CNET Review - AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717

The review devices obviously went out today. I'm finding more of these than I know what to do with . . . trying to just post reputable / relevant ones.
Guess this will have to give me my fix until Friday
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-note-carbon/4505-6452_7-35117983.html
The video is from CES . . lol. My bad. Lame.

Man you are fast, I was just reading this! The press review embargo was probably lifted today. Hopefully some more in depth reviews coming.

And then wait for them to find some huge flaw in the Note the day it ships to us.

Willanhanyard said:
And then wait for them to find some huge flaw in the Note the day it ships to us.
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I think it will be a solid phone. Promised myself after the captivate to NEVER buy a phone without reviews or waiting a week or so. I broke that with the skyrocket because I was in San Antonio on launch day and it was $150 there versus $250 in Dallas. Since I am buying off contract I must be patient...I keep telling myself. It is great to see the enthusiasm for the GNote!
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planoman said:
I think it will be a solid phone. Promised myself after the captivate to NEVER buy a phone without reviews or waiting a week or so. I broke that with the skyrocket because I was in San Antonio and it was $150 there versus $250 in Dallas. Since I am buying off contract I must be patient...I keep telling myself. It is great to see the enthusiasm for the GNote!
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Just curious, what did you regret about the Captivate... the GPS? Other than that, I haven't found much wrong with it.

jpeg42 said:
Just curious, what did you regret about the Captivate... the GPS? Other than that, I haven't found much wrong with it.
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It was the GPS. I fiddled with it for 3.5 weeks before returning. Trying the GPS fixes etc. I was so disappointed in Samsung. Never could get it to work well enough for me. That is one thing I check now! The other is the bluetooth.
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Black Friday

So who took advantage of this? I personally got myself two ASUS tablets, One for me, one for the lady for Christmas. :] And I only got into one fight. But....I'll never go out at midnight again. Nightmare. Anyway. Hope you guys scored some killer deals. The tablet cost me $250
I usually wait til after Christmas... Better deals
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My gf and I bought a Kinect and gonna hit up BB for some games today...
Nice KT. We bought one too. Legit deal for it too!
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I got a 250GB Xbox for $200. They ram out of the holiday bundles and these ones were supposed to ring up at $299. I guess I got lucky. I'm thinking about getting a Kinect. Not really sure if I want one though.
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With the Xoom 2 coming out around holidays the Xoom 1 should see a huge price drop. I'm going to try to score one they should be between 199.99-250.00. What made me laugh the most about black Friday is apple supposedly thinks they're actually participating by knocking off only 100 bucks off computers. I bought my MacBook pro in June for like 1400 bucks; yeah a 100 bucks off is really a deal :rolls eyes:
Apple is a joke
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I worked black friday on zero sleep
My gf had to work today too, poor thing has to do it all again tomorrow..
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Got my Photon at midnight for $0.96 from Sam's Club with an upgrade. Baddest deal for a MoPho I could find. It'll be here Tuesday, I'm so excited!
ArchangelRenzoku said:
Got my Photon at midnight for $0.96 from Sam's Club with an upgrade. Baddest deal for a MoPho I could find. It'll be here Tuesday, I'm so excited!
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Awesome Man. Congrats!
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Jeez what a steal..kinda wish i had waited a few months...nah. Lol!
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ArchangelRenzoku said:
Got my Photon at midnight for $0.96 from Sam's Club with an upgrade. Baddest deal for a MoPho I could find. It'll be here Tuesday, I'm so excited!
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Wow what s sweet deal man. Congrats
Bahaha, thanks! The price was the biggest reason I chose the Photon over the EpicTouch. Coulda got the ET with a free BluRay player from BestBuy too lol, but I was like, dude I live in a trailer in the boonies with no TV so what am I gonna do with a bluray player???
I could use that signal boost everyone is bragging about too. I'm gonna save up and get the dock too.
My GF has an epic touch 4G and its trash. The radio is **** and the phone isn't that impressive. God I hate Samsung phones...
Coming from the Epic I'm inclined to agree with you. I don't think it's all bad, but the lack of Samsung support coupled with having to search for developer apps and roms to fix problems affecting basic operations is a big turndown. The only saving-grace it had over the Photon was the damn keyboard, but that didn't even hold me back anymore after I saw what un-impressive features GB brought to it. They didn't even bother fixing problems we've had since EB13 and we're on EI22 now...!
I got lucky as hell today. Went into bestbuy around noon today to pick up a nook tablet and found that $250 Asus tablet instead. Last one they had and it was buried under a couple nooks. Lol what luck. Wanted one of these for a while now

Got a Job offer from showing off my Note!! (update2)

So I was helping a guy at the home depot I work at. I saw the Guy had a S2 skyrocket and asked him how he liked it, then I showed him my Note I just got. Turns out he works for AT&T corporate. He new about the Note but wasn't really familiar with it, so I got my gadget geek on and showed off what the Note can do and then talked about the network around Atlanta.
So I went into work for an hour today to help out on a special order and I had a message with a contact number. So I call and it's someone from at&t, she told me that Guy I helped was so impressed with my knowledge and passion on mobile that he gave the info he had on me to her. Now she wants me to come in and discuss opportunities with business sales. It's face to face stuff mostly (not a call center).
Update: Got an interview on Tuesday at one of their corporate offices.
Update2: So I interviewed with them on Tuesday and it went very well. They said they have some in house promotions about to happen in a few weeks to a month and they would be contacting me again when they know more about the upcoming opens on their floor. It would be a 8-5 job with base salary and commission with business sales in the mobility division.
"Buy a galaxy note, get a job offer."
New marketing campaign.
Glad to hear!
The carriers should be hiring from XDA for 100% of their sales staff, not drones off the street that have no passion for smartphones...
ap3604 said:
Glad to hear!
The carriers should be hiring from XDA for 100% of their sales staff, not drones off the street that have no passion for smartphones...
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I could sell the sh*t out of some phones. Haha. It's funny how uninformed the sales clerks are at some stores. I literally saw an At&t employee trying to sell an iPhone to a guy based purely on Siri, and couldn't even get it to work. Her explanation was that "it just doesn't work sometimes, but it's still a really great feature"
Sad thing was, the guy walked out with an iPhone that day. If only I could have saved his poor soul...
Agreed your lucky, what are the benefits with HD vs. ATT?
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lol it would help them more than you know because then they wouldnt have to worry about subsidizing iphones anymore.
That's awesome. Half of the people I know that works for at&t has no passion for phones. Useless as a sales rep, not so bad as friends lol
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Agreed your lucky, what are the benefits with HD vs. ATT?
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I will let you guys know after I schedule and have the sit-down with her. This offer is not for a retail store, so it will probably be better since I'm on the retail side at HD.
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Glad to hear!
The carriers should be hiring from XDA for 100% of their sales staff, not drones off the street that have no passion for smartphones...
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I had a post about this the other day and I totally can agree... its bad how they will hire people who don't know what they are doing but you get a bad rap from the go ernment and they wont hire you even though it was in the general basis... I went to three different att and a bestbuy asking he managers about the note not even two weeks ago and they acted like I was talking about space travel -.-
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This actually happened to me too! Except not with a Galaxy Note and not AT&T but Verizon! I knew more than the guy they were training and actually troubleshooted a customer and the regional sales manager offered me a job! Too bad I don't go to school where I live :/
OMG good job!
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MMAHavok69 said:
I will let you guys know after I schedule and have the sit-down with her. This offer is not for a retail store, so it will probably be better since I'm on the retail side at HD.
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What a chance. Such a "link" is not made often. You got a Note, you got a Job. Great!
AT&T has great benefits and pay along with chances to move up, welcome aboard
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AT&T has great benefits and pay along with chances to move up, welcome aboard
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She got my resume and will be in touch with me before the end of the week. Oh when I left her a voicemail it said she was with AT&T mobility. Anyone have any info about the mobility branch of AT&T with business sales????
Any AT&T guys here who can give me some info??
how did he get your contact info? did you'd give it to him?
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how did he get your contact info? did you'd give it to him?
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No he Just remembered my name and gave a description of me to a coworker and she called my HD and left a message with a number to contact her. I didn't know what it was for when I called. Then she telling me that I impressed this Guy so much and asked me if I would be interested in changing careers.
That's very cool! Serendipity. I love when stuff like that happens.
Good luck, keep us posted.
thinguy said:
That's very cool! Serendipity. I love when stuff like that happens.
Good luck, keep us posted.
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Thanks! Definitely will keep you guys posted.
Got my interview scheduled and she asked me about being able to work full-time. So I think that's a good sign.

The Waiting Room - Off-Topic Chat

While we're waiting for our phones, I thought I would start a thread where we could just talk without worrying about going off-topic. If you want to talk about how other phones compare to the Evo, rant about rotten fruit and the vegetables that use them, etc, than this is the place.
Just please remember that all of the forum rules still apply here though.
New EVO LTE feature just announced!
I just received my EVO LTE today, It seems that it was shipped with the new stealth invisibility feature enabled by default...Nice feature, huh?
Vinchenzop said:
Considering Google just got the go ahead to buy Motorola (and it's patents)...this could get interesting.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...rola-deal-expected-to-be-finalized-next-week/
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Now that is going to be awesome!!
Is there any writer, reporter here in XDA to start a petition or something so we can ALL sign. Don't you guys think it would be a great IDEA to voice it out our opinions? I am just thinking how big XDA network is, Dev's who started from here still on Android now have there own site can always get the word to them as well..
Can someone call this Guys already
johnmclin said:
I just received my EVO LTE today, It seems that it was shipped with the new stealth invisibility feature enabled by default...Nice feature, huh?
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Hey off topic but what kind of case is that?? I've been searching for a clear one to no avail!
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Clear case
fhnguyen said:
Hey off topic but what kind of case is that?? I've been searching for a clear one to no avail!
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/23079101275...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_1745wt_1163
$4.99
Should look something like this but even better if it ever arrives.
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Yup more than Exxon, google has about half the spending cash as apple
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You're crazy.
Exxxon, Shell are the biggest companies in the world by revenue.
I saw this posted on AC. Thought it might lighten the mood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhq-CurxORE&feature=youtu.be
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mrshades812 said:
I saw this posted on AC. Thought it might lighten the mood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhq-CurxORE&feature=youtu.be
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Lol nice video..
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You're crazy.
Exxxon, Shell are the biggest companies in the world by revenue.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottde... apple is near half trillion total market cap
A little factoid.
Smartphone adoption fastest in the US than any other device in history
http://www.mobilebloom.com/smartpho...-us-than-any-other-device-in-history/2213748/
Disregard - wrong package
Just wanted to say a quick hey to my fellow EVO enthusiasts! This is my first of hopefully many posts in the LTE forum. Coming from the OG EVO. I've rooted, unrooted, rooted again, flashed crashed and bashed. Really looking forward to this new phone! Here's hoping good news on Monday! See ya soon!
Started this thread "2nd January 2012, 02:14 AM"......The Force is with you xHausx!
Did anybody see last nights NASCAR race with the fourteen million signs saying EVO 4G LTE....pissed me off lol
Gordon Ramsay said:
Did anybody see last nights NASCAR race with the fourteen million signs saying EVO 4G LTE....pissed me off lol
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saw it. watch them all here every week. What I thought was funnier was the phone they were using in the Speed social media center(social garage) was the Samsung Epic 4G Touch...least thats what it looked like when R. Wood was showing off the Nascar app....Found it real interesting they didn't give him an EVOLTE to use....esp if they had a ton of signage for it...
Gordon Ramsay said:
Did anybody see last nights NASCAR race with the fourteen million signs saying EVO 4G LTE....pissed me off lol
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Yes I did and yes it was everywhere. Last year they were showing off the EVO 3d to all the drivers and even the announcers had them. its also in the best buy ad this morning. I bet a lot of people go there and are pissed when its not
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rdub4nd said:
Just wanted to say a quick hey to my fellow EVO enthusiasts! This is my first of hopefully many posts in the LTE forum. Coming from the OG EVO. I've rooted, unrooted, rooted again, flashed crashed and bashed. Really looking forward to this new phone! Here's hoping good news on Monday! See ya soon!
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Started this thread "2nd January 2012, 02:14 AM"......The Force is with you xHausx!
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lol, I've been preparing for this moment for a long time
My ex old lady used to always say she thought I was psychic afterall, or was it psycho.. don't remember
I've been having problems with my OG Evo for like a month now. I didn't know about the charge dock problems even though I'm always here flashing new roms. I was anxiously waiting for the new one and then all of this happened. For a while, I was seriously considering cancelling my order but then I realized that that would be a win for Apple and I could not contribute to their gain. I decided to wait patiently for my phone.
In terms of the patent I think its BS, and this is coming from a software engineer. I don't want to go deep into that discussion but working with code is a whole different ballgame.
In terms of the whole GS3 vs. EvoLTE vs. iPhone5 thing, I think both the GS3 and the EvoLTE are good phones. I don't know much about the iphone5 specs yet. What I can say is that apple products are not that unarguably better overall for them to have so much money and crazy fanboys right now.
The best apple product was the iPod by far. It revolutionized the industry. Everything else from there has come off branding. You can argue about the OG iPhone and iPad being nice too but that feels like a century ago. Like I said, everything else is marketing. Its funny people buying expensive macs just to log in to facebook and serious customers run parallel half of the time to use windows programs.
Right now, we have competition and we have android developers working their a** off to get a small share of the pie and that's why I can't cancel my order. After I read this, I was shocked by how this blind fanaticism is hurting the industry around the world. I don't wanna be a part of that. Like I said, some Apple products are great, but they are not unarguably so ahead of the curve for them to be squashing everyone that easy. My two cents...
see this...
http://taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/05/21/2003533313
now go back off topic....
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see this...
http://taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2012/05/21/2003533313
now go back off topic....
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Awesome I guess, but who cares thats not off topic man!
Lets continue the talk about Nascar ... Yes I saw all the branding and yes it ticked me off..
Now watching the New cars at Indy, wow they are funny looking. I can't get used to them. They do go fast though, unless of course your car has a Lotus motor in it... those suck. Chevy is dominating! YES!

US OG sales figures....

Anyone know where this info might be available? Getting kind of worried that slow sales will eventually lead to no updates...
LGOG E970
fmllc said:
Anyone know where this info might be available? Getting kind of worried that slow sales will eventually lead to no updates...
LGOG E970
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i am starting to get a bit worried myself to be honest. between the lack of advertisement (you barely hear about this phone) and the lack of accessories, i am really hoping that this doesn't end up being a flop.
I've heard the advertisement concern a few times, but I'm not sure why. I've seen a bunch of TV commercials here in Atlanta for it. And that's even with DVR'ing almost all of our shows.
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Alpione said:
I've heard the advertisement concern a few times, but I'm not sure why. I've seen a bunch of TV commercials here in Atlanta for it. And that's even with DVR'ing almost all of our shows.
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I see them all the time here in Alabama as well.
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See them all the time in Washington state.. maybe you need to upgrade your antenna to cable
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In RI, most AT&T stores don't even carry them. A lot don't even have the phone on display! I had to make a special trip to a town out of my way to pick this phone up, and they even said they only get about 2 at a time
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See them all the time in Washington state.. maybe you need to upgrade your antenna to cable
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LMFAO! We're getting plenty here in MN too. Even see AT&T advertising it along with LG.
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Advertising is one thing...I'm talking actual sales numbers....development and testing of new firmware cost LG big bucks and they aren't gonna do it for a" small" crowd. They are busy right now planning the release of the successor to.this phone to compete with Sammy I'm sure and to iron out the wrinkles in this their first high-end smartphone designed to compete with the big wigs...just saying
Just look at these forums...ghost towns....I have a nexus 4 and an s3 and there is no comparison when it comes to traffic!
LGOG E970
I would say at max in the U. S. 50-70k units have moved... honestly im guessing more in the realm 18,366 units as of last tuesday... but thats only wild speculation.
got LGOG?
If they want to be taken seriously they will have to do something. If not, they might as well stop trying to sell mobile phones in the USA.
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Hard to really say. I don't know of any official numbers but, I think I was the first person to get mine at the local best buy and that was a month after it launched.
Since then my brother and girlfriend have both gotten one.
I'm still a bit nervous about a lack of developers.
plenty of ads and phones in Evansville IN.
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plenty of ads and phones in Evansville IN.
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i see ads on tv all the time here in south florida and there arent many on our craiglist but its loaded with sgs3 and note 2 haha i think most folks dont really know about it i didint know untill i actually went to buy the note to and saw it on display and after playing with both devices i chose the optimus g and would do it again if given the choice i think lg got a bad name in the begining but the og is one heck of a device
My att store had taken the display off the shelf. Not really sure why. The sales person also didn't realize the HTC 1X+ was in the store and on display.
I am still looking for a case.
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Samsung Galaxy Note I717...

Is it a good choice to go with? Let me know your thoughts.
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No, too many hardware issues and crappy build quality.
Get an iphone. They are very user friendly.
Yes is awesome
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Let's not turn this into a trollfest
Either recommend the phone or not
Obviously the OP has the opportunity to get one and wants to know if he should or not
Thanks
FNM
I've always bought a new phone every year until I got my Gnote. I've had it 1.5 years and still impressed with it!
440bro said:
I've always bought a new phone every year until I got my Gnote. I've had it 1.5 years and still impressed with it!
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Had mine for about 8 months ....coming from the O.G. evo4g........loving my note
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I must say the phone has its ups and downs. If you can get it off contract for a good deal I would say go for it. If its a contract then I would save some more and get something newer
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Let's not turn this into a trollfest
Either recommend the phone or not
Obviously the OP has the opportunity to get one and wants to know if he should or not
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since our Moderator has explained the probability of your request, it now makes sense. not sure anyone understood your inquiry.
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I must say the phone has its ups and downs. If you can get it off contract for a good deal I would say go for it. If its a contract then I would save some more and get something newer
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as RQUIETT stated, yes this phone has its ups and downs as they all do.
I got my Infuse for 1 penny as a refurb and never had issue one with it. after Thanksgiving, I got my Note and 2 S3's for under $100, also refurbs.
well worth the money.
between contracts, data plans and need accessories and their availability, that's up to you. in my opinion, XDA is the one that keeps us current and keeps our Notes looking and feeling new and up to date
With the latest JB update, the phone is alot zippier. The hardware is still nowhere near the new phones, but it is more than enough for regular/daily use. And as mentioned before, there will be new updated ROMs to keep this phone going.
It sounds like OP is fine with the screen size, so if the price is reasonable (considering how old this phone is), I would recommend it.
Just note that the resale value might drop alot once the new Note 3 comes out later this year.
Ok thanks guys. I found it used. A family member will sell it to me for $150 and the note has no screen scratches and light scratches on the body. What do you guys think? Is it at a good price?
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Yes. In Vancouver Canada, you can flip it for at least $250.
Sounds like a deal! I bought one with one case for $300 and another with a few cases for $210. Hell, I'd buy another if I saw it for 150.
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Sounds like a deal! I bought one with one case for $300 and another with a few cases for $210. Hell, I'd buy another if I saw it for 150.
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Ok thanks. It's $150 for me only considering he's a family member. I'll buy this phone then.
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