[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] legion1911:
I gave back mine.

the biggest problems for me:

speed, ram, heat, design flaws.

Speed....

This screen needs a processor with twice the speed of the Exynos 4xxx.

The S II is so popular because it can take everything you give it and show it to you at minimum 50 frames per second.... 50-60 frames per second is optimum for the human eye. Let us call it S II fluid awesomeness.

The Note has to move much more pixels, so it has half the speed of the SII, particularly on graphically intensive stuff (not invented by me, benchmarks prove it). So we get 25 frames per second...

25 frames is like a TV.... the minimum acceptable... when the Note has a problem to keep up this overclocked speed it goes below 25 fps and it becomes unacceptable for people coming from the SII like me.

The Note deserved a better processor, but I guess this privilege is reserved to the SIII. And Samsung probably thought 25 frames per second is good enough for tv so people will be fine with it. But we are talking about a high end phone here and we now want SII fluid awesomeness on a high end phone. Ok, not we... I want SII fluid awesomeness on a Note.

Our madame moderator will hate this but I write it anyway...

The Note Lte is 1/3 (33%) slower then the N7000.... so it goes below 25 frames and sometimes even touches 9 frames per second on very intensive graphics.

Imagine.... and I complain about the N7000...

Does it mean it is terrible? No.... it is ok....

But also the Acer Liquid Metal is ok.... if you are satisfied with stuff that is "ok"... and it costs just 150$.

Ram...

This screen needs more ram then 1 GB. It is unacceptable that I take the latest flagship and have to use tricks used with crappy low ram phones (launcher, freezing etc) because the screen and the stylus support eat up so much ram.

heat...

This is the same processor of the SII.... the normal speed is 1.2 ghz... they are overclocking it... what happens when you overclock? heat... too much heat... also the screen seems to generate too much heat.

What happens when the heat reaches an unacceptable level.... the phone slows down... to protect itself... and all this heat is uncomfortable for me.... 50+ C

design flaws....

Samsung has become careless or is overworked by creating so many different devices. They are overstretching themselves, maybe...

Fact is, the camera is not protected... every idiot notices it... why?

They tried to fix it with the free flip cover that is different and protects the camera... but the flip cover itself is a failed product... everybody loves it but it simply falls apart. This is quality?

Samsung you can do this with one of your many Galaxy Ace, W, Y, M, R.... but not with a flagship that costs like a Iphone 4s.

The back cover.... makes strange sounds... at least mine...

The screen.... a mess of production problems with a lot of unsatisfied customers and we need a developer like supercurio to fix the flawed color reproduction.... the lockscreen when in black is obscene... come on....

The USB cable... not even this they can do right.... who had the idea to make it glossy and slippery so that I do not manage to pull it out?

Does a glossy cable look cool... yes... does it work... NO!

The most important problems for me are Speed and Ram...

And I know there are a mountain of new products coming.... with quad core... 5 times faster gpu... these will be good enough to power this beast of a screen.

I have posted some info today on some of the devices that are coming but also this got deleted by some very kind Moderator....

I just say N8000 N8010 N8013.... look it up...

And the SIII is coming... with Exynos 5xxx... dual core with 2 ghz...

Twice the speed of cpu and 5 times the speed of gpu...

Who knows when it is coming because they have so much in the pipeline that is not yet globally distributed... so i suspect they are holding back new stuff to not ruin the marketing of the older stuff that is getting sold just now in some markets.

A lot of minor versions of old stuff gets out too so it is a mess to sell old stuff, sub-versions of old stuff and local versions of all the stuff... canadian versions, multiple US versions, multiple qualities of chinese versions...

How you sell all the old stuff if you come out with SIII? This is their problem...

And a lot more is coming.... look back at how much came out in 2011... there is no reason to expect less in 2012.... I hope they do something about production quality... at least for the flagship devices.

For the moment.... the best phone on the Android market still is a product that came out one year ago and that is still popular like nothing else.

People want it and with all devices going down in price, the S II went up in price.

You can now buy a Atrix, Galaxy R, Evo 3D or LG Optimus 3D for around 250 euros. The SII is still there at 430...