Hello
I am about to buy a Samsung Galaxy lll i9300!
I am in China and here this phones are for sale 500 euros I finally found one much cheaper 350 euros, but this one is Korean
Do you know if the korean rom has English
Should I go ahead and buy it or this Korean phone is different?
Any help be must appreciated!
Thanks
SOLRAC13 said:
Hello
I am about to buy a Samsung Galaxy lll i9300!
I am in China and here this phones are for sale 500 euros I finally found one much cheaper 350 euros, but this one is Korean
Do you know if the korean rom has English
Should I go ahead and buy it or this Korean phone is different?
Any help be must appreciated!
Thanks
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you need to find out if your country's uses the same frequency as the Korean model. I know its 2100 for S Korea but there could be more. The reason why Korean is cheaper could be that only S Korea or a few country's is compatible with Korean models.
I'm using SHV-E210S for a week now, so far it works in China, HK, S'pore and Indonesia. So I guess should be not much different from the international version. There are a few issues I discovered with this model.
1. Battery size is smaller than the international version so you may need to buy backup battery from Korea.
2. Unable to upgrade software/firmware unless you use SK Telecom's USIM.
The advantage I found:
1. This Korean model sports 2GB RAM whereas the international model only has 1GB RAM
Anyone knows more? Pls share!
My grandfather don't know English and needs a better phone, I'm thinking of buying him a galaxy s 2 but I need to put Spanish as the language. Now my mom has the Sgs2 from Bell and I checked the settings and is either English, French or Korean. If I buy him a phone probably from ebay I don't want to root it.
Is there a way to add easily a Spanish package? If not, Is there another gs2 model (maybe att). That will have it already on?
Thank you
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Just flash a Rom with Odin that have Spanish. For example, NEE.
No just change the language http://www.pakgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1805109
This was from French to English you can follow the same procedure to change you language to Spanish.
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Hi folks,
i am based in Beijing China and a grey market Korean S3 E210 is actually cheaper then a CHina version (and the mighty Partys love for Google/Play) S3.
But.... which S3? the Korean comes in 3 flavours e210 with S L or K and i really need to be able to use the phone in English (not necessarily the Queens, i m ok with simplified US English too ) and i heard the SLK versions differ in that stuff.
Also, i am at this stage not using 4G LTE as i am waiting for which Band they ll decide in China. so i would for now, run it in 3G mode.
Any idea which one is better suited? If i wanna run JB on it asap since its soo more fluid?
Heard the EU gets their own LTE version with Quad and 2GB hence, o9305 in my line. But that will be around 4600RMB so more then 1200RMB above the Korean version.
Please suggestions... im getting a xiaomi mi2 too end of october but i like the sammis big screen and that somehow the e210 seems to be useble even with MIUI and so on.
I don't know which one, but buy the one without Exynos.
aydc said:
I don't know which one, but buy the one without Exynos.
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arent the korean s210 and the i9305 all with exynos? thought only the 2gb duo-quore from the new colonies (US) got spared...
Which bacon should one order for one's burger? Bacon or Canadian bacon? Decisions, decisions..
FelBJ said:
Hi folks,
i am based in Beijing China and a grey market Korean S3 E210 is actually cheaper then a CHina version (and the mighty Partys love for Google/Play) S3.
But.... which S3? the Korean comes in 3 flavours e210 with S L or K and i really need to be able to use the phone in English (not necessarily the Queens, i m ok with simplified US English too ) and i heard the SLK versions differ in that stuff.
Also, i am at this stage not using 4G LTE as i am waiting for which Band they ll decide in China. so i would for now, run it in 3G mode.
Any idea which one is better suited? If i wanna run JB on it asap since its soo more fluid?
Heard the EU gets their own LTE version with Quad and 2GB hence, o9305 in my line. But that will be around 4600RMB so more then 1200RMB above the Korean version.
Please suggestions... im getting a xiaomi mi2 too end of october but i like the sammis big screen and that somehow the e210 seems to be useble even with MIUI and so on.
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I would imagine that the dev support will be much greater for the i9305, if you care about running custom. But if you don't care about that so much make sure you look at the freq the e210 models use. Each one is different! I made a thread about it because so many people kept asking. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31941726
Well if you want it Abit thicker get the Korean iit also has a dmb which slides out and looks ugly . But if you want exact same look as international then get the i9305
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btemtd said:
Well if you want it Abit thicker get the Korean iit also has a dmb which slides out and looks ugly . But if you want exact same look as international then get the i9305
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well i9305 is much more expensive in china then the e210. is it really a different form factor? i know the e210 is thicker and rounder cause of the additional LTE chip, is the i9305 same ff as the i9300?
and... i ll be using it with China Unicom in 3G for now and they run a GSM network unlike China Telecom/Mobile so all 3 versions shall work.
how s the english UI in the korean version? dialer and so on?
heard of some issues with sms
FelBJ said:
well i9305 is much more expensive in china then the e210. is it really a different form factor? i know the e210 is thicker and rounder cause of the additional LTE chip, is the i9305 same ff as the i9300?
and... i ll be using it with China Unicom in 3G for now and they run a GSM network unlike China Telecom/Mobile so all 3 versions shall work.
how s the english UI in the korean version? dialer and so on?
heard of some issues with sms
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the reason its thivker is because of the DMB antenna like i said not the LTE chip, Theres an antenna that slides out of the top of the phone and doesnt look good when its out.
the I9305 is exaclty the same size and look as the I9300 which is why even if its more expensive i will buy this one,
Hi, I'm also in the market for the s3 and just found the korean version online and must cheaper (with the 2gb of RAM - I hate that the Chinese versions are all 1gb).
Did you find out the differences in slk versions.
I guess that you can just install the standard samsung rom to get an english version if necessary no?
You can change language to English. You can't install custom roms/kernels for I9300 on them. Though some devs seem to be working on it.
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ok then i wait till i9305 is available in HongKong and the price settles a bit under 4600RMB
otherwise i ll opt for the xiaomi mi2
somehow feel an S3 with 1GB is not up do date in terms of expandibility. Wonder when news on the new Google phone surface and the new HTC X5
Hi everyone,
So I'm looking to buy a Galaxy S3 and the best price I've found so far has been online. Oh, you should probably know I'm in China right now. The website is Taobao and I use google translate to try and figure out what I'm staring at.. I'm not allowed to post a link, but if you google 'taobao' and 'galaxy s3' I think you'll understand why I haven't bought the phone yet. You see, there's one thing I can't make heads or tails of: what are these 'versions'. I'm worried that if I get the wrong version, it won't work when I go back to my home country (the Netherlands), or maybe it will, but without internet (or only 2g).. Do you think you can you help me out? A friend told me it doesn't matter and that as long as it's an i9300 it'll work everywhere, but I just want to make sure. Plus, this just got me really curious about what the difference between a Eurasian and Asia-pacific edition is...
Thanks in advance for your help!
European aka i9300. Most moddable and common model, which means best support.
I am looking forward to buy korean variant S 3 but the problem I am facing is in my country there are too many fake or replica available. I don't wanna throw my money away.
could you guys please guide me through here.
Thanks