[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] littlewierdo:
Every phone, Nexus included has its problems.

Call me strange, but the stylus makes the Note my phone of choice. I also have grown to like 'most' of touchwiz over the stock android experience.

I have a Nexus 7 and a Nexus phone from Verizon and thanks to Verizon's BS, the Nexus phone has not recd an update in ages, it still isnt even running 422.

If I could figure out how to just install the plain Samsung version of JB on my Note without jumping through a bunch of hoops, Id be pretty happy but as it is, there are not clear instructions on installing the rom from the Korean based version of our Note and getting everything to function correctly as it should with AT&T. This being the only way of getting the stock Samsung stuff without the AT&T stuff. And yes, I know I can 'disable' or uninstall the AT&T apps but there is alot of stuff in the applications list that Im not sure is part of the stock Samsung experience, would just be easier to have the stock Korean rom, install it and know there is nothing to disable.

The Note 1 has a few problems that may eventually force me to upgrade, one being that it is extremely limited on ram. This is causing poor performance when I open any larger apps, Sky Safari (the $40 version) while playing an audio book via the Audible app, for example.

The second issue with the hardware is the limited storage for applications on JB (or the appearance of, see the next paragraph). While the list is growing for apps that can be moved to the SDCard, there are enough legacy Android apps that have not had this capability and likely never will get this functionality.

And on this second issue I mentioned above, I feel like there was a change in how application storage is handled with Jellybean (I havent taken the time to confirm this yet), in that, on GB and ICS, we had 2 GB of app storage. But in JB, alot of apps are automatically being moved to my sdcard. Im not sure why this is the case, I havent had the time to research and figure out what exactly is going on, I just go into settings->Applications->tap the app->tap the 'move to internal storage' button. I dont know if there was a change in storage capacity, some setting is defaulting to moving apps, whatever it is, its super frustrating.

So, for now, I just sit waiting patiently for the Note 3, and I hope that it gets all the functionality of the S4 plus the usual Note goodness that comes with having a stylus.

Im in no major hurry, especially since Im not really looking forward to moving everything off my Note 1, or spending $100 for another extended battery. Ive gotten so lazy that I havent ever rooted my Note 1, thus, never installed a custom recovery or rom'd it. Its been stock for 2 years and as long as the bloat has been disabled, its done everything I need it to. With a Mugen extended battery, my phone easily lasts 2-3 days on 1 charge which is also nice.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. 4.2.2 would be nice but at this point, the Note 1 is due for a hardware upgrade.

I think the Note 3 will be a phone I have around for a long time, I cant see ever needing more than the 2-4 gb of ram it will have and everything else will be significantly better than the Note 1 (and Im fine with everything on the Note 1 except the amount of ram).