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Samsung Galaxy Note 2

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The thing annoying me about the biggee batteries is that you can't use any normal Galaxy Note case.
And I can't find a protective rubber case that can be used with extended battery.

Wish samsung made the note with a 5000mah battery directly. 🙁
 
Thoughts on good s-pen drawing or note taking apps? On the VZW phone, when you take the s-pen out, it brings up a few apps, and a lot of templates that are pre-drawn. I would love to have a drawing/note app that would keep scaling indefinitely, sort of like how Vizio works. Scroll/zoom out and you get more space. Anything like it exist?
 
gregulator said:
Thoughts on good s-pen drawing or note taking apps? On the VZW phone, when you take the s-pen out, it brings up a few apps, and a lot of templates that are pre-drawn. I would love to have a drawing/note app that would keep scaling indefinitely, sort of like how Vizio works. Scroll/zoom out and you get more space. Anything like it exist?
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there is an option for S Pen that allows you to open the notes program automatically when the pen is pulled out. there are several nice templates that come with S Note.
 
dougp said:
I don't have a lot of blue tint. Maybe you should stick to trolling OT.
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Yes you do.

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The Galaxy Note’s 1280 x 800 display actually loses a few lines of pixels in the new model, now offering a 1280 x 720 resolution, but Samsung believes the 16:9 aspect ratio and a move away from Pentile technology will be appreciated upgrades for users. Despite no longer employing the standard Pentile RGBG subpixel arrangement, the Note II still doesn’t have three identically sized subpixels per dot — it’s now just swapped the extra green for extra blue, so in functional terms, this can be considered a sort of Pentile lite. Another recurring downside to AMOLED panels is a blue tinge to the images displayed, which is very much apparent on the Galaxy Note II. I can’t help but feel that Samsung is nurturing a generation of people who’ll grow up to have a broken internal color balance.
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It really depends on what you do on the phone. If you're using apps that use alot of white, or have a light colored wallpaper, I suppose you'll notice it.
 
iahk said:
It really depends on what you do on the phone. If you're using apps that use alot of white, or have a light colored wallpaper, I suppose you'll notice it.
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Like browsing the internet or sending and receiving emails and text messages? There's a reason why Samsung did not put their crappy AMOLED screen on their Galaxy Camera. Samsung knew people who actually gave a damn about image quality would not tolerate such a terrible reproduction...
 
Dari, quit trolling here, seriously. You have nothing of value to add to this conversation and the point has been mentioned in reviews of the phone. I vary rarely notice it, even on completely white screens.
 
dougp said:
Dari, quit trolling here, seriously. You have nothing of value to add to this conversation and the point has been mentioned in reviews of the phone. I vary rarely notice it, even on completely white screens.
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Stop crying. I didn't mean to rain on your parade. Just wanted to show prospective owners what they'd be getting into. Fact is, Samsung has polluted all their high end phones with their crappy AMOLED screens that, as TheVerge points out, they are conditioning people to awful color balance. Therefore, reviews may take it as a given and not mention it at all. The phone's hardware, aside from the screen, is nice. But that panel is god-awful.

kache said:
I so wish SED/FED development wasn't stopped...
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Me too. Canon quit too early. They should have sold the tech to someone else.
 
Dari said:
Stop crying. I didn't mean to rain on your parade. Just wanted to show prospective owners what they'd be getting into. Fact is, Samsung has polluted all their high end phones with their crappy AMOLED screens that, as TheVerge points out, they are conditioning people to awful color balance. Therefore, reviews may take it as a given and not mention it at all. The phone's hardware, aside from the screen, is nice. But that panel is god-awful.



Me too. Canon quit too early. They should have sold the tech to someone else.
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I don't see any blue tint on my Note 2. Do you have one?
 
cliftonite said:
Must be defective.
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Nah, I saw similar blue tints on the demo models and on the original Notes as well. I've mentioned them here. Excuses have ranged from denial to calibration fixes everything to suggestions of switching everything to black (lol) defective model. All three types of excuses are basically saying the same thing...Samsung's AMOLED is flawed. But it's a technology they're married to so there is no turning back for them.
 
Dari said:
Nah, I saw similar blue tints on the demo models and on the original Notes as well. I've mentioned them here. Excuses have ranged from denial to calibration fixes everything to suggestions of switching everything to black (lol) defective model. All three types of excuses are basically saying the same thing...Samsung's AMOLED is flawed. But it's a technology they're married to so there is no turning back for them.
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All i have to compare right now is my computer LCD and my blackberry screen, but the note 2 screen looks amazing on the white gmail background, no blue tint.

I am not sure what to tell you, but from my perspective it's absolutely beautiful.
 
Thread-crapping by the Japanese guy who hates Samsung lacks credibility and should be ignored.
 
s44 said:
Thread-crapping by the Japanese guy who hates Samsung lacks credibility and should be ignored.
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Several persons who actually have a Note 2 and say they see little to no blue tint vs. somebody who doesn't own one and says the blue tint does exist...

Seems like a no brainer who to believe.
 
snikt said:
Several persons who actually have a Note 2 and say they see little to no blue tint vs. somebody who doesn't own one and says the blue tint does exist...

Seems like a no brainer who to believe.
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We had a pair of Galaxy S2s with a difference in screen temperature. Both looked fine on their own, but side by side one was noticeably bluer.

I bring it up because they were also SAMOLED plus screens.
 
TerryMathews said:
We had a pair of Galaxy S2s with a difference in screen temperature. Both looked fine on their own, but side by side one was noticeably bluer.

I bring it up because they were also SAMOLED plus screens.
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I have both the International S2 and the Note 2, but I haven't compared the two. I'll take a look-see when I get home from work.

Although, I should mention, I have a screen protector on my Note 2, so my observations may be skewed.
 
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I have a Galaxy Note and it definitely is a cooler temperature than my LCD screens but it's hardly "OMG Blue! Kills my eyes!" territory.
 
snikt said:
Several persons who actually have a Note 2 and say they see little to no blue tint vs. somebody who doesn't own one and says the blue tint does exist...

Seems like a no brainer who to believe.
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And what about the review I linked? Also, I'm not Japanese.
 
I just did a side-by-side comparison between a Note a and 2010 model 13" Macbook Air, both at maximum brightness and the Note's screen in "Standard" config (as opposed to "Dynamic" or "Movie", whatever those are). When looking at Apple's front page on the web that has a white background, Note's rendition of white had a warmer tone and looked slightly yellow compared to the MBA's which looked slightly blue.
 
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