At AT&T, the Galaxy Note 5 starts at $739.99, S6 Edge+ at $814.99, both with 32 GB of storage; preorders begin at 3PM EDT
Galaxy Note 5 release dates and pricing hit US carriers — Today the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has been revealed with a launch date of August 21st, 2015.
Context & Ripple Effects
Samsung's same-day Note 5 reveal set an August 21 launch date, and AT&T is the first carrier to put hard numbers on it: $739.99 for the Note 5 and $814.99 for the S6 Edge+, both at 32GB, with preorders opening at 3PM EDT today.
This is one data point in an arc the related coverage makes legible: the following year's Note 7 launched at $850 unsubsidized, and by 2019 the Note10+ 5G carried a $1,300 sticker — so AT&T's sub-$750 entry price here marks the early rung of the Note line's climb into four-figure territory.
First-order effects
- AT&T customers can lock in a Note 5 or S6 Edge+ starting this afternoon, with the curved-screen S6 Edge+ carrying a $75 premium over the larger-battery Note 5 at identical 32GB storage.
Second-order effects
- Verizon and T-Mobile face immediate pressure to match or beat AT&T's opening pricing before the August 21 retail launch — a dynamic that recurs two years later when the Note8 ships at three different per-carrier prices across Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds, each August Note cycle resets the flagship ceiling higher — from AT&T's $739.99 here to the Note9 and Note10's $949–$950 range and eventually past $1,000 once 5G and larger-storage tiers arrive — making the sub-$800 flagship a thing of the past.
The trend: US flagship phone pricing ratchets upward every August as Samsung's Note line climbs from the mid-$700s toward and beyond the $1,000 mark across successive generations.