We all know the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is going to be expensive, the question is whether it's going to be blow your pay cheque expensive or second mortgage expensive and we might be a bit closer to an answer.

A representative for Media Markt (Europe's largest electronics retailer) apparently told Hi-Tech.Mail.Ru that the official price for the Galaxy Note 4 will be 34,990 rubles in Russia. That's more than the Galaxy S5 retailed for there but the good news is that it's exactly the same price as the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

So there's a fair chance that the Note 4 will have the same starting price as the Galaxy Note 3 in the rest of the world too.

34,990 rubles roughly translates to £566 / $936 / AU$1008 and while exchange rates are rarely that cut and dry that's probably not a million miles from what it will cost SIM free, since the Note 3 started at around that.

Expensive, but not unreasonable

That's a little pricier than what a recent Indonesian listing pegged it at, but this one is also more believable, since there's no way the Galaxy Note 4 would be cheaper than the Note 3.

You might want to get saving then but it could be worth the money, as rumours point to a QHD display, a powerful quad or octa-core processor, 3GB of RAM and a metal frame and we should know for sure what it has as soon as tomorrow.

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