[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
This thread so reminds of when BMW, M-B, or Audi introduce a new generation of a volume selling segment (3/5, C/E, A4/A6). The new generation is always greatly advanced from the previous. But there's always a group of previous generation owners that swear sales are going to plummet because it's "lesser (in their mind)," the removal or change to a specific feature is unfathomable, and that "there's no reason to move from the previous generation." All three companies f-d up iDrive, COMAND, and MMI and survived and sales actually increased. BMW replaced hydraulic steering with electric for fuel efficiency and their loyalists swore it would be the end of BMW; it wasn't and sales actually increased.

Here are some things I'm not crazy about on the N3 compared to the N2:

Browser - I thought it would be noticeably faster all around and it's not. It's 10x faster in scrolling, panning, and zooming but doesn't load pages any faster than my N2. Samsung also dropped Chrome bookmark integration which kind of sucks. Also, Samsung introduced Window Manager to handle opening and closing multiple windows. It's beautiful but sluggish.

My Magazine - What the hell? No Facebook or Instagram integration? I wrote FlipBoard and they said "maybe later." My Magazine's really cool but without those two key social feeds it’s not very useful.

Battery Life - It's about the same as my N2, maybe a little less. But it's not a fair comparison. If the N2 had all the motion and air sensors on it the way I have them active on my N3 it wouldn't deliver the battery life it did when I was using it. I'm also using LTE in a crappy coverage area which I'm sure isn't helping (my N2 was HSPA+). The saving grace is the speed the N3 charges at is unbelievable. I can easily pick up 25% of battery life in a half hour charging.

E-Mail - I use Exchange, even for my personal e-mail. The new white interface in the e-mail client is a God send for outdoor visibility. They changed the setting configuration so that to "Empty Server Trash" you have to navigate through four pages of Settings to get to it. It's annoying.

Settings Widgets - You used to be able to use a Samsung Setting Widget to create individual icons for about a dozen most used settings (EG: Display, Wi-Fi, BT) and those icons could all be put in to a neat single folder. They're gone. Why? Who knows?

So yes, in moving from one Note generation to another Samsung changed some stuff. I'm not thrilled with it but the overall improvements, especially the display, physical design, and performance, are so head-and-shoulders above the N2 I'll gladly live with them

And a second bet for anyone here. The N2 is going to choke running the same s/w as the N3. The video of the N2 running the N3's s/w that [MENTION=465173]betoNL[/MENTION] posted had its frame rate intentionally accelerated which is odd. Samsung's never done anything benevolent in their life. If the N3 has S-800, 32GB of storage, 3GB of (faster) RAM, and much faster NAND there's a reason. So N2'rs I wish you great happiness with your choice to remain with a year-old phone but saying "it's just a good" as the N3 is pretty transparent. Saying "it's not worth the price of the upgrade" on the other hand is a totally different story and one that's purely personal. The N3 being as good as it is doesn't make the N2 a bad phone.