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[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Seller said : International delivery - items may be subject to customs processing depending on the item's declared value.

Sellers set the item's declared value and must comply with customs declaration laws.

Is there a customs form to fill ? How to go about it ? What's the declared value ?

Please advise as I am about to order from them.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
I ended up getting it from US Ebay too, probably going to be a while before a black 32GB version is available in the UK and getting tired of waiting for Samsung UK to get there act together :rolleyes:

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If you select Expedited Intl' Shipping it will be shipped with DHL. On the chance it gets held up at UK customs :fingers-crossed: , DHL will pay the import tax for you and invoice you for it later. The declared value will be $600 which equates to £380, so import tax would be 20% of that so about £80.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
hey thanks Ns5x. I'll click on the buy button now :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Does anyone have your tablet shipped from your ebay supplier yet?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
Mine has been shipped but has yet to arrive
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
When did you order yours? Just wonder how long does it take to ship.

Edit : Woohoo....I ordered mine this morning and just received an email stated it was shipped via DHL. Tracking said WASHINGTON-RONALD REAGAN NATIONAL, DC. USA.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
Exactly the same! I did email the seller on eBay about an estimated delivery day, and was told that it will definitely arrive before the end of next week (by the 26th).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Hmm.. tracking still said 'Shipment Information Received', i wonder DHL has actually picked up the package yet.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
Bought it on Tuesday evening and the tracker still says WASHINGTON-RONALD REAGAN NATIONAL, DC. USA
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] vivekfurtado:
Mine too... Same status and I bought it on Monday. But DHL are known to be poor in updating statuses. Will give them a call tomorrow if the status does not change.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Same here. A quick check on seller ebay seems a number of GN10 had been sold the last few days; I wonder they have enough stock to send.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] vivekfurtado:
I hope he does - he seems to be a big seller. I hope it comes soon though!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
I hope do. Many feedback seems to indicate fast delivery
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
My order's not too far away now:

When it arrives in East Midlands Customs, you'll get a phone call from DHL shortly after informing you of the Customs charges, which was ~£82 for me. You can pay online or by phone, although I tried online payment with two different cards and it didn't work; I'd give them a call as you know you're able to pay the charges. About three hours after paying it arrived at the East Midlands sort facility.

I'd give them a call, I bought it on Monday as well so yours should be further on by now.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] rakeshm99:
Why don't you all buy it from Stratford westfield. They had 50 when I bought mine at the weekend. It's at the Samsung store
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] b1ts:
Because they don't sell it.

This is the 32gb black.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] vivekfurtado:
My shipment has now been picked up which means it should reach the uk tomorrow and I hopefully get it Monday. / Tuesday. Let me know how your note is !!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Did you call DHL ?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] vivekfurtado:
Sent an email to the ebay seller. He was shocked it hadn't arrived yet and promised to contact DHL on my behalf. Couple hours later it was sorted.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] vivekfurtado:
It arrived in the East Midlands today. Paid the VAT which was 81. However they don't do Saturday deliveries. It has to be on Monday. Can't wait!!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
I don't know if I can wait till Monday! My 10.1 is now at a delivery facility, which is 10 minutes from me! So near yet so far!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
Do they let you collect from the depot?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
I'm not sure, I might give them a call. I'm at Sixth Form for most of Monday and nobody else is around, so I'd rather pick it up today.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
I am thinking of picking up one of these off ebay. I assume the warranty should still be valid as they tend to be international these days. Has anyone managed to register the perks?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
Hopefully mine will be delivered tomorrow so I'll post which perks work if any :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
Well of course you can fool the location with a VPN.. However looks like you need to use a credit card as well so it may check address that way.. Fingers crossed you get the freebies.. Will be nice to know you got any even better deal and got one over on samsung who are ripping the Brits off.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] vivekfurtado:
Let me know how you do it! Will let you know if I get any perks working via VPN...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
I have taken the plunge and bought this off ebay. Seems like you guys have had fairly quick shipping via DHL and I would prefer the higher capacity. Was going to hold out for the new nexus 10 but 99% certain it won't have a sd slot and I am fed up having to ration what videos etc I take around with me.

I was going to pop in to John Lewis but I prefer black... Fingers crossed now this ships quickly. What are you guys going to do about charging?I have loads of different micro sd chargers but are you going to buy an adaptor so you can plug this into a UK socket?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Despite sent an email to ebay seller on Saturday, tracker status still remain the same :(. Seller promised to check with DHL and advised to send him an email if status not change today. Finger crossed, it get pick up today.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
It's here, and my god do I love it! There are no problems setting it up in the UK despite the tablet being a US model. Claimed the 50GB Dropbox perk just fine. The screen is fantastic! The back of my black 10.1 is reasonably grippy despite being polycarbonate. As soon as I had completed setup, I was instructed to install an update to "Improved stability".

I will report back when I've had a play around!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Great news. Is it as laggy as being reported in so many reviews?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
A little bit. Leaving Chrome is horrific, elsewhere there's a bit of stutter here and there. Turning the animations scales to 0.5x and disabling the home S-Voice command and the MyMagazine command certainly helps. I'd say overall it's pretty good.

Also, for some reason I cannot watch Play Movies in HD, probably because of a location issue. I have contacted Google about this. Apart from that, no problems.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
I got mine too this morning :D. Very pleased with it, I tried to claim the 50GB Dropbox, it said it was successful but no more space was added. I guess this was because I already got 50GB when I bought my S4 and the storage doesn't stack. :silly:

It was laggy before I installed the first 2 firmware updates, but now it is a lot better but you can tell it still isn't fully optimized (the odd stutter now and again). I also managed to claim the Google Play Credit and Samsung Apps Credit perks. I had to use a VPN/Proxy to fool it into thinking I was in the US, and had to create a new Samsung Account, but does work.

I tried to register it on the Samsung website for the warranty etc, but the model number wasn't recognized. I think because I was trying to register a device with a US model number on the UK site. Not surprised though.

The tablet itself looks really good, glad I went for the black model. No real complaints except for a couple of bugs I've run into but I'm sure they will be fixed pretty soon. :cool:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
Did you claim the Google Play Store credit in £?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
Nope, $. I did it through the Play Store on my PC as it only seemed to work that way.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
Thanks Ns5x. Superb I have a VPN so will register on my PC. I guess if you don't have a VPN you could use hidemyass. Think they offer a free proxy for the US. Mine hopefully will be shipping today and I called DHL and they are estimating the delivery as Wednesday! Could I ask what you are doing with the charger? Are you just using another micro SD charger?

Also popped in to PC world today. Had a quick play with the tablet and I am very very impressed. I used to have a nexus 10 and just from the looking at some HD video demos the screen does look even better on the galaxy. I thought the pen would be a bit of a gimmick but it is a superb little addition. I think the issues with the 'lag' will be eased with firmware updates. With 8 cores and 3 GB ram this machine is a monster!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ns5x:
I'm using my spare Galaxy S4 charger, I compared the voltages between it and the US one that came with it and everything seems to be identical except the S4 charger has 5.0V output compared to 5.3V on the US one. Can't image it will make any major difference in charging time, I charged it from 0-100% and it took dead on 5 hours, which seems to be the going rate looking at other threads.

I really wish Sammy would fully optimize the hardware for their devices before they released them :mad: instead of doing it over firmware updates. Things will probably get a lot faster when they enable HMP for the Exynos 5420 so all 8 cores can be utilized at once. I'm pretty sure it isn't enabled yet... hopefully somebody can confirm this :confused:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
You wouldn't happen to have any HD Play Movies that you've bought previously? For some reason I can't play any of them in HD, even though I get the option to buy others in HD. I'm guessing it's to do with the fact I've got the UK version of the Play Store running on US firmware, so I might flash the UK firmware via Odin (once someone confirms this is safe to do hopefully)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
I read that currently the tablet cant use both of the quad cores at the same time. So it either switches to the faster 1.9 core or the slower 1.3 core depending on what you are doing with the tablet. It can't switch off and on individual cores it always has to be 4 cores eg it can't turn on 1 core or 2 cores or 8 cores etc etc. To be honest it seems a bit of overkill having eight cores but you can see touchwizz is trying to do more multi tasking to exploit the multi core processor. Also I doubt any software could use all 8 cores at the moment plus no bench marking software is available to test its speed. 8 cores is ahead of its time. Sounds stupid but the benefits will probably come from being able to use less cores as this will lead to less power consumption in the short term at least. When you look at benchmarking of PC processors a dual care processor will preform virtually the same as a quad core if the benchmarking software has not been design to utilise all of the cores.

Android kitkat is due out in the next few days I would not be surprised if Samsung is putting most effort in getting the tablet ready for the new version of android. They have promised an update for single core switching.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
My tablet just got pick up, hopefully I'll receive it on Wednesday.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
Can't understand why it would do this... You could try and download the latest version of the google play from the below.

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23189362627839727

The Above link is on the android police website. Reinstalling may fix this or it could be a quirk in googles DRM.

Also you could try and log out your google account replace this with a dummy account. Then log back in with your proper account again. Worth a shot as I have done this before when I had issues with google play.

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Fingers crossed. Mine has been picked up at the same time so according to DHL estimating this will be delivered on Wednesday. Also checked about paying for the duty and was advised they would give me a call on my mobile number when the item lands in the UK.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Ryangan:
No luck, is flashing the UK firmware worth a try?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] stinger108:
I think the misunderstanding stems from the fact that it was rumored there could be a future firmware upgrade for the Exynos5410(GS4). Meizu announced that it may release an update to allow the Exynos5410 in its MX3 to operate in HMP mode i.e. running up-to 8 cores simultaneously. hence speculation began on a future firmware update coming to Samsung’s S4 Phones that run the Exynos5410.

The Exynos5410 has two blocks of quad core processors, one block of big quad cores & one block of little quad cores and due to some cache issues, its currently only able to run up-to four processors from the big block or up-to four processors from the little bock.

The Note 10.1 2014(wifi & wifi+ 3g) edition & Note 3(3g) phones use the newer Exynos5420 which can run in HMP mode out of the box.

Here is a youtube video from ARM, demonstrating Samsungs Exynox Octa 5420 running all eight cores simultaneously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fLrSTJECVaU

ARM demos Angry birds using 5 cores on Samsung’s Exynox-5420:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNPxExkLMo&feature=player_embedded

Samsung's abstract marketing attempt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwbeb08W27U
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
Fingers crossed. Mine has been picked up at the same time so according to DHL estimating this will be delivered on Wednesday. Also checked about paying for the duty and was advised they would give me a call on my mobile number when the item lands in the UK.[/QUOTE]

I just got back from Spurn Point today and see my Tablet on my table as soon as I enter my room. It arrived UK yestarday and paid Tax and VAT before 5pm yesterday, received it 9am this morning. Haven't got time to play but l I did open it to turn the screen on. OMG what a gorgeous screen! Screen resolution is as good as, if not better than, my ipad 4 screen.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] gsm3105:
I've been going to buy one of these tablets from the U.S.Ebayer but worried about problems with warranty/updates and charging (110v in U.S. and 230v here).

Can UK buyers put my mind at rest?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] eddlum25:
As mentioned earlier, getting from another continent does voids the warranty. If you turn to the previous page posted by Ns5x, he fail to register with Samsung website for the warranty etc. However, he did successfully claim the Google credit and Samsung apps credit perks using VPN. Personally, I claimed 50GB of drop box no problems, but haven't yet claim any perks. It's your call mate.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] andyzarins:
The terms and conditions of the warranty exclude use outside of the US. However, I am fairly confident that a local service center in the UK would handle any warranty claim. If not worse case would be shipping it back the retailer for forwarding this on. I have the tablet charging with a generic multi charger. Takes a little longer to charge but 5 hours got this to near 100% which seems close to the original charger. The tablet will be identical to the UK model apart from the charger. Also I ordered a micro USB charger with the identical specs of the official one off Amazon for a fiver.

Small risk on the warranty but I cant imagine Samsung's restriction holding up. EBay buyer protection and a helpful retailer plus UK consumer / US law should prevent any problems. Argument will be I bought this while livng in the States and now moved to UK...

Plus I have the $50 Samsung credit. Can't use it yet as I need to put a US credit card on the account to make a purchase. Working on this part will probably set up a dollar prepaid credit card to get around this.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
Anyone know if the UK will even get the 32GB version, Thats the version I'm waiting for at the minute, so I might be waiting fot nothing :confused:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] richard d:
Any idea on 3G pricing

Anyone any idea on 3G pricing/availability in the UK?

Trying to decide whether to make do with a Note 8 or go for one of these, but I need 3G.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
The note 10.1 is available at Currys online for a web exclusive price of £450 and also if order it before Wednesday you get a £30 Currys voucher, so sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/comput...te-3-10-1-wifi-tablet-16-gb-21795604-pdt.html

Plus you basically order it online and go collect in store so you don't need to wait for the device to get delivered but you still get the web exclusive price.

AND

If you want a black Note 10.1 well Very.co.uk are now taking orders too, tablet is priced at £450 also.

http://www.very.co.uk/samsung-galax...-_-computers+tablet+pc-_-3thGsstb_29821791074
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] alexbush:
Sounds good except that hardly any Curry's stores appear to have any stock.

I would be careful about Very. Tried to buy my last tab from them and got strung along for days until I worked out they didn't actually have the stock they were claiming.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] ice_coffee:
I purchased mine from John lewis last week, but as a resident of Europe (I'm in the UK)it turns out I can purchase it directly from Amazon.de where they don't even sell the 16gb version (as it's beneath them) 32Gb is 500 Euros £430 and LTE is 625 Euros £515 I'm going to send my John Lewis tablet back and investigate this.

******************************** EDIT *********************************

I was wrong, it is the 16GB Variant available on Amazon.de for £430, I mis-read
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
But would this not void your Samsung warranty? And also are you sure its the 32GB because one of the reviews says its a 16GB.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] gsm3105:
I ordered a 16GB in Black from Very on Thurs 31st,delivery date is Thurs 7th Nov will let you know how I get on.

Have ordered a few things from Very and they have always come on time.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] ice_coffee:
if you check the terms and conditions you Will see that samsung has a worldwide warranty this means the only downside is the funny 2 pin euro plug, but a simple boots travel adapter will sort that out
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
If you don't mind can you please post the link to the page where it says this, I would love to see it because this is the thing that's holding me back from buying from the US at the minute.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] ice_coffee:
don't buy from the US, the import tax will make it more expensive than Amazon.de. Only buy from the US if your going there on holiday, or have a friend going there.

Here is the Samsung Web page where they say they will try to fix a product from anywhere in the world, but would prefer it if you bought it in the euro zone (like Amazon.de)

http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/warranty/warrantyInformation.do
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
Thanks for that, yeah my friend is going to the US later this month however I am concerned he may still have to pay import tax when he lands here in the UK.

But I couldn't find a 32GB model from amazon.de well to be honest I found one for $499 but it doesn't say what the size is apart from a review where the buyer says its actually a 16gb. http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=433191967&pf_rd_i=301128
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] ice_coffee:
I was wrong, the cheaper tablet on Amazon.de is the 16GB variant, I think I will just add the £30 and get the LTE version from Amazon.de, so I can have 32GB
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] db9052:
I think that LTE version is also 16GB from what I can see.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] ice_coffee:
Yep, you're right, I put the part code into google and it came back 16GB, Very dissapointed.

I will Phone JL and see if they will price match Amazon.co.uk, who are now at £440
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
Currys now at £450 but you get £50 cashback - Not a bad deal.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/comput...te-3-10-1-wifi-tablet-16-gb-21795604-pdt.html
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Alasdair91:
Ordered from isme.com

I ordered myself a black 16GB Note 10.1 2014 on the 3rd November and at the time I was told I'd get it on the 7th. When I ordered it, they stated "Available: Delivery within 3 working days." [which is what it says for basically all their tablets and gadgets].

However, the delivery date got pushed back to the 8th. And now it has been pushed back to the 12th... Isme are blaming their suppliers. Who are the "suppliers" here? Samsung don't even have a clue what is going on.

It seems that everywhere but the UK has got the tablet!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
John Lewis have been selling this tablet for a couple of weeks and I know currys have it on their website whether they have it in stock is another story.

But I agree its a $#?*^$@ Joke that the UK has been sidelined by samsung. Doesnt look like we'll be getting any perks either :(
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] jah:
For Currys you can only order from a shop for delivery to that shop. Today at 1700 they had 99 Note 10.1 2014 in stock. You do get the £50 cash back if you order from the shop.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Alasdair91:
I've cancelled my order with Isme. Knowing my luck, they would never have gotten the thing out to me anyway.

They have the white in stock though [which a lot of places seem to have] so I'm going to order that and see what happens.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Alasdair91:
Going the eBay route

Having given up with the UK, I have decided to order one off of eBay. So much better value for money and I know it will arrive!

What do I do about charging it? Does the US version come with a voltage adaptor? Can I just use a generic MicroUSB cable to charge it via my PC? Or can I use the plug that came with my UK bought original Note 10.1 with a US-UK travel plug, such as this: US to UK Plug?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] gsm3105:
A Galaxy S4 phone charger should be fine.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Geordie Affy:
What is the diffeence between UK and US Note 10.1? Is it litterally just that you cant register it on Samsung website?

Edit: And a diff charger obviously.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Alasdair91:
S4 Charger

Is this the kind of charger you have? I'm sure some of my HTC chargers look like that - Would this work?

The HTC chargers have an input of 100-240V/200 mA and an output of 5V/1A.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) General] Markachy:
Hi all,

I was in John Lewis today in Oxford Street, and they had one out on the floor for people to use - its a great piece of kit! It was £449.99 and the shop guy was pushing it pretty hard so I'm guessing he had some in stock right then and there.

It was 16GB, wifi white version.