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Originally Posted by rjmac
A question - I am considering the purchase of a 7 inch tablet, but realise I will need to carry a phone and a tablet. Is the Galaxy Note good enough to do both jobs so I only need to carry one device?
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That's a personal call, and one that I pondered as well. My conclusion is yes, For about four years I've been carrying a phone and a 6"-7" device for reading. During that time I've tried reading on my phone numerous times to have my phone drain all to quickly.
For the Note to replace that combo the criteria came down to screen size and battery life. The note passes with flying colors. The screen is fine for reading, surfing, drawing, note taking, etc... Though reading a graphic novel might not be as nice.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
How is the battery life? Colleague of mine at work has the original Note and gets very poor battery life from it.
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The battery life is excellent, I've heard many others echo this statement but I've always been a bit skeptical. Then I experienced the great battery life and found out why. The Note II has a whopping 3.1Ahr battery. When I compared it to my OGS it is huge!
To give an example I've used the phone today for about 13hrs under heavy use. I've been making and receiving a lot of calls today and surfing the web for about 120min. total. I'm about at 40%.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Many people like it, but for me personally it's ludicrously large to carry around as a phone. Perhaps for a woman who carries it in her handbag it would be OK, but for mens' pockets - no. Not for me, at any rate.
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As a phone it is quite large and did require some adjusting but I have gotten use to it.
I find that I use my phone more as a pda, eReader, tablet, etc... than phone and for this it excels. I recently looked at my old phone as I have been trying to fix it and I just laughed at how small the screen is.
I do wear my phone in my front pocket and it is not any worse than my previous phone.