Afterr thinking about it for 2 weeks now. I leaning with the note2. 70-30 in favor of it lol.

Im currently living in the apple ecosystem with an ipad 2 and iphone4 (oh and a ipod)and the things holding me back from converting is the fact that i am going to buy some of my apps again. (yes jailbreak/root i know) and im kinda lazy to go through a learning curve lol. i was alot more adventurous a couple of years ago but now with such a hectic job.. i really want something that will work from the start.

having said all that, after 2 years on the ios and seeing as there wont be any significant changes in the near future.. it's getting abit dull and dated. even the new WP looks appealing to me and judging from the reviews of it the phone itself is great just that the ecosystem is lacking currently

lol love it! was thinking of doing something along those lines if i dont end up liking the note 2

IOS doesnt really keep apps running in the background, it just pauses it and resumes from last viewed point. Take whatsapp for example on the iphone, in the app your messages will keep popping up as per normal but if you close(minimize) the app, you only get push notifications regarding new messages and only when you open up the app again - the messages will download in.

how do your friends buy it from sg? ive been there twice since the launch and it's either wait 3-4 weeks or try lining up when their apple resellers have stock but the queue starts from 7-8am. The 3-4 weeks is from apple.sg and i didnt bother going to a sg telco.

Just got the note 2. It's pretty brilliant.

Im also still using a iphone4s, and one of the main reasons i decided to test out the note 2 instead of waiting for the iphone5 is because the IOS platform has become rather dated and boring. I've been an IOS user since the 3Gs btw. And all those 'new' fancy features with IOS6 barely works in malaysia anyways. Me being a new android user, im quite impressed with google now (lol) and the motion usage of the note 2. so far i can't really complain about the phone (3 days old).

However, the iphone 5 and the IOS will probably be smoother than any current android device and probably any upcoming device but not by much. I believe this is due to the fact the OS is only made to run on 1 phone. There's no constant change of hardware and there's no different spec version where as the android has different HTCs, samsungs, motorola etc etc.

We'll see if there's anything good to look forward to in IOS 7 or something, but right now to me it doesnt matter which phone is faster and has the least lag because at the end of the day it's differences of a split second, nothing to really to kill about. To me it's about innovation which is what has impressed me with the android in the last couple of months.