My coworkers are buying all the latest galaxy phones...
Meh, the "my friends are doing..." therefore it sucks, anecdotal evidence thing rarely files.
There's nothing remotely 'slow' about my Note 8. These arguments may have flown back during the Note 4 era and previous, but today: your co-workers are doing something wrong.
It's also purely silly to buy a Note, if a person would have been better suited with an Galaxy + model. Paying more for a wacom digitizer and pen- and then not knowing how to use it, or have any use for it is just silly.
Meanwhile, the Note is an awesome tool in the hands of people that actually know what it is and how to use it. it's a freakin' miniature Wacom Cintiq in your pocket. For an artist/storyboard person/ draftsman/ designer/ note taker etc, this is a dream come true. There's a reason Samsung still makes the Note- even after one of the worst foul-ups in tech history with the Note 7- many many people want and use them.
The built in apps have only gotten better- it matters not if someone else doesn't know that. The new note-taking app is fantastic- it has a line-writing mode, that when used with the pencil setting in its finest point size, takes the best hand-written notes I've ever seen. There's no other tool for note taking that can hold a candle to it IMO- and this on my phone!
And this nonsense attitude like you can't use all the other Google apps and everything else on the Note.
Many of the best drawing/writing/vector/inkining/photo editing apps are s-pen enabled, so really, you're never getting the best of them WITHOUT using a Note. ArtRage, ArtFlow, Moble Adobe Apps, SketchBook, Squid, One Note, etc are all at their best using the S-pen- most would be useless just finger-to-screen, or some silly non-active stylus.
I just flew back and forth across the country, and was able to do some production sketches on my Note, where I'd otherwise have been twiddling my thumbs. I know of people who've drawn out an entire production storyboard... on their phone!- rather than be stuck somewhere where they couldn't do anything productive. No other device can do all that like the Note.
The whole touchwiz argument is silly to me, because Im
still not exactly sure what all that even is. Is it the launcher I ***
never*** use? Is it the notifications? menus? Windows? on screen buttons? I honestly have no freakin' idea because I don't give a flying rat. I mainly do like most other people- open my phone, launch an app- use it. Since owning a Note 2 all the way to my present Note 8 I've given exactly zero seconds worth of a damn about what exactly Touchwiz is, and why it supposedly in anyway affects me using my device.
I suspect all some people do is turn a device on and spend a lot of time navel gazing over silly little details, because there's not a whole lot else they DO with the device. Like people I used to know that would build kickass PC's with all the bells and whistles and do not one damn thing with it, but tout benchmark scores and finagle over framerates and other such minutia- but then not even game with it! I suspect there's a subset of mobile device geeks that are similar.
