[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Gatsrom:
1. Don't have issues with the battery this has, have an external charge if I ever need which is almost never for a whole days use.

2. It's not heavy to me.

3. It's not thick to me.

4. Again no issue with power.

5. I hear that claimed I've yet to see it be actually better, though I'm not sure what s-pen performance problems people are having as I don't have them.

6. I use gesture functions and have all those s-pen functions already setup and far more customized. Their half assed attempt at it doesn't wow me.

7. Don't care about the back being glossy.

8. Don't have an issue with ram running out now.

9. Don't use the camera on a tablet I use for education purposes, have a phone with a better one still and a real camera.

I want an s-pen that can do more than simple math functions easily in snote without me having to trick it and use gimmicks to get it to output the right symbols. I want an s-pen where drawing chemical structures is also not a repeated draw and erase game to get it to recognize shapes and proportions right. Even general physics on it is a fight that loses time. I want an s-note that has far better template customization and allows exporting of the drawings or equations, like vectors so you can paste them into other apps, not make it so I have to screenshot, cut out and then import all of it individually, one at a time to lecture notes. Maybe an s-pen that form factor wise isn't garbage and requires an aftermarket pen to avoid your hand cramping up from long term use. Better integration with editing pdfs natively so I don't need 3rd party apps for reading through journal articles or text books and marking things.

You know, stuff I use for school and work - not gimmick tech flexing where it's not really needed yet as the device doesn't max out doing anything and visually pretty changes on the outside so people can see how beautiful my tablet looks. You know, functional things. Things that would convince me to spend another 500+ on a tablet a year and a half later. Of which at this point, seems like none were addressed. My tablet is not really a toy it needs to complete the complex functions anyone in a higher level/advanced science field comes across.

It's advertised as for students to have good math output and diagram drawing functions and it absolutely doesn't unless you learn a whole bunch of gimmicks and tricks to work around it's natural shortcomings and idiosyncrasies. Maybe it would be 100% functional if you keep it simple like english or history subjects, but anything engineering or chem/bio those functions don't work, you have to use your own handwriting at best. The main reason I bought it was to improve neatness of my math and diagrams with those supposed built in functions that it is advertised as having. The thing almost explodes doing simple matrix math, let alone advanced functions.

I love the device, because it is the best thing currently for attempting those things short of paper, but it is no where close to what it should be with the way they try to sell it. The hardware in it was not even close to it's main issue, nor is it a problem currently. It's not struggling to do anything because of hardware limitations and the hardware is still fine as of today. The main things they should have worked on improving they skipped over entirely to show how much spiffier the hardware specs are and dropped the ball completely. That is not worth another 500 dollars or more from me.

Maybe they'll get it right on try 3, but I'll be skipping this generation because nothing that needed to be fixed was they just made it so people can compare their hardware specs more.