The sodium, goddamn.
They are seriously embracing the size of that thing with the advertising.
They are seriously embracing the size of that thing with the advertising.
Samsung sells 5 million Galaxy Notes in 5 months.
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I really like the idea of stylus based note taking, looks surprisingly good based on videos. Too bad the actual device is too big and with outdated OS. I would love to have this kind of screen capability to became basic feature of phones with styluses sold separately if people are interested in using this feature.
One thing they need to improve tho is the processing time between the input and stuff showing up on the screen.
One thing they need to improve tho is the processing time between the input and stuff showing up on the screen.
Blame the lack of hardware acceleration for the inconsistent performance in 3rd party gingerbread apps.
Its not an issue as much in ICS since it can be forced on across the board.
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amazing. I smiled for the duration.
It does however take a while to get use to though. Once you do you realize using an iPhone with a software keyboard is leaps and bounds better/faster then typing with a keypad. I'm sure everyone here agrees. But Rubx's sarcasm is insinuating that requiring a 'getting used to it' period is a bad thing. And as you can see very clearly from this thread a lot people have in fact gotten used to it and find it to be better once they do. Yet, time and time again we see posts (not point at you or anything) where people blindly refuse to admit that maybe, just maaaybe, with a little transition period they'll be better off with a larger screen and that the current size of the iPhone is the only perfect size forever.
I personally prefer people saying: "I won't get this because Android is shit." or "I'm blindly buying Apple products no matter what else comes into existence." than "Large screen suck and are unwieldy." Sure, sure, the Note is massive but this argument is prevalent across multiple threads even for screen sizes of 4-4.7" which only add a few mm width on most phones.
I was mostly impressed by how daintily the elephant can hold the stylus with his trunk.
Nothing personal Dreams-Vision, it's just that you're holding a logical debate and my point sort of builds upon your reply.
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fair enough!
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Define phone.
I think LG's Note knockoff is bigger slightly or at least it's going to feel much bigger due to it's 4:3 aspect ratio.
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ThatObviousUser
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No crazier than shipping a tablet with a 4:3 ratio.
It's actually a 5 inch phone, but regardless it's a terrible idea.
Uh, you can make and receive calls, and requires a cellular contract of some type to operate? Is the Note not marketed as a cell phone?
ThatCrazyGuy
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I wish Sprint had this on their service.
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Dreams-Visions
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we put tablets in our pockets, do we?
you guys are silly as shit today.
fascinating. looking forward to the reviews of that.
A device that operates on a wired or wireless voice network to send and receive calls from other wired or wireless voice networks.
Seriously, it's got a screen that is about 1" bigger than current phones. Are people seriously trying to spin the Note as this totally new thing?
Dreams-Visions
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Nope, just an unusually big thing. Which it is, relative to every other phone currently on the market.
Saying 'about 1" bigger' as if to suggest the size increase is small is dishonest. Let's not pretend like this phone isn't a 20%-40% larger than the phones most people here have (or have had).
The phone is what it is: a bigass phone. It will inspire, love and hate...and will find a niche audience. But let's not make it seem like it's not really as big as it is.
The Faceless Master
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I heard that after this vid, Mandingo was ordering one for himself.
Dreams-Visions
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good for them.
freenudemacusers
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this thread isn't about the s2 tho :?
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I was just asking because my PC can make phone calls, and tablets require cellular contracts.
Fixed. How is there any doubt?
I'm just curious if the Note is the largest cell phone on the market or not. I understand PC's can be used to make calls, but PC's are not marketed, and bear no resemblance to cell phones, and tablets, as far as I'm aware, usually come in WiFi or 3/4G data versions - but I don't know of any (full sized) tablets that you hold up to your face and talk into like a phone.
require cellular contracts?
Im pretty sure they are, I think there was an image of it somewhere, and it looked like absolute shite.
Well would you look at that its actually sold and not just shipped..... Lol!
Wow, I absolutely did not realize how important the "how I look to other people while using a phone" was so important to people on here.
There have been times where I've had to use a Galaxy Tab/Transformer because I misplaced my phone. Didn't bother me at all -- why? Because I used my bluetooth headset. Kept the device nice and packed away in my backpack while chatting on the phone.
Now, if you want to talk about "looking awkward" on the phone, how about your coworkers assuming you're trying to strike up a hallway conversation because your bluetooth headset looks like a regular pair of wraparound headphones? They got used to it.
I eventually just started using my headset with my GNexus because it was convenient to leave at my desk while I could just take a quick walk to the breakroom, grab a snack, something to drink, all the while listening to music and leaving my phone on its dock at my desk.
There have been times where I've had to use a Galaxy Tab/Transformer because I misplaced my phone. Didn't bother me at all -- why? Because I used my bluetooth headset. Kept the device nice and packed away in my backpack while chatting on the phone.
Now, if you want to talk about "looking awkward" on the phone, how about your coworkers assuming you're trying to strike up a hallway conversation because your bluetooth headset looks like a regular pair of wraparound headphones? They got used to it.
I eventually just started using my headset with my GNexus because it was convenient to leave at my desk while I could just take a quick walk to the breakroom, grab a snack, something to drink, all the while listening to music and leaving my phone on its dock at my desk.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Make sure you also document how 3.5" is magically no longer the "perfect size". Call me crazy but I'm actually really interested in that new 5" 4:3 ratio phone by LG. I like the note but yeah definely too big for me.
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Are you using the app? It gives you the option to upload anonymously.
It's doubtful that Apple will release a bigger iPhone soon though. Either they need to lower their standards for Retina (they kinda did with the iPad3) or they need to be willing to break 1:1 pixel scaling with the 960X640 resolution of the iPhone4/4S. Neither of those seem likely.
I don't know how decent it's Japanese language packs are but Swiftkey is incredible at predicting text and correcting for mistakes. It keeps track of what you type to make it's predictions. The one problem is that after a while you become used to not using punctuation marks and you have to readjust when you go back to a regular keyboard.
It kind of does, because the point was very simply that we are more than accustomed to seeing people holding a normal land line telephone handset upto their faces and think little of it... but when the note is shown, people automatically jump to the notion that it's an absurd size of a thing to be holding up to your face for a conversation, despite the fact that it is in fact smaller than a normal land line handset.
In the context of the thread (bunch of retards crowing about the massive size against your face), that's a perfectly sensible deflection. And your rebuttal would make sense, if the point had been brought up to justify that it's not that big a *mobile phone*, which as far as I can tell, hasn't been the case.
Don't bother with the LG phone, the hardware is lacking and the screen is low resolution. It's a year or more too late.
This thread is a bit surreal to be reading on much Note. so many people don't seem to understand how big their pockets are. I don't have trouble pocketing this phone with any pair of pants I own, and I have a case and clip on it too. Also, it has a micro sd slot on it, unlike the Nexus, which means I have a total of 80 (16+64) gigs of memory on my phone.
For those who don't know how they'd hold it one handed, look up the flygrip on Google/YouTube, it resolves that and gives you more thumb reach.
I think anything smaller than Motorola Dynatec can be called a phone.
For modern phones, I draw line at front pants pocket pocketable as a "phone". So really the limit would be a Vita sized phone. You can put a 6" screen on the Vita shaped phone.
I wouldn't call the 7" Galaxy Tab a phone. It's too wide for me to hold comfortable one hand.
For modern phones, I draw line at front pants pocket pocketable as a "phone". So really the limit would be a Vita sized phone. You can put a 6" screen on the Vita shaped phone.
I wouldn't call the 7" Galaxy Tab a phone. It's too wide for me to hold comfortable one hand.
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The Best Galaxy runs ICS and always has since it launched last November. I do like the Note though.
ThatObviousUser
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High five mah brotha.
I am sure in bizarro United States, where the government turned communist after WWII, every phone has an identical size, because there exist such a thing as "the perfect phone screen size".
They also name it the "Steve Jobs size", after the scientist who invented it.
freenudemacusers
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I've only played with the s2
ThatObviousUser
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I've only played with the s2
You're missing out~
Al-ibn Kermit
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That would also give it a 4:3 aspect ratio rather than 3:2 you see in the current iphones. This would limit it to only iPad apps rather than iphone apps. I don't see how that could work from a marketing standpoint, as you'd either have two "iphones" that access different app stores or you'd have weird black bars on the side.
What would be crazy, and awesome, is if apple comes out with their own padfone. That's the best idea I can think of where the next iphone can plug into either a 10 inch or 7 inch tablet.
For those that don't know, a padfone is an idea Asus is launching where you have a regular sized phone that docks inside of a "tablet", where in this case the "tablet" is just a screen and battery with the phones processor and RAM being what actually runs everything.
That actually sounds like a viable idea. Apple gets to keep the iphone at "retina" while still giving the user the ability to have a sort of tablet device. Obviously it could only run iPad apps in tablet mode though.
googleplex
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The Note is getting Ice Cream Sandwich soon right ?
Because is this Phone came to Sprint and ran ICS, I think I might have to pull the trigger on it.
Because is this Phone came to Sprint and ran ICS, I think I might have to pull the trigger on it.
You know ipads can run iphone apps, right?
Existing apps could be run in 2x mode, and the screen area would still be larger than 3.5" for them despite not using the entire screen.
345triangle
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this comes out on docomo next week with LTE, and i am seriously considering dumping my softbank iphone and making the switch. it's probably a terrible idea but this phone does seem like it'd be better for everything except being a phone (which i almost never need) and apps (i have an ipad and could always just keep the iphone around). japanese handwriting recognition is kind of a killer feature to me, though i'd have to play with it first.
i would probably regret my choice a bit when the iphone 5 comes out but i'm pretty bored after 3 years of being an iphone user. say what you want about the galaxy note but it's certainly something different.
i would probably regret my choice a bit when the iphone 5 comes out but i'm pretty bored after 3 years of being an iphone user. say what you want about the galaxy note but it's certainly something different.
My note runs ICS and feedly still runs like crap on it. ICS killed my financial times app too. It runs like shit on it. CNBC real time runs only when it feels like running which is not very often. It's infuriating sometimes.
I think it's more related to dev putting more efforts on their ios apps or maybe easier development relating to less fragmentation of hardware and software for ios.
I really want to see Apple's take on the wacom digitizer. There's so much potential in it being squandered because of it not being a standard. Which is why I'm really happy that the note sold very well. Maybe this will give it more exposure and more dev will take advantage of it's unique capabilities. I love this phone. Everything about it is right, well... except for android.
I think you would love the handwriting recognition. I have a hunch it is one of the main reason of why this phone is so successful in China and Hongkong.
345triangle
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my japanese handwriting isn't very good, but it'd be a great incentive to get better since i type so much more than i write. i can't stand typing japanese on the iphone, and there's no real kanji handwriting support either.
though to be fair, i've seen chinese friends write on their iphones pretty amazingly fast. not sure why apple hasn't implemented it for japanese, you'd think it'd be easier if anything.
though to be fair, i've seen chinese friends write on their iphones pretty amazingly fast. not sure why apple hasn't implemented it for japanese, you'd think it'd be easier if anything.
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