My first impressions:
1. How to get rid of this big concentric round button painted in the lower right quarter of the screen?!!!
It is like a screen defect or a sticker on the screen. It covers text or even covers other buttons and prevents using them. It must be possible to disable it somehow but so far I failed to find how.
Oh, turns out, it is possible to drag it away to the very corner of the screen.
Perhaps it is possible to drag it outside altogether...
2. Where is the promised 64 GB of storage?
Capacity: 51.7 GB
Used space: 3 GB
Free space: 48.7 GB
I was expecting about 59 GB free, compared to what was free on Note with 32 GB.
More storage should be more storage for me, not for them. Not only they reserved for the system so much more than on Note, but also they stole 3 GB from what was left for me!!!
Remember, this thing has no card slot!
3. The Neo reader and the system GUI are somewhat different and the tricks I have for zooming pdfs on Note do not work with Note 2. With Note, it is possible to have 0, 1, 2, or 3 "status bars" on the screen and the page is resized accordingly: the system status bar, the reader's status bar and the list of 4 last read books. Every one of them can be kept on screen or switched off while reading, and the size of the letters is proportionally adjusted.
With Note 2, the system status bar can be switched on/off but it is very tiny. And probably does not affect the size of the page. The other two - they are of normal size but they cannot be kept while reading, and even when they do appear - the page size remains unchanged.
Well, it was not a feature but a side effect I was using on Note, but I miss it....
4. And the worst thing of all - Note 2 is covered with glass. So there is a real danger of breaking it. Note has a flexible screen and cannot be broken.
And out of the box Note 2 has a glowing screen (cheating like Kindle) until you switch it off once and forever. It is an e-ink device after all. E-ink was invented not to glow.
But still, my first impression is very good
