Firmware updates are not affected by where you aer geographically or what carrier you are using it with so no problem there.

Just out of curiosity, why would you want to get the SHV-E300K?

No, it'll be vanilla android, any software features that was added by Samsung will not be present. Third party apps will be needed to any features not present on vanilla android.

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: May 16 2013, 07:49 PM

no need to be rooted, surely some of the third party apps out there that could get features like the samsung camera app.

I've yet to perceive any of my experience with the S4 as problems and I haven't faced those issues like camera issues, wifi issues etc. that has been described at times. Phone becomes warm during heavy tasks, but so does all other smartphones I have owned over the years as well as those I've had the experience of playing around with for an extended amount of time so I don't perceive that as a problem. Though note that I'm not using the i9500.

Basically you're here to promote the HTC One, go to the HTC One thread over there

You've obviously already made you're decision on which phone you want.

The Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) standard maxed out at 32gb, the Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) standard was developed in order to produce bigger capacity SD cards which would max out at 2 TB.

That is very unlikely to happen.
The closest thing would probably get the i9505 and put something like CM10 on it.
Being probably based on the SGH-I337 instead of the i9505 would also make it less versatile around the world since it lacks support for certain key frequencies.

Read up on the first question
http://bit.ly/YPE5vJ

As for the second.
Please define "very fast" and explain your usage in detail.

Try checking out with these people
MTCS Group Sdn Bhd
6.19, 6th Floor Plaza Imbi, Jalan Imbi, 55100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Going by spigen's website, they are the only authorised resellers in Malaysia.

Or just buy them online on ebay or something, even with delivery they can sometimes be cheaper than what local sellers are selling them for and it doesn't take that too long to get here. Beware of fakes though, lots of fake spigen products out there.

Online petition to Samsung
http://www.change.org/petitions/release-th...internal-memory

Whichever suits I guess if you can afford the price difference with no problem. I'm more of an S4 fan but the note 2 has some good points as well. Have you asked your wife which she would prefer or if she has no problems with the size of the note 2? Other than the obvious, how does your wife often use her phone?

Also note that the korean S4 will have very little if any community support for ROMs.

Doesn't seem that way going by this, only two bands are supported.
http://www.samsung.com/sec/consumer/mobile...=SHV-E300LDS3LC

The i9505 and i9500 have the exact same dimensions. Any cases that fits the i9500 will fit the i9505.

Now that should solve the problem for those that wants "premium" materials haha

http://bit.ly/12RAE7b

Just found a solution for another one of my problems.
I'm not sure if there's any HD Voice (WB-AMR) services in Malaysia or not, but just in case anybody wants to know how to enable it if it's disabled by default on your phone. No Root or custom firmwares needed.

1. Dial *#0011#
2. Press Menu key,then Back
3. Press Menu again then Key input,Enter value 1,and wait for few seconds
4. Press Menu key,than Back
5. Press [7] DEBUG SCREEN
6. Press [7] WB-AMR SETTINGS
7. Press [1] WB-AMR ENABLE
8. Press Menu and then Back
And finaly 9. Press [6] WB-AMR Status, VIOLA, WB-AMR SETTINGS: ON and UMTS WB: ON

I'm not sure if Malaysian carriers have HD voice or not. If no, then there's no benefit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_audio
I have HD Voice where I am so I've been looking around on how to enable the thing and just posted it here if anybody else is seeking to enable it.
Basically there are three requirements for you to experience HD voice calls. First your carrier needs to make their network WB-AMR capable, then you need to have a WB-AMR enabled phone and is calling another WB-AMR enabled phone to get HD Voice. Without going into detail on the technical side of things, when you do get HD Voice, there is a huge significant audio quality difference between your average phone calls and HD Voice phone calls, similar to the kind of quality you can get when using certain VoIP services with clearer overall sound quality. There are a number of phones out that are WB-AMR capable but seems like the case of what Samsung did to the S2,S3 and S4, whether they are enabled or disabled by default is dependant on the region or carriers and if it's not enabled by default, you'll need to find out yourself how to enable it. Not sure if other manufacturers do the same thing as Samsung or not.

Edit:
Found these from last year, but can't find anything from Celcom themselves. Apparently, Celcom was the first in Malaysia to have HD Voice last year. Don't know about other carriers.
http://www.malaysianwireless.com/2012/06/c...offer-hd-voice/
http://www.nst.com.my/life-times/tech/clea...-voice-1.104497
http://www.mobileworld.com.my/technology/t...-service-review

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: May 21 2013, 08:11 PM

http://bit.ly/119tqsb

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: May 22 2013, 02:45 AM

Developers definitely like the s600 soc better than the exynos octa with qualcomm being more open with driver releases etc. and there's also the fact that the i9505 is the version of the S4 that's most widely available on a global scale.

The ones who will rejoice the most are Samsung investors.