Samsung Galaxy Note 3 review: Jugger-note
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- Shanti Khan
- M7n
- 22 Nov 2013
Has anybody been experiencing any problems with Android 4.3 on the Note 3?
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- nicolas
- ka3
- 22 Nov 2013
Hi all, it's not cleat to me what really the matter is with the region lock.
If I buy it in the USA, will I be able to use it in Europe?
Thanks.
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- Anonymous
- 4QS
- 30 Oct 2013
Anonymous, 29 Oct 2013So if we buy this in India, we get the exynos version..so t... moreCould always save up and buy one with same network that work in your region. Or buy used, or get the Exynos and trade it off....Even be happy with the Exynos.
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- Anonymous
- PSL
- 29 Oct 2013
So if we buy this in India, we get the exynos version..so there's no 4k recording but we get only the usual 1080p @ 30fps...but both variants seem to be same in price...what the hell is this..?
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- cervantes
- Nh4
- 28 Oct 2013
Pitty that the Kies software for the phone does not yet support synchronization with Outlook. Fail if you targeting business users, especially smaller companies that don't have big IT budgets.
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- bbenoe
- pqp
- 24 Oct 2013
I measured 730k MFLOPS with linpack, not 1030 on a Note3
I measured 431k MFLOPS with linpack on a Nexus 4
Both were multithread.
Looks like you prefer Note 3 against Nexus...
(Still I agree, Note 3 is great)
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- Anonymous
- 21 Oct 2013
I used the lock screen notification panel especially for news on my S3 and really love it.
I got my Note 3 less than 2 weeks ago. The notification panel is not present in my own Note 3. The Android version is 4,3
Can anybody here please tell me how to put the lock screen notification panel on my Note 3?
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- AnonD-198038
- U$4
- 20 Oct 2013
i am using note 3.the phone some features are very good.but during surfing phone heat from back leather side.and i face number dial problem during call. overall phone is very good and decent.
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- GoFurther
- Sve
- 16 Oct 2013
I have tried it today by myself!
It's so light and thin for what it has. What it packs! And it packs the best phablet and the best portable phone if size is not huge importance to you.
Everything is WOW when you colide with it. Be in mind I'm 2 month SG4 user so I mustn't be impressed that much. And I'm! It's more than WOW this phone! I promise you.
It's 10 times better than you think it is from let say here - on paper and pictures.
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- Anonymous
- Lcf
- 16 Oct 2013
AnonD-77443, 14 Oct 2013Some of those features are actually really handy. I gues... moremobile phones these days are general purpose computers. they almost do everything and anything you want done. but, im not happy with android printing. can anyone please explain how best to print a letter or scanned document from the phone without going thru google?
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- AnonD-77443
- vuA
- 14 Oct 2013
Anonymous, 13 Oct 2013hello... could this letter apply to samsung note 3 (air com... moreSome of those features are actually really handy.
I guess not everyone wants an OS so simple it is actually very limited... hello apple.
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- Anonymous
- mFL
- 13 Oct 2013
hello... could this letter apply to samsung note 3 (air command, multi window, nfc, s beam, air view, air gestures, smart scroll) and android in general:
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Dear Nokia:
This is a letter for a person who is responsible for designing Nokia telephones. I could not find any place on the Nokia website for giving feedback on Nokia products. There actually was a possibility to ask questions, but this is more of an answer than a question.
I am sending this letter to Nokia Press Services because I am familiar with the place. While I am a journalist by profession, I am writing this as a private individual. I hope that you will forward my letter to whomever you feel might be the best recipient. However, it would be best if you would frame this and hang it on the wall of your lobby so that every Nokia employee could see this each morning when they come to work.
Nokia’s dazzling success began about 20 years ago when mobile telephones became commonplace. The mobile telephone is a technological innovation. This means that some people (a very small proportion of them) were naturally interested. Another part (a very large proportion) had misgivings.
The misgivings were unfounded, as Nokia’s telephones were very easy to use. Everyone learned to use them right away, and no manuals were needed. To call, press the green handset symbol, and to hang up, press the red one. Nokia’s telephones in particular were known for their ease of use. Nokia became the overwhelming market leader.
My employer bought me my first mobile phone in 1996. It was handy and durable, but it broke down in 2001, at which time I was given my second mobile phone. It had new functions, and even the internet. However, I quickly learned to use this new telephone.
My second mobile phone broke last week and my employer bought me the third mobile phone that I have ever had in my life. It has been the source of some bewilderment for a week now. At first I did not even know how to make calls without consulting the manual, and I still understand very little of it.
The problem is that about six months ago a friend of mine at work showed me a device manufactured by Apple called the iPod Touch. It was love at first sight. I wanted an iPod, and that device would also give me convenient access to the internet and much more. I ordered my own iPod touch, turned it on, and knew immediately how to use it. I have been using the device on a daily basis for over six months now, without giving any thought to the manuals. The logic of the device opens up right away. It is no wonder that the device is a huge global success.
My new Nokia telephone model is called the E 51. Unfortunately the phone has not been designed to make it easy for just anybody to learn to use it.
In fact, I get the feeling that it was designed as if its main purpose all along would be to advertise itself to telephone technology enthusiasts. All kinds of amazing functions are promoted on the display, but since I do not understand what the names mean, my guess is that I will never use them.
Here is an example: the first thing that nearly every user of a telephone wants to do is to change the ringtone; so do I, but how do I do it? While fiddling around with the new phone I noticed that it has a key with the picture of a house on it. Pressing it opens up the main menu. At this point I was supposed to understand which one of the keys is for the ringtones. The options are messaging, office, log, media, tools, installations, connectivity, download, address book, web, calendar, and instructions.
The names were not much help, so I tried each of them one at a time. With each of them, new choices opened up, but none of them appeared to offer a way to change a ring tone. Therefore, I tried to seek advice from instructions, but they only gave instructions on the installation of 3D ringtones. I did not want any of those, because I do not even know what they mean.
Finally I asked for help from a friend who is into technology. It turned out that I should have known at the outset that I should select tools, and from there go to settings and from there to general, and from there to personalisation, and there, finally I would finally find what I had been looking for: Tones. I was therefore expected to make five discerning choices in a downward hierarchy before doing something with my telephone that is the first thing that every user of a new telephone wants to do.
Initially I had a choice of 12 keys. Assuming that beneath each of the keys – on each hierarchical level – there is an average of 10 new keys, the changing of the ringtone was hidden at a hierarchical level where 120 000 different choices are possible. Consequently, in a random search I would have had a 1/120 000 chance to find the right one. And the search would have been virtually haphazard, because the names of the keys were of little help.
This just cannot be. Telephones – like all other devices – need to be designed on the terms of the simplest user. All of the most important functions need to be offered at the first hierarchical level, or at the very latest at the second, and they need to be found on the basis of the name of the key using ordinary common sense. The more sophisticated and more special features need to be placed at the lower hierarchical levels. People who use them are technology enthusiasts and are quite capable of finding them there.
And then there is another, different example: I send a text message, which is something that I do dozens of times every day. First, I press messages, then I select create message, and then I need to choose from among four options: text message, multimedia message, audio message, or e-mail. So each time, dozens of times a day in the years that follow, I am bothered by this extra message, and each time I give the same answer.
I would guess that this is the case with others. My guess is that out of every 1 000 messages sent, 999 are ordinary text messages. It is as if my telephone had not been designed in such a way that it would make it as easy as possible to do what I am doing with it all the time, and that instead, the telephone is constantly promoting all of the amazing things that I could do with it.
A telephone is mostly used for making calls and sending text messages. It would be vitally important for these features to be designed so that the user can perform the tasks with as button pressing as possible – in other words, quickly.
Summary: By putting a telephone like the E 51 onto the market, Nokia has squandered its most important legacies: that of making telephones so that they are easy to use. This will cause Nokia some grief.
Yours in friendship and concern,
Lauri Malkavaara
(This letter was sent to Nokia on August 18, 2008.)
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- AnonD-110440
- LaT
- 12 Oct 2013
AnonD-110440, 12 Oct 2013I prefer the the speaker on the back, it's also a larger sp... moreIt's pretty good *
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- AnonD-110440
- LaT
- 12 Oct 2013
AnonD-77443, 12 Oct 2013The note 2 speaker is probably marginally better but it is ... moreI prefer the the speaker on the back, it's also a larger speaker, anyway I'm adapting to the lesser audio quality of the N3 now. Pen window is alright, but I found Floating Browser in the play store, it's pretty , tks.
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- AnonD-77443
- vuA
- 12 Oct 2013
AnonD-110440, 11 Oct 2013Good move. Unfortunately I jumped in and paid cash for a no... moreThe note 2 speaker is probably marginally better but it is on the back which means there isn't much between the two.
Instead of the popup browser you do realise there is pen window which has a web browser among other things? Pen window browsing is a lot more powerful than the old popup browser.
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- Anonymous
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- 11 Oct 2013
i need battery test for exynos version...helloooooooo....
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- AnonD-52302
- JFk
- 11 Oct 2013
What a great comment on the end of the review! Bravo!
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- AnonD-110440
- LaT
- 11 Oct 2013
glxy, 11 Oct 2013My Galaxy Note 2 is the most perfect match I've had in purc... moreGood move. Unfortunately I jumped in and paid cash for a note 3 on UK release day. Wish I hadn't as my note 2 is still great with better speaker, and had pop up browser, annoyingly Samsung have removed it on note 3.
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- I used ip4,5, note 3
- s1V
- 11 Oct 2013
I used ip 4 , ip5, s2, now is note 3.
You just try to use them all and have the answer.
For me , right now this is the best choose.
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- glxy
- t7X
- 11 Oct 2013
My Galaxy Note 2 is the most perfect match I've had in purchasing a mobile device. I'm sure the Note 3 improves on the experience, but since the Note 2 is still working very well for me (1 year already and still quite excellent), I'll just wait another generation for the Note 4.