[Galaxy Note 3 General] grifter9931:
Some of these "discussion points" are short sighted and down right irritating..

Build Quality: Plastic vs Metal - Metal is heavier and feels more expensive until you drop it and either dent ,chip or road rash the "metal". Or you do what at least 50% of the users do and put a case on it and then the "feel" of the phone doesn't matter.

Speakers: I actually heard someone say the N3 doesn't have any low end... From a phone?? Now I know someone will try and rise up and explain the virtues of internal phone speaker tonality. Please don't, with the plethora of docks and high end IEM's there will never be a phone that will ever equal the sound qualities of either of the previously stated examples. But those of you who wish to annoy the balls out of the rest of us while we try and eat our lunch in a public place of business, YOU are the bane of mobile society. Just like babies crying in the theater...

Software: When was the last time a phone came out and the XDA community didn't either "complain, whine, *****, moan, beg someone to come out with a different rom, or custom work around" for the phone? When is the last time anyone left the phone bone stock in terms of software?

Screen: Its crazy that users are looking at distorted images and then complaining about the quality of the image. Or looking at the screen from an inch away and "seeing"pixels.. Who uses any device with that viewing position?? Absolutely no one... If you can see pixels on photo's from Fred Miranda's or Getty website then it would be a problem.

Radio's & Wifi Antennas: We all wish they were better. Every phone that has ever been produced has had the same exact complaint. No phone is immune from this complaint, ever.

Battery Life: How many of the millions of users are Power users, Social Media Mavens, IT network Admins, Gamers?? A small percentage.

The folks who use the phone for "productivity" would welcome a bigger heavier phone if it included a much bigger battery, easily..

I understand that all mobile carriers will have issues in whatever region they have coverage maps. I have a co-worker who has 4G outside of her house but not inside. Why? Because her home was built in the 30's when they used chicken wire to help lay down the stucco she has in her home. So essentially she lives in a big faraday cage, but her phone company is at fault. Or living in Los Angeles and wondering why the speeds are so slow sometimes vs Las Vegas or Austin, its because we have 5 times the population on mobile devices of those towns with basically the same infrastructure.

For the Euro's, its like leaving London to go to Brugge because you heard the night life might be better.... Ummmm what now..

There are so many environmental factors to all of this working seamlessly its not funny. Every town hall you missed because it doesn't relate to you for whatever reason, where some will raise holy hell about the new cell tower/repeater going in next to his/her property because it may block the view of their favorite tree. No kidding it happened in Santa Monica and in Venice in 2012.

Just understand the range of the wheel house that your device resides, it will help you and help the community at large.

But if you have what the isheep are constantly accused of "Upgraditus" and must have the newest and greatest even if it doesn't suit your primary needs. We will see you here "contributing" for the next generation of the Note or HTC or Sony or Nokia etc...