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Galaxy Note 3 is region

Samsung’s super-powerful, super-expensive Galaxy Note 3 will only work with European SIM cards if you buy it here in the UK, according to British online retailers Clove and Handtec. The £600 mega-phone has some kind of region locking, the mobile-sellers warn, so if you go outside of Europe you’ll have to use your UK network’s staggeringly expensive roaming service rather …

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Note 3 region lock vanishes after first activation, Samsung says

Samsung has responded to concerns over its new Note 3 smart phone’s region lock, telling customers that the SIM-locking tech inside its new mobile will disappear after the first activation. “The product is only compatible with a SIM-card issued from a mobile operator within the region identified on the sticker of the product package,” Samsung explains, in a statement sent …

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