Now "Six Days" of ownership. Very impressive. Ongoing comments.

[agreco60]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

It is crazy...How do you make the home screens go to landscape when rotated. I have auto rotate enabled and when I am in an app like the browser it rotates but not the home screens. I come from the Droid X and this is a learning curve.

 

[KSChris]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Never been so satisfied with a phone, or any device really. This thing blew past my expectations! I have literally not put it down at all since come home from work and it's still at 40% somehow despite only charging it for about 15 minutes to test the charger when I came home, and it only had about 54-ish% out of the box when I picked it up around noon!!

 

[spinalpap]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Been playing with mine most of the night since coming home from work. Almost over boiled the pasta for dinner, as a result of focusing on the phone too much. I've become very comfortable with the size quickly, and it's funny how small my old Droid Inc seems next to the Note 2. I've done only some basic setup for adding apps, and things I'll need at work tomorrow. Still have much to learn about all the features, but I'm very pleased with it so far.

Only hiccup I've had was a brief lag swiping between pictures in camera mode. Don't know why it did that, but it did sort of freeze briefly between a couple of pictures. Otherwise, this thing is such a huge upgrade for me.

 

[vNaK]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

This phone is too awesome! I was kind of worried about not having a physical keyboard, but the on screen keyboard both landscape and portrait works so well. I can type as fast as a physical keyboard. Plus the spen is just too sweet.

My only one problem is my sweaty hands + the note 2's smooth finish = bad lol. The back of the phone is so slippery. Hopefully applying a full body screen protector will help.

 

[EatMyTracers]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

I love this phone, everything about it is great.

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Android Central Forums

 

[scribe4food]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Ok, I have a question. On the GS III you were able to have the full month view Samsung calendar as a widget, now I only see the option to have the task view as a widget. Am I missing something?

 

[KSChris]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

This phone is too awesome! I was kind of worried about not having a physical keyboard, but the on screen keyboard both landscape and portrait works so well. I can type as fast as a physical keyboard. Plus the spen is just too sweet.

My only one problem is my sweaty hands + the note 2's smooth finish = bad lol. The back of the phone is so slippery. Hopefully applying a full body screen protector will help.

Get a case. Most have a soft touch finish which should help.

 

[sudbury78]

Ok, I have a question. On the GS III you were able to have the full month view Samsung calendar as a widget, now I only see the option to have the task view as a widget. Am I missing something?

My biggest gripe haha. Blows me away how its not available when it is on the other carriers and of course the Verizon s3. So lame

 

[kjung7]

Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Yeah I don't understand why Verizon deleted some widgets so annoying

 

[beefchopper]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

I picked one up at a Verizon store yesterday and spent most of the day playing with it. This thing is SICK. I simply cannot believe how fast it is compared to my DroidX. I'm not even talking about 3G vs 4G. When both are on wifi the Note loads pages and/or executes apps what seems like 10 times faster or even more. The screen is amazing and I'm even fine with touchwiz after customizing it to my tastes. Verizon did their very best to try to make it unattractive and remove features provided by other carriers but even they couldn't kill my enthusiasm for this gem. It may take me forever to learn all of the features but I am literally shocked at how big of a step forward this is. All I can say is a huge BRAVO Samsung.

 

[superlawyer15]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

come on guys the answer is so obvious
verizon obv. had to delete some widgets to make room for all their bloat

= )

 

[HighOnHops]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

I agree with everyone on here. This phone is amazing. Haven't been this impressed with a phone in a very long time and I go through phones at a high rate.

 

[asabino]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

The phone is sick! ...wasn't planning on getting one. ...But was in best buy and went from the s3 to the note 2

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2

 

[SHIVA77]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

I basically played with the new Note 2 all day and well into the night to try to learn all the cool new features. This thing is loaded with new options, some due to Spen.

Check out this 41min video (make the time, it's worth it) and have the guy go through almost every option on the phone. I found it very useful as I haven't read the users manual yet...

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Review inc Camera, S-pen, Settings & Jelly Bean Androidizen - YouTube



And this one covers all the special, advanced features, specially Spen tricks.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Key Features and Benefits - YouTube

 

[fillossofer]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Only hiccup I've had was a brief lag swiping between pictures in camera mode. Don't know why it did that, but it did sort of freeze briefly between a couple of pictures.

You might need a new, faster micro SD card (assuming your photos are being stored on SD).

 

[travisn000]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Any comment on reception compaired to S3, GN, & others... IIRC this has LTE from Exynos, not Snapdragon like the S3; my GNex gets really crappy reception and download speeds when tested right next to a coworkers verizon s3 (80-150 Kbps vs 6-12 Mbps!!). I'm curious how the note 2 compares in a side by side with marginal signal available.

 

[SHIVA77]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

Hi, can't give you the scientific report on reception on Gnex vs Note II. But since I am in NY, I don't have reception issues.

Today was the first full day of actually walking around with the phone. Boy is this thing large. Not in a bad way, it just dawn on me how large it really is as I would take it out of my jacket pocket to check it out. I am not sure smartphones will get any larger than this in the future unless they come out with a flip/split screen concept. Or add phones to tablets.

 

[cj100570]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

It is crazy...How do you make the home screens go to landscape when rotated. I have auto rotate enabled and when I am in an app like the browser it rotates but not the home screens. I come from the Droid X and this is a learning curve.

You can't because they don't.

 

[cj100570]

Re: Two Hours of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

come on guys the answer is so obvious
verizon obv. had to delete some widgets to make room for all their bloat

= )

actually, as you go to the phone, most of the "bloat" belongs to Samsung. 5.77GB out of 16GB.

 

[corki2]

Re: Now "Two Days" of ownership. Very impressed so far. Except!

It is crazy...How do you make the home screens go to landscape when rotated. I have auto rotate enabled and when I am in an app like the browser it rotates but not the home screens. I come from the Droid X and this is a learning curve.

You can download "Rotation Control" from the market and rotate all you want. It's a paid app with a trial version.

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2