A:AnswerMe, too! Saw it @ Samsung website, but no mention as to when the U-L'd colors would be out. Checked out other sites as well, and ended up getting the black U-L'd because my Rewards $$ were going to expire & I caught a great sale price.
A:AnswerTax rates are different depending on the jurisdiction. To determine take the cost and on a calculator + tax % plus the cost of the phone of course. The easiest way to make sure would be to put it in your cart and let Best Buy tell you.
A:AnswerYes. It should work with everyone. You just need to have the SIM re-registered to the new phone. I did this today myself with AT&T since my SIM was too big.
A:AnswerThe unlocked phone comes without a carrier, meaning no sim card, you put it in yourself. On Samsung's site, you can currently only buy carrier-locked phones.
A:AnswerYes and you've discovered the caveat. Hopefully just having the unlocked phone will rid you from the annoyance. Some demo versions of the AT&T version don't show tethering and if you go through the manual for that phone it says that you can't have tethering if you have an unlimited plan. That doesn't sound right with the big plan that's available that includes 10GB. This was a big enough issue for me that I went to the AT&T store to have them check my account. I'm still on a metered plan so they are quite happy to let me go over.
I don't know what technology they can use "on the wire" so instead they are using some software to check your but that's why we're buying the unlocked phones.
What I can tell you is that I picked my phone up today and it works as it should. I think you'll be OK but can't be sure yet.
A:AnswerI just bought the unlocked Samsung S8 from Best Buy and when I tried to activate it with Virgin Mobile, they told me it did not work with their service.
A:AnswerAccording to Wikipedia, there is no difference in the maximum bandwidth (both at 1200 MB/s). However, even if there were a difference, here's a quote from XDA:
"Theoretically speaking, the difference between UFS 2.0 and UFS 2.1 objectively exists and is large enough for phone OEMs to tout the superiority of one over the other.
Practically speaking, most average users and even smartphone enthusiasts will not be able to distinguish between the performance of UFS 2.0 versus UFS 2.1, unless they compare both side-by-side. In real life and daily usage, UFS 2.0 will unlikely be the bottleneck in your flagship experience. Had Samsung gone for eMMC 5.1, the memory specification would have had a much more profound and noticeable impact on your experience. Thus as a silver lining, Samsung is only juggling between UFS 2.0 and UFS 2.1 for now."
In other words, enjoy the phone.
