love my android phone, but, the note is another matter.
my biggest complaint is the massive learning curve you need to go through to do most anything other than basic web browsing or playing games.
the s pen. omg, the tutorial does not tell you half of what you need to know to be able to make it usefull. adjusting settings, what they do, even simply opening a page, it is not intuitive. you have to search for how to make it work for you on the internet. most people will take it out of its holder once or twice and put it back and never look at it again.
photoshop program. OMG, unless you are familiar with working with it, you are never going to be able to figure out how to make it do what you want it to do without taking a few classes at your local college. it is not the simple point and click program like paint.
watch tv through HULU or something? nope. not gona happen. why? because andriod and adobe are in a pissing contest so the tablet does not come with flash player and adobe does not offer one to download. you have to do an internet search through forums like this one to figure out what you need and how to get it to make the pad do what it should do without having to add third party softwear.
wana attach a picture to your email? nope. not unless you either download a third party file manager or you PAY to use their cloud service which is the only option the email program will look for files in otherwise.
have more than one email account? gona need a seperate email program to add them, no option to switch between email accounts like you can with outlook.
this is the result of android trying to become apple where everything is propriatary and goes through a PAID service, like that pos windows 8 program forcing you to create a windows account just to use your email.
the note will do anything you want it to do and more but the learing curve to do it or to be able to do it without paying some monthly cloud fee is steep and very very time consuming.
i would buy it again because i am a bit tech savy, have the time and will to learn and will not be trapped into some monthly fee to use an electronic devise like apple forces upon you.
but
if you want something that is plug and play out of the box, do not buy an android pad of any type. the s pen is a fad that will fade much faster than it took to develop as well. we all have been typing since the introduction of texting, really really stupid for a company to work against human behavior with this stupid pen instead of complementing it. the whole point of a pad was to eliminate needing things like a full size computer, paper, and yes even a pen. a paper and pen style tablet. rofl, talk about irony.
want simple plug and play, get an ipad. needs nothing.
hate big companies forcing you to spend more money than you need to, get the note. just dont waste your time pulling the pen out if its holder. the 2 gigs of ram and split screen sets it apart from the rest. the pen is just the mole on a models cheek. it will do more, but it will take alot of time and research to make it do it.
Wow! I've had my Note 10?l for about 6 months now & can't relate to almost anything you've experienced. I use my Note everyday . I'm not a graphic artist but I bought the Note purely for the stylus . As someone who likes to write , create & in a job where I take a lot of notes,I find the stylus invaluable! My other motive for the stylus was that I designed an game App (I like technology but im not a developer or tech head), that is a modern day adaptation of a paper & pencil game I played as a kid. The Notes stylus therefore lent itself to my App & I really wanted to know how well it worked , & i can tell you, It works "brilliantly"!
Outside of my App need, I thought I'd mainly use my Note for web surfing while sat on the lounge & occasionally for a bit of work. Turns out I use it every day for work, petty much all day. Most of that use is with the stylus. In writing this post with the stylus now : -)
I have completely done away with the need for pen & paper. All that happens on my Note now. No more scraps paper, no note pads etc. All filed for quick & easy access anytime I need to reference or modify them.
I'll agree that it does take some time & patience to work out some things. I'm an Apple user with this my 1st Android device, so I just put my experience down to not being, used to Android UI.That said It hasn't taken me too long to work out most everything. Especially as far as the stylus is concerned. I love being able to mark up PDF's, photos etc. I will often take a photo of something, use my stylus & Samsung's PS lite App to add some notes etc & email or post on a forum to offer or request help with something.
I manage 3 email accounts on my Note without problems. Attaching files & photos is a seemless exercise without the need for 3rd party Apps or cloud storage.
I totally agree on the Flash issue. That's very annoying! Even the Flash player I downloaded from Adobe website is often clunky & unreliable. Probably my greatest dissapointment with an otherwise brilliant device.
As a creative person, I love the feel of a pen / pencil in my hand. The Note allows me to have that "old school" creative experience in the modern age whilst embracing all of the nice enhancements that technology brings to age old pursuits.
It's not perfect, but for me & my needs, it's close enough to not matter.
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