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Samsung Galaxy Note now available in Canada
The day has arrived. Today, February 14th, 2011, the Samsung Galaxy Note has officially launched. This 5.3-inch phone/tablet is now available to all Canadians from Bell, TELUS and Rogers. This will come with Android OS 2.3.6 Gingerbread with TouchWIZ, but is on an upgrade path to OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich sometime before May. Other specs of this beast has it powered by a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor, the display has a resolution of 1280 x 800 and is made of Gorilla Glass. The Note weighs in at 178 grams and is yet another LTE-enabled device, but will fall back to the carriers HSPA+ network speeds. As for pricing, the no-term ranges from $699 – $779; while the price drops to $199.99 on a 3-year at all carriers.
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BestBuy has it now listed @ $149 for Bell, yet Bell.ca has it still @ $199
Can BestBuy really be offering it for $50 less than Bell directly?
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/samsung-bell-samsung-galaxy-note-smartphone-3-year-agreement-lsi717br/10193810.aspx?
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Looks too weird holding a phone that big to your ear but then again who calls anymore, most people including myself use social networking or texting\IMing to communicate nowadays.
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WOW WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF PHONE!!! IT GOT IT RIGHT!
LOSE AGAIN GARBAGE IPHONE!!!
GOOD JOB SAMMIE!!!!
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I think I’m in love <3
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Can I trade the LTE for the exynos chipset?
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there is always bluetooth headsets as well.
if you want to go that route of course, but im with you on that one. its all about text, whatsapp and the like. rarely make a call now a days
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Why would he release it if it comes out today? What makes you so special that you think you deserve it a day early?
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Too big for me honestly… I’ll go check it out in stores though.
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I like the size, even bigger than my Galaxy Nexus. Very easy on the eyes. Too bad it won’t work with Mobilicity or Wind.
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ROGERS made sure it will not work on winds better megga hurts!!! why are you all supporting them?! We at the no gag reflex club want answers! Tony said AWS is far better than LTE and you will all know it soon! Wind is committed to keep AWS until YOU ALL see how great it is! best service best plans best all round everything!!! LTE is not as good as AWS!
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Did they deliberately release it today so they can get a lot of “Is that your Note or are you happy to see me” jokes?
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I’m on my way to the store now for a gut check.
I know The source will give me a free Bluetooth headset with a hardware upgrade.
Bell states on their website that a free accesory is included.
Best Buy now has it listed for $150.
Does anyone else know any other deals?
(I’ll likely already have this in hand when I come back to check this thread however.)
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How come Best Buy removed Rogers on there Galaxy Note page…also Rogers preps told me yesterday that Rogers was not ready to released the Galaxy Note on the 14th…weird ?
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It’s already available at Rogers, so not sure why Bestbuy removed it.
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The guy at the Telus store told me it was going to be 159$
Telus still hasn’t released the price on their website. I’m stuck at work until 5..
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“Happy Valentine’s Day! I got a 5.3 incher for you!”
“That’s it?!”
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it should work on wind/mobilicity,
the specifications on bell website shows
LTE: 700/1700 MHz HSPA/UMTS: 850/1700/ 1900/2100 MHz
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Will not work with Wind… It has 700/1700 LTE… first Wind is not LTE second.. Wind is 1700 AWS… You’re way off!
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I apologize.. I didn’t read your post properly.. Yes based on the specs from the Bell website technically this can work with Wind….
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Yeah I don’t know why Bell would put that as it’s blatantly wrong. You need the 1700/2100mhz spectrum for WIND which Bell shows it has.
But if you look at the Telus site, it clearly shows a tri-band HSPA network. It would need to be penta band like the nexus to work on WIND.
I tried to look at Samsung’s site but they show nothing.
Honestly, there’s no way it has a 1700Mhz band. Otherwise T-Mobile would have been all over this in the US instead of AT&T
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It uses 700/1700 for LTE only. It even says so. Under HSPA (which is what Wind has) it only has tri-band
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Telus have the Galaxy Note listed as $199 on their site. It just went live. So much for the $149 hopes I had.
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Is that a big phone in your pocket, or you’re just happy to see me?
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Would have been brilliant to sell this with a free bluetooth.
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p.s. It’s $82 on the Telus Team Webstore (Employee friends and family) on a 3 year contract.
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I just called Samsung, it turns out the Canadian version only has 512Mb of RAM.
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Does not seem to be up on rogers website but bell lists 512 ram under the spec page!
This is totally a deal breaker for me. Already have a dell streak. Next phone needs 720p, big screen, fast cpu, 1gb ram and lte. Guess I am waiting to see if the HTC endeavor comes to Canada.
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Hi Stephen, I call them as well, and they were not able to confirm it to me…? Are you sure about this > Is the guy on the phone seems competent to you ?
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Of course, everyone knows canadians will take all kinds of bulls**t and learn to like it. Just say NO and move on.
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Soon you will forget how to communicate via speech. I use like 600o min per month
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512 of RAM WTF ?
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Happy Valentine’s Day!…”Is that a Note in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
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ON ROGERS WEB THERE IS NO SMARTPHONE CALLED GALAXY NOTE!!!!!!!!!
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I buy it from Bell 199.99$ 3 year contract + free case it’s soooooo nice.
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Hi Terry,
is there FM Radio in it? Also can you confirm the RAM to everybody please ?
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Can someone who picked one up today confirm the amount of ram? if its 512 then I’ll be ordering the international version from expansys. Not sure why they would cut the ram down on such a high end device
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RAM IS 1 GB NOT 512
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This is really not a good deal… 200$ and a 3 year term. So much money to get robbed blind for 3 years…
Just get the international version for around 650$ (saw it for 600$ some places). Its a better phone with a better SoC and better battery life. You can even get it in white now.
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Depends on your deal. I will be getting one for $199 on a 1 year contract.
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Same here, can someone confirm the RAM, even samsung cannot confirm it since the preps are too dumb to know what is RAM…also does it have FM Radio…? Please confirm.
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Is that a Galaxy Note in your pocket or you just happy to see me.
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“This will come with Android OS 2.3.6 Gingerbread with TouchWIZ…”
stopped caring at TouchWIZ
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Just came home with one!
I got it for $150 at The Source on a 3 year hardware upgrade. I got a 16gb Sandisk card from them for $20 and a white flip cover from Bell for $30. It looks fresh to death.
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hi Jesso2k, Can you confirm about the RAM and the FM Radio please?
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Touchwiz. Ewwwww.
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Wonder why Samsung is releasing any new phones without ICS? Makes no sense!
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This is because the original Galaxy Note was announced before ICS.
If any Notes were to have ICS first, it would the international versions.
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Dumb people need to stop commenting , it has 1GB of ram not 512 , Os version is CARRIER BASED , it will eventually have ICS once the code is translated by the Carrier (fluffware added to it as well). This phone will be awesome , if you think the screen is too big then why even bother posting on this…
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how can you be sure ?
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I guess you’ll have to wait and find out if you honestly believe I come on here to spread false rumors.
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Specs on bells web site claim 512.
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Picked mine up yesterday from Rogers for $199 on a HUP. It cannot be understated how amazing this thing looks. If you don’t like it, cool, keep it moving.
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Samsungmobile canada confirms it on twitter = 1g final !
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Why doesn’t rogers have any in stock yet?? I’ve called 4 Rogers stores and nobody got their shipments!!
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WHEN I CHECK THE RAM STATUD IN THE PHONE IT HAS 732MB USABLE, THAT WOULD MEAN IT HAS 1GB RAM.
Don’t see FM raido listed in the apps.
This is a hella sexy phablet, I’m selling my Galaxy Tab 10.1 lol!!
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It has much more ram than 512MB, confirmed on my Note I picked up this morning from Telus.
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Note is a good phone but 512MB RAM and that price is a deal breaker. My SII Skyrocket has 1GB RAM and is fraction of this cost.
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Hey Amelie, I can confirm what Dylan (3 posts up) said is true.
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I’m still waiting on the Tab 7.7″. Wasn’t it also supposed to be “coming soon”?
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Surprise surprise, Best Buy branches in Vancouver to Abbotsford only got 1 unit each from Bell; I’m lookig for 2 without running around branch to branch.
Richmond Centre got only 1 from Rogers too.
Anyone else having trouble with supply?
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Shut up Sam. Just shut up.
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for an extra 1.7 inches get a BB Playbook cheaper by the inch
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THE RAM IS 1GB SURE 100% ITS 1 GB RAM, THIS IS NOT APPLE PHONE ITS SAMSUNG ITS 1 GB RAM SURE 1000000%%%%%%%
JUST GO AND GRAB ONE THE PHONE IS AMAZING THE SCREEN IS AMAZING
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The experience of making calls, on the other hand, is merely good. Whether awkwardly holding up the Note to your ear, or connecting through a headset, Bluetooth or otherwise, callers sounded far away to me, and me to them. However, the quality itself is high, with no distracting sibilance, echoes or delays. The Note comes equipped with a second microphone for noise cancellation, though because many of my callers sounded so distant I can’t vouch for its usefulness.
Anybody else experiencing call quality issues?
Thanks
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How do you change the time on the Samsung note its set for UK time i need it for ontario canada
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How do you change the time on the Samsung note
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I just got one 2 weeks ago. This is an awesome quick responsive phone. Great Video and light thin. I was wondering how dorky I would look holding such a large phone. But the look is more envy than distain if you care about that sort of think. But no matter what it looks like I dont care because it is turely a cool fuctional phone.
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