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Into This entry was posted on October 3, 2013 at 13:46.

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Into For users of Samsung devices and registered to Samsung Apps and Samsung Hub services is now possible to buy paid apps, music, ebooks and games through a PayPal account.

Into The announcement yesterday and the new option immediately interested in eight countries (Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom). In the United States, confirms the statement issued by PayPal, will arrive shortly.

Into As part of the agreement, also for mobile developers will benefit from the device Galaxy payment platform of eBay subsidiary to receive payments relative to the app sold and will have access to a customer base of 132 million people worldwide. The volume of transactions carried out with PayPal from mobile devices this year is expected to touch $ 20 billion share, compared with $ 14 billion in 2012 and 141 million in 2009.

The question of “regional block” of the new models Notes 3 and S4 is completely different genre instead bounced the news in recent days around the block decided by Samsung for the new Galaxy Note 3 and other flagship smartphone in the catalog (including the S3, S4 and the S4 Mini products from late July onwards, and equipped with a sticker on the package ad hoc) with the “region lock function”, namely the geographical limits which it is subject a certain product.

Into For those traveling outside the European Economic Area and other non-EU countries with a terminal “locked” and buy a Sim abroad (eg the United States) takes the restriction on the use of the services of the mobile network and local . However, it remains offered to such users the ability to use the sims to a European operator and call or surf roaming. But spending more.

Samsung came several clarifications on the issue and the last of the series (published on the site Android Central) resizes in fact the problem. In a nutshell, the regional bloc is activated only if the new product is operated with a Sim of another geographical area. If the Sim is purchased and activated within the boundaries of the block, the same decade, and there are no restrictions on the use of phone cards also following other Countries outside the European area.

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