Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 (2560 x 1600 - drool)

kona786 · 10 Oct 2013 at 17:34

kefan77 said:
I was actually considering this, when the specs were revealed first, but £500 tablet that's laggy out of the box? no thanks.

I also don't feel like browsing XDA and flash custom ROMs every other day, those days are gone. I just want to root the device and not care anymore.

Nexus 10 v2 is the main candidate now. still using HP Touchpad, but it's showing its age.

I don't blame you.

With KNOX/E-Fuse, ghastly + laggy Touchwiz I'm bailing as well

Cosimo · 10 Oct 2013 at 17:46

kefan77 said:
I was actually considering this, when the specs were revealed first, but £500 tablet that's laggy out of the box? no thanks.

Laggy, where did you get that from?

kefan77 · 10 Oct 2013 at 17:57

Cosimo said:
Laggy, where did you get that from?

I made it up...oh wait.

Cons
Unusually sluggish performance
Battery life isn't as long as expected

Bottom Line
The 2014 Note 10.1 looks fantastic and has the best specs of any Android tablet out there, but we grew frustrated by its choppy performance.

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Cons

Occasional performance issues

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Cons: Expensive; Occasional lag; Mediocre camera; Shorter battery life than top tablets

kona786 · 10 Oct 2013 at 18:00

Been mentioned and seen in Youtube vids. TW always lags though. It's never consistently smooth.

Cosimo · 10 Oct 2013 at 18:40

kefan77 said:
I made it up...oh wait.

Cons
Unusually sluggish performance
Battery life isn't as long as expected

Bottom Line
The 2014 Note 10.1 looks fantastic and has the best specs of any Android tablet out there, but we grew frustrated by its choppy performance.

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Cons

Occasional performance issues

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Cons: Expensive; Occasional lag; Mediocre camera; Shorter battery life than top tablets

Sounds just like the GN10. I guess you believe every pre-release review you read, which one said it as laggy?

TheOtherOption · 10 Oct 2013 at 22:29

I think the review kefan77 is taking that from is Engadget's.

kefan77 · 10 Oct 2013 at 22:44

and ZDnet's and laptopmag's...

Bommy · 11 Oct 2013 at 14:33

I've been looking for a decent Android tablet to replace my ageing iPad 2 and this caught my eye. I think I'll wait a bit longer and see what the new Nexus 10 has to offer.

Thomss · 11 Oct 2013 at 14:58

I wish it had multi user support like stock Android

kona786 · 11 Oct 2013 at 16:01

Thomss said:
I wish it had multi user support like stock Android

It should have it. Upto 8 users I believe.

Cosimo · 11 Oct 2013 at 16:35

Official video:

Cosimo · 14 Oct 2013 at 15:45

Now on pre-order at £479.99 for the 16GB which is $768 (approx). They can forget it at that price.

hellarda · 14 Oct 2013 at 17:07

Cosimo said:
Now on pre-order at £479.99 for the 16GB which is $768 (approx). They can forget it at that price.

from where? Or can you not say? would it be cheaper to order one from the US?

Cosimo · 14 Oct 2013 at 18:49

hellarda said:
from where? Or can you not say? would it be cheaper to order one from the US?

It's from Clove. It would be cheaper from the US but there is delivery/customs to pay and there may not be an international warranty. The best bet would be to get someone to bring one over. Hopefully there will be a drop in price in a couple of months and by then we should have the Nexus 10 replacement to choose from as well.

hellarda · 14 Oct 2013 at 21:36

Cosimo said:
It's from Clove. It would be cheaper from the US but there is delivery/customs to pay and there may not be an international warranty. The best bet would be to get someone to bring one over. Hopefully there will be a drop in price in a couple of months and by then we should have the Nexus 10 replacement to choose from as well.

Ah ok. yeah thats what I was thinking.

The issue is I was intending on using it for taking notes at uni here. (used my mates old 10.1 and its amazing for taking notes on). So really don't want to wait too long.

Its between this and the sony one tbh.

jonneymendoza · 15 Oct 2013 at 09:55

wait for the the nexus 10 2nd gen lads or get rid of touchwiz on this and install vanlila android

Cosimo · 15 Oct 2013 at 10:56

jonneymendoza said:
wait for the the nexus 10 2nd gen lads or get rid of touchwiz on this and install vanlila android

But then you don't get S Pen which is what this is all about.

cmehul · 16 Oct 2013 at 15:14

hellarda said:
Ah ok. yeah thats what I was thinking.

The issue is I was intending on using it for taking notes at uni here. (used my mates old 10.1 and its amazing for taking notes on). So really don't want to wait too long.

Its between this and the sony one tbh.

Hi when you say take notes, are these handwritten with the stylus, or typed, or handwritten and then converted to text?

Also a Uni student looking to do the same, cheers.

hellarda · 17 Oct 2013 at 13:53

cmehul said:
Hi when you say take notes, are these handwritten with the stylus, or typed, or handwritten and then converted to text?

Also a Uni student looking to do the same, cheers.

It will be a mixture of both - I'm hoping that the scrapbook app will be able to cope with this. If not then I have been looking at using Evernote.

I would hope to type most of my notes (as my handwriting is appalling) however as I am doing electronic Engineering, I will need to use the stylus for diagrams/equations etc

Thomss · 19 Oct 2013 at 13:09

Off to pick mine up now