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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CGI_Ram:
The S3 is an amazing phone with impressive specs. It's selling like hotcakes for good reason.

But; I'm a Note user for life. As others have said... it's more than a phone; it's a tablet, ereader, and my link to the connected world.

I'll stick with this format (Note 2) as it fits my needs. I love it!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thehackersz:
i love my SGN but i adore SGS3... for most peoples think that SGS3 is ugly but for me she's BEAUTIFUL.

To cut story short, yesterday when i talk to my wife about getting an SGS3 and she said "did you realize that SGS3 is GURLY phone?" and suddenly i'm stunned with her words.

So... i think she might be right. And now i'm waiting for SGN2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] inflamess:
once you go big.. you can't go back.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rockky:
Finally got my hands On SIII today...and even as a day1 Note owner I gotta say I was thrilled with its performance.........cause now I know how awesome its gonna be when I open that box, take out the Note2 and find that the features on the SGSIII will be appreciated twofold on that 5'6" screen!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] thehackersz:
take a look at this Samsung Galaxy Note 2 rumors
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Zamboney:
I guess it's all about if you're used to holding big things in your hands... the s3 for sure is a cute phone and will be appreciated by women a lot more than the Note, which is more of a man's phone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bigmouth66:
85 euro in 6 months here... that's not rocketspeed but snailspeed ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Johev:
Well I just got my Note last week, and I still have the possibility to return it and just order a GS3, so I was very interested in the OP perceptions.

I can not say that I am disappointed with my Note, as I was coming from the HD2 and the difference in speed and usability is huge. Nevertheless I have a question about how you guys use the S Pen.

So far I tried to note things on the phone, but I find that doing it with the on screen keyboard is easier for me than using the pen. I am still on stock Gingerbread, even though my Note is asking me to upgrade to ICS (as I have the German version of it).

Is there any program you use, or any tweak that makes the S Pen more usable?

Thanks in advance for all the help.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] brooon:
I´m just using the Pen for notes, drawings & while surfing the web etc...not really for (hand)writing. But: I found it incredible useful for writing with Swype! Try it out (of you didn´t already have)!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Try swift key tablet keyboard. Worked great on GB not ICS. There is a free trial on Play store. Landscape mode is awesome as you can pull the keyboard apart to have it split left and right with gap in middle. Made typing with thumbs very quick.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
Stylus sans silo

I rarely use the silo stylus because I have a pocket clip stylus with eraser end also - feels better because it is full length of an ink pen. So going to the S3 would not be an issue for me in that regard.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DPMAce:
you sir, are a gentleman and a poet!!

and the s3 if bought through us carriers will NOT have a quad core. Why the hell would anyone buy that over a note?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] cushcalc:
By my calculations, the difference in screen size is:

Note = 8145 sq. mm.

S3 = 6350 sq. mm.

So Note screen is 28% larger by area.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] silvehosszu:
quit big screen difference

I have both phones and still did not make up my mind which one to keep.

The S3 is much more responsive, much smoother then our note (I tried lots of custom roms to find the best performance and smoothness) and the S3 lacks the annoying black crush ever present on the note.

On the other hand once you get used by the notes screen there is simply no way back.

There were many web pages I could easily read on the note without zooming in but not on S3. Half of an inch may seem insignificant in theory but in practice the difference is there.

As a conclusion, the note is a true phablet while the S3, as much as I like it, is just another phone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Try chrome beta. Its much better in s3 at displaying web pages clearly.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Janis:
You're right. There is the custom stylus. I'm impressed you can keep track of both. I just can't imagine the logic of putting out a phone with an OEM stylus and not providing a way to keep it with the phone, without a dangly string tether. (That coming from a blonde mom). Of course, everything I own is modular and sticks, clips, or otherwise adheres to everything else I own in one way or another. I can make the entire contents of my purse into a single chain... not that I ever have, but I could. I just can't afford to be keeping track of things when I have other people to keep track of.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
I have been playing around with voice control today. It can launch apps, turn off or on settings, do Facebook or twitter updates, search the web, set alarms, set timer, add a task or event, create memo, record your voice and more. But the most amazing part is what it can do with the camera and other apps. You can launch the camera, and then without pressing any buttons, say smile, capture or cheese and the camera takes a photo without pressing the screen shutter button. Music player, you can adjust the volume, play next track etc, again without pressing a button. If you don't like this option, you can switch this off. Buti love it especially the camera. Now I can use a tripod and use my voice to take the photo .

The full list of apps that can have the option of voice control without touching a button are -

Incoming calls - reject or answer. If you select answer the speaker automatically turns on

Alarm - stop or snooze (using the activate voice control with the home button, you can obviously set an alarm)

Camera - take photos using capture, shoot, smile and cheese

Music - control the music player , next , previous, play, pause, volume up, volume down

FM Radio - same as music player.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hagba:
Impressive, so when will we have it on our Note? or should wait for the Note II.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Aria_Cop:
i agree with others, s3 is amazing PHONE and Note is PHABLET.

i use my nokia 5800 for phone purpose and galaxy Note for business doings.

i don't know that my GN phone application is working or not i never use it as a phone :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Johev:
What a waste to use Note just as a tablet. Its an amazing phone and I can't understand how a Nokia 5800 can compete with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Aria_Cop:
5800 never can compete with this monster :) i owned it for last 3 years, it's like an old friend to me but after purchasing my note i use it all the time, i think its time to use my note as phone instead of carrying 2 handset :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] foxmeister:
When I bought my Note in October last year, I did so primarily to use it as a "travel tablet" for use during my frequent business trips. I thought it would be far too unwieldy to use as a phone, and that I'd keep my primary SIM card in my HTC Sensation.

In the space of just a few days, after I'd got hold of the Samsung flip cover, I realised that I was needlessly carrying around two devices and so ditched the Sensation, and moved to using my Note as my primary phone too.

I've never looked back.

Whilst I'm tempted to buy an S3 because it's "new and shiny", I only need to pick up my Note to realise just what a monumental waste of money that would be...... YMMV of course!

Regards,

Dave
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aami.aami:
yeah thats right ! price of note is really dropping like rocket!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] matrix.bharath:
there is no lag on the note while doing this!! what Version are you using ?:p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lakshay Sethi:
Hey guys i read the thread from the start and i wanted to know if purchasing the galaxy note now will be worthwhile? Or i should wait for the price of s3 to come down to 35k and then buy it,im currently getting a new galaxy note for 30k here in india.

do help guys.

cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dogan2010:
i sold my note too and buyed the s3 too

whats better then note?

- Battery Life

- Extremly Smooth

- Screen

- Touchwizz

- Speed

Just Read the Bold letter from up to down :D

ps: also 1 thing that im happy about is:

i really was annoyed by cleaning the screen of the note because of my fingerprints..on the S3 i dont see any fingerprints :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Quick update. Using the S3 to take a lot of pictures using voice. Camera photos are really amazing. Discovered isyncr and the isyncr wifi apps. Works brilliantly with iTunes. Find typing landscape on S3 easier but Note in portrait was the best way to use the keyboard. Landscape was too wide.

The size of the keyboard keys on the Note are incredible big, so some might find this really helpful. Especially if your eyesight is poor or you have fat fingers.

My overall experience is that the S3 is the best phone I have every owned. If they bring it's slickness to the Note 2 that will be an incredible phablet.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] calvincarlos:
I'm considering to sell my note and buy s3 after reading this thread...

Instead of Quad Core, what's the advantage of s3 over note?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gitin:
it all depends on ur liking

i have tried s3 2 times even today for around 20 minutes but sorry didnt like it

there is nothing more than a quad core processor

it takes photos really fast but u knw wot if your hand is not still and you take photos they get blurred

so even though it takes photo real fast but whats the fun if its not clear

my friend asked me to sell my note to him and get s3 but when i went to store i asked him to buy a new NOTE as i refuse to buy s3

its too tiny and long not wide like NOTE

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i bought a matte screen guard for NOTE today, its not 100 percent transparent as other screen guards are but its anti-fingerprint and anti-scratch

i have tried scratching my nail and even S-Pen but i am shocked to c it is really anti-scratch

but having said that the screen quard is not full transparent

u can search on net about it or may be ebay
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Blurred photos. What you doing shaking the phone :-)

If you need turn on anti shake . I haven't had any blurred shots even taking some of my cats and dogs.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] qazibasit:
my opinion

Well i dobt think its worthy to buy an s3 if you already have a note. But yes for the s2 users who missed the opprtunity of using a big screen when note came out should really try it. For them the upgrade is really something justified. But for people like me who have already invested a great deal of money in buying a note and then getting used to of it shoukd bettr stick to it and wait for the note 2. For those who have a money shower can always get what ever they want ;).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] aami.aami:
the anti shake option on galaxies is ****! its nothing but ****! really! the only thing it does is it reduces the lense aperture and that tends to even more chances of getting blurry images! i hate this feature!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Well the photos are much better than the Note. Having had a iphone 4s with it's decent camera I missed the decent photos. The S3 brings back quality photos. Like this one I took of my view from my home
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lakshay Sethi:
Do you guys think that the galaxy note with the hardware and the software bugs its having,it can last another two years from now on.? Is the dev support good enough.?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
It's not that bad a device. So yes it can last much longer as the hardware is ok.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lakshay Sethi:
What about the dev support.? U think its equal to that of say GS2.?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] SayWhat10:
so you REALLY have us to believe that you went 19hours while only using 20% of the battery? seriously?

how much screen on time did u get in that 19 hours?

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oh my
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
I haven't needed the dev support as tbh I was content with it running GB. ICS not as content due to battery pain. Also, not had device long enough to be in a position to want to tweak etc

The new android phones really are better made and the need for hi tech rooting etc I believe is lowering. Sometimes, you just want the phone to work out of the box! That's what Apple tries to achieve and hence why so many purchase.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
Yep that was the first day. Don't forget I didn't have many apps loaded at all, and at night from 11pm to 6pm it went into flight mode.

Now that I have 100 apps loaded (15 of which are games) I have considerably more background running apps etc. I still can go from 6am to 11pm and have 20% left. And I have been on holiday, so using a lot every day. The key is screen brightness and enabling power save. I use Auto Brightness setting. Apps that have not used a lot of battery have been videos. A feature film knocked 20% off. Listening to music for 4 hours took 5%. I thought these would be higher.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lakshay Sethi:
Hmm well said,but i still feel the lack of support by samsung is also an issue,they would now concentrate on the SGS3 leaving behind the galaxy note. And as mentioned the ICS update is also not very good. :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gavinfabl:
I agree Samsung won't have the incentive as the S3 will absorb a lot of their time but the Note is a hot seller. Maybe they want all Note owners to buy a Note 2.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gee2012:
I wouldn`t want to trade my Note for the Galaxy S3 :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Vb.net.dev:
nice review , really nice .

I bought my note just 2 weeks ago , I'll convert to SIII in about a year !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Lakshay Sethi:
Yeah they sure do. Well thank you for your help. I hope i make the right choice,since i don't want to be with a device which becomes obsolete too early.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gee2012:
wrong thread
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] voyager_s:
Well a friend of mine at work just got the s3 a few days ago and I've had a chance to play around with it.

Its very fast as expected and the specs are as good as it gets BUT...yes there's a but.

I found the screen a bit too small...lol. the note has definitely done me in I think. :eek: I find any smaller screen a bit too small for me now.

I think I will stick with the beast that is the gt-n700 for a good while now. Not tempted by the s3 as much anymore.

Don't get me wrong tho...its the best smartphone out there in terms of raw power and performance I think. The s3 that is.

But the note is more than enough of a powerhouse in its own rights for me. And the screen is unique and the best size for me I think also.

For now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Vb.net.dev:
every screen is a bit small compared to Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] leafsacc:
This is great news! Can't wait to see these new features incorporated into the Note. I may not skip a generation but sell my Note for the Note 2 if the S3 is this exciting.

But I really want 2GB of RAM in the Note 2, otherwise, no go...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Robsa:
Interesting thread.

I am about to make the jump from my iPhone 4 to either a Note or an S3. I LOVE my iPhone (sorry!) but the screen is too small now.

I had been looking at the S3 in the shop and had all but decided to get one when I played with a mates Note. Wow! That screen! I fell in love with the note. I have only a small bit of experience with the S3 and Note but the speed playing with them seemed small to me. As far as I know his note is standard running GB.

I love the s-pen too. As for the S3 taking good photos... let's be serious here. the iPhone, the Note and the S3 will take photos of things which you would use to show people something you perhaps saw, but that's it. The quality beyond that is incomparable to a DSLR and I doubt it will ever be so. So I don't care about that really. I have thought long and hard, read the review and pondered. Do I care about the faster processor and a few new apps and stuff on the S3 over the Note? After using the Note, for me - no.

I am going to get the Note! That screen and the pen for me just take it to another level. I'm sure the S3 will be faster, smoother, have a few more bells and whistles but it fundamentally lacks the things to me which make the Note so great:

- a massive screen: I read a hell of a lot of books in bed using my iPhone believe it or not, and the Note should be fantastic here. Of course the S3 would have been everything I wanted had I not seen the Note!

- the S-pen: Being a writer I am forever jotting notes on my iPhone and doodling concepts, layouts and (crappy I'm sure) impressions of things that come to me which I may include in my books. To be honest, it was a bit of a pain on the iPhone and I'm hoping the note will be perfect.

All round I am still worried about moving away from iOS but I hope it will be painless. I feel a bit sorry for the OP here as it does seem people are being a bit hard on him - he is rightly proud of his lovely new phone and sure he thinks it's better. I think he is probably right about much of what he says, even if perhaps he did phrase it in a way that rubbed a few people up the wrong way (nobody likes hearing someone tell them that their new phone "quite simply rips your old phones photos to shreds").

Give him a break! OP thanks for your insights, they did get me to review my thinking about the Note and the S3...

... but I'm sticking with the Note thanks! 2 weeks and I can upgrade!

Of course, when the Note 2 comes out I will probably want that though!

kind regards to you all

Robsa

(PS my first post on here guys! Hello! :) )
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] JulyDerek:
Galaxy Note screen > Galaxy S3 screen. Enuff said.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gitin:
guys we went to store yesterday to buy s3 for my cousin

after playing with the shopkeaper's s3 for like 20 minutes checking all features and stuff....

i mean our first impression was oh its not beautiful like s2 and NOTE

then we checked camera with my NOTE's Camera yeah it is better

but then we clicked few pics with moving s3 little bit but to our surprise photos got blurred //// whats the fun if it takes photos so fast but they get blurred if your hands are not rock steady...........just the speed of taking photos and no other improvement

when i saw their TV AD where people jump and they take burst shot on their S3 and its like HD quality that is fake

other than that speed is good smoother than NOTE i mean STOCK NOTE not mine as mine is butterly smooth without any micro lag OC to 1600mhz with TEGRAK KERNEL plus GPU LOCKED

plus s3 screen is somewhat different i mean like s2 and NOTE the screens have matching amount of width and height but s3 is more in length or height but less in width.....i wonder normal movies gonna have too much clipping while playing

sorry dont knw if this makes any sense but we end up buying BLACK NOTE as i ve WHITE and i forced my cousin to buy BLACK so its different thou he likes WHITE more.....hihi
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] howardkaii:
I live in Thailand ,and the price is still the same as it was last October (except in Bangkok)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] darthmaul40:
I can relate to what you are saying I had the GS2 and decided to wait to see the GS3 I think it is a real powerhouse of a phone and I would definitely upgrade to buy it. But, But, But I was already quite familiar with the Note and even the Samsung guys I met were saying that there was much sense in considering the note over the GS3.

In the end I went for the Note instead of the GS3 for some reason the difference between 4.8 inches and 5.3 seems so significant to me. The other thing is the S-pen it is such a great concept and when you get used to it it gets better. I don't know whether it has the capacity to learn an individuals hand writing but the more I use it the more accurate and easy the handwriting to text is. I have no regrets and really love the Note I can now only look forward to NOTE 2 when it comes.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Princeomi:
Unless Samsung comes with A15 quad core, Mali 604 and with 2GB RAM I will stick with my note till then.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] hagba:
Could you point to the links and how to do this modds,and are you on GB or ICS? I am still on GB.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gitin:
ohk plz follow this

download Alliance Rom 3.4.1 Extreme Edition and there is a OTA app which comes with it if not you can download from market .... this has got many options like lockscreens, themes animations etc...

i am on goldielicious-red theme but everytime you try different theme make sure to download and istall text_cleaner4theming its under Updates under OTA app

its coz it clears last theme as without it you will face many errors and FCS

m on Abyss Kerenel 4.2 i find it better as you can overclock to 1700mhz plus we have got more Governers to choose on TEGRAK OC APP

plus we have got BLN SUPPORT tooooo

so now download paid Tegrak Overclock from market but you can also download free version to check how it works before buying

using Tegrak OC overclock to max 1700 (if u want) m on abyss governer but u can try diff 1 if u like

plus on gpu optimisation under TEGRAK OC

click lock to 267MHZ

and u can increase the max GPU LEVEL to 400 if u like but that feature is only on PAID Version

thats it if u need more assistance ask me :)

oh nd i forgot to tell u d reason y m still here on GB coz i play real racing 2 and asphalt plus i didnt find any thing better on ICS and its safe to stay on GB until we get SAFE KERNEL from samsung .... have a look in General and QA thread every single day some 1 is posting a new thread saying he bricked his NOTE

i have tried all ICS roms and i know how to flash them properly but still i dont want to take risk as there is no need GB is better than these early ICS releases
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Tonio78370:
And buy a portable power generator to have the beast running for an hour or so...?:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] voyager_s:
Lol...that's funny for some reason.

On the real though...I don't understand what real practical purpose there would be to overclocking the notes CPU. Its already a monster at 1.4 ghz and dual core. It makes little sense. Performance is already excellent.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] bhasg1007:
I had a Galaxy S and thought it was time to upgrade, so went to a shop thinkin of buying the S2 as i have seen it, the shop dealer had a S2 so played around with it and found it very good and was in the process of finalizing it when the dealer asked me to take a look at Note, Initially i didnt like it as it was WAY TOO BIG but he some how coaxed me into buying it (glad he did that) and at i just watched a HD trailer on the Note screen and i was really dumb struck, even very small details on the video were visible wow you have to experience it.

Next day the whole of my office collegues flocked to take a glimpse of my Note. Its a awesome feeling