[T-Mobile Note 7  Guides, News, & Discussion] Android1126:
Again, I purchased the device as well. Most of those features you mentioned are not going to impact your life and/or productivity in any significant way is what I am saying. It IS an incremental upgrade, and though that is my opinion, it seems to be the opinion of many other reviewers online (my opinion is my own, however).

Smaller nib? OK, you got me there! That's it, I'm chucking this Note 5 out of a moving car! Useless now!! I would consider the Note 4 > Note 5 a major (non-incremental) upgrade. The curved display (in my opinion) doesn't make anything more "immersive" Samsung has been pushing those curves hard, and it's really all just aesthetics and symmetry. Will it be easier to hold and maneuver with one hand? Yes. But that doesn't make it a major upgrade (again, in my opinion), nor does it add value to viewing angles or viewing experience (it actually takes away), in case you have not read the initial reviews on the S6 Edge (Samsung made the curves less pronounced for the S7 edge/edge + and now Note 7).

As for SD, Samsung definitely got that right, But I dare ask any/all of you to post screenshots of your storage usage. I for one, have not even used 1/4 of my internal storage of the 64 (or so) GB in my Note 5. Still, I agree, that was a smart move, now I may actually store local media on my device/SD Card. As I'm sure you are aware, X number of R/W operations degradates internal "FLASH" storage (just as a piece of paper would degrade if you wrote on it with a pencil and erased and re-wrote, though not as drastically).

The SoC is improved, but you will not be able to tell the difference, trust me (I have worked in IT for close to 20 years). A few extra MHz will not do much (aside from add a few digits to benchmarking application scores). Actually, this processor has 4 cores, as opposed to the 8 that the note 5 had, so multi-threaded applications will not perform as well as they may have on the International Variant (google it).

Forgot to add, that extra 500 mAh will be sucked away by the "always-on" display, and a number of the myriad bonuses you mentioned. Still waiting on mine though, just pointing out the raw truth. Most flagship/high end phones will get you to the same place. I know PLENTY of Note owners, and barely any of them actually use it for productivity/business. I work in Engineering and do PMO, and I do all of that on my PC's. If you have/run your own business or are on the run all the time for work related issues, then I'd definitely buy into that slick little piece of marketing. I was just as productive with my Nexus 6 (prior to my Note 5). Only difference was, I was able to use the S-Pen to draw via Sketchbook, and let my daughter scribble (all of which I actually save to my internal flash memory, haha).

Again, incremental upgrade, which I bought into also. My logic/reasoning, "I work in Tech, if I'm going to drop a G, it might as well be on Tech".

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Strange, your delivery date says the 18th. Mine still says 15th, Could this be a sign? Or maybe you're behind all of us 15th'ers.