[Galaxy Note 10.1 Accessories] jedikalimero:
Being the proud owner of an Acer Iconia Tab A500 for more then a year, but I'm pretty aware the Galaxy Note 10.1 is a far superior machine so I wanted it badly until I got it a few weeks ago. Also I wanted the S Pen since I am a computer artist accustomed to using Wacom tablets in my desktop PC but the finger painting of my Iconia was not enough for me. I needed precision and pressure sensitivity.

So I made the change to the Note with pleasure but still the lack of ports annoys me.

Iconia Tab has a pretty useless docking port just used for docking to a craddle for charging. But apart from that, It has an HDMI connector, a full size USB connector, a microUSB connector (for linking with PC) and a power supply connector (and audio jack, of course).

Galaxy Note only has the Docking connector and the audio jack. Of course, the docking connector has all the functionality of all the other Iconia Tab connectors, you can connect to the PC, you can recharge, and you can use HDMI and USB with the proper adapters.

But my point is, with Iconia Tab you have all this AT THE SAME TIME while with Galaxy Note you can only have ONE AT A TIME.

Imagine this scenario: After a day out with your tablet, the battery is almost exhausted. Then you want to watch a movie at bed in your tablet and the movie is in the Hard Drive of your PC.

Well, with Iconia Tab you can transfer the movie to a pendrive, connect it to the tablet, connect the power supply and enjoy the movie.

Try this in your Galaxy Note.

The battery is exhausted, so you need to plug the docking connector to the charger. Oh dear, how are you going to connect your pendrive now? you could connect the tablet to the computer and transfer the movie to the internal storage or the memory card but then you will have to disconnect it from the power supply. Remember I said the battery was exhausted?

Even if you manage to transfer the movie before the battery says bye-bye, how are you going to place the tablet for watching pleasure? Docking cable is in the bottom, you can't just place the tablet in your desk with the cover folded in upright position. You need a docking bay for watching the movie this way. you can't put the tablet in your lap because that would be not good for the cable to be bent between your lap and the tablet and it would be not comfortable for you neither. You could place the tablet upside down so the cable is on top instead of bottom, but the will be the earphones cable the one who will suffer and you will be equally uncomfortable. In the Iconia Tab all the connectors except for the docking port are conveniently placed at the sides of the tablet.

A Galaxy Note with the Iconia Tab connectors would be the perfect tablet. As it is, the Galaxy Note is undoubtedly a great tablet, but I find I have lost a lot of usability and easiness with the change just in trade for aesthetics.

I wonder if I could hack the tablet and drill a few holes in the sides to add a USB port and a charging connector (ideally a MicroUSB charging port so I can use a cable like the one in the S3 or any other Android phone) But it seems that while the docking port of the Note II would allow this, the docking port of the Note 10.1 wouldn't.

Anybody knows about any Galaxy Note 10.1 moding?