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more I'm no phone expert so this is more just going to be an overview of the Note
3 and a comparison of my experiences with the Note 3 compared to my Galaxy S3
I think this is fairly applicable because I think a lot of people that have S3s might be kind of looking into
new phones now not necessarily upgrading yet but just kind of looking at what's
out there because they've had their phone for a little while the first thing you start noticing when using a Note 3
is the fact that it has a 5.7 in 1080P AMOLED display it looks beautiful and
it's huge this phone when compared to size is about six hard drives tall in
the body and about an SSD thick in the
body as well and that body houses some serious power with 3 gigs of RAM a 2.3
GHz quad core processor uh 32 or 64 GB
of memory depending on what model you get Android 4.0 Jelly Bean a 3200
milliamp hour battery a micr SD slot
which is actually nice because a lot of phones nowadays are coming without micr
SD slots because of influence from say Google or other sources a 13 megapixel
camera which happens to be able to take 4K video although it doesn't have image
stabilization and it's a phone so it's not exactly going to look as good as if
you took 4K video with a big professional camera and USB 3 .0 on the
bottom which back which is backwards compatible to USB 2.0 which is quite
handy if you do happen to lose that USB 3.0 cable coming from an S3 when I heard
the rumors about a Note 3 one of the features I was most excited about was
the leather back and then I figured out that it wasn't a leather back it was
definitely still a plastic back it is a plastic back that is made to look like
it feels like a leather back and it is still definitely a plastic back it does
have a more grainy texture than an S3 smooth back has and it has that fake
threading although you don't don't really feel it now as many of you are aware lately Samsung has been kind of
cheating on benchmarks a little bit when it detects a benchmark being run it will
kind of ramp up its CPU power and doesn't make a realistic score so we
won't be providing benchmarks for you guys now what we'll be doing is just
talking about experience in games now I haven't been a huge mobile gamer but
lately I've been jumping on the humble Android bundles and I've been playing
quite a bit on my S3 when I moved to the Note 3 to test it out unfortunately I
don't get to keep it it was a massive Improvement the increased screen size
was amazing and I don't have any problems with it because I do have larger hands and have no problem
utilizing the phone in playing Raiden the increase screen size was just
perfect because that game it seems to be more designed for a larger screen size
in general so having a larger phone made a really big Improvement and not only
that but the Note 3 was much faster and was very noticeably smoother than my S3
moving to Bloons TD5 I noticed way later in the game when there was a lot of
balloons on the screen it made a big difference being on the Note 3 because
it was much smoother gameplay experience and I noticed my S3 chopping quite a bit
and in both of these games and in everything else I've actually checked out the screen on the Note 3 was much
more vibrant and looked a lot better before the Note 3 I've never had
extensive experience using a pen on a phone before I started with the Nexus S
and then I moved to a Samsung S3 so the main thing I noticed was Air Command it
was a nice really easy to use system because right when you take your phone
out it's right there and if you don't want to use it you press anywhere else in the screen it just goes away and my
favorite feature within Air Command was pen window I thought this was absolutely
fantastic because you just draw a square or whatever kind of shape you want
wherever select what application you want to be in that shape and it will
just work it'll be right there so the main two things I noticed that it was
useful for was if I'm browsing the web and I just kind of want to have a song
up or whatever I can open up YouTube in a little square just very easily
manipulate it move it around shove it out of the way make it small make it big
whatever I want and then it's it's I find it easier than multitasking because
it's much more easy to manipulate now the other thing that I found really nice
was say you're reading an email that email has a whole bunch of different numbers in it and you need to manipulate
it in some way so you need to add a whole bunch of stuff up you can just pen
window a calculator onto your screen make it as big or small as you want and
then that's a super easy and simple way to do it there's a bunch of other functionality in Air Command that might
be useful to you as well but my favorite one was pen window next up we have the
camera and as quite a few of you know I'm not exactly the best cameraman so I
had Boll or Brandon take the photos and video for me what I noticed is that in
NVIDIA and photo the Note 3 definitely has much more sharpening than the S3 now
if that's something you want or don't want I'm not entirely sure and that's more of a preference thing so you might
like that idea or dislike that idea but that is definitely something I've
noticed I've noticed in other people's test shots as well S Voice left a little
bit to be desired especially when Google Now is sitting there on its own pedestal
it it it was not nearly as responsive and not nearly as helpful and didn't
have some of the features that I really like one of my favorite things about Google now is that it will respond to
you when you try to ask it a question so you can do it basically handsfree and
without looking at it with SVO you can
talk to it but you still have to look at the screen to figure out what's actually
going on which is not really that intuitive in my opinion personally I
find the build quality on Samsung phones never really to be quite as high as
other phones say like Nexus devices or an HTC1 but comparing to an S3 I did
find it to be a little bit better I like the silver band around the outside I I
like feeling that it seems a little bit solid and it's better than the kind of
rounded curvature that there is on an S3 and I like the back it seemed a lot more
solid it seemed a lot more clipped on I found with an S3 it would just kind of
fly off this one I have to pry it off a little bit and I do actually like that
while my screen was the favorite feature the battery life on this thing was monstrous and one of my biggest pet
peeves in phones is extremely short battery life that I find on most of them
and this actually got away from that I played a considerable amount of games on
it during the day then had light to medium usage on it throughout the day
and it still had a fair amount of charge left at the end of the day so that if I
had forgotten to charge it overnight I would have been able to use it at least for the first bit of the next day which
is actually pretty impressive if you're not scared of the very large form factor
and don't mind using it possibly with two hands the Note 3 is definitely a
phone to look for if you're looking to upgrade in the comments below are you
looking for a phone that has very large screen real estate and a really large
battery like a Note 3 or are you looking for something that fits into your hand
better and it's just more adaptable like some other phone like say a Nexus 5 and
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