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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by UnoriginalGuy on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:44PM (#6452344)
It isn't. The Note 3 has a list of blacklisted cellular operators outside your region, if you try to use a sim card created by one of them you get an error on the screen and it refuses to connect.

The leaflet is just a leaflet, the issue here is that Samsung have added software intentionally designed to block cross-region usage.

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by r00fus on Thursday September 26, 2013 @04:29PM (#6453438)
This just sounds so anti-consumer, I'm surprised. Do you have a citation that identifies the blacklist?

If so, why would Samsung do something so blatantly anti-consumer? They're a major corporation, they don't get jollies off this, where do they profit?

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Re:The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked by UnoriginalGuy on Thursday September 26, 2013 @05:03PM (#6453632)
XDA extracted and posted the XML file with a list of carriers to block in it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457964&pag...

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