AT&T's Galaxy Note 2 available Nov. 9 for $299, preorders start Oct. 25

achusaysblessyou

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Yeah source is lacking. I've followed all the rumors and at&t and Verizon have been pretty quiet in the rumor mills.

Sprint have officially announced a Oct 25 release date though

T-Mobile has a leaked image stating the 24th, but that was a week and half ago, but supposedly another leak shows that demo devices are being sent to stores
 

nmcgrawj

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If Sprint LTE will be available in your area soon go for it.
Sprint unlimited data is a winner

I am tempted.


But I am new to the Droid world. Aren't sprint and verizon looked down upon for late/slow updates and locked phones?


That and Sprint plans don't include mobile hot spot..which puts them on par cost wise with the new shared plans at AT&T and Verizon.
 
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I am tempted.


But I am new to the Droid world. Aren't sprint and verizon looked down upon for late/slow updates and locked phones?
Due to your newness most DROID users root their phone so upgrading is not up to carriers, and I have sprint and I get upgrades as soon as a rom permits

Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app
 

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I called a sprint store and talked to this sprint rep that i had a conversation at the store with a while ago and he seems to be quite up to date and knowledgeable. he called the october 25th release before sprints big announcement. anyway he said earlier today that sprint stores should be getting the phones either tomorrow or thursday. the rumors of the 25th being a preorder date are most likely false, and i trust this guy enough to believe that we should be able to stop in at a sprint store thursday morning and pick up the best phone to date :)
hope you guys are as excited as i am :D
 

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I am tempted.


But I am new to the Droid world. Aren't sprint and verizon looked down upon for late/slow updates and locked phones?
Verizon makes it pretty hard to get into the cookie jar while Sprint lets you in.
Sprints Galaxy S2 leaks flood development thanks to member "Sextape" thus xda development is pretty busy on device.
"Sextape" dropped Sprint leak for Sprint GN2 a couple weeks ago device not released so that's a good sign for things to come.
 
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nmcgrawj

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Due to your newness most DROID users root their phone so upgrading is not up to carriers, and I have sprint and I get upgrades as soon as a rom permits

Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app


Yes...i am trying to learn the droid terminology. I've had an iPhone for 5 years and have only been concerned with Jailbreaking that.


Could you explain what people mean when I read "Verizon's phone has a locked bootloader". I took that as saying you couldn't root it to install the new rom.
 

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Yes...i am trying to learn the droid terminology. I've had an iPhone for 5 years and have only been concerned with Jailbreaking that.


Could you explain what people mean when I read "Verizon's phone has a locked bootloader". I took that as saying you couldn't root it to install the new rom.
Verizon makes Samsung put up roadblocks that delay development from cracking bootloader / obtaining root.
There's always worry crack cant be achieved but it does so no worries.
 
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Yes...i am trying to learn the droid terminology. I've had an iPhone for 5 years and have only been concerned with Jailbreaking that.


Could you explain what people mean when I read "Verizon's phone has a locked bootloader". I took that as saying you couldn't root it to install the new rom.
Locked bootloader basically just means you cant flash a custom kernel (i know its more im trying to keep it simple). Devs sometimes have workarounds for roms like kexec on the GS3 for instance.

With the note 2 i dont think ill be flashing it despite being a flashaholic for 4 years now. Just root to get rid of the bloat.
 

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Thanks for the info everyone. Sorry of this is getting off topic.

So Samsung wants us to be able to do this, so there aren't any warranty issues? Where as Sony/HTC track who does it? Or are there work arounds for that too?