[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] littlewierdo:
Actually, my comparison to the Note was only because the resolution is very similar. There are very few phones offering the resolution that the Note is offering.

If you look at the second paragraph, I believe I stated that if you compare the ipad to any Android tablet, there will be a stark difference in battery life.

Right, and what kind of batteries are being put into Android tablets? The only Android tablets that offer anything reasonable in battery life is the Asus tablets and you pay a VERY steep price, often times upwards of a thousand dollars.

All of the radios combined are a small fraction of what actually consumes the battery. My rough estimates on the Note is with every single radio on (bluetooth, cellular data, gps on and with a lock, & wifi), in a discharge cycle, this consumes 15% of your total battery if you left the screen on during the entire discharge cycle on the dimmest stock setting (in other words, not hacking the minimum setting to go lower than what it came as stock).

Actually, there are many reports from users claiming that they had trouble charging the Note off their USB port. I am one of those. Get a better charger. 3 amp chargers are available (and no, they wont hurt the battery as long as they are putting out 5 volts). I bought a bigger charger for my Ipad2 and Note so that I can charge the Ipad2 in less than 3 hours and the Note in less than 1 hour.

Huh???

Put a 7000 mah battery into the Note and will have the same battery life as the Ipad. The screen size is not the issue, its the fact that the Note has a battery with less than half the capacity of the Ipad.

I dont buy it. The bigger the device, the larger the battery. All of the technology is already in the smaller form factor, increasing the size of the screen increases the amount of space you can put a battery into and a very small amount more extra space for the components to power the bigger screen. Bigger means bigger battery which means longer lasting.

I dont think ANYONE can say for sure why the iphone never increased in size, all we can do is speculate.

There are many sources however that claim that Steve Jobs thought the 3 inch screen size was just perfect and that he thought phones were getting too big.

One such story...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-5-WAS-real-Steve-Jobs-binned-screen-big.html

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I stopped reading after seeing your first three words.

The Note is very much like a small tablet. Just read around on the forums for people wanting to change the dpi that the phone reports to the Play store. If you dont want to see the Note as being similar to a tablet, fine. But I use my Note much more as a tablet and much less as a phone. I can actually read news stories and even use the Kindle app to read books on my Note whereas my Captivate, forget it. The screen was too small. Yea, you might think Im off base here but my Note has virtually replaced my Ipad with exception to a few exclusive Apple apps like Garage Band & Elements HD (there are a few others but Im not going to ramble them all off). And now, since we have Flipboard finally on Android, its one less app I need to use my Ipad for.