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There has been some controversy of late around the revelation that Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 3

includes a new ‘region lock’. The bottom line is that it’s a new ‘feature’ introduced by Samsung to help reduce the instances where phones are sold in the regions they weren’t intended for. It’s a plan that isn’t limited to the Note 3, it will also be included in many other Samsung models, both existing and new, going forward. If this affects you, respected Samsung hacker Chainfire, author of other great Samsung tools such as TriangleAway, has a solution. His new free application, RegionLock Away, removes this lock so you can use your device with SIM cards from unapproved regions. This is of course useful for travellers wanting to use local SIMs. The app is available from http://forum.xda-developers.com/.