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Buying Galaxy S9 direct from Samsung-Unlocked or Locked to AT&T?
I am planning to buy a Galaxy S9 Plus direct from Samsung due to a special promotion available to me. If I buy an Unlocked phone can I use that on AT&T to start a phone contract? I do not have a mobile contract currently but I am getting one soon. I currently have Uverse for TV and Internet.
Would there be any disadvantages to buying an unlocked phone? Or should I bite the bullet and pay the markup for the locked phone?
Thank you in advance.
John108
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5 years ago
I just had both an online 'chat' and a call to AT&T tech support and both said I would not lose any features...???? I was about to send back 2 S9's unlocked from Samsung, and am now really confused!!!
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mikestanek1
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5 years ago
Well I just got my unlocked S9+ yesterday. Did the setup as usual and used smartswitch and I lost visual voicemail. Just had to download the app from apkmirror. So you can at least do that.
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GLIMMERMAN76
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5 years ago
You lose hd voice wifi calling and video calling if you get the Samsung unlocked versions.
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broosek
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GLIMMERMAN76
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@broosek
What version of the s9 are you using?
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broosek
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GLIMMERMAN76
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5 years ago
Well that's the unlocked version so you don't get HD voice.
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John108
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5 years ago
So, after again speaking to both Samsung and AT&T techs, I was told that if I installed AT&T's SIM for our present account..business, that all features would in fact be there...??? Was about ready to send the phones back to Samsung and replace with AT&T versions. Not sure what direction to go...
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broosek
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John108
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5 years ago
current plan with AT&T, and what you had included....could that be the
case?? Hard to believe that the most recent version of Android would leave
Visual Voicemail out of their dialer..
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