The Samsung Galaxy Note II is looking to be a popular smartphone this holiday season, but one of the biggest carriers in the states isn’t being too open about when we can expect it to arrive. With T-Mobile’s Note II already available now, we were hoping to know more about Verizon’s plans by now. Yesterday they opened pre-orders for the phablet, but didn’t give an official release date.
Verizon’s Galaxy Note II is available right this minute with pre-orders starting at $299 and a new 2-year contract, but we aren’t sure when it’ll ship. After going through the process on their website it states shipping “by” November 27th. Today however a leaked document over at Droid-Life shows Verizon is planning November 29th as their official Note II launch date. They could ship the 27th with delivery being two days later on launch day. Although we’re sure a few will select 1-day shipping and get them early.
Home button branding aside, the Galaxy Note II will be an amazing smartphone on Verizon with 4G LTE. We were able to enjoy and review the T-Mobile Galaxy Note II — so take a peek here. The Note II rocks a 5.5-inch 1280 x 720p HD display, Samsung’s latest 1.6 GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, an awesome 8 megapixel camera and tons of enhanced apps for their S-Pen stylus.
With T-Mobile’s already available, AT&T’s hitting the shelves on the 9th, and US Cellular quickly following it looks like Verizon will be the last one to this party — again. For those looking to get the impressive new phablet known as the Galaxy Note II on Verizon hit up their pre-order page now, and we’ll report back once we hear an official release date from Big Red themselves. Stay tuned!
Story Timeline
- AT&T announces Samsung Galaxy Note II available November 9, pre-orders October 25
- T-Mobile offers Galaxy Note II, but they want $70 more than AT&T
- Samsung Galaxy Note II Review [T-Mobile]
- Samsung Galaxy Note vs Galaxy Note II
- Verizon brands the Galaxy Note II home button with logo
- Verizon and AT&T launch preorders for Galaxy Note 2
- T-Mobile Galaxy Note II capable of 4G LTE – could come in future update
- Device Name : Galaxy Note II
- Manufactuer : Samsung
- Carrier : NA
- Announced Date : August 29, 2012
- Release Date : TBA
- Also Known As : GT-N7100
- Screen Size : 5.5 Inch
- Resolution : 1280×720
- Screen Type : HD Super AMOLED
- Height : 5.95 Inch
- Width : 3.17 Inch
- Depth : 0.37 Inch
- Weight : 180 Grams
- Battery Type:
- Lithium Ion
- Battery Capacity : 3100 mAh
- Talk Time : NA
- Stand By Time : NA
- Android OS:
- 4.1.x
- Audio Playback:
- AAC
- AAC+
- AMR
- MID
- MP3
- WAV
- WMA
- Video Playback:
- h.263
- h.264 / AVC
- 3GP
- MPEG-4 (MP4)
- WMV
- Messaging:
- SMS
- MMS
- IM
- CPU : Exynos 4412
- CPU Clock Speed : 1600 Mhz
- Core : 4
- Ram : 2000 MB
- Internal Storage : 16 GB
- Front Facing Camera :
- Camera Resolution : 8 MP
- External Storage:
- MicroSD
- MicroSDHC
- Camera Features:
- Auto focus
- Flash
- 1080p Video Recording
- Sensors:
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light
- Proximity
- QWERTY :
- Network Technology:
- GSM
- GSM Band:
- 850
- 900
- 1800
- 1900
- Wi-Fi:
- 802.11a
- 802.11b
- 802.11g
- 802.11n
- Bluetooth:
- A2DP
- Bluetooth 4.0
- Location Features:
- Compass
- GPS
- Cellular location
- Wi-Fi location
- FM Radio :
- NFC :
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Verizon Galaxy Note II leak shows November 29th launch date