{"id":3364,"date":"2013-09-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2021-12-04T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T22:21:20","slug":"american-and-european-samsung-galaxy-note-3-region-locked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"American and European Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Region Locked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<p>\u00a0was a bit surprised when we didn&#8217;t get any silly launch extravaganzas (<a class=\"ot-anchor bidi_isolate\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/1X1iL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/1X1iL<\/a>) for the Note 3, but it seems Samsung was saving all its stupidity for this.<\/p>\n<p>Seems it&#8217;s not just the Note 3, but the newer batch of European and American Galaxy S4 phones are &#8220;region locked&#8221; as well. If this is true and you&#8217;ve bought a Samsung phone in Europe or America recently, and then travel outside your region, you can&#8217;t put a local SIM into your phone. Instead you have to either pay your home telcos roaming charges or <i>bring another phone along<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Asia-Pacific models are not region locked &#8212; there&#8217;s no sticker on the box and someone has tested a local unit with a UK SIM. However, I can see how this will affect sales of the Note 3 in Europe and America &#8230; and maybe even create a market for grey exports from here.<\/p>\n<p>Duh.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>LINK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/09\/26\/seriously-samsung-sorry-european-roamers-but-the-new-galaxy-note-3-is-region-locked\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1.jpgw708\" \/><br \/>\nSeriously, Samsung? Sorry, roamers, but the new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This post was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+shahadaabubakar\/posts\/CBXePsoxxFW\">published<\/a> publicly on <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\">Google+<\/a> at 2013-09-27 18:19:33+0800<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0was a bit surprised when we didn&#8217;t get any silly launch extravaganzas (http:\/\/goo.gl\/1X1iL) for the Note 3, but it seems Samsung was saving all its stupidity for this. Seems it&#8217;s not just the Note&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}