galaxy Mega or note 3

[DesElms]

Which one will u get

The Galaxy MEGA phones -- both the 5.8-inch and 6.3-inch diagonal measure sizes -- are Samsung experiments to figure out if larger screen size, alone, is enough to make a phone popular. That's all they are. Don't expect either of them to be around long.

That's why they're so inexpensive... so that even those not generally considered to be willing to pay for larger screens will be given the opportunity to opt for them. Samsung is trying to do long-term planning regarding screen sizes, and is using the MEGA phones as bait.

There is virtually no comparison between a MEGA -- either of them -- and either a Note II or Note III (or even an original Note). They're nothing like one another, other than large screens.

The MEGA phones, by comparison with the Note phones are grossly underpowered, and their screens aren't even SuperAMOLED... they're just LED.

And, of course, neither of the MEGA phones have a stylus.

If all you want is the large screen, and it's okay that your phone is really no better than a much smaller... oh... let's say a Galaxy Express or something, then, yes, by all means, get a MEGA. But don't even dare think of it is anything like the Notes II or III. They're not even in the same league.

SPECS:
* Samsung Galaxy Note (the original Note)
* Samsung Galaxy Note II and Note III, compared
* Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 and 6.3, compared

 

[DesElms]

Seven inches, diagonally, is the defacto demarcation point between a phone and a tablet. The ideal phone, in my opinion, would have a screen anywhere between 6 and 7 inches diagonally (closer to 7 if possible, but at some point even a big guy, like me, holding something that large up to the side of my head to use it as a phone starts to look stupid... but, that said, anything from 6.5-inches diagonally, to 7-inches diagonally, would be just about perfect!).

And it should have a stylus... either of the Note II type or the Note III type, but definitely not of the original Note type. Obviously, preferably, it would be of the Note II type.

Beyond that, though, honestly, either the Note II's or the Note III's specs are adequate... at least for now. As I've explained in other threads, the problem with the Android world is that app makers just keep assuming that everyone's using the latest, greatest phones, with huge amounts of RAM, storage and fast processors; and so apps keep getting bigger and require more resources; and so, eventually, even a phone (or tablet) with the Note III's specs aren't enough. That's too bad. Android app makers could learn a thing or two from Windows software authors who understand "backward compatibility," and so ensure that their apps will minimally run on XP, Vista, Win7 and, now, Win8. Android apps, in my opinion, should all be capable of running well and fast on any phone that's up to three -- maybe even four -- years old... but that's just my opinion.

Anyway, my point is that if the phone had a nice 6.5-inch, let's say, SuperAMOLED screen, and all the other the specs of, say, a Note III (maybe with just one GB more RAM), then I'd have to say that that's pretty much the perfect phone. Perfect.

Or so it is my opinion.

 

[Haalcyon]

Even the Note 3 as big as it is is a little small as a note taking device for all but the smallest notes (grocery lists, customer details, etc.)

from a '14 Note 10.1

 

[DesElms]

Even the Note 3 as big as it is is a little small as a note taking device for all but the smallest notes (grocery lists, customer details, etc.)

Well, of course, the Note III is really only barely bigger than the Note II; and even then, in only one dimension.

NOTE 2 | 151.1 x 80.5 x 9.4 mm (5.95 x 3.17 x 0.37 in)
NOTE 3 | 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3 mm (5.95 x 3.12 x 0.33 in)
SOURCE: GSM Arena

The Note 3 is, yes, longer/taller; but it's actually less wide (more narrow) and thinner. It's really just the screen that's a tiny bit bigger; and I don't like how they achieved that: I'm worried that the decreased belzel-to-digitizer distance in the Note 3 will make it fragile for purposes of surviving simple drops to the floor from waist or chest height... like the S3.

But now I digress. Sorry.

I agree with you, in any case, that "even the Note 3, as big as it is, is a little small as a note taking device." That's absolutely, positively true. And the truth is that even a 6-inch or even 6.5-inch screen would be only barely better... though likely better enough! Though some seven-inch tablet users complain that it's just about an inch too small for many things, the reason 7-inches is the aforementioned demarcation point is because, honestly, at 7-inches, the screen really does start to be large enough for most things; and so a screen of only a half inch smaller would still be close enough...

...especially if the device could also double as a phone. At a screen size of 6.5 to maybe 6.75 inches, a phone really and truly does become a "phablet" which really and truly can be one's both phone and tablet. And that's particularly useful for people like me who could never, in a million years, do all his computing on a tablet; and who will always need either a bona fide desktop replacement notebook -- or an actual desktop; but preferably the notebook -- as his main computer. For people like me, having a phone that's good enough to be a tablet for times when I'm out and about without my notebook is absolutely perfect!

You cannot possibly believe, then, how much I'm hoping Samsung willl just freakin' go for it, and make the Note IV, for example, a 6.5-inch device! Either that, or make the next MEGA a Note-like device in terms of features and power, add a stylus to it, and increase its screen size from 6.3 to 6.5 inches. Either that, or just come out with a phone that's expressly for people like me -- call it the "Samsung Phablet," if that's what it takes -- and just make it either 6.75 or even 7 inches (6.75 inches, trust me, would be good enough).

I don't, in fact, know why most of the phone makers haven't decided to do that yet; but I definitely want Samsung to do it. I'm a Samsung fan; and one of the reasons is that Samsung knows how to make the phone only a tiny bit larger than the actual screen... with no big wide area between the screen's edge and the edge of the case (the bezel).

The Asus Fonepad, for example, is already a 7-inch phablet (see, also here)... but just look at the width of the ugly border around the screen! Ugh! And that's of course, because Asus actually thinks of it as a tablet, first; but, oh-by-the-way, also with phone capabilities.

Someone (and I want it to be Samsung) needs to think of it the other way around: As a phone, first; but with a screen large enough (and a stylus, and enough processing power, RAM and storage) to also allow it to be a fully-fledged tablet. A Samsung Galaxy-family phone of Note 3 features and capabilties (and, of course, with the nice narrow screen-to-bezel width; and maybe a 4th GB of RAM), but with a 6.5-inch to 6.75-inch screen, would just about do it!