btw, just for fun i was testing out both note 2 and 3 side by side.
launching apps i notice a weird pattern.
- built in apps (contacts, phones, settings etc) were almost all significantly faster to launch on note 3
- 3rd party apps varies, but usually quicker on the note 3. a few were almost equal.
- however the weird thing is - for games, i notice it launch faster on the note 2!! yeah i thought at first some kind of anomaly, but i repeated the test over many games but somehow note 2 remains faster to launch!
(some of the stuff i tried - montezuma 1,2,3, war games, birzzle, battlehearts etc) and where there are loading bars, they almost always finish faster on the note 2
obviously general usage, note 3 just feels more fluid and zippy overall. my unscientific test is just on testing launching of apps.