You can probably buy a screen meant for a US/CAN phone (or a similar nearby country/region) and use it without issue. The way Samsung builds them now more or less means the chassis is the same, but the motherboard is programmed for the region it was sold in or locked to say, a EU carrier.
Older phones like the I9305 Note II and Sprint GSM+CDMA phones like the S5 and older were genuinely different and had a unique version of the part you had to match up but the newer phones are the same build — the difference is the carrier branding, SIM lock and supported bands on grey market phones. They go by U or U1 these days with U1 being the factory unlocked variant.
The only other change is sometimes the EU versions have Exynos chips and unlockable boatloaders while the US/CAN U series is Snapdragon based with a permanently locked bootloader because Samsung does it to make the carriers happy because for years, even up to the unlocked S7 they let us unlock it. The last one where it could be done for sure was the S9, it got murky when the S10 came out but I think the S10/S10e U1 has it.
crwdns2934105:0crwdne2934105:0
crwdns2934113:0crwdne2934113:0
crwdns2915270:0crwdne2915270:0
crwdns2889612:0crwdne2889612:0
1
crwdns2944067:07crwdne2944067:0
Hi @johnb77802
What is the model number of the phone e.g. SM-S908????
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 jayeff crwdne2934271:0
@jayeff looks like the international version is a SM-S908B/DS.
SM-S908U (USA)
SM-S908U1 (USA unlocked)
SM-S908W (Canada)
SM-S908N (Korea)
SM-S9080 (China)
SM-S908E (Asia/Africa)
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 oldturkey03 crwdne2934271:0
It's the S908E I believe. The independent guy said it's a Chinese phone. I'll confirm once I'm home.
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 John B crwdne2934271:0
@johnb77802 that would make it an LCD like this
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 oldturkey03 crwdne2934271:0
Thanks oldturkey03. I got it wrong. I just checked the box and it's the S9080 not the S908E
crwdns2934271:0crwdnd2934271:0 John B crwdne2934271:0
crwdns2934275:02crwdne2934275:0