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The European/Asian version (A8181) won't work with AT&T 3G network, and the Australian version (A8183, Telstra branded) will work with AT&T 3G network as long as you are in the 850Mhz coverage area. From what I've heard, 850Mhz coverage includes all major cities. While I can't comment for your area, I can tell you that my A8183 works perfectly fine with AT&T 3G network in Chicago. AT&T has also stated that they are migrating all their 3G network to 850Mhz, leaving 1900Mhz only of EDGE.
Anyway, all of the info above can be found in other threads, what I want to add here is that Australian Dollars are dropping like CRAZY and it is now the great opportunity for you AT&T US users to buy the Desire from Australia.
Every US sellers have been selling this AT&T 3G compatible model on eBay for at least USD700, some even over USD800. There is this Australian eBay seller has been selling a few Desire for AUD700 each, and (although not listed in the auction, but you can ask him) he charges around AUD50 to ship to the US using EMS.
I bought mine from this seller around two weeks ago, with a total of roughly AUD 750, which, at the exchange that time, was about USD 700. Two weeks later, today, I was curious and searched "Telstra Desire" on eBay again and found that this seller still has a few A8183 model for sale, again at AUD 700 each. The difference? Now AUD has fallen SO much that AUD 750 costs only about USD 620~630... So if I had waited for two months, I could have saved 70 bucks!
Anyhow, I wrote this just to let you AT&T users to know that you don't have to pay $800 to get a AT&T compatible Desire. Just go to eBay and serach "Telstra Desire" and you will find the Australian seller I am talking about. He shipped pretty quickly, and with EMS if only take a few days to come to the US. The only problem I had in the process was that my phone was held by the US custom for a week, FOR NO REASON! When my phone arrived, the package showed no sign that it was inspected by the custom. Perhaps the custom was just too lazy and decided to take a week off processing packages.
Btw, in case you wonder, roms that work on the A8181 model work fine on the A8183. I followed the rooting procedure on Modaco forum, and installed Modaco custom rom r3 on my A8183 without any problem.
Yoz
Hah I think we think alike dude cause I got one from the same seller if I think you know? This the same guy?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320534188327
$578.06 + $49 Ship = $627 shipped for me ($49 Australia to STL, MO)
Not bad at all, especially for people that thought only option was an n1.
only 2 left now...
check the dudes Telestra's 850mhz HD2 also.. cheap! (Approximately US $660.64)
Best part is I get to make a nice chunk of that back with the sale of my old mint 8125 wizard and 8925 kaiser. cheers dude
Yup I bought my Desire from him.
Don't know how he get the Desire so cheap though, he is selling them cheaper than Telstra sells them. Before I bought the Desire from him, I was going to ask my friend in Australia to get the Desire from Telstra for me. But then Telstra was (and still is) selling it for AUD 779 (+ tax) w/o contract
http://www.telstra.com.au/shop/personal/Mobile-MobilePhones-HTCDesire?SMSESSION=NO
which was too for me.
I pick that Desire over the N1 because (a) I don't like the track ball, (b) I prefer physical button, and (c) I think the Desire looks better (personal preference). I have experience with rooting and flashing custom roms, and I knew the hardwares of the N1 and the Desire are similar enough that roms for one can be ported to the other within days. So even though I knew that the N1 would get new updates quicker, while the Desire has Sense (which I really love), this is not really an issue for me.
But I wasn't ready to pay $800 for (a)-(c) above, and luckily I found this seller on eBay. Given how cheap the AUD is these days, this is now an even sweeter deal.
Sweetness
Well that's great news im stoked to get mine then. I checked out the r3 release over at modaco looks mint as well will root and give that a shot after a week or so. You liking it how much bloatware in the telestra rom just curious?
I'm coming from my super old 8125 wizard (didn't need to upgrade) to this, so it should be rather sweet. I got mine out of contract cause i'm not on data plan and I don't need it (but have the option down the road) They will not add data to your service either if you're out of contract (4yrs out of contract here hah) many people have misconception of that.
Anyways it used to be even more greater savings it appears check out some of the feedbacks dude sold some HD2s for like $520 unlocked NIB. craziness gotta love those aussies on 850 data!
AS for how he gets them so cheap, I doubt he's able to sell with the auctions, just some copy/paste specs. I'm sure most people abroad think it's a scam. (Obviously not if you got yours, and he has 98% positive feedback at 238) Took me a good 15 mins to check it out, I was debating.
The guys name is SHIAUYI MA. Non-US verified on PAYPAL though so good to go completely safe. I will say i've been trying to get ahold of them with no response besides the paypal invoice. (had correct shipping and address though so looked good)
well
now there's only 1 left in the guys inventory, someone else jumped on it. The items in the pics are actual it appears check out the telestra symbol, as well the guy seems to sell a lot of gaming consoles and other tech to AU only with pics on the same wood table and such.
It was $760AU ($627USD) on my Paypal invoice yesterday morning ($60AU for shipping = $49USD) so yeah you're right tsekh501, as of today Aussie rates are great for us if you paid $750AU and it was actually $700 just 2 months ago.
I think i'll even take it over to the local AT&T and ask when the desire's coming out for us AT&T users
I have always had windows mobile, but have been fortunate of enough the past two months or so to use a lot of the recent Android builds for Kaiser, using donut and eclair 2.1 (at least runs well) I know the OS pretty well now. I dig it and was ready for the real thing. let's put that extra 64mb of ram over the N1 to use! Cheers
*Update
Seller responded last night, and it appears 4 more were sold as well after posting the link on here. Glad to have helped anyone out snagging one for cheap.
"Dear atom311,
Yes, It is how much australia post charges for int' express post to US.
Normally it takes 1-3 business days.
And your item should be ready to go out on Monday.
Thanks
- yoyopopo1214"
i was one of the guys that got this. the seller seems a bit hard to get a hold of, but i will reserve any judgement until i get the phone. i asked him when he was shipping the phone and could supply me with a tracking number and he replied that he shipped via int' express post and would follow up with a tracking number, which strikes me as odd because it shouldn't have been very hard to have included the number in that message. i'm sure he's a legit seller, i think he just lacks some customer service skills. maybe i'm just getting antsy because my kaiser got smoked over the weekend and i need a phone.
He is legit. I bought one form him and has been using it very happily since last week.
He doesn't communicate very well though. It took him more than a day to get back to me with the shipping quote, and when my package got stuck in LAX custom (which was NOT the seller's fault, btw) I emailed him to see if he knew what was happening but he didn't reply at all.
The phone is legit and the shipping is very quick (minus the stuck at custom part, which can happen to anything shipped from outside the US. If the package had gone through the custom within a day, tha phone could have arrived in 3 days), however.
yeah, before buying i went through his feedback and figured he's a legit seller, just wish he could work on his service skills a bit more.... oh well, i guess that's the price to pay for getting something at a cheaper price. can't reallly expect too much seeing as he's selling for less than telstra. if you don't mind me asking where in the US are you located at tsekh501?
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yeah, before buying i went through his feedback and figured he's a legit seller, just wish he could work on his service skills a bit more.... oh well, i guess that's the price to pay for getting something at a cheaper price. can't reallly expect too much seeing as he's selling for less than telstra. if you don't mind me asking where in the US are you located at tsekh501?
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Chicago, but somehow the phone landed at LAX.
Yoz
got mine today, perfect mint condition, NIB, never opened like stated. from Australia to St. Louis (Middle of the USA) in 4 days... sweetness! Anyways all is mint, dude is legit, I suggest keeping him on your favorites pages, see what he gets now and then, could actually make some dough in the US. Anyways, Im more than happy, they come like stated. 2GB SD for Telestra.
They'll probably all land at LAX of course, its the biggest and closest port to our Aussie pals
btw custom report shows David Huang as the shipper for anyone wondering
Nice!
Hello guys,
I bought a HTC HD2 to him on monday and I did a little research of the seller. That's amazing I got all your comments in xda
His communication is not that well but I hope it arrives before next monday.
Sorry this is not the right forum for my experience
I don't get it. The unlocked version of HTC Desire is priced at 440€ while the unlocked version of N1 is roughly 600€ in Europe. I thought the hardware specs were almost equal. What justifies the 36% higher price for N1?
The fact it needs imported i imagine!
The N1 is not "natively" available in Europe
The unlocked bootloader.
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It's similar specification wise but it's build is different, plus the extended touch area on the front and the 2nd microphone, of course that probably wouldn't cause the price to be that much higher but it would still be higher.
Maybe you could try finding a UK seller who got a sim locked Nexus One from Vodafone and see if you can get it any cheaper from them and unlock it?
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Infact you don't even need to do that, the Nexus Ones on Vodafone are not sim locked, and they are going for around £400/€480 or so.
If you order from the UK, you can find them for around 580 pounds; that's a sight better than the 699 euro I'm seeing from pdashop.nl (I was looking the other day, too).
Also, I haven't found a Voda that's carrying them, but maybe they're just not doing it in the Netherlands. Nothing on the web shop, either.
so far all I can find is non us sellers, which means a long wait time til delivery. Anyone know of any us sellers of note batteries ?
Umm, You do remember...
Dude, you do remember these aren't available in the United States and won't be for some time right? That's why you, me, - hell everybody - had to buy imports in the first place. That is unless you live across the pond somewhere.
Right now Expansys - U.S. has them available for pre-order for $36.99 or so. That's the absolute cheapest I've seen an 2,500 Whr OEM battery anywhere!
I pre-ordered 1 hoping Samsung will eventually release the NFC chip-enabled batteries for the Note since it' s supposed to be a U.S. only option for the time being. Although I usually keep 3 batteries on hand I won't be doing that with these puppies. I rotate them every 2 weeks to keep each battery fresh and so they receive roughly the same amount of use and shelf life.
I'm sticking with 2 standard OEM batteries in case they do make the NFC Batteries available to us in the Unites States. I don't feel like stuck with extras when the GT-N7000' successor is released which I'm sure is already in the pipeline - much in the same way Asus had done with the Transformer line.
While Samsung knew they had a winner in the Galaxy Note I don't think they anticipated this big of a success we knuckleheads provided them. Especially with us throwing down the amount of $$$ we did amidst these hard times just for the privilege to own one.
But the greatest surprise is we're not bound to a friggin' 2 year contract and we'll be able to buy a Quad, a Quin, or more - Core SuperPhone sooner than we would've been able to do before!
There's at least one US seller on Ebay selling aftermarket batteries for the Note. There are a ton based in Hong Kong with prices averaging ~$5 per battery after shipping, but like you said, it takes 2 or 3 weeks for delivery usually. Use the tools on the left side of the screen to narrow the search results down to US sellers only. It'll cost a little more, but still dirt cheap compared to an OEM battery, and like I said, there's at least 1 US seller, as I recently received mine from them.
The cheapo copies claim 2600 mAH, 100 more than OEM, but I'd say they're roughly the same capacity, maybe a little less. I guesstimated the capacity of mine to be 70%-80% that of my OEM battery, but that was on the first charge/discharge cycle. Still some seriously good value.
JLG1985 said:
Dude, you do remember these aren't available in the United States and won't be for some time right? That's why you, me, - hell everybody - had to buy imports in the first place. That is unless you live across the pond somewhere.
Right now Expansys - U.S. has them available for pre-order for $36.99 or so. That's the absolute cheapest I've seen an 2,500 Whr OEM battery anywhere!
I pre-ordered 1 hoping Samsung will eventually release the NFC chip-enabled batteries for the Note since it' s supposed to be a U.S. only option for the time being. Although I usually keep 3 batteries on hand I won't be doing that with these puppies. I rotate them every 2 weeks to keep each battery fresh and so they receive roughly the same amount of use and shelf life.
I'm sticking with 2 standard OEM batteries in case they do make the NFC Batteries available to us in the Unites States. I don't feel like stuck with extras when the GT-N7000' successor is released which I'm sure is already in the pipeline - much in the same way Asus had done with the Transformer line.
While Samsung knew they had a winner in the Galaxy Note I don't think they anticipated this big of a success we knuckleheads provided them. Especially with us throwing down the amount of $$$ we did amidst these hard times just for the privilege to own one.
But the greatest surprise is we're not bound to a friggin' 2 year contract and we'll be able to buy a Quad, a Quin, or more - Core SuperPhone sooner than we would've been able to do before!
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What does the note not being officially released in the US have to do with any US store having Chinese batteries for the note?
I suppose the same thing that did UK vendors buying weeks ago batteries from Chinese manufacturers and selling from the UK so the shipping being shorter is being done by US vendors.
Hi, i have been thinking about upgrading to the Galaxy Nexus from a HTC Desire.
Now im looking at purchasing one from Amazon.de as its 495.00 EUR, which works out at around £414 + £7 shipping, compared to the £450 Amazon.co.uk want for it.
I know the one from Amazon.de will have a European charger, however i presume it just charges with a Micro USB cable, so i could just use my PC to charge like i always did with the Desire?
Also for anyone who purchased one in Germany is any text on the back of the phone in English or German?
If anyone could answer either question that would be great
Thanks very much.
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I know the one from Amazon.de will have a European charger, however i presume it just charges with a Micro USB cable, so i could just use my PC to charge like i always did with the Desire?
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It will charge on every Micro USB charger.
Also for anyone who purchased one in Germany is any text on the back of the phone in English or German?
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Only stuff written on the phone is "Google" and "Samsung".
Thanks for the quick reply!
I got mine instore at Cex. It had never been even set up. I got the first ever update pushed as soon as I put my SIM in. Cex usually offer 5% discount for cash purchases so I got mine for about £413, which to me is a better situation than buying from Amazon as within the first year I have warranty options with both Cex (for a direct exchange if I have any faults) or Samsung (if Cex don't happen to have any in stock). Also with Cex I can exchange to the purchased value within twelve months, so if mine happened to break in four months and the S3 is a preferable phone I can simply add my £413 to the cost of the swap. I think I just got lucky to find one at my local store though.
I ordered it 11:30pm Monday night from Amazon.de, it arrived at my house around 9am Friday morning from what i'm told.
Very happy with the phone! Got the OTA Update to 4.0.2, then unlocked the bootloader and rooted!
Everything is great, impressed with the battery life compared with my Desire too, got over 4 hours (screen on) on with its first charge. The camera is not bad at all to be honest, not really sure why it got hammered in the reviews. Yes they might be slightly better cameras out there on other devices, but tbh i didn't buy the phone for the camera. The pictures are great for a mobile device, as is the video recording. My personal oppinnion is its a great all rounder device that is going to be a good mobile for the next 2+ years.
I'm thinking of doing the same thing that you did and importing a nexus from amazon.de
Just have a few questions,
how did you find the setup process? Was it in german or was it in english?
Also did you get stung with any taxes / surcharges?
I'm very seriously considering buying an HD1905 on the US OnePlus site, they've got a decent discount as the 8 is about to launch, and I can grab genuine accessories at the same time. Shame the AUD is so crap right now, but that can't be helped.
I'm interested to know if there are OP7T Australian owners out there, what model variant, what carriers you're on, and if there are any issues with reception.
I'm on Telstra so I'm especially interested to hear from other Telstra users.
I've looked at the various bands in the specs, compared it to the OzTowers guide (that I luckily managed to grab before it shut down), and also looked at frequencycheck.com
My preference is to buy it from OnePlus US. While there are a bunch of "local websites" that purport to sell re-flashed HD1900 units as "Global HD1903", I would much rather get an untouched phone out of the box. The US HD1905 seems to have the broadest international carrier band support from what I can divine from reading.
One of the "local websites" says to email them any questions. So I did and the answers were basically "dunno, ask the carrier" which is pointless since OnePlus have no presence in Australia.
Despite having many Samsung Galaxies over the years I've decided not to consider them. Our Huawei P20 Pro has been good but tech support is hopeless, and no bootloader unlock service anymore, that alone rules them out for me.
So the OnePlus 7T is my preferred choice ... looking forward to hearing from any Aussie users out there.
My friend wanted the 'best phone for the money' and bought this phone on my advice. They ship them from China, but it arrived the next day! They happened to have one in stock in Auckland.
My friend was thrilled but when a truck ran over it (after 3 weeks), not so.
So she's around the next morning and buys another one (~NZ$860). This time it took about a month to arrive as THE VIRUS slowed everything to a trickle.
We have a great website in NZ pricespy.co.nz and you'll have something like that in Oz.
Buying from the US is fraught. Postage costs an arm and a leg.
HTH
tpsnjs said:
My friend wanted the 'best phone for the money' and bought this phone on my advice. They ship them from China, but it arrived the next day! They happened to have one in stock in Auckland.
My friend was thrilled but when a truck ran over it (after 3 weeks), not so.
So she's around the next morning and buys another one (~NZ$860). This time it took about a month to arrive as THE VIRUS slowed everything to a trickle.
We have a great website in NZ pricespy.co.nz and you'll have something like that in Oz.
Buying from the US is fraught. Postage costs an arm and a leg.
HTH
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Thanks for the feedback, I've actually just bought a Galaxy S20 from JB as they had a decent discount for a newly released phone. The deciding factors against the OnePlus on this occasion was the total lack of Australian support, lack of IP68, the many negative service/warranty related user reviews on different sites selling them, and the idea that I'd be facing massive turnaround to ship it back to the US for warranty.
Shipping from the US isn't a problem for me as I regularly send consolidated packages through a 3rd party shipper.
Plus in these uncertain times we're making an effort to support the local outlets.