2013-05-20, 12:20 AM
No Note experience (but that Note 2 claimed battery life sure looks tasty).
I half-blindly got a Lumia 900 as my first smart phone about 9 months ago. It's... okay. I didn't really consider the physical dimensions compared to my tiny old slide-phone before buying and was pretty shocked. That was exacerbated by the very 'robust' case I ended up getting. Generally speaking, I don't really make amazing use of smart phone capabilities. Even my huge phone is still too small to do any serious entertainment beyond simple games and mostly text-based internet amusement. I got a wifi-only Nexus 7 tablet about two weeks ago, and it's already overtaking my phone in terms of ease of use, how I use it, and what I use it for. My next phone will probably be the dumbest, cheapest smartphone I can get, unless some radical new approach to exorbitant smartphone pricing schemes appears in the next year or two.
Nokia Drive is the best goddamn app ever. If that's worth anything. I basically got a free car GPS with pomegranate battery life with the purchase of my phone.
Edit: Looking at these Note 3 screen size rumors. Damn. I'd need a purse ("satchel") to lug around a 6" screen device as my main communication gadget.
I half-blindly got a Lumia 900 as my first smart phone about 9 months ago. It's... okay. I didn't really consider the physical dimensions compared to my tiny old slide-phone before buying and was pretty shocked. That was exacerbated by the very 'robust' case I ended up getting. Generally speaking, I don't really make amazing use of smart phone capabilities. Even my huge phone is still too small to do any serious entertainment beyond simple games and mostly text-based internet amusement. I got a wifi-only Nexus 7 tablet about two weeks ago, and it's already overtaking my phone in terms of ease of use, how I use it, and what I use it for. My next phone will probably be the dumbest, cheapest smartphone I can get, unless some radical new approach to exorbitant smartphone pricing schemes appears in the next year or two.
Nokia Drive is the best goddamn app ever. If that's worth anything. I basically got a free car GPS with pomegranate battery life with the purchase of my phone.
Edit: Looking at these Note 3 screen size rumors. Damn. I'd need a purse ("satchel") to lug around a 6" screen device as my main communication gadget.