amazing phone I'm a happy camper!
The store I bought from: New Wave Inc, its on Fifth Avenue and 32nd Street. 212 679 0600.

850? You got shafted. Oh wait, you have one post so far? I see what you did there

What size internal storage?
..Gromet
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Lower Manhattan, if anyone wants one - I can go pick one up and send it to you.

You created an account 6 years ago to spam at this moment? That's some planning.

eksasol said:
You created an account 6 years ago to spam at this moment? That's some planning.
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lol xda should delete old accounts

Wow! My first post and I get knocked down!
@Gromet Internal is 16GB.
@AnyMal Don't think I did, I really looked around couldn't find anyone else who had them in stock. Finally found these guys on Craigslist and they were a helpful bunch.
@eksasol LOL. Created account long time ago to download something. This was my first post as I was really happy to finally have the S3 and was trying to help other members who might be interested in getting one for themselves.

Cool story. Chianman, hook it up!!! Lol
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I'll pass at launch for tmobile it will be half.
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yamsie said:
Just picked mine up in white. Store has brand new sealed units in stock. Mine was unbranded and unlocked! I paid $850 but no one has these available anywhere else in New York City (or even available online!)
Amazing phone I'm a happy camper!
The store I bought from: New Wave Inc, its on Fifth Avenue and 32nd Street. 212 679 0600.
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Including taxes, right??

I shall buy mine off contract on AT&T for $600 with LTE and insurance because $900 is steep just to have it unbranded

Thats even more expensive that europe!
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guys what the hell, this is $665 at www.clove.co.uk and will get to you in less than a week. when it comes out on the big 4 itll be even cheaper.

I ordered my from expansys-usa for $694.99, it gets shipped from Illinois and i get it on 24 hrs
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dkotoric, can this one be used on Verizon's network? I know you're on ATT, but I believe VZW is GSM as well. I could be wrong, of course.

Death Roe said:
dkotoric, can this one be used on Verizon's network? I know you're on ATT, but I believe VZW is GSM as well. I could be wrong, of course.
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Afaik Verizon is cdma
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thatg said:
guys what the hell, this is $665 at www.clove.co.uk and will get to you in less than a week. when it comes out on the big 4 itll be even cheaper.
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it's actually $769 from Clove

its actually $665. you have to add it to the cart, the price youre looking at is the UK price with Tax. Its 432 gbp shipped to the U.S.

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dkotoric, can this one be used on Verizon's network? I know you're on ATT, but I believe VZW is GSM as well. I could be wrong, of course.
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You believe wrong
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People are crazy buying this phone for so much money. Imma be smart and patient because on June 21st I will have the same phone for less of the price. Pow.

Galaxy note 3 Simfree UK Price?

Hey everyone, anyone got any idea how much the note 3 will be simfree in the UK I've got an s3 at the moment and I bloody hate it need something a lot more powerful with a better screen and screen size. I'd be willing to pay like 500-550 although wouldn't be willing to pay over the odds like 700 for it or what they normally try to charge. So yeah anyone got any idea on how much the note 3 will be simfree only as I really don't want to be stuck in and tied down to a contract.
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Drizzy xS said:
Hey everyone, anyone got any idea how much the note 3 will be simfree in the UK I've got an s3 at the moment and I bloody hate it need something a lot more powerful with a better screen and screen size. I'd be willing to pay like 500-550 although wouldn't be willing to pay over the odds like 700 for it or what they normally try to charge. So yeah anyone got any idea on how much the note 3 will be simfree only as I really don't want to be stuck in and tied down to a contract.
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It's gonna cost you about 649 Pounds without contract also worth a mention according to them "The first 500 customers to pre-order a Galaxy Note 3 and Gear will get a £50 reward when they trade in any old phone at the Samsung Experience Store Launch Event."
For more info about pre ordering the Note 3 http://www.samsungnote3andgear.co.uk/

Check out clove UK. I've pre-ordered mine there last night... It will probably end up costing me 725 aussie dollars with FedEx shipping
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this is from Clove UK
"Both white and black models of the Galaxy Note 3 are now available to pre-order at a preliminary £495 + delivery & VAT where applicable"
Which +VAT here is £594 +pp
i'm quite sure there will be similar if not cheaper pricings as they are available end Sept
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Check out clove UK. I've pre-ordered mine there last night... It will probably end up costing me 725 aussie dollars with FedEx shipping
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Sorry I cannot link URL's (new user), but google unlocked-mobiles!
I believe you get 3 months free insurance with it, cost £598 for 32gb version.

DMax99 said:
Check out clove UK. I've pre-ordered mine there last night... It will probably end up costing me 725 aussie dollars with FedEx shipping
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hey man, everytime I check the forums for my new phone coming out details. I always see you aha.
I live in Auckland
can't help but upgrade aye bro? xD

entwicklun said:
hey man, everytime I check the forums for my new phone coming out details. I always see you aha.
I live in Auckland
can't help but upgrade aye bro? xD
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Yeah bro! It's a yearly routine now. Well, it's has been since GN1 ;p I remember you from last year too! Are you upgrading this year?
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yeah man of course haha. I wanted to go HTC one max or xperia z ultra. but decided to go with note again due to some spec requirements. like flash and SD card. flash mainly for hunting, like for your keys in the dark or something lol...
I've pre ordered from handtec, they have always been pretty decently priced. especially when you choose royal mail. no one acts as your gst/tax customs unlike DHL. so you save heaps. fck buying it here. price is always like 300+ more. joke country haha.
plus its never in nz until like 3 months AFTER the rest of the world has it
feeling a custom ROM first day I get it, just like I did with the note 2. custom ROM first day. sweet phone there after xD
where in AUS you live? I always remember your SIG haha

entwicklun said:
yeah man of course haha. I wanted to go HTC one max or xperia z ultra. but decided to go with note again due to some spec requirements. like flash and SD card. flash mainly for hunting, like for your keys in the dark or something lol...
I've pre ordered from handtec, they have always been pretty decently priced. especially when you choose royal mail. no one acts as your gst/tax customs unlike DHL. so you save heaps. fck buying it here. price is always like 300+ more. joke country haha.
plus its never in nz until like 3 months AFTER the rest of the world has it
feeling a custom ROM first day I get it, just like I did with the note 2. custom ROM first day. sweet phone there after xD
where in AUS you live? I always remember your SIG haha
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Yeah, prices are way too high here! I'm from Melbourne! I have actually lived in Auckland for 2 years about 10 years ago and I loved it! Where abouts in Auckland are you?
I went with clove again this time. Although Handtec is cheaper but after my horrible experience with them for my GN1 (I don't know if you remember it, I have mentioned it last year) I have decided never to buy from them again.
I have also had a pretty bad experience with DHL last year for the delivery of GN2, so this time I went with the slightly more expensive FedEx ;p
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nah not aware of your issue, what was it? I live in greenlane. pretty central. like 1 min walk to the MC D's haha. at the greenlane round about.
what happened with dhl?
I've been Melbourne a bit. got mates there. nice city. bigger Auckland, I could live there easy. instead I'm moving to Europe in Jan next year. making use of my EU passport.
FedEx is pretty good. I've never had problems with them before. I bought my first android from clove. the s2. haha. was a sweet phone back then. I went to it from an iPhone 2 or 3 cant remember now. yonks ago

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nah not aware of your issue, what was it? I live in greenlane. pretty central. like 1 min walk to the MC D's haha. at the greenlane round about.
what happened with dhl?
I've been Melbourne a bit. got mates there. nice city. bigger Auckland, I could live there easy. instead I'm moving to Europe in Jan next year. making use of my EU passport.
FedEx is pretty good. I've never had problems with them before. I bought my first android from clove. the s2. haha. was a sweet phone back then. I went to it from an iPhone 2 or 3 cant remember now. yonks ago
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Had to return 2 consecutive GN1 to them which cost me over 200 bucks because the first one had a bad screen bleed and second with bad dead pixels.
DHL last time had a 2 days deals with the shipping of my GN2 and lost the tracking those 2 days! So decided to spend a couple of dollars more and go with FedEx this time
So what colour have you chosen this time?
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wow that's epic **** luck. I got a 29" monitor the other day and came home, always dread turning on first time and seeing a dead pixel. I had about 8. had to drive alllll the way back. just a major mission. overseas would be even worse lol, no compensations for our shipping eh.
I went black, I've always done black/silver/dark. anything white and I feel like someone might comment on my iphone -_-
I think I waited last time only white was available for the note 2? or something like that, I just held off until the silver was available, think it was the note 2?
what color did you go?
what, spigen screen protectors are mid october in your hands? fck need a temp screen protector asap. link me to what you got? curious to see.
I was going to do a hybrid case but I don't like our already large phone, to be larger. that's why I've always got back replacements, never back/sides or even a complete case that covers the back piece.
from what I read, the spigen screen protector I got from amazon is available 20 september, say 10 days to get here. makes 30th, then if the note 3 is released 25th, say 5 days which is what I can remember how long it took last time, might both be bang on? and 10 days for the spigen is stretching it, I reckon it'll be like 5 days or 7 max

DMax99 said:
Check out clove UK. I've pre-ordered mine there last night... It will probably end up costing me 725 aussie dollars with FedEx shipping
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How? Cloves prices without VAT is 495 pounds.. Converting that to aussie dollars gives 838 .

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How? Cloves prices without VAT is 495 pounds.. Converting that to aussie dollars gives 838 .
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Haha.. Sorry... Oops... I did euro to aussie dollars instead of pounds to aussie... Too much headphone buying from Germany hence the habit of euro to aussie conversion...
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actually I was wondering how your dollar was so strong. i was like, ****, I might WU you bro and you send it to me from melb haha

Haha... My bad my bad.. ;p
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Own more than one?

Anyone here own more than one Moto X? I have one and am thinking about ordering a second one before the sale ends today.

Why? And why not?
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Just wondering if anyone else out there enjoys this phone enough to buy another one. Especially, considering this could be the last great Motorola phone to grace our palms (dependent on what Lenovo does of course).

Is the sale ending today ?I mean the 399$ sale?
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The $70 off unlocked Moto X sale is supposed to end today.
16gb - $329.
32gb - $379.

I have two of them. Makes it much easier to experiment. I have bought all of mine off of craigslist though for great deals so I can sell them for more then I paid if needed.(already done that with one)

I accidentally have two
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3 Here. Started out by ordering one for my Daughter when we were switching to T-Mobile from VZW... figured it'd be an ok 'starter device'.
After the wife and I put it through it's paces for 4-5 days.. we decided to order 1 for each of us as well.

We have 2 in the house, wife liked mine and got one a month later.
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No. That sounds like a very foolish idea.

I have two. One I bought as a spare when they were $350.
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Motorola extended the sale to Feb 22nd. In case you want to think on it a bit longer...
https://twitter.com/Motorola/status/434437974294401024

I have a white/olive one and a black/ebony on the way. I also have a Maxx. My daughter and son both have moto xs.

Got one for the wife and like it so well that I talked VZW into upping my contract date three Months so I could retire my HTC Rezound. Chris
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My family finally upgraded our plan last month (Our plan was so old, Best Buy's computer system couldn't handle it) and we all got Motomaker Moto Xs.

I got one to replace my broken Droid DNA and I love it so much, both my wife and my mom were jealous of the stuff it can do. My wife just got one and my mom is thinking about it.

If I got a second one it probably be for the wooden back. I dont see a practical reason to have two phones. Unless your drug dealer
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h1m said:
If I got a second one it probably be for the wooden back. I dont see a practical reason to have two phones. Unless your drug dealer
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Some need more than one for work. Some need another as a back-up because they are prone to destroying things by accident. Some just want more than one. There's three.

I understand having more than one phone for personal use...if you have nothing better to spend money on....but it makes more sense to me if they're two different phones. That's just me tho.
I will have 2 soon actually ...but one will be the wife's.
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I will consider another one if it become $199 like the N4.