For the longest time in the smartphone market, AT&T was the only wireless provider in our side of the world to offer the Samsung Galaxy Note. Looking back, the phablet nearly missed landing in US shelves after Samsung let this information slip during the announcement of the original version of the Samsung Galaxy Note last year.
However, there were reports back then that the exclusivity of the AT&T over the phablet was about to come to an end because rumors had it that the Samsung Galaxy Note was also headed to the shelves of T-Mobile. In fact, even before these reports came out, an AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy Note was already running in the network of the Magenta carrier after developers changed its radio firmware. After that, mug shots of a T-Mobile branded version of the phablet leaked out which further fueled the speculations. The AT&T Galaxy Note is available for purchase starting at $199 at select retailers.
The rumors further gathered fire when a device purported to be the version of the phablet headed to T-Mobile was seen visiting with the FCC. Through all this, the carrier remained coy and kept mum about the speculations. It’s just recently that T-Mobile finally came out to confirm what already was an open secret and announced via a press release that the Samsung Galaxy Note was indeed headed its way and will hit its shelves on August 8.
If you happen to have T-Mobile for your wireless provider of choice and are planning to get a Samsung Galaxy Note for yourself as soon as it becomes available on August 8, you will find an OTA update waiting for you as soon as you take the phablet out of its box. As it stands, the Magenta carrier is already showing its version of the Samsung Galaxy Note some update love this early by sending out the said software update to the phablet.
The said software update which weighs in at 21MB will crank up the software version of the Samsung Galaxy Note to T879UVLG3 and brings several bug fixes to the phablet. Once applied to the device, it will resolve the repeating “Enter MAC Address” issue. In addition to that, it will take care of the wrong location on the phablet’s weather widget. Finally, the MobileLife contact addresses on the Samsung Galaxy Note will all be combined into one single field.
As for the Samsung Galaxy Note, the phablet runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which is powered by a QualComm MSM8660 SnapDragon chipset under its hood. The computing power needed by the Samsung Galaxy Note on the other hand is generated by its dual-core 1.5 Scorpion processor and 1GB of RAM. Storage space on the phablet comes up to 16GB with an option to beef this up using the microSD card slot of the device. The claim to fame of the Samsung Galaxy Note is its massive 5.3-inch SuperAMOLED panel with a resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels while its camera department is just as impressive with its rear-facing 8MP shooter and front-facing 2MP snapper. For those who don’t want to wait, you can buy the AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note starting at $199.
