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Buying tablet end of this year, need suggestion.

Hi,
I'm getting android tablet end of this year. Which one do you guys prefer?
Galaxy tab 3?
Asus transformer 2?
Or any suggestion.
Please leave comments as well. Thanks!
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sammy s 7.7

Too small.. I need 10"
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I've also been holding off from buying a tablet for a while. Was trying to grab a bargain touchpad but somehow i missed them all. Sold out and I'm not paying ridiculous over priced charges some people charging now on the bulk loads they bought.
Anyway, I'm thinking of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from all that I've seen. Perfect size and specs are mind blowing. 7.7 inches of Super AMOLED! Can't go wrong there.
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voyager_s said:
I've also been holding off from buying a tablet for a while. Was trying to grab a bargain touchpad but somehow i missed them all. Sold out and I'm not paying ridiculous over priced charges some people charging now on the bulk loads they bought.
Anyway, I'm thinking of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 from all that I've seen. Perfect size and specs are mind blowing. 7.7 inches of Super AMOLED! Can't go wrong there.
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7.7 maybe too small... someone suggested transformer 2, good spec. But I prefer tab 3. Tab has better screen and camera than asus.
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IFA live stream

Did I get it right we'll get the same features as the note 2 with the JB update?
I mean they've said we'll be able to sync all these new features acros the line(note 10.1, note 2 and SGS3(or was it the galaxy camera).
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Wim Wenders
I couldn't believe my eyes...
Wim Wenders testimonial of the Galaxy Note @IFA Berlin!
I've been following him since his first B/W '70 german movies...
...and...
I've been waiting for the galaxy note 10.1 release for the last months.
(Anyway I'd rather prefer a great artist wouldn't lend himself to commercial products )
BTW it wasn't much clear what galaxy note model he was holding and promoting...
Was it the GN 10.1? (It seemed a little too small for a 10.1 and too big for a phablet)

It was the galaxy note 2.
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Well the SGN10.1 Is Samsungs flagship product at this point. As such I would expect them to be doing all they can to get the software at its best as quickly as possible. That being said the Note2 isn't coming out till Q4 I believe.
CM10 is about ready to go for our device already but I believe you will lose use of the native spen apps like snote. I guess that would also mean losing split screen. Yeah JB will be smoother on this device but it really will be like going 120 instead of 100. Is the increase in speed worth the loss of functionality?
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I like the note as it is! no way am I loosing full functionality for CM 10. I've bought this for the S - Pen and its functions snote included. For the first time Since the SGS 3 I like stock just as it is. Can't believe I've said that after 2 years of excesive flashing of my Sgs.
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le_novo said:
I like the note as it is! no way am I loosing full functionality for CM 10. I've bought this for the S - Pen and its functions snote included. For the first time Since the SGS 3 I like stock just as it is. Can't believe I've said that after 2 years of excesive flashing of my Sgs.
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Yep at a certain point the tablet is fast enough.
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I feel that, I hate stock anything, but this seems the only way to go with the Note 10.1, I mean the thing .
If only we had a few more options for customization.

[Q] Have Note 10.1 Company buying another what you suggest?

Yep, I have a Galaxy Note 10.1 as a personal tablet. My employer has approved a me to get one for work. I already use my Note 10.1 for work stuff
I was wondering what would you guys suggest me get another 10.1 or something similar
I'll need data so one with a sim card and at least 10" screen
thanks
Nopes not really a lover of the iPad. lol
thanks
G

For productivity, the note is the best. You can check out the note 8.0 as well
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If i had the choice I would get either the note 10.1 or 8 with 3g, I am bias and cant see any other make worth getting,
If you are not in a rush wait and see what new version appears in the next few months.
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Thanks guys I have to get one soon, so I'm thinking of just getting another Note 10. With data this oneni have is 4G
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Other tablets with stylus

Soon i am planning to change tablet at the moment i hsve ipad 3 and the thing that i miss most is notes spen...
My question is is there some other tablets that have the same or better horsepower than note 10.1 and mandatory is to have precise stylus something at least comparable to spen.
Or is best choice for that still note 10.1.
Tablet screen shoud be in 10" range not interesred i 8"
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Note 10.1 still the only real contender...

I would give the series 7 Slate PC a real good look, it's a windows tablet and it costs a bit more but on the other hand you can run full MS office on it and that's a really good thing! The Microsoft Surface Pro have also a digitizer, then there's some Lenovo as well. No other with android as far as I know though.
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For surface pro i read about digitizer that it is not same quality as s pen.
I will use it for taking notes while studying. So i need precision with lots of formulas and graphs...
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ASUS announcement coming?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...-announcement-doesnt-really-tell-us-anything/
I don't know how soon you're looking to purchase, but this ASUS announcement looks interesting to me.
If it's an Android Transformer with both a digitizer pen and a keyboard dock, I'm definitely down.

tom_bombadill said:
For surface pro i read about digitizer that it is not same quality as s pen.
I will use it for taking notes while studying. So i need precision with lots of formulas and graphs...
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I've read that as well, the battery life is not at all what it is on the note either. The slate however is a Samsung product and as far as I can tell it has the same technology as the note. I use my note for the same purpose as you will by the way, and even though LectureNotes is awesome I think MS OneNote is quite good as well. The main advantage with the Slate is that it is both a tablet and a laptop one can use for Matlab (I know there's a mobile version for android but it's more for show really) and other PC applications. It's larger size is a disadvantage when it comes to using it as a tablet though.
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Also one of the things that pulls me toward note 10.1 is multiview. Lets say put pdf book on left side of the screen and notes app on the right and it is very convenient to work. Plus what i have seen on note that palm rejection option. Atm i have note 2 also (as visible from my signature) and it is awesome. But note 2 has just too small screen for the that task. It is ok for scribbling something fast but more extensive notes need larger screen. Note 8 still it is larger but personally i think that 10.1 is best size for that.
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tom_bombadill said:
Also one of the things that pulls me toward note 10.1 is multiview. Lets say put pdf book on left side of the screen and notes app on the right and it is very convenient to work. Plus what i have seen on note that palm rejection option. Atm i have note 2 also (as visible from my signature) and it is awesome. But note 2 has just too small screen for the that task. It is ok for scribbling something fast but more extensive notes need larger screen. Note 8 still it is larger but personally i think that 10.1 is best size for that.
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I use that feature alot as well, especially when doing math and other tasks where you want to have a PDF with the exercise up when writing. For other tasks the 10.1" is a bit to small for me at least. But I mean come on, you use the notes multitasking capabilites as an argument for it towards a windows based tablet? And since the series 7 has the same pen technology as the note it has the same palm rejection capabilites.
But it sounds like you've already made up your mind and If so, good for you! I love my Note, I would really have checked the series 7 out before buying one today but maybe that's just me.
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Just checked price is a bit high for slate 7.
And for excell and other things i have laptop with win so that is not the problem.
I think i made my mind note 10.1 here i come
Tnx for help to all that provided it
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tom_bombadill said:
Just checked price is a bit high for slate 7.
And for excell and other things i have laptop with win so that is not the problem.
I think i made my mind note 10.1 here i come
Tnx for help to all that provided it
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Since you get a laptop and a tablet in one I maybe would have gone for the slate, but that's because I could use an upgrade on my laptop and my back would appreciate not having to drag the two devices around in school. On the other hand one of the best thing with the note is that it's so easy to carry around and hold in the hands while reading..
Anyway, congratulations on your choice
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S-Pen

Hi guys. I use to have a galaxy note and I really enjoyed the S-Pen for its dawing abilities
i asked Samsung on twitter where I could buy a S pen for my S4 and they said its only for the note so I couldn't buy it..
do you know if the S-Pen works on the S4 & where I can order it?
big thanks!

S-pen does not work with the s4, you could try the c-pen samsung sells
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BlackDino said:
S-pen does not work with the s4, you could try the c-pen samsung sells
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Thanks, have you ever used the C-Pen? Seems to be much bigger than the S-Pen.

sdequant said:
Thanks, have you ever used the C-Pen? Seems to be much bigger than the S-Pen.
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Yes, it feels like a full sized pen
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Best buy sells OE replacement S-pens.
Now, I thought I saw video of some guy using a stylus on his S4 but maybe I'm mistaken.

My wife has a Note 2, spen from her note does not work on my Galaxy S4.
However I bought this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2293780
Works great do far after about a week or so of use.
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Just got my C-pen works fine :thumbup:
Especially goed for drowning, small buttons/big fingers
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I was killing some time last week at a Best Buy near a restaurant I was waiting on my wife to meet me at. They had just opened up their Samsung section in this location and I haven't been in a Best Buy in some time and decided to check it out.
They had the Note 2 and the 1st thing I did after trying the s pen was see if it worked on my S4 and it did not. Was kind of disappointed as the feel of the s pen on the Note was pretty amazing.

Yeah, and I just got a tweet from Samsung Belgium. they say the C-pen that was made for the S3 also isn't compatible with the S4 and that there's no stylus that Samsung made that is compatible with the S4... That's kinda dissapointing because I do want to draw on my S4, like I did on my old Note..
So any stylus suggestions are welcome ( and I did like the tiny size of the S-pen a lot.. )
thanks! :laugh:

The spen requires a dedicated digitizer on the screen. We don't have that, you can only use capacitive stylus types and trust me they suck.
Oh and you'll never be able to use them for pressure sensitivity like the spen..
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sdequant said:
Yeah, and I just got a tweet from Samsung Belgium. they say the C-pen that was made for the S3 also isn't compatible with the S4 and that there's no stylus that Samsung made that is compatible with the S4... That's kinda dissapointing because I do want to draw on my S4, like I did on my old Note..
So any stylus suggestions are welcome ( and I did like the tiny size of the S-pen a lot.. )
thanks! :laugh:
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The cpen works fine, kinda weird they would say that. You can even use the capacitive buttons
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What's even more odd than them saying they don't support the C or S Pens, is that I've just discovered settings hidden in the S4 specifically for the S Pen.
I was using the app ''QuickShortcutMaker" to see if it was possible to access the call blocking settings that Verizon hid... When lo and behold there they were.
I've spent the last hour online trying to figure out if the S4 supports it but it obviously doesn't.
Extra lame since the settings are there!!
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