Samsung galaxy note 4

devnull · 21-10-2014 8:14am

Messing around with the dates, plus the fact that I could break my contract early due to a change by Three as long as I gave them notice by the 20th of this month but after that I had to stay with my contract for the remainder of the term (8 months) meant I switched to Vodafone with the Z3.

I really wanted to order the Note 4, being a Note 2 user but I had a finite time to port out and the delays just meant it wasn't going to be possible.

markad1 · 21-10-2014 9:08am

Hachiko does your note 4 work ok on the 4G network here?

Hachiko · 21-10-2014 9:15am

LTE works fine, it has korean apps i cant remove. some Korean teleco. I am sure if you did a root you could get rid of.

markad1 · 21-10-2014 9:18am

you could probably flash a non branded firmware to get rid of that stuff.

markad1 · 21-10-2014 9:25am

I take it there's no region lock crap that was on the Note 3

Craigels · 21-10-2014 1:39pm

Meteor told me on Facebook that it's available in store now

adamski8 · 21-10-2014 1:56pm

Craigels wrote: »

Meteor told me on Facebook that it's available in store now

Do we believe them though?

leemaree · 21-10-2014 1:58pm

Craigels wrote: »

Meteor told me on Facebook that it's available in store now

It's not on there website + Samsung Ireland said that it b out on the 23rd so I can't understand how they have it

youcancallmeal · 21-10-2014 2:40pm

Anyone know if this is the sim free price? Seems pretty good if it is?

markad1 · 21-10-2014 2:46pm

Ordered from O2 on prepay for €660.99 less 20% priority discount for a total €535.99 delivered

kjl · 21-10-2014 2:46pm

anyone know when it's coming out on vodafone?

youcancallmeal · 21-10-2014 2:48pm

markad1 wrote: »

Ordered from O2 on prepay for €660.99 less 20% priority discount for a total €535.99 delivered

Is it locked to O2? Does it come with any O2 branding? How does the priority discount work, how do you avail of it? Might try the same but only if it isn't locked to O2?

markad1 · 21-10-2014 2:50pm

http://o2priority.ie/moments/
You register for O2 priority and you select the 20% discount for online purchases

I got the note 3 the same way last year and it was locked to O2. It had no branding.

leemaree · 21-10-2014 3:14pm

markad1 wrote: »

Ordered from O2 on prepay for €660.99 less 20% priority discount for a total €535.99 delivered

How did u order this when it's out of stock? Unless u ordered it earlier

markad1 · 21-10-2014 3:53pm

leemaree wrote: »

How did u order this when it's out of stock? Unless u ordered it earlier

Was in stock when I ordered. It may have been a mistake and not in stock at all.

leemaree · 21-10-2014 4:37pm

markad1 wrote: »

Was in stock when I ordered. It may have been a mistake and not in stock at all.

Yes, I tried this and it was out of stock. 5 mins later, it was out of stock when I refreshed it. I suppose it depends when u look at the site

Thor · 21-10-2014 4:42pm

Yeah, I placed my order on o2 at around 15:30 I think. O2's dispatch and they said they getting them tomorrow and should be shipping them the next day.

Looking forward to it arriving. Nice you see you got the discount as well markad1.

adamski8 · 21-10-2014 5:49pm

Went into two meteor stores there and they didn't have any and didn't have a clue when they would. One said November.

markad1 · 21-10-2014 6:08pm

Thor, the discount sealed the deal.
I was interested in the exynos version Hachiko got but I couldn't pass the 20% off.
I seen a unit in India that had a sticker on the box saying about activating with a sim card from that region :mad:
Anyone importing be careful of this.

markad1 · 21-10-2014 6:19pm

O2 back in stock 18:19
and gone again 18:44
http://www.o2online.ie/shop/view/product/ql_catalog/catdevice/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-4

Hachiko · 21-10-2014 8:35pm

markad1 wrote: »

Thor, the discount sealed the deal.
I was interested in the exynos version Hachiko got but I couldn't pass the 20% off.
I seen a unit in India that had a sticker on the box saying about activating with a sim card from that region :mad:
Anyone importing be careful of this.

nothing wrong with dragon, they are both stupid fast phones at the end of the day, people might say why the bench marks are not higher with all that processing power but the display is a monster.

Thor · 21-10-2014 8:55pm

Hachiko wrote: »

nothing wrong with dragon, they are both stupid fast phones at the end of the day, people might say why the bench marks are not higher with all that processing power but the display is a monster.

I agree. I could have picked up the Exynos myself, but waited out to order the snapdragon. Mainly because of the extra development support behind it. Even more so now that the Nexus 6 is using the same chipset.

Either way, performance on both of these devices are more than good enough and I can't imagine anything that will completely saturate them.

doyle7 · 22-10-2014 10:12am

Is anybody here with o2? isnt the lack of a 4g network annoying you with such a great device. i have the note 3 and want to leave vodafone but o2 keep stalling on the 4g info.

any reccomendations?

markad1 · 22-10-2014 10:21am

4G doesn't bother me. There's wifi everywhere. 4G would be nice for the few times there's no wifi.

youcancallmeal · 22-10-2014 10:24am

doyle7 wrote: »

Is anybody here with o2? isnt the lack of a 4g network annoying you with such a great device. i have the note 3 and want to leave vodafone but o2 keep stalling on the 4g info.

any reccomendations?

I'm on Three's 4G and while it is nice to have it is vastly overrated imo. They are going to start charging for it from December but I'll be sticking with 3G which is perfectly fine for my needs. Unless you like to watch HD videos on youtube and other bandwidth intensive tasks then it's fairly pointless.

leemaree · 22-10-2014 10:29am

Right, I have the Galaxy Note 4 page open on 02.ie to see when/if it's available. I'm going to refresh it now and again to see ;-)

markad1 · 22-10-2014 10:42am

leemaree....I use chrome and theres an extension for it called page monitor. I told it to monitor the O2 and google page and anytime there's changes to the page I get a notification.
It's handy for monitoring when new stuff is added

leemaree · 22-10-2014 10:47am

markad1 wrote: »

leemaree....I use chrome and theres an extension for it called page monitor. I told it to monitor the O2 and google page and anytime there's changes to the page I get a notification.
It's handy for monitoring when new stuff is added

Cool, I'll try that and i'll try do it and see if I can work it out as I have google chrome

leemaree · 22-10-2014 11:06am

markad1 wrote: »

leemaree....I use chrome and theres an extension for it called page monitor. I told it to monitor the O2 and google page and anytime there's changes to the page I get a notification.
It's handy for monitoring when new stuff is added

I've monitored my page (I think) I don't know how to get a notification. Will I get it through e-mail or something?

markad1 · 22-10-2014 11:46am

right click on the page monitor....click options and reduce the check interval to monitor quicker

also enable desktop notification.
You will see a number pop up on the page monitor icon

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