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Verizon Note 2 Pre-order, Release date, and speculation thread

At this point I am just looking forward to the news of official release date confirmation, with training for employees and all of that stuff that usually trickles out on the mobile tech news sites. We have yet to see that. I'm betting this week if not early next week we'll start to see that. Anyway.. it will go quick enough with the holiday in the middle of it all to keep us preoccupied.. even if we wish we had the holiday to play with it.
 
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Went to best buy and played with it tonight. Love the display. Touchwiz and icons are ugly but can be easily resolved. The inking experience with the s-pen is the best you can get on the phone, but it wasn't as good as my samsung slate at home. Hoping I'll be able to get a different pen and calibrate it. Same digitizer technology. Still...I'm in love.

Come on verizon jerks!

The only annoying thing is I'm not sure if some Launchers will let the S-Note stuff work. Do we have any confirmation on what S-Apps work regardless of the launcher used?
 
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Verizon sucks! What's the point of pre ordering when we'll receive our devices same day as others who purchase in store! Ugh despise them! They should at least ship then before the 27th!

It would only be acceptable if they SHIPPED so that the day it hits stores it arrives at your house. That's really the idea. And if you're "pre-ordering" you're not getting any benefit...really. You're "guaranteed" one on launch day...well you probably are in store too lol
 
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9 MORE DAYS FOR SOME AND 11 DAYS FOR OTHERS! This is gonna be a hella long week! Good thing thanksgiving is coming up. I can think about getting fat and not about my phone not bein here yet. Lol

AHHHHHHHH! So close. Had a nice weekend home and at the friends' wedding. Here in Rochester for 3 days, then I fly home Wednesday night! Good weekend, and I can distract myself with the gf, food, movies, shopping and then hopefully just a few more days then!
 
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Verizon sucks! What's the point of pre ordering when we'll receive our devices same day as others who purchase in store! Ugh despise them! They should at least ship then before the 27th!

Not to get your hopes up.. or anyone else's for that matter... but my pre-ordered Verizon GS3 arrived on July 5th, the phone didnt release at the stores until July 12th.
 
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After waiting over a year for the Note, because I am a VZW user, AT&T is arriving at more areas close to me and I am tempted to switch. Already, if you can believe the coverage maps, my area in South FL (Delray-Boynton) is better covered by AT&T LTE than VZW. In my area on Long Island, there is no LTE but the dark blue edge is about 7 miles west from me. Problem is, how do you know how good the signal is even at the edge of the LTE best coverage without knowing where and how powerful the cell is?

You all want the Note 2 on day 1. I've been waiting since September 2011 & I wonder if the carriers and or Samsung will have special deals because they all are in huge competition. We need an S3 for my wife and a Note 2 for me. I can wait till December after waiting 14 months. What do you all suspect will happen? When we got our BB Storm 2s we got 2 for the price of 1. With new generations of phones changing every 6 months, who wants to pay $300 for a phone?

Final thought is, I think I am better off switch to AT&T from VZW first and if the signal and phone reception is no good, come back to VZW. If I go to VZW for an upgrade and then cancel it, I will have a huge billing problem as they will bill me $350 for returning a phone early, as they did once before. They do what they can to not remove these charges or do them right in the first place.
 
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I currently own a Droid RAZR (no, not the MAXX - since Verizon strategically released that phone 3 weeks after the RAZR to trap, er I mean, "keep" as many people with the RAZR on contract as they could [some call it evil, I call it marketing genius]) and for what it's worth, I just got a little happier about my wait for the GN2 from Big Red. Why do you ask? Well, I just realized that my company offers a stock purchase plan benefit that I didn't even know I was enrolled in.

Long story short, was able to sell a handful of shares to get enough cash for pay full retail for the phone plus have some $ for accessories. So I'm not agonizing about it anymore - I'll be able to stroll into my local store and purchase my white GN2 without any hiccups on launch day.

That being said, if anyone has a friend who wants a pretty new looking Droid RAZR, let me know!
 
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Off-Topic, but this is interesting.
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