Sold my Note...

[Omar Days]

...and couldn't be happier.

When I first got this phone, it was amazing. Fast, quick, huge screen. But for me, it seemed with each os update, Samsung would ruin it just a little bit. Battery life and lag crippled it in the end. Even with a brand new official samsung battery I could only get 6 hours with extremely light useage.

My main point of this thread is, if you want jump the Note ship but worried about going to a smaller device, go for it. I have the Nexus 5 and am not missing the bigger screen at all. Of course, it's down to preference, and I didn't use the s-pen much so leaving the note family wasn't hard either.

Ps. If you're in the UK and want to sell a phone, I recommend CEX. They bought mine for

 

[Rukbat]

Sorry about your dud phone. I've been running my Note 3 for 1 day, 27 minutes since taking it off the charger (I'm conditioning a new battery) and giving it some light usage (including a few performance tests) and it's down to 78%.

It's expensive, the 900A is so locked down that I'm surprised we're allowed to look at the screen and it's got more useless junk-ware than my old Commodore floppies, but until the 6" phone with a 2 week battery life, a 30GHz processor and 16GB of RAM comes out (for half the price of the Note), I'm a pretty happy camper.

Now don't ask me about Samsung. Their OTA "update" (I think the shift arrow on the keyboard was changed from gray to blue - a very important thing for us to have) failed when the battery died, and turned the phone into a paper weight. According to them, that's my fault, and I had to pay to get the phone replaced.

But that's the "corporate policy" department. The "let's make a good phone" department seems to be working pretty well. (The "do whatever the carrier wants" department could use a little help too.)

 

[phredog]

Mine got better with updates, but certainly not battery life.

When I had gingerbread the VoiceTalk problem drove me nuts. By the time ICS came out I could kill VoiceTalk, and the other rubbishware. My GN no longer froze up at random or lost connectivity with the network.

I guess they never fixed the s-pen on the rev A board. That never worked as advertised.

I have to admit that my GN has a pretty good wifi. It works at the edge of the range much better than my iPhone or my other Samsung.

 

[tdodd]

I've had mine for just over two years and I'm running it with Slim Bean 4.3.1 Release 2. All is good for me.

 

[ifb-online]

My Note 1 is running better than ever. I decided to do a factory reset a few weeks ago after I started getting some slow down in responsiveness (I think there was a rogue app in there - I had well over 100 installed!).

I'm now being a bit more selective about apps (I still have about 50 apps and widgets installed) but it is more responsive than ever. At this rate I may not bother replacing it when the 2 year contract runs out in 5 months.

I can still get easily more than a full working day's use from the battery and if you consider that this battery has been through well over 500 charge cycles that's pretty good. On my previous phone (HTC Desire) the battery gave up after about 18 months.

 

[phredog]

Hmmm

You must have bee lucky. I know people here in Singapore who retuned theirs via the electronics lemon law. It seems that most of the original rev A motherboards never worked with the stylus. The old inking three cm above the display problem.