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Depends entirely what you carry in your wallet I suppose. Some cash and 3-4 cards, would you really need to carry that in a separate wallet?
Samsung Galaxy Note: 5.3", 1200x800 SuperAMOLED, S-PEN stylus, 2500mAh attery... *phew*
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Depends entirely what you carry in your wallet I suppose. Some cash and 3-4 cards, would you really need to carry that in a separate wallet?
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Just bung your cards and change in your handbag and get the slimer cover 
I'm hoping there's a Note SII when I come to upgrade my Galaxy SII. Got a feeling this form factor won't be massively popular. Seems ideal for me as 99% of what I do with my phone isn't phone calls
I'm hoping there's a Note SII when I come to upgrade my Galaxy SII. Got a feeling this form factor won't be massively popular. Seems ideal for me as 99% of what I do with my phone isn't phone calls
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Unfortunately I don't have a handbag o_0 I've already ordered a different case and I have a stand, but I don't think the case is that bad at all if you only carry a few cards and make use of the stand.
Living with the note
Well I've had my Note for three weeks now. Took a while to get hold of, I ordered it from Amazon.de, paid about £445 for it. First one was lost in post, second one arrived finally two weeks after initial order. Picked up three UK spec Samsung chargers off ebay for £3.50 each so have them scattered all over the house now.
After reading all the comments on how it would be too large to use as a phone and how I would look like a prat, I also bought a Jawbone bluetooth headset. As it turned out, its fine, a good size for my hand and I look no more of a prat talking into it than I ever did..!!
Fits easily into my pocket no problems sitting down.
Now let me say, I love this phone, it is the doggies do-dahs and I experience my first ever multiple orgasm opening the box. Given the choice between this and the dog, the dog would win, similarly I would probably retain the kids, but the wife had better watch out!! However, there are some downsides, chief among them is the battery life. I cannot even get a whole day out of mine, so I picked up a second 2600mAh battery and external charger off ebay for about £18 and a Veho Pebble for £25 Now I'm not a heavy user by any means, but if you want it to last a day, just use it to take and make calls, and receive email. That way, you will get 24 hours, use it for browsing, GPS et al and you will need to charge twice a day. Also for some reason, the Kindle app seems to drain charge quickly.
Then I moved my SanDisk SDHC card from the Galaxy S into the Note and it wouldn't play the videos, which ran fine on the Galaxy S. In the end I bought a 10 speed 32Gb Samsung card again off ebay which works fine.
I am also using the stock applications for exchange mail and calender sync and while they work they are not the best. I used to use touchdown but hated the interface and having my mail in two places. Now at least I can use the stock email widget to check work and private mails. S-Planner will not sync my work calender unless I manually start a sync.
Headset is a bit naff, but aren't they always! I have a Sennheiser set I use instead.
Final downer is that I find the s-pen a little thin to write with, but there is a £26 fix for that, with the s-pen that comes inside a normal pen sized thingy.
With the money I saved ordering from Germany, I also bought the official flip cover, which is great, a pack of 6 screen protectors, which are also fine and the desktop dock. I really like the dock, I started using it vertically, but found horizontal was better, in dock mode I've set it up to show me a calender with time and weather on the sides. I can make calls using the dock as a handsfree and that works really well.
Top apps for me are social hub, s planner, kindle, iSyncr, MoboPlayer, Cut the Rope, Google Sky Map, Pulse, Dropbox, Evernote, Sky+, Makeup (the kids love it!), AA Parking, Dolphin browser and Writepad. So wanted to like caskfinder but sorry, its cack!
I didn't use the S-pen much, preferring Swype until I bought Writepad for £6, now I use the s-pen for everything, making notes, sending SMS, writing emails etc. Only problem is that held vertically, my little finger keeps hitting the back key, so I need to use it horizontally.
Video playback is fine, I use it to watch movies in bed while the wife has some romcom on the TV. Sync everything from iTunes using iSyncr, (all my films are DRM free, typically I buy the DVD and then rip it to a network drive).
Have also turned up at meetings with no laptop and used the Note to take notes. Felt a bit silly but it worked fine, just emailed the notes to myself or attached them to S Planner events.
All in all, I am a happy bunny, I think this has a good shot of making it as my convergence device, video, music, books, email and notes, at least until something better comes along. Its certainly noticeably speedier than my Galaxy S, everything just works quickly and I can actually use the multi-tasking capabilities.
So I like it and, while it won't suit everyone, it is a good bit of kit if its the sort of thing you are looking for.
Hari..
Well I've had my Note for three weeks now. Took a while to get hold of, I ordered it from Amazon.de, paid about £445 for it. First one was lost in post, second one arrived finally two weeks after initial order. Picked up three UK spec Samsung chargers off ebay for £3.50 each so have them scattered all over the house now.
After reading all the comments on how it would be too large to use as a phone and how I would look like a prat, I also bought a Jawbone bluetooth headset. As it turned out, its fine, a good size for my hand and I look no more of a prat talking into it than I ever did..!!
Fits easily into my pocket no problems sitting down.
Now let me say, I love this phone, it is the doggies do-dahs and I experience my first ever multiple orgasm opening the box. Given the choice between this and the dog, the dog would win, similarly I would probably retain the kids, but the wife had better watch out!! However, there are some downsides, chief among them is the battery life. I cannot even get a whole day out of mine, so I picked up a second 2600mAh battery and external charger off ebay for about £18 and a Veho Pebble for £25 Now I'm not a heavy user by any means, but if you want it to last a day, just use it to take and make calls, and receive email. That way, you will get 24 hours, use it for browsing, GPS et al and you will need to charge twice a day. Also for some reason, the Kindle app seems to drain charge quickly.
Then I moved my SanDisk SDHC card from the Galaxy S into the Note and it wouldn't play the videos, which ran fine on the Galaxy S. In the end I bought a 10 speed 32Gb Samsung card again off ebay which works fine.
I am also using the stock applications for exchange mail and calender sync and while they work they are not the best. I used to use touchdown but hated the interface and having my mail in two places. Now at least I can use the stock email widget to check work and private mails. S-Planner will not sync my work calender unless I manually start a sync.
Headset is a bit naff, but aren't they always! I have a Sennheiser set I use instead.
Final downer is that I find the s-pen a little thin to write with, but there is a £26 fix for that, with the s-pen that comes inside a normal pen sized thingy.
With the money I saved ordering from Germany, I also bought the official flip cover, which is great, a pack of 6 screen protectors, which are also fine and the desktop dock. I really like the dock, I started using it vertically, but found horizontal was better, in dock mode I've set it up to show me a calender with time and weather on the sides. I can make calls using the dock as a handsfree and that works really well.
Top apps for me are social hub, s planner, kindle, iSyncr, MoboPlayer, Cut the Rope, Google Sky Map, Pulse, Dropbox, Evernote, Sky+, Makeup (the kids love it!), AA Parking, Dolphin browser and Writepad. So wanted to like caskfinder but sorry, its cack!
I didn't use the S-pen much, preferring Swype until I bought Writepad for £6, now I use the s-pen for everything, making notes, sending SMS, writing emails etc. Only problem is that held vertically, my little finger keeps hitting the back key, so I need to use it horizontally.
Video playback is fine, I use it to watch movies in bed while the wife has some romcom on the TV. Sync everything from iTunes using iSyncr, (all my films are DRM free, typically I buy the DVD and then rip it to a network drive).
Have also turned up at meetings with no laptop and used the Note to take notes. Felt a bit silly but it worked fine, just emailed the notes to myself or attached them to S Planner events.
All in all, I am a happy bunny, I think this has a good shot of making it as my convergence device, video, music, books, email and notes, at least until something better comes along. Its certainly noticeably speedier than my Galaxy S, everything just works quickly and I can actually use the multi-tasking capabilities.
So I like it and, while it won't suit everyone, it is a good bit of kit if its the sort of thing you are looking for.
Hari..
Just rooted, the most difficult part was installing the damn drivers!
http://www.androidnz.net/2011/11/at-your-own-risk-how-to-root-your.html
http://www.androidnz.net/2011/11/at-your-own-risk-how-to-root-your.html
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Maybe my idea of heavy usage is just different, but this doesn't really sound quite right right to me. Do you have something like Google Latitude turned on? And have you updated Android to 2.3.6?
Battery drains at around 17-20% per hour for me when browsing full time on wifi, so should be able to get a decent 4.5 hours I think. When the phone is idle it only loses about 1% every 2 hours. I reckon I could easily do a few hours browsing and still have it last a day.
I do keep brightness down quite low though.
But normally you have more than one pocket, which means you can split the load of wallet and phone instead of having an offensively large thing stuffed into a single pocket.
No I think we are in agreement, I have 2.3.6 and nothing like latitude turned on. I take a days use as being about 10 -12 hours and I certainly don't get that using GPS and Browsing over WiFi to any great extent or using Kindle.
One other thing I should mention, is the WiFi performance of the Note is also a bit sub-par. When my wife and I are lying in bed, she gets 3 bars out of 5 on her iPhone WiFi connection while I get nothing at all, and have to switch to mobile data.
Also a point on the Samsung flip cover, after two weeks, the edge of the cover at the front side has worn away and is very sticky, I assume with the glue used to hold the cover material on.
Anyway, here are some performance metrics taken on my Note, absolutely stock, no rooting, custom ROMs or anything else. The best quadrant score I ever got was 4005 but of course when it came to reproducing that for a screen shot, no chance..!
This Quadrant score is 3858.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23873086@N03/6480905591/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23873086@N03/6480905253/
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I guess I'm not sure what you class as a "great extent". How much are you actually using the phone during that 10-12 hour period?
In regards to Kindle, I just had it running for the past hour and lost 10% battery life. That's with the sepia background, black would probably be better. Not sure if changing pages more often would make a difference, I was doing it sporadically.
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Getting used to the size now. Coming from an S2.
Love the pen and I'm using it more and more .
Rooted it and Ive put on the thunderbold cassie rom from XDA.
Will probably get a case for it, any suggestions? I'll probably end up with the official flip cover or the official pouch.
Love the pen and I'm using it more and more .
Rooted it and Ive put on the thunderbold cassie rom from XDA.
Will probably get a case for it, any suggestions? I'll probably end up with the official flip cover or the official pouch.
My Note arrives Tuesday. The ROM you have installed, does it still include the pen apps? Does it run faster?
Yes it incs the pen apps.
I was on the stock rom for all of 2-3 hours, so can't comment on battery life or speed.
But it does get rid off a lot of crap that I cba with.
The fact you even asked this question and entertained the idea of combining phone and wallet loses you major man points.
Well, I've ordered this and it should hopefully be arriving at some point today. I cancelled the data bolt on straight away and they have credited £3 to my account so that I don't even pay for it in the first month!
Cost:
Galaxy Note: £250
Contract: £10.50 x24 = £252
Cashback: -£50
Total: £452
just ordered this which is basically the deal i got for the galaxy s2 when it came out but the s2 was 149.99, i was perfectly happy with my s2 but some immoral scrote nicked my s2 off my desk at work. didnt even setup the tracker app i installed, first thing i will be doing with the note.
the note price has gone up to 279.99 btw
Really impressed with battery, it's as good if not better than the s2.
Took it off charge at 11am.
It's running cassies rom along with riversource 1.4 kernel.
I used it for browing and google maps quite a bit. Playing around with the notepad aswell. Bluetooth, GPS , syncing etc all on.
Took it off charge at 11am.
It's running cassies rom along with riversource 1.4 kernel.
I used it for browing and google maps quite a bit. Playing around with the notepad aswell. Bluetooth, GPS , syncing etc all on.
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I don't suppose anyone else is experiencing an annoying flicker in flash videos played in the browser? For example in all youtube videos the top half of the video has flickering lines.
I suspect my device might be faulty, however other videos that are downloaded (MKVs etc) don't seem to exhibit the problem at all
I suspect my device might be faulty, however other videos that are downloaded (MKVs etc) don't seem to exhibit the problem at all
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Yup, I already had it updated to 11 but I tried uninstalling the update as well. I've also tried different browsers. Not sure what's causing it.