Note 2 FTW. Anyway, we are still limited by 32 bit ARM in all its flavors (Tegra4, S800/600/4,A15whatnot), so it's only a matter of evolution until we get ARM64. But then ARM has stated that ARM64 will run ARM32 seamlessly, so, in the end, the vast majority of users won't even notice or bother. It's the same like the PC/notebook market.

Wait for Note 3. Even better see reply to mydragoon above as well. For me, among all the brands, only Samsung gives me what I want in a device to date. Competition is good and hopefully Samsung maintains its tradition of cardslot and removable battery. Contrast Xperia Z to Galaxy Xcover 2. Both dust and water resistant, but Xcover has a REMOVABLE battery.

Ya bro, even ALL the mid and low tier Nokias (before Lumia) were all plastic and nobody complained. Personally, I think aluminium gets stains easily, and if you drop it you get dents that you can't fix.

Um, even the Lumia 920 ....
Designed to wow
Show off with vibrant colours, a one-piece polycarbonate body, and ceramic zirconium camera detailing and side keys.
http://www.nokia.com/my-en/products/phone/...specifications/

Anyone fancy a stainless steel Vertu?

This post has been edited by joytest: Mar 1 2013, 03:47 AM

So bro, this is now week 10 of year 2013. How many devices have you changed now?

All 32bit ARM chips have a max limit of 4Gb for addressable RAM. It's a technical limitation of 32 bits. At best you will get 3Gb in the next version of A15 next year, unless A53/A57 is released which is 64bit. Then you can have up to 128Tb and carry a 3kg battery pack for your phone

Slim device means small battery and then you start complaining abt battery life. Give me another 2mm with a large battery anyday.

This obsession with design is very superficial imho.

The correct word fails me. Perhaps PeeEl can provide the correct word defining shallowness.

Agreed. Justseen too many posts saying "same ugly design same ugly plastic etc." and the use of the word "hate" a little too much. Nothing intrinsically bad about the s3/note/note2 design.

More activity around the device-du-jour

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/13/4102174/...detailed-images

The article itself is uninteresting. Please read the comments. As of right now, there are 558 comments. Many of them are fairly long writeups, and a provide a good indication of what people are thinking about Samsung's actions.

Some comments:
Oh and why does it matter what the phone looks like when almost everyone puts a case on them! Honestly! Such a materialistic world.

There is no difference in the quality of plastic Samsung uses and the Nokia/HTC ones. You just think they’re more premium just because you think the design is better. Flexible does not mean cheap.

Samsung has learned a lesson, and it’s to continue what they have been doing as it is clearly paying off. The HTC One might look great, but the SGSIV is going to outsell it 10:1 because people will recognise it when they see one.

All these years you hear Android fans mocking Apple’s designs and saying no innovation as they feel it hasn’t changed (which is completely wrong, but I won’t go there). Now Samsung does it and the phone looks exactly the same the only difference is Apple can actually make hardware and Samsung clearly can’t. Plastic (or Polycarbonate which is just a prettier word than plastic) is not innovation. Neither is simply making the display larger because you can’t fit the components in the size of the current phone.


So now using aluminum or glass is innovation? Gee, I didn’t know people only cared about which beer container material (plastic, aluminum, or glass) was used to determine innovativeness. FYI, Apple made their display bigger and the phone itself taller with the iPhone 5. Hypocrisy right there.


Aluminum doesn’t make the phone inherently better. Harder to make != innovation. I could invent a less efficient heat engine and that would not be innovation.
Uh… the design did change. Different shape, home button, camera, sides, size, thickness, etc. Plastic is not a poor material. There’s nothing to say it’s better or worse overall than glass or aluminum.
I didn’t say that the S4 was an innovative revolution and neither did I consider the iPhone 5 the pinnacle of innovation.
Only according to Apple’s press releases does 1080p not matter. Basically every review site on the planet has praised 1080p as better than the usual 300 ppi displays.


Just look around at the numerous comments, even the Samsung fans able to admit that the design has remained largely the same – the defence being that they like it.


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None of the comments are mine. I just posted them or excerpts from them for your reading pleasure. Please don't complain TL:DR

Probably that's why I typically like to consume braised chitterlings yummy.

This post has been edited by joytest: Mar 14 2013, 08:50 PM

And I'd (and a host of others) be using that to extrapolate what goodness might come our way for the Note 3. I hope it is savory.

Both esteemed uncles

Yes the Note 2 is unparalleled at this point, and even in the near term perhaps, since if you read the thread, we're all almost bored to tears since there's nothing bad to discuss It's like just your BAU support with no new incidents.

We're now basically nitpicking about battery life.

Until 4.2.x comes along.....

IMHO, after taking 5.3", 5.5", anything smaller just won't cut it anymore for me. Something smaller than 7" and pocketable will be perfect for me.

If you see most of the review about displays, they are all using a MICROSCOPE to show you the pixel or subpixel arrangement. So 720p is already good enough for a lot of use cases, but of course we are all greedy for 1080p, and more as it comes along.

As it is, I don't think it is a proper comparison in watching video, whether 720p or 1080p, on a 7" or smaller device, against watching it on a 32" or larger TV meant for that sort of thing.

Butterfly was the 1st 1080p screen device IINM, so that was their selling point. Note 2, it is possible on the one hand Samsung wanted to milk 720p for all it was worth, and just upgrade the CPU and RAM (which IMHO was already worthwhile), or they actually had problems with 1080p on AMOLED, OR Wacom coulnd't provide a 1080p digitizer as yet.

Anyway, since this is the S4 discussion, it will be interesting to see what is forthcoming for the next Note

You blurry eyed lor

I'm quite sure it makes a difference.

I posted a link to XDA on Note 2 topic post 8, where this guy achieved 10hrs SOT. God knows how he did it.

So maybe teckyang97 is NOT HUMAN !!!! So he can't use phones Designed for Humans™


Perhaps your subject matter is not interesting enough to women leh If you were showing off nice cars or macho films I guess they didn't give a damn....maybe some chick flick or flowers or whatever they like would have caused them to notice it immediately.

Women can remember what pattern of stripe is on other women's dresses and how many buttons on the design of shoes, to which (most) men are completely blind.

This post has been edited by joytest: Mar 15 2013, 12:17 AM

Oooo

On which device is that bro?

I'll add that to N2 post 8. Since you say "some time ago", I'll just reference as today

absolutely bro, there's been nothing bad to discuss in the Note 2 topic, so we go OT quite a bit

It's called marchitecture for the marketeers to spin their thing. I don't put much trust in marketeers.

2x4 = 4, not 8

I have no complaints about the equation since it's 4 hi performance and 4 power saving cores for different uses.

Well the sad truth is people can't "see" this as visible "innovation" they have to see it......; they don't understand spec sheets....