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Into Over the past few weeks there has been much discussion of the new policy of regional blockade imposed by Samsung on its new smartphone “SIM-free”. The first device to ‘benefit’ of this policy was the Galaxy Note 3, but it would seem that even in future products of the Korean company could be integrated this type of block.

Into Until now there has been much said and written about this topic causing confusion. Fortunately Samsung (through its German lawyers) decided, finally, to clarify the situation once and for all.

Into Normally when you buy a smartphone SIM-free, regardless of the country where you buy it, you can use a SIM card from any operator worldwide. This is not the case with the Galaxy Note 3. By purchasing a Galaxy Note 3 in one of the countries that Samsung includes in its definition of ‘Europe’, in fact, the first SIM card to be inserted in the device necessarily a manager of one of these countries.

Into addition, as if that were not enough, you need to use the SIM to at least five minutes of voice calls (not VoIP). Without this, the regional bloc will be disabled and from that moment on will be possible to freely use any SIM card from any operator.

Into This block would be introduced by Samsung to try to curb imports “parallel” and the marketing of the device on the so-called “gray market”. If for some reason we would find itself with a Galaxy Note 3 “Europe” in another part of the world without the ability to use a SIM card to deactivate the European regional block, you can go to a Samsung Service Centre to have it removed. It is not yet known whether this transaction will be paid or simply show where you purchased the device.

Into The countries of the region Europe, according to Samsung, are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania , Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Croatia, Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia and Vatican City.

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