Oh my, I'm very in favor of the Spen and I also have the Note phone and will have the Note 2 when upgrade permits. I have never before used any feature of a smart phone besides the phone and internet. That was it. To me, the rest was a waste. I wanted a large screen for web surfing. I couldn't wait to get the Note phone. I started playing with the features and the more I learned, the more it became an integrated part of my life. I was always rather haphazard, a purse full of sticky notes, writing important things on the back of printouts and losing them, remembered apts more by chance than organization. When I got the note, it was a transformation. The ease of being able to write a note, fast, and organize them has been extremely valuable. I thought I'd hit the jackpot, a large enough phone, I didn't need to feel like I was missing something without a tablet. Then the Note 10.1 came out. I read about it........ read the forum, all the features of my note phone and then some, supersized....... took about a week before I grabbed my car keys, raced to Best Buy and brought home the 10.1. I can't speak to the Asus, but I can tell you what practical applications the Spen brings to the tablet that is head and shoulders above the rest. Not only can you keep running lists, notes on projects, whatever you would normally write down and maybe lose, or put in an email to yourself is always readily accessible and changeable. And the multi-tasking is phenomenal, really! Want to save a picture to show someone, hit a button, get a screen shot, draw a box or loop around it, slide that part onto a working page where you can write notes. When you get used to it, it takes two seconds to start a file with running notes on whatever you're researching. Ever want to describe something and not be able to quite find the right words? Being able to draw, edit, highlight things and send it off showing exactly what you want is truly the picture worth a thousand words.Take pictures and write on them, write on pdf files too. I send notes back and forth from Tablet to phone via email. I don't know what kind of stylus the Asus uses, but the feel of the Spen in both the Tablet and phone are truly like a pen experience. It has a fine tip rather than a fat rounded end like I've seen on many stylus types. When you write with it, it's very much like using a smooth gel pen. It's also helpful if you have a web page with tiny links, it's so easy to use the Spen for a very defined tap. Also, I find the writing and printing to text recognition to be very good, although others have found it not as useful. I love the Spen, I even bought spares because I occasionally forget the Spen at the office. I think the Tablet for the multi-tasking and the Spen functions make it as perfect as a tablet can be for me. I'm sure you wouldn't be disappointed with the Note 10.1, especially since you plan on getting the Note 2!
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