Galaxy Note Review

[leemajors]

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/22/samsung-galaxy-note-review.html


The onscreen keyboard Samsung built into the Note, to allow for input with its "S-Pen" stylus, is excruciating for thumb typists. Its errant autocorrect changed "tweets" to "sweets" but left a standalone "i" uncapitalized, but refused to butt out when I was trying to delete its mistakes. You don't type on this thing so much as you duel with it. By default, it vibrates with every keypress, as if we haven't already been using touchscreen phones for the last five years.

I imagine this could be remedied with Swype, Swiftkey, or something similar?

[lefty]

Leemajors

Off-topic here, but have jailbroken your iPhone after the iOS 5 update ?


(TBH I haven't)

If yes, why?

Lockescreen/theme customization?
SBsettings?
Apptrackr ?

[leemajors]

I have not, I don't really want to take the time to mess with it very much. Too busy playing Scramble with Friends and trying to keep my arcade Fruit Ninja score above my daughter's.

[Drachen]

yeah, just change keyboards, there are literally at least a hundred of them (I would probably go with swiftkey instead of swype because of the size). Also, haptic feedback is default on every phone I have messed with. Also a quick fix.

[leemajors]

yeah, just change keyboards, there are literally at least a hundred of them (I would probably go with swiftkey instead of swype because of the size). Also, haptic feedback is default on every phone I have messed with. Also a quick fix.

I just wonder why Samsung insisted on something that sounds so annoying when there are better options available.

[Drachen]

"hey, let's not put a lot of effort into this thing that 95% of the people are going to switch to swype anyway"

- just a guess LOL

[lefty]

I have not, I don't really want to take the time to mess with it very much. Too busy playing Scramble with Friends and trying to keep my arcade Fruit Ninja score above my daughter's.
Yeah I haven't either and don't think I will


However yesterday I jailbroke my nephew's iPod 4th gen (i used ultrasnow)

Shit, I hope someone will upate jailbreakme.com (Comex was hired by Apple), so much easier

[hater]

^ :lmao

[lefty]

^ :lmao
elaborate

[TeyshaBlue]

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/22/samsung-galaxy-note-review.html



I imagine this could be remedied with Swype, Swiftkey, or something similar?

It's literally a 10 second task to disable predictive text and haptic feedback. Poor little fella. He needs to do something that's not so hard.

[Heath Ledger]

Ive jailbroken my 4s and experienced some severe battery drain with either intelliscreen x or myassistant apps running i uninstalled them

[lefty]

Ive jailbroken my 4s and experienced some severe battery drain with either intelliscreen x or myassistant apps running i uninstalled them
oh boy

Any tool on Cydia to fix that ?

[Heath Ledger]

there was something labeled battery fix but i didnt download it.

[lefty]

there was something labeled battery fix but i didnt download it.
ah ok

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Iphoners lol

[lefty]

Iphoners lol
lol android
lol unstable OS
lol battery lags
lol having to download app killers and shit
lol fragmented platform

[Halberto]

lol android
lol unstable OS
lol battery lags
lol having to download app killers and shit
lol fragmented platform



you are so strange, do you work for apple or something? My iphone has troubles with apps too. Scramble, words hanging with friends ALWAYS fucks up. Battery problems? Iphone just as comparable. App killer program? Hell, at least they've got that option.

[leemajors]

you are so strange, do you work for apple or something? My iphone has troubles with apps too. Scramble, words hanging with friends ALWAYS fucks up. Battery problems? Iphone just as comparable. App killer program? Hell, at least they've got that option.

double click the home button, hold down an icon and then click the little red X to kill open apps. pretty simple.

[lefty]

you are so strange, do you work for apple or something? My iphone has troubles with apps too. Scramble, words hanging with friends ALWAYS fucks up. Battery problems? Iphone just as comparable. App killer program? Hell, at least they've got that option.
Is your phone jailbroken ?

[Halberto]

double click the home button, hold down an icon and then click the little red X to kill open apps. pretty simple.


Im aware of that. If I jail break my phone, doesn't that void the warranty? Im apprehensive to do that considering it's a company phone.

[leemajors]

Im aware of that. If I jail break my phone, doesn't that void the warranty? Im apprehensive to do that considering it's a company phone.

Technically, yes. But you can just restore it before you send or take it in and there will be no evidence of a jailbreak.

[lefty]

What happened to the main topic? :D

[Viva Las Espuelas]

double click the home button, hold down an icon and then click the little red X to kill open apps. pretty simple.

Less steps on an android. Plus I don't need no stinking buttons.

[leemajors]

Less steps on an android. Plus I don't need no stinking buttons.

two presses and then holding the button for 2 seconds vs using an app to kill apps?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I have an Android phone and it takes one hit on the home button then a couple quick touches on the screen to kill any apps, takes like three seconds. You people are fucking weird

[Cant_Be_Faded]

But at least siri can call you rock god

[leemajors]

But at least siri can call you rock god

:lol

[lefty]

But at least siri can call you rock god

:lol

[Drachen]

:)

[Viva Las Espuelas]

two presses and then holding the button for 2 seconds vs using an app to kill apps?

Well its not a dedicated App. Its actually a widget. It has what apps are active, download history(yes, in androids you can download apps AND pretty much whatever you want to download........................without having to be connected to another machine and transfer it to your phone immediately), a RAM manager, storage levels indicator(SD cards) and a tutorial to save battery life. Its a widget I could pretty much put anywhere on the phone. Not a permanent physical one like yours.

Your turn

Oh and I just need two taps to execute it.

[leemajors]

Well its not a dedicated App. Its actually a widget. It has what apps are active, download history(yes, in androids you can download apps AND pretty much whatever you want to download........................without having to be connected to another machine and transfer it to your phone immediately), a RAM manager, storage levels indicator(SD cards) and a tutorial to save battery life. Its a widget I could pretty much put anywhere on the phone. Not a permanent physical one like yours.

Your turn

Oh and I just need two taps to execute it.

Ahh, didn't know it was a widget. Or that widgets were somehow not applications.

[leemajors]

Does anyone have a note?

[stretch]

two presses and then holding the button for 2 seconds vs using an app to kill apps?

don't really even need to access the app. it can literally be one press, and thats it, everything is closed and you have 400 more MB of free RAM

[stretch]

Or that widgets were somehow not applications.

Some widgets aren't applications. Such as clocks. They can serve the purpose of simply making the home screens look nicer without having any other functions.

[resistanze]

I know in Ice Cream Sandwich it's built in. For my Galaxy S2 I hold the home button (as opposed to the on screen button on the Nexus) for a second then i can swipe away apps.

[TheNextGen]

i cant believe there still making stuff for 2.3

[TheMACHINE]

lol android
lol unstable OS
lol battery lags
lol having to download app killers and shit
lol fragmented platform

All solved in 4.0. (except for battery life)

I have yet to downlaod an app killer on my Galaxy Nexus since they have a multitask window at the bottom. Simply swipe away the ones you are done using.

[leemajors]

Some widgets aren't applications. Such as clocks. They can serve the purpose of simply making the home screens look nicer without having any other functions.

All widgets are by definition applications.

[TheMACHINE]

All widgets are by definition applications.

i agree with lee. These are apps that are constantly running to improve efficiency.

[TheMACHINE]

i only use a couple of widgets.

-Power/Screen Brightness/GPS/Wifi bar (so eay to toggle on and off)
-One touch dialing for important contacts (love it)
-Google Calender Widget (shows my schedule without opening an app)

[leemajors]

i only use a couple of widgets.

-Power/Screen Brightness/GPS/Wifi bar (so eay to toggle on and off)
-One touch dialing for important contacts (love it)
-Google Calender Widget (shows my schedule without opening an app)

I saw this about the best dialers for Android, do you use this one?

http://lifehacker.com/5887599/the-best-speed-dialer-for-android

[Drachen]

I saw this about the best dialers for Android, do you use this one?

http://lifehacker.com/5887599/the-best-speed-dialer-for-android

from what I am reading this functionality is built into the sense dialer

[leemajors]

I don't use widgets at all on any of my computers either, I never really understood the appeal.

[TheMACHINE]

I don't use widgets at all on any of my computers either, I never really understood the appeal.

i love the widgets....

Here's a screen shot (yes, ICS has Screen shot capture) of my Direct Dialing widget and Toggle Bar Widget. These are all Android based widgets, not 3rd party:

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab177/LMAOxROFL/Screenshot_2012-02-24-10-47-01.png

Its just pretty much icons of your contacts that you want to instant dial.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Yeah. You really don't need an App killer for android. Simply back
out of the App and it automatically shuts down.

Physical home button l:loll

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I don't use widgets at all on any of my computers either, I never really understood the appeal.

Never really understood the appeal of apps? :wakeup

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Anyone have a an actual Samsung galaxy note review? This thing looks sweet

[lefty]

Oh and I just need two taps to execute it.

I kill all my apps with 1 tap

Beat that ....

[Drachen]

I kill all my apps with 1 tap

Beat that ....

Power button doesn't count silly.

[CuckingFunt]

I just give my phone a threatening glance, tbh.

[lefty]

Power button doesn't count silly.
:depressed

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I kill all my apps with 1 tap

Beat that ....

Nah. All that does is get it off the screen. Doesn't stop the App.