[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kangal:
My dream phone evolved with technology:

1) First it was owning the Slide out phone from The Matrix (except with Titanium)

They did it with the Nokia 8800

2)Then it was a Nokia phone with colour screen and a Camera

The did it with the Nokia 6610

3)Then it was about a Nokia phone with 1+ Megapixel camera and larger colour screen. And possibly a different layout like:

6800, NGage, N90.

4)Then I owned the HTC XDA II. I realized the potential of a larger screen, which meant more than 2inches... 3.5inches was HUMOUNGOUS. And realized with better processor and WM 2003 software, there were more possibilities which meant Music + Videos + Camera + Primitice-Internet for Google/Emails and best of all GBA Emulator!

5)By this point the PSP debuted and I couldn't afford it and lusted over it. Yet I had the iPaq h2210. My dream phone would be a h2210/Xda II with Gaming controls!!!

Then pda's evolved. I wanted the iPaq rw6815 with Gaming controls. Or a QWERTY keyboard. I was becoming proficient with xda-developers.com and Windows Mobile 5.

The N95 got released and it was meant to be revolutionary. To me it was a big downgrade from the rw6815 (which I couldn't afford).

6)Then the mother of all modern smartphones arrived.

It was the first from this company and it was revolutionary, it was the HTC TyTn II.

I lusted over it for so so long. This became my dream phone.

Then I had another dream phone, a T9 style pda-phone with GPS. And this became a reality with the Mitac Mio A702 !!!!!

7)Just when I saved up enough money for the A702 (which got cheaper), my other devices were taken from me. I had to start from scratch. And then a new competitor came on the scene the HTC Touch PRO.

It was the tytan, but better in every department. So it was a worthy upgrade than a a702, and it was going to get xda support.

Meanwhile, Apple released the iPhone. I didn't know about it back then. And it was such a downgrade to a HTC TP. By this time, Windows Mobile 6+ was showing its age.

Where was my dream phone, a HTC Touch PRO with a Gamepad !!

8)By the time the iPhone came to Australia, it was the 3G model. I picked it up and was wowed, because they solved many problems from the first version and the novelty of a capacitive screen and large fonts were great.

And I also got to see the HTC Dream, aka Google G1 phone. It was a piece of sht.

The Touch PRO was better, while the TP2 came out and it was a downgrade in my eyes.

At this point I got separated, my choices were:

-iPhone 3G

-HTC Touch PRO (running xdandroid)

-HTC HD2 (swan song)

-Motorola DEXT (slightly better G1 device) -> great keyboard, emulators ahoy

9)This is where smartphones leaped ahead. A new generation. These were the competition in my mind:

-iPhone 3GS (if you sold your kidney

-HTC HD2 (if you sold the other kidney)

-HTC Touch PRO, bargain (running xdandroid 2.1)

-DEXT, bargain (upgrade to CM5!)

-Motorola Milestone (GameGripper!!!)

-Nexus One (Quake 3 decimator!!!)

-A new flagship Nokia phone?

Found out the locked bootloader in the Milestone the hardway. Couldn't get the Nexus One (shoulda). Grabbed the N900... best decision!

10)By now my dream device was this:

- Maemo software

- Android games

- N97 form-factor

- Gamepad

- Bleeding edge specs (wvga, omap 3430, etc etc)

11)Nokia shot my hopes down. Samsung came out guns blazin. The undisputed best phone was the EPIC 4G. It was cdma. I got the regular i9000 through contract, it was okay, but my N900 was superior software!

12)I had many concepts and hopes of MeeGo devices.

13)More daydreaming about my Tilt-gamepad smartphone with smarter software and ARM technology.

14)Gave up on MeeGo, and N900 began collecting dust. The Desire Z was a horrible choice, not a EPIC 4G contender at all. The Motorola Atrix just debuted, and I would've bought it had it not had the locked bootloader.

I bought an iPhone 4. I saw the direction Apple was going in. After a month I sold it, kept the money. I used the money to buy iPad2 which was shipped to my lil' bro.

I persevered enough that the NOTE came out. I was one of the first buyers.

Away the SGS and the Desire Z went.

The Galaxy Nexus came out, fortunately it was, is an inferior device. I will be holding on to it for a while.

Now, my "dream phone" would be a controller like the Datel TurboFire2 which has a dock. And you dock your phone onto it. Take the controller if you like, or leave it home.

The phone itself is a NOTE-2:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=26920096&postcount=74

(if I could add to it, no MHL, separate microUSB-OTG and microHDMI ports)