How to get a note 8 with 128 or 256 gig of memory

[h2ofun]

So, I want a note 8, but I want the ideally 256g version, even though I could live with the 128g. Any way to do this? Buy unit from another country? International version? Would work on Verizon?

Why does the US only sell the tiny version?

 

[rushmore]

Good question. Seems a missed opportunity for higher margin sales. My guess is 15% would buy a128gb. That's a lot of profit not realized.

 

[Cary Quinn]

Probably the other reason is retail price, there were already people freaking out at the idea of paying over a thousand dollars for a phone; and the 256 GB model is priced at over 1100 by some reports.

Of course the could be targeting the deep blue and larger capacity phones for US sales during the holiday season. Once worldwide initial sales have peaked, and after the release of the next iPhone.

 

[L0n3N1nja]

There have been numerous Samsung phones, and phones from other manufacturers over the years that had higher storage internationally than in the US.

I used to work for Verizon, over 75% of people bought the base storage iPhone, the highest storage was so rare we didn't keep them in stock at my location.

Galaxy S6 had storage options, same thing, almost no one paid for higher storage. It resulted in phones sitting on the shelf for over a year and getting clearances out at a loss.

Don't ask me why, but few people pay for more storage.

International Note 8 won't work on Verizon by the way, they don't have the CDMA radios on the Exynos phones. They need to pay Qualcomm to include them, it's why they use Snapdragon in the U.S.

 

[KupKrazy]

There have been numerous Samsung phones, and phones from other manufacturers over the years that had higher storage internationally than in the US.

I used to work for Verizon, over 75% of people bought the base storage iPhone, the highest storage was so rare we didn't keep them in stock at my location.

Galaxy S6 had storage options, same thing, almost no one paid for higher storage. It resulted in phones sitting on the shelf for over a year and getting clearances out at a loss.

Don't ask me why, but few people pay for more storage.

International Note 8 won't work on Verizon by the way, they don't have the CDMA radios on the Exynos phones. They need to pay Qualcomm to include them, it's why they use Snapdragon in the U.S.

This is what I have heard as well - the higher storages don't seem to sell as well in the US. I actually do have a 128GB GS6 edge, but I've continually heard that higher storage takes valuable space on the shelf since they don't move. For people like us on this forum, it sounds ridiculous since we're really all power users and represent a small subset of the group. I would have loved a 128GB Note 8... I have a 256GB iphone 7 plus.

 

[h2ofun]

Too bad we cannot special order one. But if that is the data, make sense.