Im waiting on the Note 2, ive heard its coming to verizon. If it is not, i will go to whoever does get it. I am done with my contract and not changing phones. The Note 2 is deciding point for me.

Originally Posted by blitz6speed Im waiting on the Note 2, ive heard its coming to verizon. If it is not, i will go to whoever does get it. I am done with my contract and not changing phones. The Note 2 is deciding point for me.

I was going to wait for the Note 2 but I've been wanting to get rid of my iPhone for a while. Hate those damn things. That and since the company I work for is partnered with AT&T they were doing a discount on phone upgrade/new purchase costs.

I have an EVO 3D. Compared to it how large is the Note?

As a former 3vo owner... LARGE dOOd. Lol

In all seriousness though. This thing doesn't feel as large the longer I use it more like just right. It being so thin makes a much better fit where the 3vo just feels like a small brick in my pocket. The screen on that thing feels so tiny now. I can't image a CrApple iphone.

I'm due for an upgrade in August. I wonder when the note will come to Sprint. I have used HTC for 2 years now so it will be hard to get used to another phone. I like the lock screen on the EVO 3D for the quick access to the weather. Other than that I can due with out HTC.

I wouldn't hold your breath for it lets put it that way. With the Note 2 supposedly in the works why bother with a Note 1? It will be a wait either way... (watch, just cuz I said that they roll it out...) Sprints stupid in decision making anyway... they bring the CrApple iPhone over finally because they "think" it's what all their customers want, but they do it AFTER every where else has it. They back Clearwire/4G, but execute it so badly that they are last in that department now because of LTE other 4G setups on other networks. No thanks... bye bye Sprint.

As for HTC, I thought I liked them. I had the original EVO, EVO 3D, and Flyer (tablet). They were good, but Samsung just blows them away (at least with the Note). White text on Black background layout of the Android OS is much more my style and while I don't really use the lock screen I know my Note has a weather feature in it too. I don't know what it looks like.

Even though Samsung's way of doing Android's OS is different to HTC's way I still instantly picked it up. I had a harder time hitting the power button (EVO's on top, Note's on the side). I think the only feature from HTC that I miss is the auto scroll up in the web browser even then it's no where close enough to make me want to go back.

I have told my customers and friends to stay away from HTC devices as much as possible, especially if they are going to be on an Exchange server. They jack around with the backend of the mail client and then say Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 don't support HTML email over ActiveSync (which they do) and won't help you as they say it's not Microsoft supported (which is a load). They also create little glitches that will resend the same message over and over and over on Exchange accounts because of their tinkering in the background of the mail app.

One thing that is causing me to reconsider HTC is the way they are with rooting. I would rather just download some programs and be done and then be able to unroot with out Sprint or anyone knowing I was ever rooted at all. Now HTC is blocking things and making it a pain in the ass for devs to root. Sure you can use the HTC way but I don't want to do that. How is Samsung when it comes to rooting?

It took me all of 5 minutes to root the Note, most of the being downloading the items needed. The biggest thing is that there is a flash counter and conceivably Samsung could deny repair on your phone after checking your flash counter. There are ways to root without increasing the flash or to reset the flash counter but I don't think there have been any actual cases of Samsung using the flash counter to deny warranty related service on the device based on that. At least that I've found.

Between launcher pro and folder organizer I haven't found the need to root. I'm sure there are some other benefit, but I'm not interested in the headache of it all. I also don't care about ICS on the Note.

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From all the threads (I checked here and androidcentral.com), it seems I can lock in my unlimited data plan on my plan (which is due for an upgrade now) by pre-ordering the Galaxy S III through Verizon. I want the phone bad, so it seems simple enough. I would just like the option to pre-order from either Best Buy (for my $50 gift card through their mobile upgrade promotion) or Costco (for the free accessory pack/Costsco awesome-ness). Not sure pre-ordering through either one of those 2 will guarantee my unlimited plan carrying over.

The Galaxy S III was another one I was looking at with my upgrade coming up soon. I saw on Sprint's website they had a 32 gig version but I could not find one on BestBuy.com. I wonder if Best Buy is going to get the 32 gig. I should have a 50 dollar credit from them from that deal they had last year.

I'm still torn between the Note and Galaxy SIII (or iPhone5). My contract is up in mmid-August, so who knows what will be available. The rumors on the NOTE 2 seem too good to be true (flexible/unbreakable disply, quad core, etc etc).

I like the idea of the iPhone and jus tnot having to bother with rooting and it seems that iPhone gets most support....

The S3 is nice also, but the US specs are lacking with only dual core. Also, AT&T is ONLY offering the 16GB, nothing larger. Although, should have SD slot, so that is not a big deal.

The dual core S4 in the Galaxy SIII is actually faster in many usage scenarios than the quad core international version. Reason being that the S4 is based on a new iteration of the ARM Cortex cores and has higher instruction throughput per MHz.

For stat geeks-
Cortex A9 (exynos 4212 found in Galaxy SIII international) - quad core, 2.5 DMIPS/MHz, dual instruction issue (dhrystone million instructions per second)
Cortex A15 (future generation processors) - single to quad core, triple issue, 3.5 DMIPS/MHz
Krait/Qualcomm S4 - single to dual core (for now), triple issue, 3.2 DMIPs/MHz

DMIPS is a standard benchmark ARM using for measuring instruction throughput.

So while the 4212 has higher theoretical computational power, not enough tasks in a mobile environment sufficiently use all 4 cores to make it superior to a dual core CPU where each individual core is faster.

I looked at engadgets review of the s3, seems nice, but in par with the one x. After reading the note2 rumors, I'm excited. I have a Dell streak 5 currently, so smaller would suck

It's a shame. They promised to release sf4 for Android like half a year ago. Still nothing :-[

Seems like Samsung will unveil the NOTE 2 August 30th at some event. Hopefully they release it soon after that. I'm still debating what I want next....my contract ends mid-August.
With the current phones on the market (and future phones), I'm debating between the following:
- Galaxy S3
- HTC One X
- Samsung Note 2
- iPhone 5 (not impressed with the form factor that is rumored)

We should get announcements on the new Nexus phones in the fall right? I mean, if the rumors of multiple versions coming from different OEMs is true...

Rumor is 5 nexus devices, one from each of the major companys making android right now. Im still going to get the Note 2 regardless.

Note is kinda big... SGS3 is justttt right