Oddly I’ve had much better luck with the auto correct/predictive texting on this phone so far. It’s probably partly because I had trouble hitting the correct keys on the iPhone due to the size but either way this is still an improvement for me. I also like how it gives you the list of words underneath to choose from and the arrow to keep what you have if it’s predicting a different word. I especially like how it’ll put your email on the bottom for online forms. The only thing I miss at this point is being able to swipe left and right for the previous and next page while browsing online. I’ve also noticed on tapatalk that the time line isn’t populating with threads. Is there a reason for this?
haha fair enough, I actually barely type anything anymore, i spend the majority of the time swipe texting, its become so second nature to myself, and with the big hands its very easy to do one handed.
I did have very similair issue with tapatalk but after restarting the phone, it found a new update on the play store, and has worked fine ever since, I have notice some issues with PM’s on certain forums, also the notifications are very lacking lately, I used to receive notifications the second someone posted, I’m now receiving the post email before i receive the tapatalk notification. damn technology lol
also I ditched stock internet browser and downloaded chrome, run it on all my devices, really handy when you do have them all linked together, Just recently i was doing some researching and wanted to finish the reading while i was at work, but had used my laptop to bring up the forums, with chrome you can access what pages are still left open on other devices(laptop,tablet,phone) and bring them up on your phone or tablet or viceversa.
This phone actually came with chrome on it already. Took me about 3 seconds to replace the stock browser with chrome on the bottom of the phone. That’s a cool feature with chrome that I didn’t know about though. I’ve also noticed that the notifications have been sucking it up lately. Still trying to get used to the swipe texting though. I’m pretty quick with regular texting. Especially on this phone. Tried restarting the phone but the time line doesn’t seem to want to work for AR. Seems to work fine for other forums though.
After two weeks with the note, go back and use someone else’s iPhone. You will laugh at how little it is. Hell when I switched from Samsung S2 to Note, after a couple of months I found my old S2 and held it and I couldn’t believe how little it felt.
Ditto. Whenever I use my Wife’s iPhone, it feels like a little toy, coming from the Note2
Holy fack! Pretty crazy size difference, iPhone looks comical lol
The battery alone is worth the switch. I used the note all day long to stream music, spent about on hour talking on it, streamed numerous videos on YouTube, and spent a decent amount of time on tapatalk. Didn’t charge it all day and it was still at 60% when I got home. The iPhone would be down to 70% by the time I got to work in the morning.
I forgot to plug in my note 2 in the car - streaming music, using GPS for 2.5 hours, battery went from 70% to 50%. Pretty good I reckon
iPhone 5S. Drove 3 hours with Navi. Phone went from 70% to DOA%. Pretty terrible, I reckon.
Note 2 is quite a bit better than note 1. Basically by 8pm my battery is shot if I’m using it.
I’m always using everything though. I leave bluetooth, wifis and gps on, and have the screen pretty bright all the time. Don’t really bother to do anything to preserve battery life and never charge it midday.
[quote]Following Apple’s disappointing earnings report, a debate is heating up over where the consumer electronics giant’s share price is headed, with one analyst calling for a near 40 percent fall in the stock.
Apple shares fell sharply at the open Tuesday, down nearly 8 percent.
[b]Bert Dohmen, president and founder of Dohmen Capital Research Institute has a long-term downside target of $320 for the stock, citing the company’s declining profit margins and lack of technological innovation.
“Apple hasn’t had any technological innovations since Steve Jobs left, and this is a company that’s getting beaten by its competitors. Now, we hear the next big item (iPhone 6) is going to have a larger (screen) size, Samsung has had that for two years,” Dohmen said.[/b]
Data released by research firm IDC on Tuesday showed that Samsung’s smartphone market share edged up one percentage point on-year to 31.3 percent in 2013, while Apple’s fell from 18.7 percent to 15.3 percent.
“We are recommending not buying this stock, and have been since six days after the top which was $705 in September last year,” he said.
Apple shares crumbled 8 percent to $506 in after-hours trading Monday on disappointing iPhone sales during the October-December quarter and lower-than-expected revenue guidance for the current quarter.
During the quarter, Apple said it sold 51 million iPhones, fewer than the 55-million estimate expected by Wall Street analysts. In addition, the company said it expects to hand in current-quarter revenue of between $42 billion and $44 billion, versus expectations for $46.05 billion.
The company posted earnings of $14.50 a share on sales of $57.59 billion, surpassing expectations for $14.07 a share on sales of $57.46 billion, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
Colin Gillis analyst at BGC Financial who cut his rating on Apple to hold from buy ahead of the earnings release on Monday said the company needs new products in order to drive future growth given fierce competition from low-cost rivals in the smartphone and tablet space.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101368268
It’s kinda crazy. As much as I agree that the iPhone development has been lazy of late, at the end of the day the facts surrounding the company are hard to argue
It is currently trading for 8x their cash on hand and 11.6x next years earnings. While the growth may not be there, I don’t see why the company is trading like a utility.
To put it into perspective, is Apple a stock to buy if you’re someone who likes to participate in short term price action and trap a quick capital gain? Maybe not. The market doesn’t love it right now. It’s a good value stock to trade, so if you see it hit 4XX have a look.
But let’s imagine it as a business we wanted to buy. It’s a dominant player in a load of tech segments (tablets, phones, computers, mobile music, online music, online app sales)…it has loads of cash on hand and virtually no debt (the debt it has on hand is just an arb on the dividend)…has very solid profit expectations which it is returning to shareholders in the form of a modest dividend. It’s a great fucking business. Not a great stock though.
interesting
consumer reports did a study on flat panel tv size and found that screen size was directly correlated with customer happiness. Biggest lament? WIsh my screen was bigger.
Phones are very similar. Operating your phone with one hand as they advocate testing for in that article basically means you are either using your phone in one hand while jerking off…or using your phone while driving. Neither should be the important determinant of your size choice.
If it can be portable, that’s where you draw the line. If it’s too big like an ipad mini where you need a murse to carry it, doesn’t work. Maybe the Samsung Mega is approaching that. But the Samsung Note 1,2,3 are all perfectly fine in my breast pocket of my suits, or my jeans pockets or in my hand pockets of coats. I never say ‘wish this was smaller’ when watching a video, using the touch keyboard to type, or reading an email or article. Never. I am always greatful for size.
Definitely agree with the results of that study. Several years ago I bought a 50" Pioneer plasma TV, and to this day I regret not spending the extra grand or so and going with the 60".
My Note3 has been amazing, I have an otter box for use while on job sites, take it off on the weekends, fits my pocket easily, battery life and speed are both amazing.
for the concern about not being able to reach the input area with one hand operation the Samsung phones have an option for that whwre it shrinks tge keyboard to the right or left.
Samsung one hand operation keyboard vs SwiftKey full keyboard
I use one hand all the time (and not referencing saki’s use comment lol). But commonly txt with only one hand, and read tapatalk with one hand.
I do look forward to some more screen real estate though, but I’m sure I’ll miss the convenience of one handed operations.
Anyone here getting one of the new iPhones? I have a 4S and need to upgrade. Thinking about pre-ordering the 6. The Plus just seems too big - and I already have an ipad