Samsung is now locking all new devices to a region, making life hard

[Poke]

Locking it down.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...-devices-to-a-region-making-life-hard_id47790

 

[navychop]

What an idiotic idea.

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[osu1991]

It sounds like the phones only have to be activated in their home region then are free to be used anywhere with foreign sims

 

[mike123abc]

They are trying to prevent the export of phones from one country to another. For example Russians have been buying iPhone 5s in the EU like crazy to send back to Russia since they have not launched in Russia yet.