[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xdapao3:
In light of what you write next: LMAO! :laugh:

A 5.3" 16:10 display has a BIGGER total area (i.e. usable "real estate") than a 5.3" 16:9 display, this is elementary geometry.

AND

Imagine two identical displays, one has virtual on-screen buttons, the other has not. The one without virtual on-screen buttons has obviously a BIGGER usable area (let's leave aside if the virtual buttons disappear when watching movies, firstly because AFAIK we don't know that and secondly because even so that's just ONE use scenario).

NOW

combine the 2 disadvantages, size-wise, the Note 2's display has over the Note 1's (16:9 and virtual buttons) and even accounting for the small increase in diagonal (0.2") the end result is that the Note 2 will have a SMALLER usable area, period.

Don't be ignorant. We do not have 1GB of usable RAM today. After boot, I have around 400MB of RAM truly available. How much do you have..?

Add 1GB of RAM and after booting up the system and loading whatever processes and services your configuration is set up for you would have around

1.4GB of actually usable, free, available RAM

!! So yes, 2GB of RAM as opposed to 1GB IS a huge deal, since in real terms it translates into 1.4GB of available RAM instead of 400MB!!

Our only real choices today, as far as mobile OS go, are Android, iOS and Windows Phone (soon Windows 8). Dude, those are the mobile OS I was comparing Android to because THE OTHERS ARE D-E-A-D.

And for the record, I was a big fan of Symbian as I have later been of Windows Mobile. I am no Android (or everything else) fanboy, I buy and use what's best at the moment and at the moment the choice is between Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

iOS is a joke, Windows Phone is a bad joke and Android is the ONLY real choice for people who actually need, use and take full advantage of today's top smartphones' capabilities.

Mines are undisputable *facts*, yours would classify as rants.

I wouldn't use that P.O.S. even if I were PAID to.

Its success is due to the Apple's brand appeal to the IGNORANT masses not to its intrinsic features and capabilities. Hardware-wise and software-wise it's pathetically crippled and limited compared to its Android competitors,

benchmark my ass

!!

The truth is that the average user (of Apple, Android and everything else out there) is NOT a competent poweruser so market success is not necessarily indicative of what's best in the absolute "technical" sense.

Oh and BTW, let's remember that the iPhone's market succes is mostly so in the US, not so much in the rest of the world... (considering global world sales, including the US, Android smartphones sell over 300% more than iOS smartphones and Samsung alone has a global market share of around 30% against Apple's 17%...).

And even in the US, Android smartphones sell around 80% MORE than iOS smartphones anyway...

2 of the 3 smartphones you mention are not in the same market niche as the Note so it does not make any sense to wait for them unless you are not considering them as valid alternatives by themselves.

So beauty now is not in the eye of the beholder anymore..? ROTFLMAO!

To me and I bet to a lot more people the iPhones 4 and 4S (and the 5) are FUGLY pieces of **** (and this is still a completely SUBJECTIVE opinion).

Put one of those POS on a scale, put an SII (iPhone 4S' main competitor at launch and by market numbers) on a scale, report here.

Let's have some more laughs...

LMAO!

I dropped several times each my Galaxy S, SII and Note with ZERO consequences (and I never ever use cases),

numerous

anedoctal IRL evidence points to an extreme fragility of the iPhone 4 and 4S design.

Go check this and other similar videos all with comparable results and let's have yet more laughs... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKxgsrJFhw

I don't quite understand what you are trying to say... It's "solid" but its back and its front are fragile?!?

You're killing me with laughter, man! :laugh:

I will leave to the reader to decide who is "baseless" here... ;)