Folks at evleaks have done it again. They claim that it is codenamed Garda and is destined for T-Mobile network. Its test scores have also been spotted in the GFXBench database. Do not get too excited as it is an entry level phone and Samsung has used all the plastic they can in the SGH-T399.
Samsung has added a region lock on its Galaxy Note 3, but a lot of folks including this site, took offense about something like this. Even unlocked models incorporated region lock of approved countries. Fortunately, folks at XDA have churned out a little app called RegionLock away which does away from this unwanted feature.
You can download it from here or if you are feeling generous, you can also download it from Play store. Latter costs few dollars, but you encourage the developer to work on similar projects in future. Chainfire is the man behind this amazing app. He has even made a video of it.
Last week, Nokia launched the Lumia 1020 windows phone in India, but for some reason, they did not announce its pricing. Nokia told us that they would be announcing it on October 10, but now, we have spotted that the phone is up for pre order from the Nokia’s own online shop for an unreal price tag of INR 49,999 (USD 810). This uber camera phone will go on sale on October 11, 2013.
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Telstra is offering a free Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch to those customers who pre order the Galaxy Note 3 phone on certain 24 month contracts. This offer is available to only those people who pre order it via Telstra’s website. Also, you to enroll yourself under plans where you have to shell out $80 or more.
So, for instance, let’s say, you go for the Telstra’s 80 dollar Every Day connect plan. Then, you would be paying additional $8 monthly phone charge for 24 months, bringing the total to $88 / month. This plan will give you $800 worth of calls, MMS messages, unlimited SMS messages and 1.5 GB of data per month as well.
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At the Galaxy Gear’s announcement, Samsung stated that the Galaxy Gear smartwatch (that right now works only with the Note 3), would launch with more than 70 apps (which are available through Samsung apps). Folks at droid-life have received a review unit from Samsung and they comment that only few of the important apps have been made available that includes Evernote, Path, Snapchat, Vivino and some more. Downloading apps to your Samsung galaxy gear sounds very easy – just open up the gear manager app on your Note 3, and open up Samsung Apps. Here are few of the screenshots of Samsung Apps user interface.
