[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] smrsxn:
I prefer note 10.1

In past a lot of user reviews on XDA have helped me, and its time for me to contribute a review that hopefully may help someone else who is still deciding between these two tablets.

Background: I own TF201 & Galaxy Note 10.1 right now. I was really unhappy with Prime so was kind of glad when my wife dropped it and broke it's screen, so had bought an Infinity for 3 weeks before returning it in favor of Note 10.1, that I have now.

My usage patterns

Web browsing (stock browser, Overskeen) - 20% of the time

Streaming video's - 10% (I watch live streaming sports feeds)

Games - 40% (asphalt7, Virtual tennis, NFS, GTA3, NOVA3, tenple run)

Movies - Let's say 5% of the times. I prefer watching movies on my large LED TV with surround sound.

Books - 0% (LCD screens hurt my eye after a day of reading)

Taking notes/typing - 0%

Music - 5% (i use it to stream pandora stations sometimes)

camera - 5% (Only use for skyping)

tapatalk - remaining % time

Here are the important criteria's (in priority order) for me

1) Stock firmware

Infinity:

Pros: Support for NTFS file formats, USB host mode support

Cons: Crap firmware. Keeps hanging. ANRs., Browsing is pain, All apps crash at some point or other. (Keep resetting tab, cleaning cache like a religion)

Note 10.1

Pros: Multitasking apps, Mini-apps (!) combined with overskeen, photoshop bundled, nice note taking, handwriting recognition, more functional Microsoft active service email client, smart remote, Allshare cast/play/multi-cast, Most stable system I have ever used. Everything works as it should. very fast, fluid, responsive.

Cons: None

2) Hardware

Infinity:

Pro: HD screen (awesome), Keyboard dock with battery and ports (If I needed a laptop, I would buy a laptop), HDMI port (awesome), 32 GB capacity

Con: No 5.0GHz Wifi, Screen creaking, Bluetooth 2.1 in same wireless chip (wifi + blutooth don't work together), Insufficient battery for HD screen (Playing temple run for 1hr in my backyard took away 43% of battery. I returned infinity the same day.), slow memory i/o, Aluminum body (less shock absorbing, rigid, hampers wireless signals. And hey I will always have a leather case, so does rear side matter?)

Galaxy Note 10.1

Pro: Better that usual 1280x800 screen, awesome battery, S-Pen, dual front facing speakers (wow!), IR transmitter, Better wifi reception than infinity, 2 Gb RAM

Con: No HD screen.

3) Serviceability

Infinity:

Crappy 3rd party ASUS service center. 2 weeks turnaround if your lucky.

Note 10.1:

A well established samsung service center with 1 week turnaround at the most.

4) Development scene

Least important area for me, given that Note 10.1 stock firmware is so good, stable and feature-rich anyways.

Otherwise, both devices are waiting for ICS to start full-fledged development scene. At the moment Note 10.1 may have an upper hand though with all samsung leak builds and other ROMs.

I am keeping note because

- Web browsing is faster with it. No lags. Page just comes on the screen in a flash. As if it was dying to come in front of me. No more peek-a-boo or wait-for-me like with Infinity and Prime.

- Games are more responsive with it. No crashes. never ever. PERIOD.

- Freaking awesome 10+ hours battery. (I and my 4 year old played NFS for 2 hrs and the battery dipped by only 10%! Other day I saw Mission Impossible 3, and it only took 12% of my battery for full movie!)

- Love to control all home devices with IR remote feature

- allshare play/cast/multi-cast is awesome

- GPS works great (get NAVFREE USA app free from ply store. it works very nice. Offline maps. Offline route calculation. seems like they made it only for samsung as it kept crashing on infinity. lol!)

- Stylus is awesome. try hovering it over a web-page when browsing. yeah.

- Last but not least, I want to lend support to samsung by buying more of their stuff (against evil crapple who is taking advantage of broken US patent system to hinder more innovative products to come to market space.)

With note 10.1, my device works how I want it to work in more than 95% of my usage scenario's and exceeds my expectations.

God bless Samsung!