The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked, even when unlocked

What the...i travel to the far east from Europe, and get simms in country, now Samsung are saying, no way and don't even try and purchase one from another region. Come on those who can find a work round

idiots

I know that in the Middle East one can't make any internet calls. I guess the only option is to carry a vanilla instrument for such visits or simply stay away from this Samsung Phablet.

Probably not region locked but the signals don't work, like 700mhz is the std signal in the USA and but they won't work in Australia as the std here is 800 850 900mhz and 2100mhz for wcdma

So US phones don't work anyway unless they are able to use 2100mhz but that would depend on handshakes etc as well.

I was going to buy one of these as my first smartphone. Guess Samsung weren't as smart as their phones! They can go abuse themselves with the rough end of a pineapple now.

Originally posted by xtago:

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Probably not region locked but the signals don't work, like 700mhz is the std signal in the USA and but they won't work in Australia as the std here is 800 850 900mhz and 2100mhz for wcdma

So US phones don't work anyway unless they are able to use 2100mhz but that would depend on handshakes etc as well.

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This will likely make it illegal to sell it in Australia unless they remove that restriction.