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May 24, New York City
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almost exactly 11 months after this
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I am sensing SUNDAY June 12th AT&T release of Samsung Galaxy Attain (almost 11 months after the Captivate)!!!
How long was it from when they made the announcement last year did the Galaxy S actually go on sale on AT&T?
Here you go, last years dates I posted earlier
kreoXDA said:
Do you guys remember how the first Galaxy was introduced on the 4 carriers last year?
Let me remind you
June 4th - first release in Asia
June 29th - launch party in New York City where it was first announced that 4 models were coming to 4 carriers, with no dates. (+25 days)
Later on, gradually, release dates were being announced about 1-3 weeks prior to a particular release. The phone was released as follows:
T-Mob - July 15th (+41 days)
AT&T - July 18th (+44 days)
Sprint, keyboarded CDMA version - August 30th (+87 days)
Verizon, CDMA version - September 9th (+97 days)
We learned that SGS1 was even coming to the United States 3.5 weeks after the phone was released in Asia.
The quickest provider T-Mob got it almost 6 weeks after the first country.
The slowest provider VZW - 3 months after.
So give this some time, sit back, relax, wait for bug reports from the UK beta testers , and enjoy your fixed (or maimed) version in a few short weeks.
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Note the US Launch party last year was 25 days after first international release, and this event is around 25 days after Korea/UK release
lol after dealing with the ATT Craptivate for a year I'll gladly "beta test" the vanilla samsung GS2
good luck with your carrier updates. I'm done purchasing US phones "variants" that force you to use reorient kernels for the Roms.
Thanks for the release date info. Looks like they're following a similar schedule... just bumped ahead 1 month from last year =)
Still, as much as I'd like to wait for a US variant... I don't really want to have to sign a contract to get one, nor do I want to put up with the bloatware and filth they put on the phone. Rooting and flashing ROMs on my T-mobile spec Galaxy S was annoying, having to ODIN back to certain firmwares before being able to flash a new ROM.
And the one question that I'm still wondering... will the US be getting a tegra version? That would suck =(
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lol after dealing with the ATT Craptivate for a year I'll gladly "beta test" the vanilla samsung GS2
good luck with your carrier updates. I'm done purchasing US phones "variants" that force you to use reorient kernels for the Roms.
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i'm pretty sure that anyone reading this isn't the type to wait around for the carriers.
boondoc said:
i'm pretty sure that anyone reading this isn't the type to wait around for the carriers.
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I have 4 lines (all smartphones) on my AT&T account and 3 of them are up for renewal discount
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I have 4 lines (all smartphones) on my AT&T account and 3 of them are up for renewal discount
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i've been off contract since Dec. i had originally settled on getting the Infuse when it was first announced but instantly fell in love with the SGS2 and decided to wait. but... i need a new phone NOW. actually i needed a new one 2 months ago but decided to hold strong for the SGS2... but it's come to a point where my current phone is damn near unusable, so i think i'm going to get the infuse when it launches and roll the dice on the sgs2 coming out before the remorse period ends. or failing that just give it back and wait some more for the sgs2 to release.
I think the best option for some of us is to buy the carrier branded version on contract, sell it, and use that money to get the vanilla SGS 2. After dealing with all the Captivate issues as well I'm never buying a carrier branded Android ever again.
nickbarbs said:
lol after dealing with the ATT Craptivate for a year I'll gladly "beta test" the vanilla samsung GS2
good luck with your carrier updates. I'm done purchasing US phones "variants" that force you to use reorient kernels for the Roms.
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not to mention the Craptivate looks ugly as hell and nothing like a SGS
If i was on att there would be no doubt id go with international like you said no waiting for carrier update, no carrier branding and missing hardware features.
I really wish carriers kept the design the same as the international it would be so much easier to update and to port roms
emuneee said:
I think the best option for some of us is to buy the carrier branded version on contract, sell it, and use that money to get the vanilla SGS 2. After dealing with all the Captivate issues as well I'm never buying a carrier branded Android ever again.
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Might do the same myself!
demo23019 said:
not to mention the Craptivate looks ugly as hell and nothing like a SGS
If i was on att there would be no doubt id go with international like you said no waiting for carrier update, no carrier branding and missing hardware features.
I really wish carriers kept the design the same as the international it would be so much easier to update and to port roms
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That's one point where you're crazy. The Captivate is the nicest Galaxy S and has a lot less plastic than any other one. Everyone has told me they liked the Captivate over the other Galaxy S variants. I've been very happy with the Captivate, but not as happy about the AT&T branding and waiting for their crap.
I would much rather spend the money and buy the phone unlocked than buy it from ATT.
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If i was on att there would be no doubt id go with international like you said no waiting for carrier update, no carrier branding and missing hardware features.
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Only issue I see with this is warranty support. If Samsung US would support a UK model fine, but if it requires international shipping that would give me pause.
What if the US version has NFC? Would that change your mind?
Yes, NFC is useless right now, but wouldn't that at least lower your resell value of the UK version whenever one else in your area has NFC?
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What if the US version has NFC? Would that change your mind?
Yes, NFC is useless right now, but wouldn't that at least lower your resell value of the UK version whenever one else in your area has NFC?
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Given the fact (I hope) all 4 major carriers are getting it, and AT&T, VZW and T-Mob are in an NFC payment system alliance , the chances of US getting NFC versions are not extremely low
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What if the US version has NFC? Would that change your mind?
Yes, NFC is useless right now, but wouldn't that at least lower your resell value of the UK version whenever one else in your area has NFC?
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I don't see NFC being that important to me right away. I am guessing by the time it becomes important to me, I will already be looking at another phone.
Also, even though the UK might not be getting the NFC version, you probably will still be able to buy a NFC version unlocked from another country.
Hate to say it... but until the iPhone gets NFC it's not worth worrying about.
Devices still need to be upgraded in stores, airlines, and what not to accept NFC no? The above poster is probably correct, the phones are going to need to be widely available before companies spend the money to upgrade their equipment.
dinan said:
Hate to say it... but until the iPhone gets NFC it's not worth worrying about.
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Why, because the iPhone has the market share lead and will dictate what the market will do? No, that's Android.
I'm currently working in Shanghai, and I've only been here a couple of months. I'm a devoted Nexus user, and I would really like to upgrade from my GNex to the N4 as soon as possible.
The majority of my friends and family still live in the States, so I was thinking of ordering one to one of their houses and having them ship it to me. Will I run into any issues shipping a new electronic device from the States to China? I haven't tried this yet, and, when I try to find the answer, Google wants to correct my question, telling me I must mean shipping from China to the States. Anyone have any experience with this?
The other options seem to be:
1. To wait for someone to bring it to me. I've got a handful of people coming to visit in early '13, and that seems really far away. Or
2. To wait for it to be available here in China. Anyone know what to expect for time and price if I wait?
Are there other options I'm missing? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
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Two or three years ago they started to check if one's smuggling electronics into China. I don't know if they have gone easy on that. The safest bet is to have someone buy one from US and then bring it back to you.
The other choice is to buy one on Taobao. Once it starts to sell in Hong Kong there will be a million of them either on Taobao or local smartphone market. You just need to be able to tell the genuine ones from the fake ones. Most Chinese get their phones this way. If you have any Chinese friends (male), ask them about it.
Don't count it to be available in China. Google is basically at war with the Chinese government over the hacking thing.
I'm going back to China early December. Its a shame I'm not going by Shanghai though.
This is good advice. Thanks. I'll definitely check with my colleagues to see who will be traveling to the States in the next couple of weeks. I'm not feeling especially patient about this upgrade.
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As we mentioned in our recent thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/general/mate-7-model-worldwide-frequency-bands-t2911154), the availability becomes a major issue in the Chinese market over the past few weeks. The latest news is that, per our HUAWEI connection, HUAWEI cannot fulfill most orders in the next 2-3 weeks. We previously heard from HUAWEI that they were trying to fulfill the initial order (from EU customers who deposited) from Europe first; apparently, this is not the case now.
As of the situation in our 5 stores, we had taken over 30+ full deposits during the last week, and this time our HUAWEI lady told us we can only get 10 units per store per week, per latest HUAWEI policy/instruction/whatever. We were told that, HUAWEI continuously receives massive orders nationwide and the production of this phone is limited to 1 factory only in Guangdong Province. To get one unit immediately in the Chinese market, people are paying over $820 USD now! Even at China Mobile stores, Chine UniCom stores, Mate 7 is OFFICIALLY being sold over MSRP (+400 CNY mark up at least) and there is NO stocks! A major holiday is coming soon, 11 November (1111), the Single's Day in China. The availability issue will at least last till then, trust or not.
Message here for the EU xda community members: put your deposit with reputed online sellers (e.g., Amazon DE, France) NOW and you MAY expect to get one before Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday, maybe!
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getmobilephone said:
As we mentioned in our recent thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/general/mate-7-model-worldwide-frequency-bands-t2911154), the availability becomes a major issue in the Chinese market over the past few weeks. The latest news is that, per our HUAWEI connection, HUAWEI cannot fulfill most orders in the next 2-3 weeks. We previously heard from HUAWEI that they were trying to fulfill the initial order (from EU customers who deposited) from Europe first; apparently, this is not the case now.
As of the situation in our 5 stores, we had taken over 30+ full deposits during the last week, and this time our HUAWEI lady told us we can only get 10 units per store per week, per latest HUAWEI policy/instruction/whatever. We were told that, HUAWEI continuously receives massive orders nationwide and the production of this phone is limited to 1 factory only in Guangdong Province. To get one unit immediately in the Chinese market, people are paying over $820 USD now! Even at China Mobile stores, Chine UniCom stores, Mate 7 is OFFICIALLY being sold over MSRP (+400 CNY mark up at least) and there is NO stocks! A major holiday is coming soon, 11 November (1111), the Single's Day in China. The availability issue will at least last till then, trust or not.
Message here for the EU xda community members: put your deposit with reputed online sellers (e.g., Amazon DE, France) NOW and you MAY expect to get one before Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday, maybe!
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What a load of BS. Sorry, this is not about this reseller, they're just reporting the absolute craptastic behavior of Huawei. How can a company announce a device and not have any stock a month later? I keep seeing they're still GIVING AWAY devices to journalists yet have no stock for their customers. It adds insult to injury about how bad this company does business. The Nexus 6 is looking better and better every day, PLUS, given what they just announced with not offering Kitkat for AM2, how likely is it going to be that they'll abandon this device as well 6 months down the road? They've already abandoned who knows how many users who have been waiting for a device until it is released.
I'm giving up. I'm looking at the other carriers' offerings. After all, the holiday season is when a lot of carriers release their newest devices. I don't get why Huawei can't seem to get their collective heads out of a certain orifice and actually decide if they want to move out of the #3 spot?
Finally, Black one in stock at amazon.de.
maokun said:
Finally, Black one in stock at amazon.de.
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That is the shipment we talked about. Grab one as soon as you can. L09 is a single-Sim version though. If you need dual-Sim black version, it (TL00) is available in China.
Huawei announced general availability for the Ascend Mate 7 in Germany starting today. Recommended selling price is 499€ incl. taxes. You can choose between silver and black versions, both 16GB.
It would be good to know which firmware is preinstalled, since MT7-L09V100R001C00B120SP04 from earlier this month is still a bit buggy.
I have to agree wholeheartedly with sanjsrik. I'm done researching and considering this phone. Huawei, get your **** together.
Unsubscribing from this forum, good luck everyone ☺
mine was sent out day. maybe i get it tomorrow. paid for it 450€ (italy)
i go to my post office tomorrow to pickup mine, i'm not at my home when it come today.
From france
The US release of the Galaxy Note Edge is a complete mess. No one seems to know when the phone is due to come out. Not sure where those press releases came from last week but they seem to be wrong. I just came from an AT&T store and they have no clue when they will be getting the phone. I called every Besy Buy in Milwaukee and they don't have a clue either. I have Verizon and it hasn't even passed to FCC for Verizon yet. What is the deal with the phone? If they are having issues manufacturing the phone then just say so and push the date back. They announced the phone back in September and there is just as much uncertainty now as there was two months ago. Looks like I'm just gonna stick with the Note 4 and then just wait for the HTC M9 to come out next year.
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The US release of the Galaxy Note Edge is a complete mess. No one seems to know when the phone is due to come out. Not sure where those press releases came from last week but they seem to be wrong. I just came from an AT&T store and they have no clue when they will be getting the phone. I called every Besy Buy in Milwaukee and they don't have a clue either. I have Verizon and it hasn't even passed to FCC for Verizon yet. What is the deal with the phone? If they are having issues manufacturing the phone then just say so and push the date back. They announced the phone back in September and there is just as much uncertainty now as there was two months ago. Looks like I'm just gonna stick with the Note 4 and then just wait for the HTC M9 to come out next year.
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The 14th has been the date so we will find out this friday.
The people at these stores are told to not tell customers when new phones are coming out because they want you to buy a phone right then and there so that after you do buy it you can be mad at yourself for not waiting and then spend more money on buying another new phone.
I was talking to a TMO rep last week about the 14th date and she went out of her way to make sure I understood she was saying she had no confirmation of the phone being released on the 14th even after she slipped and told me that she wasnt sure if they were doing pre-orders.
Tmobile's website also lists the 14th as a date.
https://explore.t-mobile.com/samsung-galaxy-note-edge
There is a chance that some of the reps you were talking to did not know about the new phone coming out and really were telling you the truth, but more than likely they're just lying because thats what they're instructed to do.
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The people at these stores are told to not tell customers when new phones are coming out because they want you to buy a phone right then and there so that after you do buy it you can be mad at yourself for not waiting and then spend more money on buying another new phone.
I was talking to a TMO rep last week about the 14th date and she went out of her way to make sure I understood she was saying she had no confirmation of the phone being released on the 14th even after she slipped and told me that she wasnt sure if they were doing pre-orders.
Tmobile's website also lists the 14th as a date.
https://explore.t-mobile.com/samsung-galaxy-note-edge
There is a chance that some of the reps you were talking to did not know about the new phone coming out and really were telling you the truth, but more than likely they're just lying because thats what they're instructed to do.
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That may be the case at some stores but when the Note 4 was coming out Best Buy was able to say it would be in on 10/17. I bought the Droid Turbo two weeks ago and I was in the Verizon store a few days before it was released and they even pulled out their store display model and let me hold it. And not to mention you could pre-order the Note 4 on all 4 major US carriers once they announced the release date. I still keep seeing websites saying it'll be out on the 14th on all the major US carriers and I find that hard to believe especially when the Verizon model never passed thru FCC.
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That may be the case at some stores but when the Note 4 was coming out Best Buy was able to say it would be in on 10/17. I bought the Droid Turbo two weeks ago and I was in the Verizon store a few days before it was released and they even pulled out their store display model and let me hold it. And not to mention you could pre-order the Note 4 on all 4 major US carriers once they announced the release date. I still keep seeing websites saying it'll be out on the 14th on all the major US carriers and I find that hard to believe especially when the Verizon model never passed thru FCC.
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To tell the truth i have heard nothing about Verizon and the Note edge it has all been Tmobile and ATT. There has been small word on the Sprint one but not much.
Its possible that they dont have a confirmed date yet. There was a user that posted a screen shot of them saying something about the 14th or 17th.
All i know is there is no fussin until Friday the 14th lol....
But really we just gotta wait and see.
I believe samsung didnt push this phone as much as they should ,but samsung does suck at getting the word out there before the device is out.
We have a few more days and we will see what happens.
In the Sprint newsroom section it does say the 14th. However, I did chat with a Sprint rep earlier and they acted like they didn't know about it.
i emailed 2 bestbuy about pre-order att note edge.
1 bestbuy told me "it not out yet".
the other bestbuy said "we dont sell note edge, try bestbuy.com "
To tell the truth, I think that none of the basic people know anything.
With the leak image from tmobile. I bet that was only sent to the head people as the head stores.
While everyone else just works there and looks up everything on the system. Which the system hasnt updated yet since the phones havent been scan in.
I do remember doing an online chat before they confirmed the 14th date, and no one could give me anything. After they confirm the date the online chat people where able to tell me that it came out the 14th but nothing more
This is just my guess tho. But i have seen this happen before with other items. No one knows anything because they havent gotten that email in there in box. While the main people know but basically cant say much.
But we will see what happens on the 14th. I am hopping to be able to just walk into the corporate store at 10am Friday and pick up a white one, but i dont know. All i know is ill be refreshing the page daily as i do now, and just waiting. There isnt anything else we can do about this.
My tmo rep told me they are not doing preorder add it is unknown how many the does were getting out when they were coming in. They did say release is 14th and to call the evening before to see if they have them in stock.
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US thread is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-edge/general/available-t2890794
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On Motorola's US site it says the G4 is in stock and estimated delivery July 21st. I didn't go past that on the order form but wasn't sure if it was available. Next day or 2 day shipping options anywhere else? Where do you guys suggest. My old phone payment will come out Friday so hoping I can get this done by Friday and port my number to the new carrier. AT&T is most likely the option for me.
Your local Best Buy likely has it and their (our) website has shipping available to most places in the US for Monday (or Saturday if your local UPS does it)
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On Motorola's US site it says the G4 is in stock and estimated delivery July 21st. I didn't go past that on the order form but wasn't sure if it was available. Next day or 2 day shipping options anywhere else? Where do you guys suggest. My old phone payment will come out Friday so hoping I can get this done by Friday and port my number to the new carrier. AT&T is most likely the option for me.
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It has to be built and shipped from China. If they say 7/21 it's probably right, maybe 1 day sooner.
Thanks guys. Yeah I don't need a custom phone just want the 64 GB 4GB version. I work at Amazon and usually use Amazon but listings got screwy once it was released. The pre-order prices were all dead on. Post launch its over priced crap sellers. The official one in the listing said 2GB Ram 64 Internal so I could see a potential wrong phone shipped to me. Its a tough work week with us having prime day the 12th so a lot going on. I might not get a chance to get to best buy until Friday. Can I leave their with a working phone on pre-paid or would I have to do all that in the car on the way to work and hope its easy. I'm a use the PC type guy. I really don't want to run the chance of being sold out. I don't know how sales are going. Really don't want to wait til Friday to have a back order happen to me. I had a OnePlus 2 but after enough research I sent it back after a week without it ever being hooked up. Just way to many hardware/software issues from that phone with horrible customer service. That company gives off the feel that a real small group built a phone with expensive parts. Rushed through the process and hired 100 amateurs to build their phones and fix them. So basically I've been on a Rooted JB to KitKat Dual Core, 1GB Ram phone since Xmas 2014 and honestly I'm excited like a kid, ha.