Ditch ur love, go for HTC.

save up and fund for the new xperia t/tx or wait for xperia nexus or myb a possibility of vaio wp8 phone 

note 2 using the same proc (but clock a bit higher)as s3 which is base on benchmark loss to krait dual core..

for me 5.5 screen size to big a hp, so a no for me  , also always love sony design compared to samsung. just hope the build quality from sony will be muc improve for their future product.

Sony nice design, but quality?
Sucks.

So far im happy wit my current rom which is icebean 4.2n, very stable so far, using it for bout two weeks n stil happy, quite fast n minimal lag, also paired with xarc v2.0 kernel from sir kay.

dont quite understand what u mean by default s/w?, software?

btw using the mentioned rom n kernel, so far no restarting.. but i did restart it mycef from time to time.. just for it to refresh itself.. kinda like maintenance for it.

I just bought arc s 2 weeks ago and every time i connect to the wifi it always disconnecting. How to solve the problem?