[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] littlewierdo:
See, the tell tale sign that this is bogus is two things, you didnt mention performance and you said you find yourself using the Atrix.

See, the shutter lag is easy to fix. Turn OFF auto focus and auto light and set this manually. Easy

Battery life...well, Im getting equal battery life to my Captivate that had a Seido 3600 mah battery in it ($60 USD). Go figure.

Banding issues, yea, this one I agree, I see it every time I open the market (anything with a solid grey background). But you can significantly reduce this by going to Settings->Display->UNCHECK the power savings option (cant remember how its worded). This also fixes the blacks showing as grey blocks.

Google Music - See Google. How is this Samsung's fault? As a side note, I dont use Google Music but I opened it just now and it works fine... Maybe manually search for it in the market and view the details and see if you can update it (you need to actually go to the apps description, dont just see it in the list with 'Installed' and assume it is updated - a number of the stock apps can be updated manually - see google maps for example). Maybe use a different player. For the rare times I listen to Music, I use either Music Folder Player or PowerAmp.

Poor s-pen accuracy. As compared to what? Works fine for me but then again, Im not an artist, nor am I that picky. Im more annoyed that the stylus doesnt work with the Home/Menu/Search/Back buttons.

MTP. Not sure what the problem here is (I believe you are referring to Media Transfer Protocol). See the problem is, people using smart phones expect to be required to have some bloated piece of **** oversized program (....Itunes...) to 'assist' in transferring things back and forth between their phone and the PC. But the beauty is, Android gives you DIRECT access to the file system. The key is to organize your music yourself into separate folders and not to rely on a program to do it. I have over $5000 in music ranging over from over 600 artists. My music folder contains a giant list of folders by artist, go into an artists folder and I see album names, go into those and I see the music from said artist or album. I am OCD about my music and how it is arranged and I DESPISE music players that do not allow folder browsing. Maybe organizing your music collection might help...

S3 SoC and not Krait. I assume you are referencing the processor here, I notice no particular issues but I dont do alot of gaming / video watching.

The Note isnt without its problems (for me, slow response times is probably the biggest offender). Personally, 95% of my phone time is streaming audio (podcasts via BeyondPod and audiobooks via the Audible app) via bluetooth to an FM transmitter (the Jabra Freeway for those interested), 3% making phone calls and 2% gaming / other.

When I need to pause my phone playback, the necessity of going thru the unlock process and waiting 3 seconds for the phone to respond, then tapping the 'pause' button in the widget and waiting another 2 seconds for a response is a problem. While I am aware I could use the bluetooth unit to pause playback, I am occasionally out of reach of the unit.

The Atrix being even compared to the Note is absurd. The screen on the Atrix alone is bad enough for me to question every single issue you mentioned (it has quite possibly the poorest screen I have seen on a 'high end' portable device). Its almost as if you did a quick Google search for every possible problem people had with the Note and created a nice list.

But what took the cake is when 2 of the 8 items are complaints about the Note screen and then you said you find yourself going back to the Atrix - see, my eyes saw the last line in your post first (the one about using the Atrix more often), then I read your list so for me, I saw everything backwards.