[Galaxy Note II General] starche_old:
* S-Pen. To be honest with I’m not heavy “notes user”. And even when I’m using the pen – I have no issues with placing the pen back.

* USB 3.0. just to let you know that output current note2 charger provides is 2A. Even 0.9A won’t make huge difference; it will take literally days to charge from 0% to 100%. That’s why I’ve got the 2nd charger, but not note3 with USB 3.0 :)

It’s really funny to read about “40% faster” rates. Invest some time in reading USB 2.0 specs and comparing them with speed of existing SD cards. Hint: USB 3.0 speeds are NOT required coz SD cards won’t be able to write at those speed for couple of years from now.

* can you REALLY see the difference between 720p and 1080p screen? I can, but only when two devices are right besides each other. But even then the difference is not something mind blowing.

S4 screen is big times suxxx (hello pentile and tons of green), so let’s put S4 out of comparison. I couldn’t find quickly the type of screen on note3, note2 got RGB one though.

Oh, you mention that note3 can record 4k video. All happy owners on 4k TVs should be happy I guess :)

BTW talking about 1080p screens. If you’ll make simple math you’ll see that quantity of pixels for 1080p screen is more than TWICE more than for 720p. That being said, you need more than twice CPU/GPU raw power to deal with it, right? Not twice, but for sure CPU consumes more power. How this will impact battery life? Let me guess…

* 802.11ac. Just to let you know – ac specs are not final yet and subject to change at any time, so I’m not sure what you are talking about saying it “future proof”. LTE-A is great – if you are living in Korea. The chances LTE-A will show up here in Canada in nearest future – pretty much zero.

* Knox is corporate thing and I’m buying the phone for myself, so I don’t really care about. As majority of guys over here I would think.

* Camera. Are you serious? When people will finally stop looking at number of megapixels and finally start to learn physics they missed at school? Ask any “camera man” and he’ll tell ya: more pixels on the same footage (higher pixel density) – more color noise. Make a shot in darker environment and you’ll see what I’m talking about. That’s why HTC approach with “only” 4 megapixels sensor theoretically will deliver higher quality than 13 megapixels one.

In fact, there 2 factors drastically impacting the pics quality: physical size of the sensor and optics. That’s why Mark 5D costs way more than even 60D. Oh, did I mention lack of optical stabilization on note3? For sure Nokia/M$ will shoot a video and make fun out of that.

* lossless audio. You stepped on my toe, buddy :) which headphones you are using? hopefully that’s NOT the crap which comes in the box. The phone is NOT designed for high quality audio thus to use it for that purpose – kinda defeating the purpose. Or should I throw in the garbage my AV receiver and put note3 instead? I don’t think so.

* battery life. Note3 battery is only 7% bigger then note2. Is it a big deal? Meh…

* “N3 thinner than N2”. To be honest with you, I still cannot get the point why everyone trying to make the phones thinner. It becomes less and less convenient to hold it, grip is suxxx. To make it even thinner – that’s a drawback for me. I’ll prefer thicker case (for better grip) and to give that the space to beefy battery, let’s say 6,000 mA*h or such. That would be great move and if Samsung do that, I’ll be the very first in the line.

* capacitive button. OMG, finally some1 in Samsung started to use his/her brain :) but for me personally – I don’t care, I’m on CM/AOSP ROMs and I’m using Pie.

* IR – that’s kewl, I agree. Now I can finally call on my clicker to find it lol :)

* 32GB storage – that’s vital necessity if you’re using TW ROMs with whole bunch of bloatware from Samsung. But as I said, I’m using CM/AOSP ROMs and I don’t care. And I’ve got 64GB sd card, so I don’t care even more if I can say so :)

* 3GB RAM – I’m perfectly fine with 2GB, no issues for me whatsoever.

* BTW, what do you think about locked bootloader? For sure Chainfire will try do smth about that, but you never know… and to have the phone without root – that’s a biggie and deal breaker for me.

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