battery could be better but other then that i love it!
The design is very sleek & elegant, yet stylish and ergonomic. Camera is great, audio is a blast, incredibly fast phone. This is my first HTC handset but it makes me want to try other series :) 2 thumbs up!
Great screen, incredible design, same ol nokia perfection when it comes to default phone features (like phone reception and build quality). App selection is really lacking......but it catching up. So if you are looking for a really good (not decent) i mean good then you cant go wrong. I know there is no infinity blade. But you atleast got the harvest. Oh yeah and one more thing, the zune desktop app sucks a@#
operating system is smooth no lag even tho it doesnt have widgets its alot better than android plus battery last longer
NOKIA Lumia 900 has best realised the motto of windows phone metro design. Design for people
's emotion rather than techy list of features. Nokia added naother emoitonal satisfaction with a frank and supper responsive service after release. Users will have a full confidence on Nokia that they will always have the best and uptodated smartphone as lonf as staying with Nokia and Lumia 900. very satisfied ao far and lack of certain key apps are already forgotten... I am willing to change my behavior if Nokia keeps it htis good.
My S2 is fast easy to use, battery last the whole day, no prombles at all....
in general, its various aspects show extremely splendid
The Lumia 900's beautiful screen can never be described by pictures and text alone. Apprently, the screen's so bright and sharp, the low resolution didnt matter, the Lumia made the most of them. On paper, the iPhone 4S wipes the floor against the 900, but the 900 beat it in many aspects of everyday life.
Battery life: With a respectful and light OS, and a single core made the 900 save the most power, the single core did more than a dual core can do on a heavy Android OS, which proves how impressive the OS is, in fact, with a HTC One X as my mates' newest phone and my dad's iPhone 4S, both struggled by nightfall, my Lumia stayed at 40%, even with entensive texting, 3G (Aussie) internet, Facebook and a whole Lord of the Rings movie. Amazing battery life for a average teen.
Screen: As mentioned before, the real resolution is a bummer, but were comparing with the iPhone 4S sideon, its hard to fault the Lumia, the screen is bright and clear even under full Aussie sunlight, while the iPhone struggled with full-on reflecting glare that pissed my girlfriend off. As a quick test, I put a HD photo of a Lavender farm I took last Christmas with a Canon on both devices (my dad's iphone, in case you get suspicious) and put it sideon, the Lumia displayed bright purple petals, bright green leaves from the trees in the background, and a light, clean blue sky, a beauty to look at. The iPhone can be commended in its high pixel-density screen, but the picture appeared dark and pale, which was a disspointment, because its screen was one of its selling-points.
Call/reception: Solid and typical of a Nokia phone, famous for decades for its over the moon call quality and reception, even in the city-centre of Sydney, (dad had to borrow the Lumia while in the city, the iPhone displayed one/two bars often in the city)
Camera: Good solid pictures, but one area beaten by the iPhone and its Windows Phone rival, the Titan II. The 8-mp camera did its job well, but due to my high expections from Nokia's famous high-quality camera phones, it could've being better, the pictures appeared a bit plain indoors, while the iPhone lit up the room with spectacular colour contrast.
Design: Different, sexy, noticable in the sea of black and white, the phone looked like a jewel when held up to your ear, the cyan instantly attracted attention while on the train, the thin and a odd but effective placing of the power button allowed me to unlock the phone without moving my hands. The ploycarbonate and gorrila glass armor felt clean and light, it felt it won't have a scratch if I dropped it. It didnt't when it fell down a whole staircase (not carpeted)
Apps/media support: The marketplace feels dwarfed with 80000 apps, while IOS is booming with 600000 apps. I missed some apps on IOS, but I just loved the interface, the live tiles displayed slideshows of pictures, it showed the news headlines, picture profiles from Facebook, remembered plans of a new laptop (anyone wants to try the Zenbook?) I?m saving up to buy, just a great break from the icon lines I got so tired of. Music service I have nothing to fault, nothing can be lost here, the music app with a beauty, it displayed pictures of the artist in the background, and panes with your finger, giving a sense of motion.
Overall, a worthy phone to prove that you are different from the other people, it proves how sexy and beautiful you are as a lady, it proves your prowess and hotness as a man, those beautiful tiles change to reflect your personality, your snaps of your future bride or husband light up on the Lumia?s pop-like screen, the home screen is never the same when you look back, and people will surely notice, as the Windows Phone OS and Nokia Lumia 900 hardware can be said to be a match made in Heaven and made in Hell destined for the looka-likes.
its not a smartphone, its a phone for smart people :)
I no longer use the DX2 as my daily driver. I've replaced it with the RAZR Maxx in February shortly after it was released. I will say that my experiences with the DX2 was absolutely fantastic. First dual core phone on Big Red. It was super fast and snappy at the time. However, the lack of LTE was the only downfall I found for me. I loved the form factor, feel in hand, and the bright and crisp display of the DX2. I love my new RAZR Maxx, but sometimes every now and again, I wish I was still rockin' my DX2.
looks awesome, it does everything you need, lots of apps, and so many cases/bumpers styles available to protect the phone :) never had any problems with it
Comng from WM 6.5, this Honeycomb baby ticks all the boxes. 2 months in and I haven't explored all of its potential. Great phone, great mini-tablet, easy to use, logically set outm and the s-pen adds much versatility and a 'human' tough I missed on my HD2
Here's some things you should know before I write this review, and some of it is going to be on the iPhone (if you'd prefer to skip just search for Display1). These are things relevant because they contributed to why I upgraded to the Galaxy Note. I also work at best buy, and more recently in best buy mobile so I am well entrenched in the cell phone world. Also I'm an avid reader of tech news and follow pretty much any major announcement made when it comes to cell phones. And finally I had the iphone 4 for 2 years.
The main reason I'd chosen the iPhone previously was that I got sucked into the hype (primarily) and wanted something better than a blackberry. Being that android was still a burgeoning operating system with a lot of potential but plagued with issues; I went with the iPhone, a phone and OS that worked seamlessly together and had amazing support for accessories and docks and anything a person could want.
However after the honeymoon phase had worn off I found some issues with my phone. The screen was small, the speeds becoming more lackluster as I was stuck with 3G in a world quickly upgrading to 4G, a home button that would sporadically not work for multi-tasking (admittedly this happened near the end of the two years), and a speaker that made it necessary to have a dock because listening to it was near impossible in a room with any noise.
So I set my eyes on the horizon with a couple basic requirements for my next phone: Fast processor (preferably dual-core), LTE support, bigger screen, better battery life, and do it all without sacrificing what I'd come to enjoy about my iPhone (battery life, etc.).
Nothing seemed capable of meeting these high requirements though. The HTC Vivid came close but with a heavy casing and an amazing resolution but poor color depth it was ruled out; and the Samsung Skyrocket came close to meeting expectations but the resolution was terrible on such a big phone I continued to hold off and started to think I was stuck with the iPhone for at least another generation and considered waiting for the iPhone 5.
Then I watched Aaron's 30 day challenge where he had the Samsung Galaxy Note and quickly found that this phone, which I'd previously written off due to it's gigantic screen size, actually did meet all my requirements and more.
Display1:
The screen and display on this phone are amazing. I played an episode of Top Gear on it recently with the volume cranked and could hear it easily all around my house (even while doing stuff) and it looked stunning! I love everything about the screen.
Reception and Call Quality:
I haven't had any issues in this department and consistently find the HSPA+ radio faster than my works bogged down network. Only issue I might bring up is the screen timeout; unlike the iPhone where the screen would turn back on after you pulled it away from your face, the screen on the phone is actually locked and requires you to unlock it to end the call. More than a little annoying with no physical 'end call' button to resort too.
Battery Life:
Samsung was smart to make sure they didn't skimp on the battery they put in this behemoth, afterall it would be needing to power a giant screen, dual core processor, and an lte radio all at once so they put in a 2500 MaH battery. For all intents and purposes it's a decent battery and gives you good battery life that'll last all day with light to moderate use. This phone isn't designed for light to moderate use though. It's designed for someone who needs to be on their phone for e-mails, reading, or media like netflix. And pulling off the back of the phone reveals plenty of extra space where they could have easily fit in a 3000 MaH battery to give you that little bit extra that you need. However if you are a light to moderate user and are near enough to an outlet that charging isn't an issue, the 2500 battery is good enough.
Design/Form Factor:
This phone is dead sexy, especially in white. Between the white front and back, the chrome look in the middle, to the camera and stylus on the bottom it is an eye catcher. But there is a disadvantage to all that screen real estate and it's that you can't use the phone with just one hand, and if you do expect to be fixing mistakes because you couldn't quite reach what you were trying to reach with your thumb. I feel like the phone needs a wrist tether on it to attach it to you since you can't hold it like a normal phone to get to all the buttons with one hand. Barring that issue (or just using both hands) the design is sexy. And if you take into account that android easily supports things like speech to text, and a samsung program similar to siri called Voicetalk where you can launch apps, it's not that big of a deal. I also changed the layout of my apps to better fit how I hold my phone. By making folders and keeping everything on the right side of the phone it makes it a lot easier to reach things and allows the background to shine through more.
Apps & Media Support:
I'm going to go through media support first and cover apps second. Samsung offers a photo editor on this phone that is amazing and does a lot more than the iPhone does natively for photo editing. And with support for features like allshare, a media piece that allows you to access content from your computer and play it on your phone or send it to a samsung smart tv (which is awesome by the way) the media function is in the bag. The galaxy note also comes pre-installed with Google Music, a music service that allows up to 20,000 of your personal songs to be uploaded and accessed from anywhere at no charge. The interface for google music is a little limited while in the app but works perfectly as a widget. Also while it's not technically media, I still want to cover the samsung specific software pieces like S Memo and the touchwiz adaptations for this phone. S Memo is a novelty item, that while cool, is hardly useful. And I really only use the stylus when I need a little more accuracy than my fat fingers can provide. However the new look to samsung's calender app, as well as the landscape layout for email and text messages (imagine outlook with the list of emails on the left, and the actual contents opened on the right) is amazing and continues to awe people and makes it extremely easy for me to switch between multiple messages easily.
Then there are the apps. Being that it's android nearly every app i've used has had no issues and I continue to be amazed by the way the apps interact with each other and the phone. When I go to share a photo I am giving tons of options, and not limited like I was with the iPhone. However being that it is Android and there's the issue of fragmentation (where there are so many different types of phones from many different manufacturers running several different versions of android) not all of them work perfectly or at all. Redlaser, a favorite app on my iphone for price comparisons, crashes and refuses to work. Other apps like Xfinity and Epicurious don't use the entire screen real estate and scream that everything that makes this phone seem perfect, it is still just one more piece of fragmentation in the Android ecosystem.
Final Thoughts:
If you've made it this far, I appreciate it. I know this review was long-winded. The Samsung Galaxy Note is an amazing phone with many features that make it the perfect choice for anyone who needs access to media, e-mails, or just wants a bigger screen but is hampered by it's screen size at times, and the fragmentation of the android ecosystem. I am more than happy to have it and have no regrets about getting rid of my iPhone, i'd make the choice again, but it is good to be informed.
Form factor is the first WOW impression the phone gives off--not the last. Nokia's industrial design is fantastic, as is build quality. OS interface is intuitive and very responsive. No lack of useful apps in reality but more on their way. Battery life is very good. Speakers are loud and clear. Display is the best, indoors or out!
It is very response when accomplishing task and the display is impressive.I have no problems with phone calls while holding the phone to my ear or using blue tooth. Battery life could stand to improve. The device is a little on big side so you definitely should hold it in your hand before making a decision to purchase it. This is my second HTC device and it was a HUGE risk because I was disappointed in my previous one. But, I am more than satisfied with my choice.
To Metro Pcs,
On April 25th, 2012 I went to inquire about purchasing a new phone at the Metro
PCS store at 86-24 Rockaway Beach Blvd FAR ROCKAWAY QUEENS. I expressed my interest in a phone that
has a built in router because where I work in Queens there is no internet
service. I was told that the LG CONNECT 4G phone that I bought had a built in router.
I went to work on April 28th all happy to show off my new phone to my
co-workers & to my embarrassment, when I went to view a video on YouTube, no
internet service. My co-workers who have AT&T,Verizon & Sprint have no problem
getting internet with their Iphones.
I could have bought a cheaper phone from your company instead of the most
expensive one ($400). I expressed to the salesperson & store manager that I
wanted a phone with a built in router & they assured me this phone had it.
When I called Metro PCS about my phone not connecting to the internet in
certain areas, the representative that I spoke to told me that the phone I
purchased didn't have a built in router & that they were sorry. I then went back
to the store & spoke to the manager about the wrong information that was told to
me by them at this store & wanted to know what can be done to rectify this
situation. Because of the 7 day or 60 minutes of talk time usage, whichever came
first, the sales associate informed me that I couldn't get my money back because
I used the phone for more than 60 minutes.
The purpose of this letter is to inform the consumer not to buy this expensive
phone the LG connect 4G. It's a waste of money! Now I am stuck with a phone
that I can't even use where there is no internet service (Wifi). Just buy the
cheapest phone from Metro PCS & just take advantage of their unlimited talk &
text plan. I cancelled my Sprint account for nothing. Thanks for nothing METROPCS!!!
FROM OZZIE
