i dont think it will go up to 2.5k
because 2.5k for a phone is too much  

the decision to buy this is killing me, on one hand im a person that just looove to make a to-do list, the s-pen really wow drolling...on the other hand i also love to texting, i try with note1 texting isnt too comfortable in a long run for me. even with the one hand feature

Should be the same with old GNote RRP. But pioneer geeks will surely buy no matter how much the price. I remember one guy bought AP set GNexus at RM2.8K just to be the first person to own it. Now you can get GNexus SME set at RM1.2K. 

Of course he will get one. GNote size is most suitable to Uncle Benny. Surely he will upgrade to Note2.  99% buy one

i have tested Note 1 before.. its quite laggy for me.. I tested S3 and it i just fine for me.. Hopefully Note 2 will be even smoother with JB

note 2 with jb will be smoother indeed  

Should be the same with old GNote RRP. But pioneer geeks will surely buy no matter how much the price. I remember one guy bought AP set GNexus at RM2.8K just to be the first person to own it. Now you can get GNexus SME set at RM1.2K. 

i have tested Note 1 before.. its quite laggy for me.. I tested S3 and it i just fine for me.. Hopefully Note 2 will be even smoother with JB

it might be cool, but arent it a bit small to split the screen? the viewing will not be user friendly

Don't think so
Anyway display might be too small for such

Yeah..you have to squint your eyes to see small pictures if goes split screen. Better get Note 10.1 if you really need split screen

i dont think it will go up to 2.5k
because 2.5k for a phone is too much  

Hopefully it is at around 2k. I really can't convince myself to splurge in 2.5k for a phone when my laptop only costs RM 2.6k.

I'm just gonna sit back and wait for the launch in Malaysia.

fruitie, you never consider sign up a contract with Telco and get the phone at much lower price?  Eg, S3 can be bought at as low as RM999 during launch with 2 years data contract, since you are going to use the data anyway.  Of course, for those who change their phones every few months, this is not their way. 

but signing contract with telco only if u really use that much.. if not in the end u're actually paying more..

I think if Gnote 2 doesn't have the S-Pen ... samsung could utilize that extra space from the pen slot for more hardware spec

If S-pen removed, than it wont be GNote anymore

i think for normal use, 3GB data a month is quite sufficient.  With light usage, I normally use around 1GB.  Without a data plan, a smartphone usage is quite restricted. 

It's no longer a PenTile matrix like on the original Note (which had a slight crosshatch patter noticeable, but only if you look really closely). Perhaps these photos snapped with a digital microscope will help clear up the differences in pixel arrangements.



The pixels of the Note II have one tall Blue sub-pixel on the left and smaller Green and Red pixels stacked one on top of the other. It's an odd arrangement, but it has three subpixels per pixel. The reason for the different Blue pixel is that Blue AMOLEDs typically have a shorter life and making them bigger balances things out. Also, the Blue pixel doesn't shine as brightly, which also improves its life, but doesn't affect color balance (because it's bigger).
To illustrate how the different arrangement improves sharpness we used our microscope to snap a picture of very tiny text - the line width here is 1px, the font is white.



As you can see, the Galaxy Note II screen lights up individual pixels to display the 1px-wide lines. The old Galaxy Note, however, can't use a single pixel as each individual pixels can't make white, as it only has two of the three needed colors.
To fix that, the screen uses sub-pixel rendering, which "borrows" a subpixel from a neighboring pixel to make white. But now the line has become 1 2/3px wide.
This new arrangement seems to result in some very slight color aberrations around sharp edges, but it takes a great deal of eye-strain to try and see it.

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