Just curious/polling to see what your thoughts on this device might be.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is intentionally larger (given that it straddles the line between small tablet and phone), the most common complaint that I've seen written about it is its size. And of those critiques, the issue seems to essentially boil down into concerns about social appearance: "you'll look stupid holding it up to your head and using it as a phone cause its too big",.or, "OMG, I could barely fit it into the pocket of my hip and crotch hugging $300 pair of Diseal jeans, and when I did, it was so obvious that I was, like, carrying this huge device in my pocket".
No doubt, such concerns/social preoccupations are large drivers of design and determinants of purchase in the mobile marketplace -- for example, some draw comparison of the Note to the not particularly successful Dell Streak (I don't really know about it, cause I don't follow the mobile mkt very closely).
Personally, I didn't find the Note overwhelming in size when I took a look at one in store, but then again, I couldn't give a rats ass about facebook et al. (<-- insert other social mediums and related psychological emotional insecurities here). Though, I also guess that many potential customers from the market base don't have (haven't grown up with) the same set of anchors or references -- to them, phones have always been small, so many will have their own anchoring biases.
On the other hand, it seems to me (and I could certainly be wrong) like the trend might now be towards slightly larger devices .. i.e iPhone screen too small, need bigger. My best guess is that, if there were to be a 2nd gen of the Note, then if they could retain the same screen size, but shrink the package a bit, they'd likely hit the sweet spot. Or perhaps someone else like Apple, HTC or what not, will find it first.
Anyway, from my cursory observations of video reviews, I felt that the Note's software appeared "a little lacking" -- perhaps the supposed Android upgrade to ICS would take care of some of that (I don't know). I really have to wonder about how much utility the apps for such a device can provide (I'm ignorant)...the TV advertisement that I originally saw for the device gave the impression that it was fairly versatile, and that was what drew my interest, but the majority of video reviews I've seen have seemed determined to only show me how wonderfully one could draw colourful squigglely lines with the stylus (which, btw, in my impression, seems like it needs another revision before they get it quite right) in an application similar to MS Paint circa Win3.0. Meh, I say to that.
Battery life reports seem to be skewed slightly to the "not the greatest" side.
Notwithstanding the fact that it is intentionally larger (given that it straddles the line between small tablet and phone), the most common complaint that I've seen written about it is its size. And of those critiques, the issue seems to essentially boil down into concerns about social appearance: "you'll look stupid holding it up to your head and using it as a phone cause its too big",.or, "OMG, I could barely fit it into the pocket of my hip and crotch hugging $300 pair of Diseal jeans, and when I did, it was so obvious that I was, like, carrying this huge device in my pocket".
No doubt, such concerns/social preoccupations are large drivers of design and determinants of purchase in the mobile marketplace -- for example, some draw comparison of the Note to the not particularly successful Dell Streak (I don't really know about it, cause I don't follow the mobile mkt very closely).
Personally, I didn't find the Note overwhelming in size when I took a look at one in store, but then again, I couldn't give a rats ass about facebook et al. (<-- insert other social mediums and related psychological emotional insecurities here). Though, I also guess that many potential customers from the market base don't have (haven't grown up with) the same set of anchors or references -- to them, phones have always been small, so many will have their own anchoring biases.
On the other hand, it seems to me (and I could certainly be wrong) like the trend might now be towards slightly larger devices .. i.e iPhone screen too small, need bigger. My best guess is that, if there were to be a 2nd gen of the Note, then if they could retain the same screen size, but shrink the package a bit, they'd likely hit the sweet spot. Or perhaps someone else like Apple, HTC or what not, will find it first.
Anyway, from my cursory observations of video reviews, I felt that the Note's software appeared "a little lacking" -- perhaps the supposed Android upgrade to ICS would take care of some of that (I don't know). I really have to wonder about how much utility the apps for such a device can provide (I'm ignorant)...the TV advertisement that I originally saw for the device gave the impression that it was fairly versatile, and that was what drew my interest, but the majority of video reviews I've seen have seemed determined to only show me how wonderfully one could draw colourful squigglely lines with the stylus (which, btw, in my impression, seems like it needs another revision before they get it quite right) in an application similar to MS Paint circa Win3.0. Meh, I say to that.
Battery life reports seem to be skewed slightly to the "not the greatest" side.
