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What I need help with understanding is: 1. What was the disadvantage to Samsung of the situation prior to region locking? 2. Were too many people outside Europe buying European phones and too many outside the Americas buying American phones? (I thought it was the cheaper phones from the Middle...

I've been trying to make sense of this new policy of Samsung's and I was wondering, what sense do you make of it? How does it make sense? Thanks.

Did you ever get this sorted out, Brendan Mathis?

where's Samsung Global's statement on this? I don't know about the FUD part, if the implication is that it's groundless for someone to be uncertain about what's going on with Samsung's new region-lock policy, doubtful about being told the truth and afraid of the dangerous precedent set when...

we're in the not clear... Not only has Samsung included the Note 2 on the list of phones targeted for the retroactive region lock, reports of just such a thing have started to come in from Note 2 owners. The region-locking issue is not about user ROM flashing... it is, as you believed...

I agree with 21st now... there haven't been any reported cases of phones with carrier-specific locks also being region locked. This is backed up by an examination of the Consumer Software Customization files of phones that are locked to a specific carrier. None have been reported to contain the...

Yeah, I meant 'what's it do.' But thanks... can't hurt to make sure that's clear... and that your device's current build number is shown at Settings / System / About tablet.

What people say they're hearing on the other end of a Skype call is not a reliable measure of the quality of your microphone. Simply record something and see what you think. I have and the mic works great. In fact I was surprised with how good it was. From my tests, I'm confident the mic is...

I was feeling lucky, too, reading this and realizing it had been a few days since I've had a random reboot... then I got hit with one as soon as I left this page! (I think I'll keep from browsing over to this thread for a while, and see if that helps.) :)

I wonder why Google doesn't provide a heads up for this kind of thing, in this era of hacking scams. How hard would it be to give us a little notice, for example, on their blog? Kudos to T-Mobile for putting out the word... my carrier was silent on this.

Looking around some more, I see that T-Mobile predicted this yesterday, identifying it as a security update.

What's JWR66Y?

Having already hooked up Flash with Dolphin, I watch my no-additional-cost Prime HD movies in a full-screen browser window, sometimes HDMI'ing it to the TV.