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Nexus S pricing

for the sim free version in the US its gonna be $529 and for the same sim free version in the UK its gonna be £549
Using google currency converter i found the US version to be £220 cheaper ($330)
Would it be possible for me to buy a US version and get it shipped to UK to use here since they essentially are both the same?
thanks in advance for the replies guys
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rizzy123 said:
for the sim free version in the US its gonna be $529 and for the same sim free version in the UK its gonna be £549
Using google currency converter i found the US version to be £220 cheaper ($330)
Would it be possible for me to buy a US version and get it shipped to UK to use here since they essentially are both the same?
thanks in advance for the replies guys
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I think you might find that the US version is aimed at T-Mobile which means that the 3g frequency would be wrong for the UK, edge would work ok. If they come out with an ATT version, then that one would probably work ok on 3g in the UK.

Matterhorn said:
I think you might find that the US version is aimed at T-Mobile which means that the 3g frequency would be wrong for the UK, edge would work ok. If they come out with an ATT version, then that one would probably work ok on 3g in the UK.
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actually its the other way around. T-mo version works fine in Europe, but not att. att uses 850mhz band, while T-mo and europe uses 900mhz.
so yes, it will work fine in UK

ill still by it anyways lol

Matterhorn said:
I think you might find that the US version is aimed at T-Mobile which means that the 3g frequency would be wrong for the UK, edge would work ok. If they come out with an ATT version, then that one would probably work ok on 3g in the UK.
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I think that would only matter stateside. Both the att and tmo versions will support Europe's 2100 umts networks.

Matterhorn said:
I think you might find that the US version is aimed at T-Mobile which means that the 3g frequency would be wrong for the UK, edge would work ok. If they come out with an ATT version, then that one would probably work ok on 3g in the UK.
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the us version will support euro 3g.

The UK pricing is insulting really, I don't know who they expect to pay the full unlocked price. I think I may have too find a way to import it from the US. If anyone has a suggestion..
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www.borderlinx.com

K69 said:
www.borderlinx.com
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Thanks looks good, and saves about £150 on the UK price
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Wow, I didn't predict it'd be as bad as that!
I'll be doing my best to source alternatives sources for an S, if there's anything else to put me off, they'll have lost a customer:-
No SD, unfair pricing basically forcing an Import (I bet warranties on imports will be void since there was a valid UK source...)

rizzy123 said:
for the sim free version in the US its gonna be $529 and for the same sim free version in the UK its gonna be £549
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UK version costs $860? yikes
At least you guys get the cheaper subsidized version and better prices on monthly plans than us Americans right?

ap3604 said:
UK version costs $860? yikes
At least you guys get the cheaper subsidized version and better prices on monthly plans than us Americans right?
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not sure mate but i doubt it.
for e.g
cheapest iphone 4 on contract is £25 a month for 75 mins and 250 texts for 24 months with £219 for the handset.
Seems ridiculous and i could use up the allowance in 2 days lol, compare that to AT&T and it looks like you lot are getting a bargain lol

Can the US version accept SIM cards?
I thought that was the problem with importing phones from the US to europe...

Yes, it will need a SIM

Rusty! said:
Yes, it will need a SIM
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Will need one, sure.
But does the US version have a physical placeholder for the SIM?

itay1 said:
Will need one, sure.
But does the US version have a physical placeholder for the SIM?
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Yes. ATT and TMO use sims in their phones. I don't know if the nexus s is a micro sim like the iphone4 is though.

Yes, it's Sprint or Verizon (or both) than can't take a SIM. AT&T/T-Mobile use SIMs.

rizzy123 said:
not sure mate but i doubt it.
for e.g
cheapest iphone 4 on contract is £25 a month for 75 mins and 250 texts for 24 months with £219 for the handset.
Seems ridiculous and i could use up the allowance in 2 days lol, compare that to AT&T and it looks like you lot are getting a bargain lol
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You can't compare an iPhone tariff to an Android one, Apple take a huge cut and are ridiculously priced for handset and tariff. Try comparing the same phones in the UK and US and you'll see a big difference.

As far as I know, all Google Nexus phones are unlocked by default.

Im suprised that Nexus S (£550 = about 650 EUR) costs more than iPhone 4 in EU (£500). Also it costs much more than SGS (420 EUR here) or even Desire HD (540 EUR).

will the phone work in UK ?

Hi.
i saw this at amazon
http://wireless.amazon.com/dp/B004KZP4BQ
they are offering it for 600$. my question is, if i buy it, will it work in UK?

It's Quad band
you'll be fine in UK.

black_phantom said:
It's Quad band
you'll be fine in UK.
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Are you sure ? I can buy it and it will work fine ? Thanks

it says near the bottom of the link
This phone runs on AT&T's dual-band 850/1900 MHz 4G network (UMTS/HSDPA/HSPA+), and with HSPA+ you'll experience mobile data speeds up to 4x faster than ordinary mobile broadband--up to approximately 6 Mbps (download). AT&T has deployed HSPA+ to virtually 100 percent of its mobile broadband network, which enables 4G speeds when combined with enhanced backhaul (via Ethernet or fiber).
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Im in UK and interested in this, does amazon ship international?

It's GSM, thus uses sim cards, so that's fine.
According to this page (att.com/shop/wireless/devices/motorola-atrix.jsp#fbid=xjNmRHvaqP6), it supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz (so quad band as mentioned), and if Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands#Africa.2C_Europe.2C_Middle_East_and_Asia) is to be believed, we Europeans use 800/1900 Mhz frequencies. So it should work.
I doubt you'll get LTE (wrongly marketed as '4G') speeds however if you really want that, don't think any of the carriers here have such infrastructure in place
[edit]Wow, £372 before shipping, tax and customs. Even so that's a full £100 of my estimated unlocked price once this gets released in the UK. That's amazing.

ll_l_x_l_ll said:
Hi.
i saw this at amazon
http://wireless.amazon.com/dp/B004KZP4BQ
they are offering it for 600$. my question is, if i buy it, will it work in UK?
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you will need to get it unlocked but will work fine. question is will they ship to UK and what will customs charge u?
ask amazon for UK shipping.
I might get one too

wireless.amazon.com/help/200307850/ This page here states that it'll only ship to US states.
If you do manage to get one, Swiftunlock.net apparently offers legit worldwide unlock codes for $19.99, so that's one issue out of the way. You'll obviously need a plug adapter but those are like £10 at worst.
This is sound more and more appealing, think I might ask some of my US friend for some help...

Ronaldo_9 said:
you will need to get it unlocked but will work fine. question is will they ship to UK and what will customs charge u?
ask amazon for UK shipping.
I might get one too
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question is, how to get it unlocked?
unlocking the Samsung Galaxy S was easy..just editing a file..

avaxis said:
question is, how to get it unlocked?
unlocking the Samsung Galaxy S was easy..just editing a file..
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It will cost around 15USD to get unlock code, loads of ppl on the forums have already unlocked theirs, there is a thread on it....called unlock codes

hmm so amazon dont do international shipping?

Canadian Note Up for Order

Telus will let you buy it online outright for a whopping $779.
Bell has it at $729 but requiresa $30 mtm contract and $35 setup fee.
Does not seem to be available on Rogers yet.

I'm glad I ordered from Expansys. Almost $100 cheaper and unlocked. I hate these bas****s and am really want to get to the point where I am not locked into them by virtue of the hardware. Rogers is terrible - I have a family plan (four phones on it) so any time we do an HUP, the contract period on ALL the phones gets reset. I have stopped buying locked in phones and am a year away from making them work to keep my business. I regret having left Telus when the iPhone was first released by Rogers in Canada. They had gone out of their way to keep me as a customer - to the point where I had some amazing free customer loyalty freebies. Currently I have nada from Rogers in that regard.
/vent session off.

Shrink said:
I'm glad I ordered from Expansys. ...
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Did you order the Canadian or the International version? I thought Expansys sells only the latter...

That's exactly why i didn't order the international version... I want LTE!!
Jesus christ they making it hard for us to buy it at full price, I don't understand why? Not everyone wants a new freaking contract!
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A quick check online on sntraders.com they have both model 725 hspa+ 749 lte.
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or you could just buy off the telus team webstore for $662.99 no contract
see attached

mardos said:
or you could just buy off the telus team webstore for $662.99 no contract
see attached
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I heard of this before... I think i have to know someone with a telus team webstore account no?
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big samm said:
That's exactly why i didn't order the international version... I want LTE!!
Jesus christ they making it hard for us to buy it at full price, I don't understand why? Not everyone wants a new freaking contract!
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how do you think they make thier money ?

big samm said:
I heard of this before... I think i have to know someone with a telus team webstore account no?
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Yes i can assist you just PM me

https://negrielectronics.com/samsung-sgh-i717-galaxy-note-hd-unlocked-black.html
... yet another option. Although this thread is probably more suitable for the "AT&T Note" forum..

voxano said:
https://negrielectronics.com/samsung-sgh-i717-galaxy-note-hd-unlocked-black.html
... yet another option. Although this thread is probably more suitable for the "AT&T Note" forum..
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would this one works on tmobile 3g?

zozodouce said:
would this one works on tmobile 3g?
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I asked Negri about this. They said to check back in tomorrow. They're testing this as we type.

For anyone with the Canadian Note - is it true that it just has 512 Ram!

No it does not. That was a typo and spread as truth.
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is the LTE version unlocked if you buy it at full price?

Its locked if purchased from Bell telus or rogers

Its up on Rogers website... The lowest i've seen so far...699$ Sure it's lock but won't cost more that 10$ to get this badboy unlock!

def wrong section, but i feel bad for canadian note owners having their unbranded nicer device labeled as a bloat infested and branded ugly att phone
forum should be named Samsung Galaxy Note I717 instead of "ATT"
^ just a suggestion

voxano said:
https://negrielectronics.com/samsung-sgh-i717-galaxy-note-hd-unlocked-black.html
... yet another option. Although this thread is probably more suitable for the "AT&T Note" forum..
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I noticed it says LTE bands=700/1700 MHz...which seems to match the AT&T LTE bands. But will that Note version actually work fine with the AT&T LTE??

Aerials said:
I noticed it says LTE bands=700/1700 MHz...which seems to match the AT&T LTE bands. But will that Note version actually work fine with the AT&T LTE??
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Yes, bell/telus/rogers have the same network bands as ATT 4g and LTE, as long as its unlocked.
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Htc One Developer Edition to be $649

Unlocked and ready to be used. It also seems to be a US Exclusive.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/13/htc-one-developer-edition-unlocked-sim-bootloader-649/

demo27vol1 said:
Unlocked and ready to be used. It also seems to be a US Exclusive.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/13/htc-one-developer-edition-unlocked-sim-bootloader-649/
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Good news, now where and when can we buy it!?

s-off too ?

"One thing it's missing? AWS HSPA/WCDMA access, which should limit its opportunities on T-Mobile until it rolls out LTE service."

I don't get it, why do you have to pay extra for this now? Should be as standard, I ain't gonna support this scam, Glad I don't live in the US.

Since they released an unlocked version the US variants won't probably be unlockable through htcdev.

LOL! I'll bet 90% of the people who would get that aren't developers at all.

And it's US-only...

slannmage said:
I don't get it, why do you have to pay extra for this now? Should be as standard, I ain't gonna support this scam, Glad I don't live in the US.
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you are not paying extra, its cheap considering the 64GB

Original link (why post something that's not straight from the source?)
http://blog.htc.com/2013/03/htc-one-developer-edition/

Wow, I feel lucky. I'll be visiting the US in May. I'll be getting a 64GB version for cheap

I would get it now if it was available. My 32GB order from handtec.uk cost $653
Sounds like a better deal for a 64GB version!

Just on the basis of it being an unlocked/ unbranded version with LTE AND 64GB of memory, I'm all over it! I'm really glad I didn't order an unlocked one from overseas now!

No chance of this being made available in Europe with UK LTE frequencies, I suppose...?

Shasarak said:
No chance of this being made available in Europe with UK LTE frequencies, I suppose...?
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Since the rest of the world has always had the ability to purchase unlocked phones for any carrier and US wireless companies tend to want their phones locked down tight to their networks, it might not be a big market concern for them outside of the US market. If enough people wrote/ called/ messaged HTC from other regions they might be willing to make a version for other areas with LTE, but it sounds like that isn't their immediate plan.

EddyOS said:
Original link (why post something that's not straight from the source?)
And it's US-only...
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So lte would not work until tmobile rolls it out, but will faux 4g still work?
Nvrmnd. Only 2g for tmobile unless you're in a refamrmed network.
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I am way more likely to get One given this. $650 for 64GB is a great deal. IPhone 5 64 is $850 US. I bet this will be a Nexus 4 -- sell out in 30 minutes -- situation.
Then again, I am on ATT, soon to go to Straight Talk.

This version will be sold with sim and bootloader factory unlocked? If so it works in all countries...

So this would work fine on Sprint? I don't understand this AWS business.

64GB version of the HTC One lands in the UK

http://www.itproportal.com/2013/05/25/64gb-version-htc-one-lands-uk/

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http://www.itproportal.com/2013/05/25/64gb-version-htc-one-lands-uk/
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Wow! Thats one hefty price tag!
Glad i got the 32Gb now instead of waiting for this and paying a ridiculous price!

Oh god that's too much 720£ for 64gb, glad I bought my the developer edition for 650$. It's like stealing the money, hope its not true.
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Outrageous price and good luck to them trying to shift many units at that price.
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shree.cse said:
Oh god that's too much 720£ for 64gb, glad I bought my the developer edition for 650$. It's like stealing the money, hope its not true.
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But the dev ed is American right? Will it pick up 4G in the UK? The US use different frequencies. Is it a hardware limitation or can updating the radio fix it to work in the UK?

shree.cse said:
Oh god that's too much 720£ for 64gb, glad I bought my the developer edition for 650$. It's like stealing the money, hope its not true.
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We are lucky bro

WOW i bought my 64GB (LTE) for $786AUD that is a rip off for the UK.

icanttinkofaname said:
But the dev ed is American right? Will it pick up 4G in the UK? The US use different frequencies. Is it a hardware limitation or can updating the radio fix it to work in the UK?
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I'm not sure of the 4g frequencies, afaik if they are different we can't update with any radio as it was related to hardware.
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icanttinkofaname said:
But the dev ed is American right? Will it pick up 4G in the UK? The US use different frequencies. Is it a hardware limitation or can updating the radio fix it to work in the UK?
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The UK version has different LTE bands to the USA. So the 64GB Dev edition will not work on 4G(LTE) in the UK.

mahesh_9j said:
We are lucky bro
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You're right bro, we're lucky! But only thing bothering me was the warranty.
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shree.cse said:
You're right bro, we're lucky! But only thing bothering me was the warranty.
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I don't think we'll have to visit service center in future cos..I know how you handle your device and I know my way
Thanks,

Yeah, never got any problems with my one x, that's the reason I bought a device from us.
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The USA Warranty is 12 months
The UK Warranty is 24 months
As for LTE and HSPA+, can anyone confirm if the hardware in the phone is different?

mahesh_9j said:
I don't think we'll have to visit service center in future cos..I know how you handle your device and I know my way
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may i ask how did you get us developer edition, i am looking to buy it in UK

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may i ask how did you get us developer edition, i am looking to buy it in UK
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Hi, I got it from USA with the help of my friend who lives there.
Thanks

A bit more information on purchasing from the USA and supported networks in the UK....
A friend of mine is the chief technical officer of a VERY large mobile operator
I asked him about the HTC One and supported networks.....he went into an insane amount of detail, but here is the summary
Looking at this USA website
http://www0-shopamerica.htc.com/cell-phones/productdetail.htm?prId=41599
It says this
HSPA/WCDMA: 850/1900/2100 MHz
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
LTE: 700/850/AWS/1900 MHz (US)
HSPA/WCDMA is basically 3G and will work in UK and Europe with those Mhz
GSM/GPRS/EDGE is just old 2G and will work
LTE - this is where we suffer, as Most of Europe including the UK uses 1800 LTE
So basically, if you buy a phone from the USA, you'll get 3G working no problem, but LTE wont work at all because the UK use 1800 and USA HTC ONE doesn't support it.
If you look at the one here
http://www.mobicity.co.uk/htc-one-64gb.html
You'll see it supports LTE 1800, so that will work in the UK with these new super fast speeds
For me, 3G is fine, so i'm going to go for the USA edition and get a friend to bring me one (when black is available)
But for others the 4G/LTE speeds are a deal breaker
He also said the phone should support HSPA+ as its such a new high end device.
But he said he would have to double check it first (but was pretty confident)

HTC One 4G LTE 64GB ... how much ??
I face the very same problem
I want the developer edition too - I'm just waiting for someone to courier it back from the US for me
Its not worth getting the HTC One 64GB from MobiCity at that price - its actually gone down to £670 now as they must not be moving any of the units
if they knock off another £50-£100 I'd consider it.
The problem in the UK is they just turn a dollar sign $ into a £ sign
HTC One 4G LTE 64GB = £671.99
HTC One Dev Edition 64GB = $649.99
and LTE is only available one network here so it wont be beneficial to me till the end of the year

unque1 said:
I face the very same problem
I want the developer edition too - I'm just waiting for someone to courier it back from the US for me
Its not worth getting the HTC One 64GB from MobiCity at that price - its actually gone down to £670 now as they must not be moving any of the units
if they knock off another £50-£100 I'd consider it.
The problem in the UK is they just turn a dollar sign $ into a £ sign
HTC One 4G LTE 64GB = £671.99
HTC One Dev Edition 64GB = $649.99
and LTE is only available one network here so it wont be beneficial to me till the end of the year
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Are you getting black or silver?
I can't find a black one anywhere

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Are you getting black or silver?
I can't find a black one anywhere
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I'm a sucker for the silver
I think the black is cool though but knowing me ...and the fact that I wont use a case. It would hurt my feeling to scratch the black colored aluminium and see the metal coming through
I actually dont think they do a 64gb black dev edition
although I just realised that MobileCity
are pricing the two colours differently
so they actually havent dropped the price at all

I brought it in ringgit malaysia RM2559.00.
I dont know what the currency in uk.
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