Samsung Galaxy Note - Is it too big??

"The Samsung GALAXY Note is the first phone to go over the 5-inch screen mark with its 5.3-inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of the whopping 800 x 1280 pixels (WXGA), resulting in pixel density of 285ppi. It also stands out with its built in stylus and apps supporting pen input. Under the hood, a Samsung 1.4GHz dual-core chip powers Android 2.3 Gingerbread skinned with TouchWiz. The Galaxy Note also sports an 8-megapixel rear camera capable of 1080p video recording, while up front there is a 2-megapixel shooter".

Those are the specs for the upcoming Galaxy note. Here we are where most people think my phone (The Galaxy S2) is huge and along comes the 'Note" what are they going to say to that?? Damn that things huge??. I must say that the spec's are nice and i am sure they might even get better by the time this "little" thing gets to us State side as we saw with the Galaxy S2. You can bet there will be 4 touch sensitive buttons along the bottom instead of the one large home button. Samsung has already said that they would be releasing ICS for the note so not to worry.

As they say what is old will become new again and here we see it in the stylus. Here i thought that gone were the day of the old Palm hand helds with the stylus and that we had moved on to complete touch screens. But i guess really there is only so much you can do with the tips of your fingers. The functionality of the stylus looks great and they even have a couple games pre-installed on the note that takes advantage of the stylus. So will you want a "Note " in your pocket this year?? Does this replace your need to carry both a tablet and a phone??
please feel free to leave your comments and thought at the bottom
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Change of Phone and Carrier

Well as with all of us we are all trying to save a penny here and a penny there so to do that i decided to switch carriers and move from Big Red to TMO. After much debate and asking the opinion of some friends I found myself at T-Mobile.

Went from the Droid Bionic to the great Galaxy S2. Man this phone is a nice, so fast and boots up quickly. It packs a dual core 1.5 Ghz, 1GB Ram and comes with 16 Gigs of on board storage. SO i dropped my 32 gig micro sd card and im good to go. Blazing fast no issues, well apart from the touch whiz which on this phone is not so bad and there are a few trick with this phone like the tilt to move and voice talk which allows you to do almost everything on the phone with just talking to it. You can even wake it up by either tapping the top of the phone or saying "hi Galaxy" it then prompts you to say a command. It's awesome and really comes in handy when driving.

OK i always tell myself with every new phone that i will not root it and i usually hold out for a few weeks but with my friends getting the Galaxy Nexus i was compelled to Root it and get ICS on there which i did. Not the full ICS experience but close enough some of the best elements of it anyway like swipe to clear notifications, text messaging , the cool blue colors and the Roboto fonts. Needless to say i'm cool with this phone and although my friends will laugh in my face when i say i see myself hanging on to this phone for a good while i really do believe i can hold out but then again only time will tell.

Back Again

Well its been a long time and I have not been doing what i said I would but thats what New Years Resolutions are for. So starting now i promise to keep this site updated.

Well what has happened in the past few months?? Galaxy Nexus has come and gone and everyone else is stuck waiting for the release of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) we were all promised that after the release of the code that within a few months we would see it trickle out to the rest of phones but as we all know how that goes. We hear first quarter so of course that means by April OMG, i have to say that's one thing Apple has up on android is when they have an update it goes out to all on the same day no waiting around.

Another thing i'm worrying about is when we do eventually get the ICS update it wont look as clean and polished as the Galaxy Nexus but with all this skinning and overlay like Touch Whiz, Blurr, and Sense. I thought this Version was to bring all together?? There is a leaked version of ICS for the European version of ICS for the Galaxy S2 and from the Youtube videos that I have seen it still looks like Touch Whiz, granted this is the leaked version and hopefully some of that will change. I do hope however that they keep the face unlock feature.

Well that's enough ranting for one post i should save some for the next .....until next time

Live and Learn

Google and Samsung delay announcement of Nexus Prime

Well some sad news for those that were looking forward to the big announcement on tuesday Oct 11th like i was. Samsung and Google have decided to delay the new with the following statement "We agree that it is just not the right time to announce a new product. New date and venue will be shortly announced."
This is what i think, with the news and features of the new iPhone 4S Google and Samsung have decided to revamp the software of Ice Cream Sandwich to compete with IOS 5 ( Or at least i Hope)
Android already has great voice features but they are not up to par with SIRI so they of course will try to upgrade the features. Yeahhh for competition.
What features do you want to see in the new Ice Cream Sandwich Android release??
Leave comments below

Will you get the iPhone 4S

So with the pending launch of the iPhone 4S who's on board to get this phone?? Is it enough chnage for you to use up that coveted "upgrade"?? will you be surprised when they launch the real Iphone 5 sometime next year? ( you know they will). or will you hold out for now and see what next year will bring?? The best deal right now is the $99.00 Iphone 4 as it will be getting the IOS 5 update anyway, so you get most of the new features just that you wont have the SIRI assistant and the 1080p video, 8mp cam. Some things to think about.

As always leave your comments and thoughts below

Xbox 360 Or PS3??

Ok guys big news on the home front, my lovely wife has allowed me to get a new TV yeahhhhh!!!. Anyway keeping in budget we went out and got a nice 60 inch ( yeah i said 60) i was willing to get the 50 but she said no. so 60 it is. Anyway with that on the way i think its time to take back up some gaming. I have had both the xbox 360 and the PS3 before and now i want to get back a console. So do i go with Xbox with the great Kinect or do i go with PS3? Somethings to keep in mind, I already have a blu ray player so that's not a plus for me on the PS3, I have a boxee box for my netflix, and media, so i think what it comes down to will be game play. I love the fact that i dont need a controller to play the xbox, PS3 has their thing to the move but you do have to hold the controller kinda like a wii remote. I do have 2 kids and i'm sure they will want to play on either one.
SO i put it out to you guys give me your thoughts pros and cons if you may on which one i should get.

Thx for your help

Thunderbolt Gingerbread Update....Finally???

HTC Thunderbolt's long-awaited Gingerbread OTA update. It was finally rolling out, which was exciting news for owners of the device -- until it had to be pulled because of some rather significant bugs. The largest of them all was that voicemail notifications no longer worked properly; video chatting through Google Talk was also slightly messed up as well. No word on when we can expect to see it come back with those bugs fixed. Sorry Bobby for pushing you so quickly to get the update hope you are'nt have these problems. We will still have TANGO though.....:-)

Ready for the iPhone Event 2011

Just a reminder of when and where the event will be going on so stay tuned

07:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
01:00PM - Eastern
06:00PM - London
07:00PM - Paris
09:00PM - Moscow
02:00AM - Tokyo (October 5th)

Should I stick with the Bionic??

Ok i love the Bionic so far and have always wanted the next best thing and now i'm there again. iPhone News to be announced tomorrow, Nexus Prime and Vigor all sound so nice. I am pulling my hair out trying to decide if i should take back the bionic as i do have 2 days left before my 14 days are up. OMG i have a disease its called techitis. I will wait to see what the iPhone news is all about and then we will see. Nexus is going to be awesome but 4.5 screen?? i think that one might be too big for me the specs will we great for sure but sooooooo big. The only reasoning behind staying with the bionic and i hope i'm right is since Google bought Moto that we should hopefully not wait ling to see updates as i am looking forward to the Ice Cream Sandwich. Android fans need something to blow apple out the water and I am hoping that Google can come out with some awesome stuff. Well i guess you guys will find out what i decide to do in a few days.

1 Week using the Droid Bionic

Well its been a week using the Lovely Droid Bionic and i must say i have had some fun. Ok lets start with the overall look. It looks great, sleek and fun to hold not alot of difference from my Droid X, except the camera hump is not as pronounced. weight is awesome i expected it to be heavier buy i put it up against my co-workers Thunderbolt and a huge difference. No putting in the extended battery did add some weight to it but again i weighed the Thunderbolt with it regular battery and my Bionic with the extended battery and the Thunderbolt is 6.4oz and the Bionic 6.5oz so a BIG difference there.
Operations overall were smooth, fast and the screen looked great. Snappy and transitions were great. Ran Speed test indoors with about 2-3 bars and got between 13.5-15.5 Mbps on the download and 3.5-6.5 on the upload.(just ran it while i was typing and got 15.99 down and 11.73 up. so great on the speed. I was very excited to get the phone as then i could do video calling but then hit a slump as my wife's DINC2 was having issues. Every app we downloaded to try would have us upside in the camera. it was crazy. eventually i'll get the wife a Bionic and we should be good but in the mean time TANGO seems to work the best.
The only problem i seem to have is that when ever i pull the battery app of my home screen disappear i called customer service and they are aware of it and Moto is working in a fix to come out in November. If you have any questions drop me a comment and i will try and answer for you