awwwww man, i wanted the octa core, but now with the s800 having LTE and 4kUHD, what's the point

NFC and wireless charging contacts at the sides....yeah.

And I notice the groove surrounding the entire battery cavity. Does this mean that it offers some splash resistance? This same groove and the ridge on the back cover are present in all phones with removable covers that are water proof   

if i wisely say
octa+lte, korea market want

about the LTE, Qualcomm always the 1st..

and if u bought LTE, they will auto detect..

i dont think all lags are caused by insufficient RAM

Lag caused by cpu waits and I/O waits, caused by bad code.

eh alex.. u wanna sold your G Pro and go for this?
and all lags is caused of user that like to install TRASH..
especially girls..
apa mcm wanna install, when they meet the lag den blame the phone...

FC = incompatible apps / badly coded apps
restarts / reboots = not RAM issue, mostly its bad codes or modem issues

where are you getting your statistics from man

i suggest reading note 2 to get an idea why most of this issues happen

Base on the 4K Video Playback and Record capability.

In my opinion, only the LTE version which run Snapdragon 800 is worth to get.

enlighten me plz what is wrong with the octa core in S4?

but if aosp then will lose all the spen and multiview features right? later sure gonna be in dilemma, wanna go aospa/aokp with all their features, per app dpi, HALO or stick with sammy based rom

Android is using java,which can run many program at once,iOS is using objective c,which is very strict with multitasking and always load one at a time,which gives its smoothness,for windows I do not know,but I installed closed to 200 apps on my n4,really barely noticeable lag

Depends on how user manage those apps I can say.

My note I is smoother than some of my friend's S3 with rubbish apps
+ I use greenify to optimize background service

i guess the price gonna be almost 3k right? With usb3.0, lte, 4k recording hmmm

Ram 3gb is really needed in note 3. Coz u can see a lot of bloatware from Samsung in s4, ady used up 1.1gb/1.7gb ram ady.. Which is not enough.. New note 3 will use a lot of things in s pen and multitasking and new features, so 3gb is just same as other brand 2gb ram performance without bloatware.

I/O speed would be faster

If Samsung uses their newly announced 3GB 20nm RAM then it would be LPDDR3

Galaxy note ii is LPDDR2

confirmed? waa that is quite cheap for a smartphone that has many features on it

I do think that ram increase speed too,but to be honest,before I get my nexus 4,I tried many phones demo unit,such as note 2,s3,HTC one,and a lot of device,all of them have noticeable lag,I tried the nexus 4,it was amazing,very smooth and everything,but who knows,when my mum get new set of note 2,its totally different performance than the demo one,I would say all the kids play with the demo unit,but the nexus didn't lag,don't know why lol,also one of the reason why I get nexus 4

I am Apple fan...but this note 3 never stop me for thinking to have it...nice with Gear...

haha.. still can install 3rd party apps from apps store la.. abang...

It wasn't gimmick at all... actually it has happen on old Iphone as well after upgrade iOS.. laggy like hell coz not enough memory & etc. Need to delete some apps & others file to make some space to new iOS & this the only option to avoid laggy are available....

When upgrade iOS / OS doesn't mean your phone automatically increased RAM, change to latest Proc & etc... This is a fact, either Apple or Android phone...

note 3 = resolved almost/all issue and update from S4 XD