[Galaxy Note II General] _delice_doluca_:
The screen;

Note 2 is bigger, colors are more saturated, reflection is very less due to the Super AMOLED HD screens fewer layers. Some people would say the ppi is lower on the Note 2 but first you hold it further to your eyes than Nexus or any other mobile device. It is between tablet and phone, remember? Besides, it is not the black gaps which are getting bigger between the pixels, it is the pixels. So if anyone claims that he is seing the corners of the pixels should slowly get his eyes away from the screen before he goes blind..

And, about having more saturated colors. I think it is equal to having "more" CPU power or RAM. Why? Because even if you use the screen on the "neutral" or "video" mode still you have more colors to push when you want. Just like having more CPU frequencies to scale up when necessary (or when you just want). It is better than almost every screen i have ever saw with both its quality and its size. So pushing brightness up is not enough for comparing true colors.. So until my opinion is changed by AMOLED burned screen i will think Note 2 is my best shot for the right screen :)

Sound Quality;

I do not have a Nexus 4 to compare but i guess everyone agrees that the Note 2 wins.

Battery Life;

Do i have to say anything here?

S Pen;

Not a must. Besides the best apps to make drawings are not supporting the vacuum technology. So for professional drawings any touch pen is equal on any screen. So here we can say the screen size makes the definition.

Build Quality;

Glass is not as good as plastic to throw the inner heat away i guess. But having a solid-feeling-unibody device is always welcome to be held on hand. Still, being very nice to have this type of build quality and material would not suit Note 2 very well. What kind of glass would you imagine on the Note 2's back? A real windows glass :) ? So Samsung i believe follows the right way by making their devices slimmer, lighter with cheap-feeling plastic as everyone would actually use those devices with cases. But i will not deny that Nexus has a super design and quality making me jealous.

Extras of Note 2;

FM radio and SD card slot for starters.

CPU and GPU;

I am not buying it. In the very beginning of Mali 400 train with Galaxy S2 the Adreno 220 was said to destroy it and Anandtech tests supported this. However Samsung Galaxy S2 was always better than HTC Sensation XE when comparing the gaming and video performance both with stock and Cyanogenmod ROMs. Between One S and One X, One S was better in almost every benchmark yet it still played the games slower then Tegra 3. Maybe they are just optimised for the benchmarks and it is harder to stand up when the real games come with different demands.

When S3 was released i remember many people comparing HTC One X and Galaxy Nexus to it. In some specific benchmarks they were beating Mali 400 with large margins. Especially there was this benchmark; miku miku or something. G-Nexus was beating S3 hands down with doubling the FPS. But at the end of the day it was s3 who provided the max FPS and the full effects in the real games like Nova 3 and Asphalt 7..

And one more thing; in these size of screens and resolutions GPUs have come to a certain performance. There is no more FPS to create but only new effects and new libraries to support like DirectX. So if more raw power to come it will certainly be used for higher resolutions like 1080p or someting. And there is no workload sharing for the other GPUs as far as i know. Like Nvidia Tegra 3 ULP has 12 cores, 8 pixel shader cores and 4 rendering cores. If power for renderin is not enough for a task at a moment it can not borrow power (not electricity, processing power) from the other 8 cores. Everyone has to wait. As far as i know every single core in the Mali 400 can share the workload and can get their hands dirty for any kind of work (correct me if i am wrong please). So it is less likely to have a bottleneck for a Mali GPU.

And the CPU; i have to except the CPU is newer on the Nexus 4. And smaller dice size also. When it comes to the arcitecture advantages it will come front, and when the pure frecuency is necessary Note 2 will come forward. Either way the differences are very small almost in every scenerio so no need to worry i guess. If it was 4 A15 cores then i would be afraid for my Note 2 to be faded away in the history.

As long as Samsung gives us well oprtimised ROMs to use the true potential of our CPU then we are OK.

Camera Quality;

Here is what i really do not like. Note 2 is taking pictures blurry most of the times. I do my best but still it is not easy to take good pictures. I am not expecting perfect quality but only sharp definition of objects without blur and correct colors. With Cyanogenmod camera is taking slower but pictures are visible without blur. I guess it is software issue and i hope it will be fixed.

So, is Nexus 4 a good phone with its feautures and direct updates from Google. Definetely Yes! But should someone give up from a Note 2 for a Nexus 4. Absolutely No! Only a small FM radio + Nexus 10 + Nexus 4 trio could provide better experience ( if you are willing to carry) than a Note 2 IMO.