We have good news for developers!
You are now able to download Samsung Galaxy Note II’s Official Firmwares.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II comes pre-installed with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean
The first firmwares are specially for France and the United Kingdom.

You can download firmwares for both countries from our Firmware page.

About the firmwares:

N7100XXALJ1 DOWNLOAD (INFORMATION) (France) 
N7100XXALJ1 DOWNLOAD (INFORMATION) (United Kingdom)

Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note II at IFA 2012 in Berlin.
Starting from this week you can buy the Galaxy Note II with 5.5” and 1.6 ghz Quad-Core processor and 8 megapixel in Europe.
Most countries will start getting the Galaxy Note II in the beginning of October. U.S. needs to wait for one more month.
The price is between the 600 and 700 euros.
Samsung is currently selling the Galaxy Note in 2 variants, LTE version GT-N7105 and the non LTE version GT-N7100.

Our review of the Galaxy Note II will be online in October!