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[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] kessomatt:
Nice! I consider myself a minor audiophile and this is good news.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] savvacon:
Does anyone use their note to take notes at work it school? Some feedback please ....my tf101 just died so I'd love a tablet that could replace my notebook in meetings... Thanks all.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Scotlac:
Mine's not going to be here until tomorrow but someone posted earlier about taking 14 pages of notes in a meeting. They said it worked flawlessly!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] lardo5150:
Perfect.

GPS was semi important cause my wife and I are at that state with my daughter where we want to do road trips. Figured I would get a car stand where it attaches to the seat and sits up like a laptop in a police car. Was going to do this with my tf700 as well. Going to use them as a GPS.

Thanks for posting and clarifying.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] TX-Brad:
I had the Prime, exchanged at BB for the Infinity for 2 days and decided enough is enough!

Here's my post on the other thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1796743&page=75)

"Well, after only 2 days with my Infinity, experienced a GPS issue and and HDMI output issue.

GPS

When I got the Infinity the other day, no problem with the GPS locating me. Was in my house yesterday morning and the weather widget was unable to locate me. Turned off WiFi (was having Prime Deja Vu) and went outside and tried to use GPS to locate me...no dice! Did a cold boot and on restart the GPS did locate me.

HDMI

Tried to connect to my TV (have don this many times in past) to watch a movie I'd downloaded to the Infinity. The tablet didn't recognize that I'd plugged the HDMI cable into it (same calbe I've used with my Prime and with my GS2 using an adapter, so I know its not the cable). Tried the cable on my GS2 and it worked, went back to the Infinity and it did not work. Did a cold boot, plugged in the cable and all of a sudden the tablet finally saw the cable and I was able to watch the movie.

I've given up on Asus' inconsistency. I went to BB yesterday after my GPS issue and spent some time messing around with the Galaxy Note 10.1. An hour later, I'd exchanged my Infinity for the Note and couldn't be happier...so far. Hopefully the reliability of the Note will mirror that of my GS2 and my previous Samsung devices.

I'm not a gamer and use the tablet mostly for work (PowerPoint presentations, sales meetings, etc.), and for watching the occassional movie so the lack of 1080P isn't a huge deal breaker for me."

Loving hte Note 10.1 so far. Fast and "snappy" as you guys are calling it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] DiggerG:
I have a GNote which I love, but never use spen. In fact, I am using an ASOP ROM so it isn't even available. Phone flys.

The Huawei Mediapad 10FHD looks enticing to me given its keyboard option, but I don't know anything about the manufacturer. Will have to wait until it is out to read reports. Even so, I am impressed by the various comments here about the Note 10.1's hardware which the Huawei obviously doesn't have. I am going to BB this weekend to look at the Samsung.

BTW I am truly impressed with this thread. The starter of the thread wanted good criticism, no fanboys etc, and so far that is what I have found here. I started reading with a bias to ASUS (given that I have had numerous ASUS products - mbos and currently my laptop and 24" monitor both excellent) but have been swayed to the Galaxy Note by good, solid reasoning. Much appreciated to all contributers.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] lardo5150:
yes, this thread is very good. One of the reasons why I returned my 700.

I am glad I am hearing it is snappy, that is all I wanted.

Thanks for the feedback guys.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Nakel:
Thanks for all of the feedback guys! It really helped a lot. I went down to Best Buy today and spent 1.5 hours trying both the Infinity and the Note 10.1. And the result is:

Asus Infinity: EPIC FAIL.

The Note 10.1 has found a new home with me!

Before anyone gets upset at my analysis of the Infinity, here's why it's an epic fail for me. I tested both units for quite a while. I even updated the Infinity to the latest firmware. I installed Adobe Reader on both from the play store. Both were looking pretty good till I plugged in my micro SD card... The infinity took several trys before it would read the card. (PNY 2GB) tried it a number of times. It would read it maybe 1 out of 3 trys. OK, that's not good. Then I used Adobe Reader to open and peruse two PDF files. Both image heavy. One is about 500K, the other is about 50MB. The smaller one read OK. Some lag turning pages, a little more lag rendering. Maybe twice as long as my Sammy 8.9 used to take. Not great... Then I loaded the 50MB file. Wow. It took over a minute to load. Well over a minute... I didn't time it but I was waiting quite a while. Page turning was slow and choppy. As in a couple of seconds to turn the page. Rendering image heavy pages took at least ten seconds. Yes, ten seconds. That's why I said Epic Fail. My old 8.9 was far, far better with these same PDFs.

How was the Note 10.1 with the same files? For all practical purposes loading and rendering was instantaneous. I say that because while it did take a moment, by the time my eyes got to something on the page, rendering was finished. So the limiting factor as I scrolled through pages was getting my eyes down and focused. The initial render seemed to be instant, while still needing full rendering it was good enough for me to see where I needed to look. By the time I could get my eyes there and focused, final rendering was complete. This was with both the large and the small files. Page turning with both files was smooth and quick. The microSD card read first time every time. However, it is a PITA to get it in and out. It sits so deep that I had to use a key to seat and unseat it. Not a problem for those with long fingernails.

If perusing large PDF files is one of your needs, there is no contest. The Samsung Note 10.1 thrashes the Asus Infinity. BTW, it soundly beats my wife's Ipad3 as well... I also read at least one review that described the Acer Iconia 700 as having the same problems that I saw on the Infinity with large PDF files.

Another observation: I compared the Note 10.1 side by side with the Tab2 10.1. The Note's screen is absolutely brighter, clearer and more color accurate than the Tab2. By a pretty good margin. That, all by itself, would be reason to get the Note over the Tab2.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
Anything IO dependent is going to suffer based on Asus and Acer's choice of suppliers. To offer high-end features at value prices something has to give. Even in the Teg2 world where everyone used the same processor the G-Tab outperformed others in things like read/write and IO because of the components Samsung either builds or buys. Let's face it, outwardly all tablets look pretty much the same. It's the parts you can't see that make or break performance. But the average consumer doesn't know the difference or finds out long after the return period has expired.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] tmaurice:
Well, I just picked up the Note today, and it's sitting next to the Infinity. The Note is really, really fast. And although the screen and resolution on the Infinity is really beautiful, the Note isn't too shabby either, especially with the three different selections of screen modes. First thing I noticed was the Note immediately gave me almost double the internet speed than the Asus because of being able to use the less-crowded 5ghz network. So I'm getting about 45 down on the Note and only about 28 down on the Infinity. Much more testing to do. Wish the Note didn't have a plastic back.

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Also forgot how nice it was to have speakers on each side of the screen..... with fairly decent sound even before tweaking.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
Want a toy get the Infinity. Want a tool get the Note.

Pretty simple actually.

P.S., Yes, webpages load very very very fast on the Note. Even faster than on my laptop actually.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Jonphinguyen7:
You seem to be posting this on alot of threads... It must be true! :eek:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
Only the threads that ask the same question :cyclops:

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For those experiencing pixelated fonts on your Note 10.1, try the Maxthon HD browser. Fonts, colors and images look amazing in that browser. It seems like they do some AA or something but you'll notice an improvement. Colors "pop" and blacks are blacker.

WHY THE CRAPPY RES ON THE NOTE?

Well, it could be Samsung just cheaped out on us but I think more likely is that they wanted the Note to primarily be two things - 1) functional and 2) fast. I am just guessing here but I am willing to bet that a full HD screen is going to slow down the responsiveness of your s-pen input.

So we have a choice. Wicked fast pen and browsing with workable if not amazing screen or sluggish pen and browsing with amazing screen.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] :
Infinity has some well-known issues with the IO performance. I believe the NAND they used is of inferior quality.

Check this video by Anand about Asus's IO performance.

[YOUTUBE]S6Q0Qv3m36Q[/YOUTUBE]

This is hardware related issue, very difficult to fix.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] qnfauf:
Omg, I already like Galaxy Note 10.1 much much more than Transformer Infinity I returned before buying this. (I returned because of customer service.)

So many things are just better in this tablet that I would never choose Transformer Infinity over this.

Unless having 1080p screen is the most important thing for you and you have to have 1080p screen (in which case you are probably not even considering Galaxy Note 10.1) get Galaxy Note.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Ahhhhhhhh, see what you guys did, I just ordered-

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galax..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=13CHK48MTJNPCDW8JQVW

I am going to compare it to my Transformer Infinity TF700, but from everything I'm reading in here I will probably be sending the Infinity back. Thanks for the good reviews and info everybody, they really helped!

Edit-I'm actually on my third TF700, the first one had a screen problem, the cable inside was apparently loose and caused the display to go on and off all the time (while leaving the backlight on, apparently the Prime's had some issues with this too), the second one had a screen separation issue around the speaker, when you pressed on the front part above the speaker, it made a clicking sound, and you could see the screen seperated. The one I have now is primo and 100% perfect, but you would think I wouldn't have to go through three to get to that point. Oh, I have Prime, so it will be here Monday for only $3.99 shipping, did I mention I LOVE Prime and Amazon? :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] LightningGA:
My infinity is reset and all packed up. Heading to BB today to return it and ordering the 32gb Note10.1. Thanks for all the reviews and comparisons.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Wow, you too huh? :D Mine will be going back to Amazon Monday, when my new Note 10.1 will arrive.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] LightningGA:
Yeah...I'm so happy with my SGIII that I figured I'd try out the Note 10.1 while I'm still in the 30 day return window for BB.

Sent from my AT&T Samsung GSIII
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Cool, yeah, I would have liked to have tried it out first at Best Buy or someplace, but the nearest one to me is 70 miles south in Santa Rosa, the only places here that MIGHT carry it would be Walmart and Staples, and while Walmart carries it online I doubt it'll be in the store here (Ukiah, CA) for a bit, if ever. These reviews though have helped a LOT, almost as good as actually handling one first.

Edit-Oh, I didn't have to pay tax at Amazon either, so that shaved about 40 bucks off the price. However, come September CA residents will have to start paying taxes on Amazon too, so I better take advantage of it while I can :D

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I read somewhere that the Exynos 4 Quad doesn't support full HD, whether that's right or not I don't know.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] *Omnipresent*:
Not true, lol. Exynos Quad 4+ 2 gigs of ram is a beast.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Thanks, I didn't think it was, but that proves it.

Edit-This is the only Tablet out there with 2 Gigs of RAM too, awesome! I bet we start seeing more come out with 2 Gigs and more of RAM over the coming months.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] cc1995:
Does this mean that the Note 10.1 will be able to play all my scene release 1080p and 720p MKV & AVI's in the default Samsung player. I know the old Samsung Galaxy's were pretty good with codecs. I hope you can rather than having to find a media player on the play store that works properly. Also, does the default player also decode and downmix dolby digital 5.1? Also, there still isn't any player that will decode DTS yet. I remember some of the old media player's like Diceplayer used to do this but the updates supposedly nixed this due to licensing issues. I plan on loading up movies for my work trips on this.

I just returned my Asus Infinity to BB and ordered the 32GB Note 10.1 on Amazon. The Infinity sucked when browsing the internet, and great apps like the new Google+ would just stutter awful when scrolling. The screen was beautiful and I hope I'm not too disappointed in the screen on this. I just want to have a smooth experience for basic things like web browsing with the addition of the stylus and being able to use that is a plus in my book. The components and speed are the things that sold me on the Note 10.1...I can root this thing down the road and I'm sure this thing would fly on a stock Jelly Bean ROM. Although you would probably lose the stylus benefits by doing this. But the hardware and fluidity according to people giving reviews on this machine makes it a no brainer.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] lardo5150:
Hey Cali, I remember you from the 700 section. Ya, I returned mine Thursday to BB, waiting for the Note now.

I was on my 2nd. Even my 2nd one had bad light bleed that was getting worse and the BT did not work. Other than that it seemed perfect. But I need BT, so I am trying out the Note.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Magnesus:
Probably most of them but not all with hardware decoder and 99.9% with software decoder - I'm basing it on the specification and reviews I read (they had audio problem in one file that required using software decoder).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Hey, how goes it? Welcome to the "I got a TF700, but I'm returning for a Note 10.1" club! :D lol It's too bad about Asus, they have some killer stuff, but their Quality Control is hit or miss, I mean, going through 2 just to get a good one is kinda crazy, my dad even remarked "you sure have had problems with that tablet huh?" :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] lardo5150:
Yep, I agree.

As I said earlier in the forum, I am no fanboy and am not loyal to a product or manufacturer. I dont care how nice the screen is, the whole tablet should WORK, period. For 500 bucks, no one should "settle" for a 90% tablet.

I was settling, with the light bleed and the bluetooth not working. But I thought, F this, I should not have to.

If Asus, can put out the TF800 or whatever, with that great screen, better I/O, and QC like I hear Samsung has, then I would be back. But I can't just live with a 90% product. It has to be 100% for 500 bucks.

I hear Samsung is slow with updates, which is fine by me as long as out of the box IT JUST WORKS. If that is the case, then no problem by me.

I have never owned a tablet, and that 700 was my first. Someone else mentioned in this thread that the reason why Asus puts out so many updates for their tablets is cause there are so many problems. Whether that is true or not does not matter now, cause that thought is in my head. I remember reading on the 101 and 201 threads that some of these "updates" broke other things. Screw that, I dont want to deal with that.

For 500 bucks, my tablet should be perfect.....if it is not perfect it had better be 99.9999% perfect.

With that being said, and I have mentioned this before, if the Note is not fast and snappy, I will try for a 3rd infinity.

Wish BB would hurry up already.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Well said, I completely agree with all of that! I can accept a bad device now and then, it happens, but so many have had to return 1, 2, 3 or more to get a good one, Asus obviously still hasn't gotten their QC to where it should be. I am also not beholden to any one company, I go with what works, but this experience had kinda left a bad taste in my mouth for Asus products.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] BarryH_GEG:
"All" to 1080P files. Even in a Pop up play window when you have tons of stuff active and running in the background. That's driven by the power of the SoC and additional RAM. I'd say "most" to MKV files. Remember MKV's just a wrapper so you're underlying choice for encoding audio and video in a fIle impacts whether they'll play or not. I use DVDFab and most of mine converted videos play fine. I have to figure out the settings I used on the ones that don't in order to avoid them. And because of the lack of exFAT support most feature-length films are going to have to be reprocessed anyway to get them below 4GB.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=43181

Excellent review comparing the two. One thing especially caught my eye-

Winner: Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 for build materials, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for quality control and a more robust design.

Samsung QC wins, that means a TON to me.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Scotlac:
Coming from four defective ASUS tablets and a couple of RMA'S I'm gonna have to agree with you. ;)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] :
About Exynos 4412 and FHD display, Samsung says that Exynos supports upto WXGA display. I think the picture on previous screen was for FHD "video playback".

Source: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/Exynos/news_12.html
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
Wow, man, I thought I had it bad with 2 defective ones, I am sure you'll really be glad to get something good! Did you watch the video? The Asus screen actually craps out at about 15 minutes in, it gets two solid, black lines that will NOT come out, talk about embarrassing for Asus :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6m7ZLetMo&feature=player_embedded
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] flipper2006:
Just got back from BB after returning my Inifinity for the 16g Note. After opening box and playing with it for 10 minutes and looking at the features and BROWSER. Asus needs to fix thier IO issues because this behaves much better and flows. The screen different is noticiable but like one of the other posts, if you never had an Inifitity you wouldnt even notice it. Looks really good and im still amazed at how it flowed. I used teamviewer to remote connect to another PC and it worked so much better on this "underpowered / downres display" then the Inifinity. Didnt touch stylus yet. I am little worried about battery.. Prime was 10+, Inifinity was 9.25 and this is "Engadget says 8:00" but it doesnt loose battery during standby, i will gladly accept this.

In the store when i returned the ASUS they wanted to sell me the IPAD 3 because it is the "best" tablet on the market and they said why wouldnt you get this, i said 2 reasons. I despise Itunes and you tweak the tablet like android", the person was going to convince me i was wrong and show me the "apple widgets" but when he realized i know what im doing, he said "The Note is brand new" i said fine, i will take it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] HoushaSen:
The main reason i switched to note from infinity is battery life. Infinity never gave me more than the 6 hours on browsing. Note bsttery is amazing. It may even much that of ipad. Four hours screen time over 90% constant browsing and 20 hours plus on battery, i still have 55%. This can definitely give 10 hours screen on time even on constant browsing.

My guess of most reviews bsttery are based on 3g model rather than wifi or perhaps hardware video decode on this specially consume battery as that sounds like what most review do to test baterry ansd i havent really watched much video yet.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] lardo5150:
I am getting ready to watch this as soon as my daughter goes down.

Lisa's reviews and smackdowns are the best in my opinion. Main reason why I got the TF700.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] tbogunro:
I have both tablets and to be honest I think the biggest difference isn't the screen but the software. Asus definitely didn't optimize their OS for the TF700. Sometimes the speed of the infinity blows the note 10.1 away, but the key word here is SOMETIMES. Even my TF101 is far more stable than the TF700. Anyway not only is the note 10.1 incredibly fluid but it's also running android 4.0.4 and an updated kernel which showcases the CPU/GPU. The slow I/O in the TF700 is the ONLY hindrance that stops it from being a far superior product minus the QC problems lol. Right now the best tablet out there period is the Note 10.1 but I'm going to see what Asus does with the updates, because if they solve the I/O problem then we have a clear winner.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
My prediction for the next 30 days is a good deal on refurb infinity units on Amazon :)

Sent from my awesome Note 10.1
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] LightningGA:
Well, it's done, Infinity has been returned and my 32gb Note will be here by mid next week. Really wish there were more cheap cases out there for the Note, I'm going on vacation next week and want to make sure she's protected while we're traveling. Probably just get a sleeve for now till I decide on a case.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] SM05:
Sort of in the same boat - will be traveling in 4 weeks. Note is coming in on Tuesday. So, got this sleeve ordered:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320900308290&var=510063066316#ht_500wt_1167

HTH.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] pdagal:
Thanks for the compliment and err.. sorry about the TF700 ;) Just kidding.

BTW, the TF700 in our video has developed a forth line. I'm wondering if it will resemble graph paper by the time I pack it up Monday for repairs.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
I totally agree! She does a great job, the reviews are honest and clear, and most of all they are fair and balanced (not like Fox "News" hehe). It's my favorite review site.

Oh, my Note is on it's way from Amazon's Warehouse in Phoenix, AZ and will be sitting on my doorstep here in good ole Redwood Valley, CA on Monday :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] *Omnipresent*:
Thank you Lisa. Your reviews are are a breath of unbiased fresh air:good:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Magnesus:
Well, I have Transformer TF101 and its NAND is very slow (updating apps makes the whole tablet hang for a while). From tests newer Transformers (at least some - Prime comes to mind) have... even slower NAND which is ridiculous. I hope Note 10.1 will be better. I'm waiting for the release. Although I would buy it even if it was slow - because I need a proper stylus for taking notes at lectures.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mitchellvii:
Make sure you install the "lecture notes" apk. It is brilliant with the s-pen.

Sent from my awesome Note 10.1
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] scalda:
Where do you get the apk from I can't find it in the play store?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] californiarailroader:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acadoid.lecturenotes&hl=en
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] scalda:
Thanks very much this will be very useful indeed
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] lardo5150:
Even if someone is an Asus fanboy, they have to admit that was embarrassing for Asus. To have Lisa mention there are quality control issues, then the tablet funk out like that right after. She said she had it for 30 days. The first thought in my head was, what if that was mine?