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Pre-order pages up for Note 3 and Galaxy Gear, shipping early October

They'll run you $299.99 each with a contract.

Carrier news about Samsung's latest devices are slowly making the rounds. We got a good look at the Galaxy Note 3 and the companion Galaxy Gear smartwatch yesterday at Samsung's event. The Note looks like a solid update to Samsung's line of phablets, but the Gear pretty much requires a new or nearly new Samsung phone to function, so its appeal is pretty limited.

First up is AT&T, which will let you pre-order the Note 3 from this page. The device is $299.99 on a two-year contract—$724.99 off-contract—and will ship "around October 1st." AT&T says it will have the Galaxy Gear "in the coming weeks," but it doesn't have a solid release date yet.

T-Mobile is a little more organized, listing the Note 3 and Galaxy Gear for October 2nd for $299.99 each. Getting the Note 3 at that price requires a two-year contract, or you can buy it outright for $703.99. There's no pre-order available yet.

Verizon has jumped into the fray, too; it has the Note 3 available for pre-order for $299.99 on contract and $699.99 off. Verizon's says pre-orders "will ship by 10/10." The Galaxy Gear is listed only as a bundle with the Note 3 for $599.98 on a two-year contract.

The last member of the the big four, Sprint, currently only has a teaser page up of a black silhouette for the Note 3.

Something to keep in mind is that the Galaxy Gear really has nothing to do with the carriers, so if your favorite cell operator isn't offering the Gear, you can always buy it from somewhere else and it will work just fine. It's just a Wi-Fi device, after all.

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5 Reader Comments

  1. Look at the size of that thing. It's not a's the whole encyclopedia.

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    You guys really need to get the facts straight when writing these articles.

    First, T-Mobile says that the Note 3 will be $199 down, not $299.

    Second, T-Mobile's option is NOT a two year contract. It's a down payment, with an option to pay the phone off any way that you want. The STANDARD is for the remainder of the cost of the phone to be distributed over 2 years at $21 per month, but you can pay $100 a month and fulfill your obligation that way, in 4 months. Once you pay off the phone (in 4 months, for example) YOU HAVE NO FURTHER OBLIGATION AND CAN CANCEL YOUR PLAN IF YOU DESIRE and the phone is yours.

    Please, please try to get these things correct or you are doing a disservice to your readers.
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  3. No Galaxy Note 10.1 pre-order? That is the only thing that is actually a useful product shown at their event.

    Who wants a battery life hindered watch that does far less than your phone? So you can display the time, weather, email and texts? Well I still need to respond to those messages more than likely, I still might want to the check on the local radar living in a particularly localized thunderstorm area of the country if it says its going to rain. Not really sure the purpose of this of the watch. A watch that gives you maybe your heart rate and other ways in which it could actually be useful by making you more connected in a useful way for cheaper with longer battery life would be good though. And the note phone never appealed to me because holy heck is it huge - still a not a bad idea to have a nice notepad everywhere you go.

    Taking notes however is appealing with workplace and school users - that is a significant market. I wish there was a way to also write on any paper and record audio and have that easily digitized (livescribe pen requires special paper making it hard to write on top of an existing document and the inconvenience on buying the notebooks and print paper is a bit of a hindrance to that fairly decent device), write on a digital device and record audio, and make add notes, audio and or annotations to any type of document. Any notes taken with the default note taking app should be easily exportable to most major formats too. Why is it so difficult to translate the typical things students do for learning in school to a digital device? Seems like Samsung has the right approach to the next step for these devices, isn't implementing thoroughly enough/with enough functionality.
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  4. Holy hell high-end smartphones are expensive -- $725! No wonder (most) carriers insist on hiding the real price behind a two-year contract, robbing you for $30 (or more) extra a month to pay it off.

    On the other hand, it would be nice to have a Note-type device without the cellular radio and associated stuff, for half that price. While Android finally has good alternatives to the iPad, we still don't have much alternatives to the iPod Touch (whose value makes sense).
    1985 posts | registered
  5. Seriously? 10 hours after my comment about your incorrect facts regarding T-Mobile's price, and it still isn't corrected?

    157 posts | registered

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