The official "Biggest Surprises" thread

[anon(27512)]

Almost the exact same thing happened to me this AM, but it was just a senior co-worker and not my boss. The dude said he wanted to vent to me about how he has no time to do all his work, but he said he'll go find someone who wasn't watching videos and could relate to his problem. I said OK and went back to the phone to figure out that feature.

LOL! Sorry that happened but that was funny.

 

[DAS]

Last night I discovered you can add stickers to appointments. If you have a medical, lunch, or a host of other type of appointments you can insert a sticker to spruce up your calendar

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[Mike-Mike]

I was surprised at how much the size was a non-issue. Every review I read went on and on about how great it was, then said it was just huge. When i first opened the box, I thought it was massive, but literally the first day i just felt the size was just right....

my HTC Arrive looks like a child's toy now

 

[digital0verdose]

I love this phone. My best friend and his wife were playing with and now they are both threatening to leave iPhone for it.

My only complaints are essentially one. There is too little internal memory and you cannot download and install apps to an external sd.

 

[Phoneguy108]

I love this phone. My best friend and his wife were playing with and now they are both threatening to leave iPhone for it.

My only complaints are essentially one. There is too little internal memory and you cannot download and install apps to an external sd.

I agree

 

[zmann]

I was surprised 2 days ago when I looked at my calendar widget, saw it was a friend on fb birthday, pressed it and a option came up to send that person a personal birthday card type greeting with me writing on the card with the s pen. I think that's very cool. Friend told me out of over 100 birthday greetings mine was the coolest and most personal.

Note 2, it's true, ,size is everything!

 

[TheOtherBill]

I love this phone. My best friend and his wife were playing with and now they are both threatening to leave iPhone for it.

My only complaints are essentially one. There is too little internal memory and you cannot download and install apps to an external sd.

I agree

Over the weekend a friend of my daughter saw mine and totally flipped once she tried the Spen. It took her about five minutes to decide she had to trade in her iphone.

Lucidmike has a 64gb version but it was purchased in Korea and only available for a short time. There's a petition requesting more of the 32&64gb versions be made available here.

Not moving apps to the SD card is not a phone problem, it's an Android change that was made starting with ICS. Don't blame the phone for it.

 

[mrxblue]

On your complaint, I'm doing alright with an external 64gb micro sd card. The external card holds all my big media(mp3, movie files), while the on board memory suffices for apps since they average around 5mb. Some going up to 100mb, but that's rare. IMHO

I love this phone. My best friend and his wife were playing with and now they are both threatening to leave iPhone for it.

My only complaints are essentially one. There is too little internal memory and you cannot download and install apps to an external sd.

Sent from Samsung galaxy note 2 (Verizon), titanium color

 

[digital0verdose]

On your complaint, I'm doing alright with an external 64gb micro sd card. The external card holds all my big media(mp3, movie files), while the on board memory suffices for apps since they average around 5mb. Some going up to 100mb, but that's rare. IMHO





Sent from Samsung galaxy note 2 (Verizon), titanium color

Personally I like to download a bunch of games and apps that I think are interesting. There are a number of these games that are 2gb+. Sure you could recommend that I delete items I am not using that moment, but that is a hassle. What would be better is if there were a larger onboard memory, or at least the option to install to extSd.

 

[donec]

If you are in a video and hot the power button, the video locks. So while it is playing, now is the controls work until you hit the power button again. This had been a really helpful feature to me.

from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2, baddest phone on the planet.

I don't understand. When I am watching a youtube and hit the power button my phone screen goes black.

 

[donec]

i like being able to just say cheese to take a picture. easier to keep the phone steady, i've found it irritating to tap a button on a screen to take pics since i left phones with a dedicated physical camera button

also love being able to capture a picture from a video....nice.

How do you set that up I can't figure it out?

The things I found surprising are...
On the speaker grill there is a bump that works great for attaching a wrist strap

Could not rotate 360 degrees and that the home screen would not rotate to landscape, fixed with free app called adaptive rotation which requires few permissions

Could not hide the home screen dots, fixed with nova launcher not rooted.

Could not change the number of items next to the app drawer icon, fixed with nova launcher not rooted.

How clear Talkatone is on the Note 2

How easy it is to read on this small screen.

Surprised by how limited the apps were for the app bar.

 

[zmann]

Go into settings and go to voice commands and turn them on. You can even control phone,, alarm, and music player with voice commands.

Note 2, it's true, ,size is everything!

 

[DAS]

How do you set that up I can't figure it out?

The things I found surprising are...
On the speaker grill there is a bump that works great for attaching a wrist strap

Could not rotate 360 degrees and that the home screen would not rotate to landscape, fixed with free app called adaptive rotation which requires few permissions

Could not hide the home screen dots, fixed with nova launcher not rooted.

Could not change the number of items next to the app drawer icon, fixed with nova launcher not rooted.

How clear Talkatone is on the Note 2

How easy it is to read on this small screen.

Surprised by how limited the apps were for the app bar.

While in the camera, go to settings and scroll down.

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[cwbcpa]

My biggest surprise is how quickly I got used to the size. I had gone from the iPhone 4 to the S3 and then iPhone 5. I remember the S3 feeling big at the time. For some reason this phone just feels great. I can do most things one handed when I need to without using the one handed modes in the settings. It is just an amazing device. I'm truly impressed.

Sent from my Really Big Phone

 

[dwaynewilliams#WN]

I don't understand. When I am watching a youtube and hit the power button my phone screen goes black.

It only works in the native video app.


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[1812dave]

It fits in my pocket (with the leather (or leatherette) case ) very easily and withdraws easily, without slipping out accidentally. I had expected putting it a pocket was out of the question.

 

[jrog28]

That people buy Iphones over this phone!

 

[Bond32]

I'm pretty surprised how well it is pocket able too. I just got the hyperion extended battery and tpu case, it still fits pretty well in my pocket.

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[donec]

That people buy Iphones over this phone!

I've seen more people say they are switching to the Note 2 from iPhones than any other.

 

[canadoc]

Last night I discovered you can add stickers to appointments. If you have a medical, lunch, or a host of other type of appointments you can insert a sticker to spruce up your calendar

Sent from my GT-N8013 using Android Central Forums

I tried this but for some reason all of my categories are blank.
Any way to redownload them?