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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcespon:
The back of the phone is very dark navy blue, not black.

The pentile display should not be a problem. Galaxy S has 800x480 on a 4" display an I can't see the pixels. Galaxy note is 1280x800 on a 5.3" display, so even higher pixels per inch.

Galaxy S had a slight blue tint for the first month (blue LEDs fade quicker, so they make them brighter to begin with), and the screen was perfectly visible from all angles (something I hate on other phones/tablets, the screen is darker and clearly under a highly reflective glass, and it's only visible from the perpendicular)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vcespon:
Feedback after a few hours with it

Mine arrived in 4 days from Germany to Spain. Comes in a box that it's just the size of the phone.

The back is very dark blue, and I like the pattern, helps to avoid it slipping from your hand. Obviously you need big hands for this phone, I can just hold it with the tip of my fingers grabbing it on the far side, and I can reach most of the screen with the thumb.

The screen is simply what I expected, thin, superamoled that appears to be just on the surface and not several mm below a glass. Visible from every angle, color changes a bit when you go over 45º, but compared to LCD screens, it's very good.

Speaker phone is very loud, the single flash LED is way brighter than I thought. The GPS works much better than my Galaxy S, it got a fix on 8 seconds the first time I took it to the street, and found 15 satellites, something I had never seen before.

The phone came with ROM KJ4 and updated itself OTA to KK9 with a 14.7 MB download. Wifi works fine and with more signal intensity than the Galaxy S. 720p videos play wonderfully on that big screen.

The included software is a mixed bag. There are new clock and weather widgets that fit the screen (the ones from beautiful widgets are not designed for screens 800 pixels wide). The included Polaris Office suite does not open pps files, the one on Galaxy S was more useful.

The battery really makes a difference, I do not see it dropping so fast as in the Galaxy S, so the faster processor and bigger screen are compensated. I fully charged it tonight and it stays at 100% after unplugging, and after 4 hours on standby (Wifi on) it's still at 100%.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetjockey145:
I've spent a few more hours with the Note also.

Transferred all my Nokia phone contacts to the Note using Bluetooth. Very straight forward. Done in a minute.

My iPhone 4s on the other hand, refused to speak to the Nokia saying it was not supported!! Apparently you have to use iTunes, Outlook and Nokia PC Suite. Dohh!!

Next, turn on the WiFi hotspot on the Galaxy Note and the iPhone 4S. My iPad 2 sees them both but refuses to connect (tether) to the iPhone 4S whilst it connects perfectly to the Galaxy Note. What the f!!! Come on Apple, you have to be joking right?

I've booked a visit to see the Genius at the Apple store in Manchester tomorrow. The explanation for all this I have just got to hear.

So far the Galaxy Note is giving the iPhone 4S a run for it's money.

While I remember, I have to agree with the Gentleman above. The GPS on the Galaxy Note is the best I've seen. It's super quick to get a fix and is extremely accurate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billu:
Ordered mine through amazon.de yesterday lunchtime, Amazon says delivery 1st or 2nd Dec.

Last night around 10pm, the Citylink tracking history stated "These goods have been scanned at the collection Depot and are now on route to the delivery Depot." "Milton Keynes"

Citylink tracking says planned delivery sometime today, 29th Nov. Does this hold any significance?

Are they in cloud cuckoo land or should I get my hopes up?

After all they are not called Shi**y link for nothing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jetjockey145:
Mine said that but it does not mean that City Link have the package.

Mine took 4 days to deliver from that point.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billu:
I was afraid of that. Oh well time to look for protective cases in the meantime.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piit79:
Yes, there seems to be something strange going on between Amazon and City Link :) When I ordered mine on Thursday, Amazon.de were showing expected delivery on Tuesday next week. In the City Link system it was showing as Arrived at Depot and Will be delivered on Friday (which I didn't believe as it didn't make sense). My Note was delivered on Monday.

Pete
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billu:
The Citylink scanner at the amazon.de's end seems to explain a lot of things. It seems to be configured to Milton Keynes and Citylink's tracking system is fooled into thinking delivery will be the following day whereas in reality it will take at least a a couple more.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prb304:
So I ordered on Thursday and my Note was delivered on Monday. Amazing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] romac:
Same here. Ordered on Thursday, received Monday
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billu:
Received mine today. Less than 48 hours since placing the order, pretty impressive.

Currently being charged. This is already the longest I have had a phone without switching it on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huguesk:
2 days to receive.

I ordered my Galaxy Note on 28/11 and i received it yesterday 01/12. I was glad i read this thread because i would have lost my mind.

The weird thing is that the phone was sent from Milton Keynes not Germany and the box had amazon.co.uk written on it and not amazon.de.

I am on the Three (UK) network and the Note works perfectly. The phone is beautiful. I am now getting rid of my 1 week old Galaxy Nexus.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgmueller:
12 hours via Prime.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dt33:
If ordering from amazon.de and wanna return it back for an exchange for another one. Coz screen problem, video playback, dead pixel something and i got to pay for the postage self for return for an exchange or do amazon.de stands for the postage?

Really want one Note for myself, but scared to get a deafulty one, with all the reads about screen issues and video playback problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LeeJS:
Went to the Bristol depot today and was told it was in amongst 8 thousand parcels waiting to be sorted on Sunday so they weren't prepared to find it. Have to wait until Monday now and I won't be home until late. Very pissed off.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchsub:
Trying desperately to order one of these from amazon.de and for some reason it keeps rejecting the address I think ?

Is there anything I should be doing when ordering ? I'm just using my UK account details and when I select the address it fails ?

Any ideas

Mitch
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indie:
Make sure amazon are selling it and not a 3rd party seller or it will reject your address
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitchsub:
Hi indie - you're right it was being supplied by tradomania UG so I guess they are out of stock

ah well - I'll keep looking

mitch
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] be_vigilant:
I have edited my post. I emailed amazon.de, they have an english speaking support contact email form you can use.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Do you have their email address or number?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fudge2011toffeebar:
do you ring germany then they have a german english speaker. Ill wait until monday I think to call, if that is the case. tododd let us know when you get yours , cheers peepz
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Will do. Based on evidence/experience so far I'd be very surprised if I see it today. :(

---------- Post added at 03:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:21 PM ----------

Just had a call from City Link in response to my enquiry. They say they do not have possession of the phone. Supposedly it was scanned by Amazon last night for departure from their facility, but not handed over to City Link for them to take custody. Clearly the phone will not turn up today. Assuming it gets into City Link's hands by tonight it should get to their local (to me) distribution centre on Saturday morning and then sit there over the weekend until they start unpacking palettes on Monday. While the delay and disinformation is frustrating, Amazon have had the 7th down as the delivery day ever since it was scanned for departure at their end, so I guess they know the cause of the delay even if City Link have been caught off guard.

I was given a freephone (actually I think it may not be, but that's what I was told by the City Link guy) number for Amazon in case I wished to discuss the issue - 03303030999 - if anybody wants to have a chat with them. In my case I can't see much to be gained by calling so I'll just keep fingers crossed that all goes to plan over the weekend.

Also to confirm my earlier suspicion these phones are coming from Amazon's UK facility in Bedfordshire. Who knows, maybe they will even be UK stock. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
I ordered from amazon.de yesterday night and received one email with the subject 'Ihre Bestellung bei Amazon.de'. I have had no further communication from amazon.de.

A friend ordered one from amazon.de today and got the first 'Ihre Bestellung bei Amazon.de' email but also received a second email in english shortly afterwards.

What are other peoples experiences? I'm a bit worried that my order has got stuck in the system somewhere :S

Scrub that just got my City Link tracking code!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Mine is also coming from MK. How did you get your screen shot in English?

A translation of my first line is 'Problem was solved, shipment is traveling.'

I wonder what the problem was...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k-12:
ordered thursday, received on monday. very surprised by speed and price. dhl express only for 6Euros to Slovakia :-().
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
I'm using the Chrome browser and when you open a foreign language page it offers to translate the page for you. You can specify that in future it is always to translate pages in xxxxxxxxx language into English. I've been relying on that all week while fiddling around on the amazon.de site. You do need to take the translations with a large pinch of salt, and it can't translate text on buttons, which are graphic images, but it's enough to have allowed me to navigate to the desired end result.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
This is quite an exciting thread. I'll be in the UK from the Beginning of December and would really like to get my hands on the Note.

Would you UK guys be able to give a breakdown of what it cost to get the Note from Amazon.de to you with shipping and tax etc?

I bought my Xoom Wifi as a grey import from the US, so I'm not to worried about not getting a local version.

By the way, does it have NFC? I have seen on a few sites that say it is optional, others don't mention whether or not it has.

It seems like a perfect phone and NFC would just top it off.

Thanks

Jayd
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Here's the breakdown on my emailed order receipt....

Zwischensumme ohne USt: EUR 448,48 (net cost of phone)

Porto und Verpackung: EUR 6,00 (shipping)

Umsatzsteuer: EUR 90,90 (20% VAT for UK market)

Endbetrag inkl. USt.: EUR 545,38 (gross total in Euros)

Bezahlt von Mastercard GBP 486.36 (total in GBP converted by Amazon)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
Awesome. Thanks

So it cost more than £100 less than on Clove.co.uk?

Any idea on the NFC?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Yes. Big savings over Clove, Expansys and Handtec.

I'm not expecting it to have NFC, but until it turns up I don't know for sure.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
Cool. Please let us know when you get it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fudge2011toffeebar:
what is going to be the differences between the german version and any other versoin? the germans think of everything.

NFC is that is? who cares!? :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparkyxda:
Just the same for me. No update since 11pm from last night. I'LLC call depot in the morning to see if I can collect.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Well there has been a positive move forward overnight on my delivery.....

05/11/11	05:04	These goods have successfully arrived at the Depot ready for delivery.

03/11/11	19:09	These goods have been scanned at the collection Depot and are now on route to the delivery Depot.

Slowly, slowly catchy monkey. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparkyxda:
Mike's at the local depot too so I'll pop in this morning and suggest they hand it over. May take a baseball bat to help with persuasion. Not that I'm desperate.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fudge2011toffeebar:
ditto the above guy. wish i had thought to pop in this morning before 12 aswell and given them some stick. not literally of course.

my status changed and i rung at 12.10 after they shut lines so just expect monday now . Anyone else get lucky today,,if they got the goods to my dpot at 3 this morning, they were obv incompetent ::p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyiacovou:
Is it wrong that I'm this impatient and excited at the arrival of a new phone, tablet, no phone, sorry tablet.....ahhhhh

I'm booked in for a session at the priory for my illness :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparkyxda:
Go it!

Picked mine up this morning. Took them a while to find it as it was in a cage ready for Monday delivery.

Guy was very helpful and told me, "It was in the last cage I looked in"

;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
Nice.

And? What are your thoughts? Did it come in German?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fudge2011toffeebar:
germans and cages. typical samsung behaviour
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
OK so I originally ordered from Amazon.de on 03 Nov 11 at 19:30.

On 04 Nov I got an email with my tracking number, so i checked it out on the City Link site and it told me that it would be delivered on 05 Nov 11.

On 05 Nov I rang my local CL depot to confirm delivery and they said it was in transit from their Milton Keynes depot to my depot and it should be with my Monday.

After the phone call I checked Amazon.de to see what their systems said:

4th November 2011 13:54 M / Keynes problem was solved, shipment is on its way.

4th November 2011 13:54 M / Keynes broadcast received by the transport provider.

So today I checked the CL site and still no change, it says my parcel will be delivered on 05 Nov. I rang my local depot and they say its in transit from MK. I rang the MK depot and they told me that Amazon actually have City Link scanners as they are a big customer, so when Amazon scan it, it means that it's not actually with CL yet. They gave me a number for Amazon.co.uk who couldn't help me and transferred me to Amazon.de.

Whilst I was holding, I checked the amazon.de website and it now said:

5th November 2011 01:00 GRIMBERGEN(belgium) shipment is received at the distribution center.

I got through to amazon.de and although the advisor told me he couldn't speak English, after about 2 minutes, he spoke perfect English! He told me that the phone hasn't even left Germany yet! He also said if I haven't received it by Friday then I can call back and ask for another one to be sent.

So it seems like a bit of a balls up all round.

The money has also been taken from my account so I cant order a second one like the German advisor suggested.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
thats not good mate, I hope mine isn't the same **** up
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Hopefully, if your correct then, then say the order actually went through on the 4th and it would get shipped out on the 7th then i would get it on the 9th.

Fingers crossed!

I just don't like the way that City Link said it would be with me on the 5th!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Wednesday___ 02/11 22:05 Order placed

Thursday_____ 03/11 19:09 Scanned for despatch by Amazon but not transferred to City Link

Friday_______ 04/11 no change (City Link showed delivery for this day but as they didn't have the goods that would be impossible)

Saturday_____ 05/11 05:04 Arrived at delivery depot (available to be picked up on Saturday morning but I didn't have the time to go)

Monday______ 07/11 06:37 Out for delivery.

EDIT : Monday 07/11 10:37 Delivered. :)

As far as City Link is concerned they were to pick up the package from Milton Keynes. I don't know whether stock was already held there or shipped there first of all from Germany by Amazon.

Vino, I'm surprised to see Belgium appearing in the logistics tracking. Maybe there was a real hiccup with your shipment. Perhaps that's what the "problem" was relating to.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Cheers tdodd, what does your amazon.de status page read like?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyiacovou:
I am in exactly the same situation as you, ordered mine on 3/11 at around 8pm. Citylink are telling me they have not got the package yet and its not yet been dispatched from Germany! Jokers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
Just the same as City Link, although I think the translations from German may not be quite correct. It says "delivered" when it is currently "out for delivery"....

---------- Post added at 11:08 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:25 AM ----------

Mine has arrived. It came with quick start instruction booklets in English and German and the 24 month warranty card is written in English as the first language and says it will be honoured in EC countries. Charger is a European two pin affair with USB out.

Sorry for goofy look. I was using a mirror with which to judge the aim of the camera for this self portrait.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Personally, IMO, I reckon amazon.de got so many UK orders for SGN's that the sent a palette load over from Germany to the UK. So some folks who ordered, got theirs shipped out directly from Milton Keynes. I guess maybe the Milton Keynes warehouse ran out so deferred the orders back to Germany.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kodbel:
Awesome. Could you please confirm if the amazon receipt or dispatch note mentions the imei number of the handset?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnakeManJayd:
Awesome.

That's exciting news.

Would be great to hear your thoughts on the device (and whether it has NFC, ha ha) once you've had time to play with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
No sign that I can see.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theloginwithnoname:
I ordered one from .de on the back of this! Many many thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
I've just had the same call from ****tylink. Customer service manager, "we definitely do not have your package in our system, it is technically classified as a missing package, it should show on our system as a missing package, which it doesn't, and you should notify amazon immediately" :eek:

call amazon, get transferred to germany.

"you must wait at least till 12th November before we will send another one out"

then will I have to wait another 10 days after that one is missing before you send another one out?

I suspect someone at the amazon distribution point is pocketing these, while sticking them onto CL scanning system.

damn why can't the UK dealers price match it? I'd cancel the thing immediately.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jUsT2eXy:
So would you advise against (for the time being) to hold off ordering from amazon.de? :confused:

The price is falling... I think by 2 euros this week... But I want it by next Wednesday and so I think I need to order this Wednesday/Thursday right? :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
I would wait, either they genuinely have got lost (how for something that is scanned in at everystage of its journey)

or some one is scamming them off the crates.. either way there's been no movement on it since

Date	Time	Place	For more information
4th November 2011	22:24	MILTON KEYNES BUCKINGHAMSHIRE GB	Shipment has left the distribution center.

and according to city link that never happened, it never entered their system. :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdodd:
The whole schedule from placing my order to receiving delivery is documented in POST #46.

Important things to note....

- Almost a whole day passed between placig the order and the first sign of shipping movement.

- The first scan is by Amazon and despite saying it is on the way it isn't. City Link do not have custody at that point. If their courier doesn't get the goods handed to him/her that night it looks like there might be another 24 hours of bugger all going on until they collect it the following day.

Several people have witnessed ambitious estimates for delivery by City Link which will never be met because the tracking data is out of whack with the facts. City Link forecast delivery for me on 4th Nov. That was never going to happen, although I stayed in just in case. Amazon had delivery down for 7th of Nov from the moment tracking commenced. They were right.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andyiacovou:
My order was estimated to arrive today but there have been no updates since 5 November when it was scanned in Belgium.

Anyone know if Amazon will let me cancel the order tomorrow? Wish I just paid a little extra and bought from UK
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jUsT2eXy:
Hey thanks for your reply. So roughly it took 5 days for your order to arrive. If I order the phone on Wednesday (like you did), do you think it will be delivered on Monday (likes yours did)?

I will be home from Monday-Friday so if its a day or two late that's okay.

Secondly, hows your phone sir? :o

Enjoying it? No NFC right? :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
I wouldn't be so bothered if City Link didn't tell me it was getting delivered on the 5th. Amazon should no have been given access to City Links systems. I really hope it does come this week, which I think it should by the looks of the testimony on here.

Amazon and CL should change the way they do business as its hurting the end consumer..... but it won't :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
My City Link now looks like@:

I was going to say 'amazon hasn't changed', but if i look closely, it has. The information informing me what's happening at each transaction has disappeared:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Just rang CL and they say its definitely on the van.. whoop :)

Lets hope it arrives before i leave at 1300!

Plus MW3 should get delivered :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vinokirk:
Now CL is showing delivery today :P
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fards:
had apology from amazon through today, no idea why the mixup, with a guarantee that it would be here today, 3 mins later the CL website was updated.

I really need to go into work soon, hurry up delivery man :cool: