[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tedri Mark:
Oh, hit back and here's my original response:

Yep, such a luxury to be able to browse, p[lay games etc for hours on end, and not have to worry about the 'Du-du-duuiing' battery warning tone of death kicking in when you are hours away from being able to recharge.. (especially as mine developed a bizarre fault where if it ran out of battery, the only way to get it to switch on would be to reflash...)

Yep, I think if I'd came from *any* device to the Note I'd think it was awesome, just like if I'd spent my life eating nothing but bread and butter I'd think that a cheese sandwich was the most delicious meal in existence. As it is, I kind of feel like I'm driving a huge RV - massively awkward to drive, but when you arrive at your destination (Monkey Island 3 running on ScummVM was the most recent "Oh yeah, that's why I chose this thing" moment) then the advantages become apparent.

Buut, being used to having some music playing from the internet, and not having to interrrupt that to do *anything* else, I constantly find myself thinking "Really? REALLY?"

Exactly. Generally, if I wanted to quickly look at something and my laptop was shut, I'd use my N900, now I literally can't be arsed. I'm hoping this will change as I get used to the keyboard, but right now selecting text is a pain, if the cursor drops one letter left or right of what I wanted to select all I want to do is press left, not try in vain to drag the marker to the right bit, and more often than not have it move as I take my finger off the screen..

The one today was soundcloud. Regular soundcloud site doesn't work for me, (I'm running ICS and flashplayer 11, tried with both ICS browser+ and Dolphin HD)

Went to the mobile version, logged in, had the 'incoming tracks appear' only to find that I had to open one, then press play, and then once that had finished press back, and do it over again. I played 2 songs and then couldn't be bothered any more so cut my lawn in silence (Well, other than the sound of the mower...) This i not even getting started on the fact that the mobile version of the site does not allow downloading, and has a totally different list of tracks come up to the regular browser...

Same with facebook, why would I want to look at a cut down version of facebook?

Yep Massively missing that. A lot of the problem may lie in that I don't fully understand what's going on. The list you get after you do a long press is often full of stuff that isn't actually running any more... Also, say I'm browsing the internet, and want to stop... I can;t figure out how to shut the browser down..

Yep, I don't get it. Seems to be some mystery amount or presses that selects the cursor, or selects a word, or selects everything. And obviously being able to use ctrl +c,v,x etc is also sorely missed. Oh and ctrl+n for new browser windows, contacts etc...

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Yep, exactly this. The Note, hardwarewise is amazing, like I say, once you're going whatever it is you want to do, be that emulating an N64 game, or watching a video, or whatever, it's great, but I have to say Android so far, to me mostly seems like a massive step backwards.

I think part of the problem is that people don't seem to question why their mobile devices should work differently from a laptop or desktop machine, even though, more and more, the devices are perfectly capable of running in the same way...