Just played with a note 7 - oh myyy !!!

[archer75]

Craigslist if you have the skills to filter and spot the scammers. Pretty easy.

Or safer route sell thru Swappa.. If your phone is unlocked, good condition with box and accessories, you will get the ongoing price.

I'm using craigslist and offerup but so far it's just scammers and people who don't show. I'll look more into swappa.

 

[ConstantDefector]

At least you got one of the companies to take it back, and make a significant investigation into it. In this day and age you'd probably get companies arguing that since you used 3rd party parts you invalidated the warranty and they'd refuse to touch it, and say you're screwed.
Getting a new system with a bump in specs doesn't sound so bad to me. What do you feel they had to do beyond that to make you happy?

Alas, we digress. Lets talk more about playing with the Notes.

I was without my laptop for 4 months. Let's assume it was my only computer, it wasn't, but let's assume that. It's unacceptable.

I suppose we can disagree on this one. With respect of course

Yes, we digress.

I already have a clear Spigen case and tempered glass screen protector (it does have the slight curve). I have no idea how this combo will work out. Works well in my iPhone 6S Plus but that curve concerns me. I mean I love the Note curve but how well a screen protector will work has me thinking.

I think we have seen the end to the sapphire screen dream but I'd love to go naked with this phone. I just don't like scratches. I usually sell my phones, so I take pretty good care of them.

Also, I'm done here. I have completely derailed this thread. Going a few years without being an active member of any forum and I just blurt all kinds of things out.

Pay me no mind.

 

[Mugen_Cris]

I also played with one at my local AT&T and I was very impressed. The phone feels fantastic in the hand and screams premium. I also confirmed that I made the right choice ordering the black onyx. The black on black with the small bezels and screen looks so sleek.

 

[Bluehair62]

Coming from iPhone 6+... Not that I listen to music from my external speaker... I'm just hoping for improvements. I am HAPPY to be switching. It's been a long time coming.

 

[chuco35]

Black onyx for sure in my case.

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[the game 161]

Wonder when we in UK will have it in stores to view

 

[Kelly Kearns]

You know, tech companies do this a lot but I still never forgive them. The only time such a thing happened to me was in 2001. I bought my first Apple product, an iBook G3, and put 3rd party memory in it. Well, it died. This happened immediately. All within 1 month of owning it... my first dive into Apple. Well, I spent 3 weeks going back and forth between Apple tech support and Kingston memory support. They each kept blaming it on the other. Every. Single. Time. A dozen calls later, Kingston manned up and told me to send the laptop to them. I did.

Kingston called in some Apple hardware engineer and after almost 4 months, Apple sent me a brand new iBook, with a 30 something MHz bump. Even then it wasn't enough to satisfy being 4 months without my brand new iBook. Then, a few months later, Apple issued a recall on those iBooks due to faulty logic boards.

I've never forgiven or forgotten this. I got 30 MHz and a new lesson in life. One of great anger and frustration. They didn't make t right but they felt like they did by sending me a new laptop. Even though the one I sent in was 1 month old.

I know companies walk a fine line when it comes to recalls and managing problems but they know when they are wrong and should own up to it. In 2001 Apple's tech support sucked. By 2004, on to a PowerBook, they fixed every single issue without question. Not because they knew who I was, or knew of my past experience. Who really knows why.

Sometimes it all boils down to getting the right customer support person on the line. One that empathizes and likes their company enough to do the right thing.

Forgive Samsung, if you choose, but never forget.

Also, I have a $2400 stainless samsung refrigerator that has rust on it. I'm just too old to let a CS person have it. I'll fix it myself.

Good luck with your future experiences

Well I've been a many years, many phone customer. They have been starting to address one complaint I have had for years, 800 Samsung. Samsung Plus has been much, much better. Now I need them to address the problems in repair. Those two things affect all Samsung owners. The phone is for all of what I have been through and my checking that the first two are made better doesn't end with getting my new phone or when my Note 5 is returned tomorrow.

My case has gotten the attention of very high ups at Samsung USA and they have years of records they could look at and complaints about these issues I have filed. They know that dealing with 800 Samsung has left a stain and they are trying to change that. Samsung Plus is a very welcomed change.

I will also be doing some "secret shopping" with Samsung Plus and they aren't going to be telling agents, though the agents all know who I am when I call. They have a video chat department, and we don't even have to turn on our camera. The video chat department is a smaller department, they are all located, with their supervisors, in one department in TX. They aren't all over the world or even all over the country. It is a higher level of customer and technical support.

In the coming months I will be posting about my experiences with Samsung Plus. Samsung can give me a truckload of phones but if the customer care and service issues aren't also corrected, it won't be enough.

 

[Rob.G]

Wow, this is the first thread Ive seen where everybody isn't going for the blue. Saw ONE blue post here. Mine will be the second. Silver was what I was originally gonna get til I saw photos of how shiny and color-changey it was, so I thought I'd give it a try.

I'm really looking forward to getting the phone itself, regardless of color. My white Note 3 is sooooooo ready for retirement (read: sell on eBay or someplace). It's soooooo slow and laggy it's ridiculous. Everything takes 2-3 seconds to happen, and I've even reset it within the last six months.. hasn't helped.

 

[Dracolan]

I'm really looking forward to getting the phone itself, regardless of color. My white Note 3 is sooooooo ready for retirement (read: sell on eBay or someplace). It's soooooo slow and laggy it's ridiculous. Everything takes 2-3 seconds to happen, and I've even reset it within the last six months.. hasn't helped.

So i am not the only person still on the Note 3. I love my Note 3, one of the best phones I have ever owned, which the Galaxy Nexus right up there. But mine has become horrendously slow over the past 8 months or so and I'm looking forward to the upgrade. I still wish it had a removable battery though not for the battery itself but for the removable back because i use the S-view case and really liked how it just replaced the back of the phone added almost no extra length to the phone at all.

 

[Rob.G]

Yeah, the Note 3 has been a great phone. It's the first phone I've ever owned that I haven't ended up hating after three months. My smartphone history starts with the POS Blackberry Storm (to this day I still want the designers of that thing executed), then a Droid X, then an iPhone 4S, and now the Note 3. What I hated about the 4S was the tiny size and iOS's nanny attitude towards the user. I love my iPad, but iOS on a phone is awful... although my iPad would get used for more than just web browsing if it had a real file system.

Anyway, yeah... the Note 3 has been great. Mine's still mint too since it's been in an Otterbox case the whole time. I wonder what I can get for it when I sell it...

 

[ibcop]

No, they're as bad as everyone else. About $250-$300 less than the going rate.

Swappa is your friend.

 

[Rob.G]

Thanks for the Swappa tip. I created an account there to sell my Note 3. For phones in my condition I'm seeing $180-210, but on eBay, completed listings are $125-145. Hmmm.

 

[Clocks]

Thanks for the Swappa tip. I created an account there to sell my Note 3. For phones in my condition I'm seeing $180-210, but on eBay, completed listings are $125-145. Hmmm.

Fyi there are dozens of note 4s listed with recent sales for $180-210. I'd be surprised if the note 3 went for that mich.

 

[Rob.G]

Yeah I kinda figured that. I guess best I may get is $125-ish. Oh well, can't post it til the 19th anyway.

 

[Poppy59]

Wonder when we in UK will have it in stores to view

I asked today in the O2 and Vodafone shops, and they said it will be a week or two before they get the demos in

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[climb]

Spent an hour at a Verizon store playing with a Coral Blue Note 7 - oh my........good gracious sakes alive

First things first - the FORM FACTOR is the best of any Samsung device and rivals HTC for "feel in the hand good". The SCREEN is simply amazing - the most highly rated display ever. The Samsung folks managed yet again to tweak the DIMENSIONS of the phone making it a smidge taller and a smidge thinner, and yet being a smidge thicker, it still feels smaller in the hand - much smaller. How a smartphone feels in the hand, and the display, can be and often are are deal killers and the Samsung folks hit the ball out of the park on these two counts.

The edge features, which I have always resisted - will make for faster functions in many different tasks. The unit I had had the Retina scanner operational - and it did not perform quickly as reported - may have been the demo unit.

For me (a minority who constantly uses the S - Pen) this is the defining improvement in the Note 7 - it writes like a dream - feels like a fine pen.

The battery improvement to 3500 mAh is more than adequate with the fast charge technology, not to mention the power saving mode allowing decreases in screen resolution.

Now - my only concern is - Coral Blue or Black??

Oh my goodness ........ went to an AT&T store and spent some time enjoying a Black Note 7.

As seen in videos, the edges are jet black - a nice touch to have the color consistency as the phone is turned over and around. The lack of a silver border REALLY makes the phone seem even sleeker and thinner.

The screen just melts beautifully over the edges and is sharply contrasted against the top and bottom black panels - makes the display pop and seem even more brilliant. The iris scanner and camera port are hard to see, getting lost in the black color scheme.

And a NICE touch...... the home button is not framed by a silver metal edge like the Note 5 but simply fades beautifully into the bottom panel.

Gonna have to play again with both the Coral Blue and the Black, but the Black is SURPRISINGLY attractive given its reported lack of "pizazz"

Loving this phone already!!!!!

Is it the @&%@##* 19th yet?????

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[keepnitreel]

You guy's reviews sound like a romance novel, lol

 

[anon(749368)]

Just did the same and coming from a S7 I'm not impressed. It feels pretty good in the hand but I think it's too big for me. Looking forward to the S8 as long as it'll have similar size.

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[BOSSY TEXAS CHICK]

... rivals HTC for "feel in the hand good". ....

Funny you mention HTC cuz i just got back from playing with one as well and my FIRST thought was the SAME as the day i picked up the HTC DNA....with that phones "waterfall glass and 5 inch form factor i was "totally wow'ed"... Of course, fast forward 4 years later and this phone runs circles around the Droid DNA, but still, the similarity INSTANTLY gave me flashbacks!!

I actually felt like, "this is TOO small, they need a 6 inch note!!"...

But, it was beautiful, i will give you that! Not 800+ beautiful since i JUST got the S7 Edge, but still i think Sammy did an awesome job!

The black REALLY looked the nicest of the 3 colors i saw, for my collection it just would stick out like a sore thumb! Hopefully they will bring white back for Note 8!

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[Wildo6882]

Man, I checked out the Note 7 last night at AT&T. Holy **** that's the best looking phone I've ever seen. It's a guaranteed purchase for me coming from a 6s Plus. That thing looked great. I'm definitely going with black, it just looks too sleek for me. And I put my 6s Plus up next to it and my iPhone was BIGGER with a smaller screen. Wow. I'm impressed this time around. I can't wait to get this thing.