{"id":16087,"date":"2012-03-11T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=16087"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:42:27","slug":"galaxy-note-the-mother-of-all-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/03\/11\/galaxy-note-the-mother-of-all-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Note &ndash; The Mother of All Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the Samsung Galaxy Note on Thursday evening. I really liked the Motorola Atrix I had been using for six months. It was well-built, fast, the longest battery life I\u2019ve experienced outside this Nokia mono-color phone I use during Reservist stints, and had a nifty thumbprint scanner that continually amazed my nephews. So, it was a bit of a shock when I checked and saw that as good as the phone was, the trade-in price of the phone was comparatively low.<\/p>\n<p>My current phone plan had expired and was up for renewal, so rather than wait for the Atrix\u2019s trade-in value to dwindle down to nothingness, I took the opportunity to look for the next Android phone gadget. The two top Android dogs right this moment for most people remain the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Samsung Galaxy Note. Yep, both made by the same company and of the same model line, with the latter very slightly more expensive than the former here. Both phones upon re-contract would require a small top-up fee, which I thought was reasonable enough.<\/p>\n<p>Both phones are well-reported and reviewed, but for those of us who\u2019re ignorant, they go something like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Nexus<\/strong>: fantastic build, stylish, most current Android software, beautiful high-resolution screen, mediocre battery life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/global\/microsite\/galaxynote\/note\/index.html?type=find\">Note<\/a><\/strong>: beautiful <em>and<\/em> humongous high-resolution screen, great battery life, somewhat dated Android software. May look strange holding a near-tablet sized phone next to your ear.<\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019ve been thoroughly spoiled by the Atrix\u2019s battery, and can\u2019t see myself going back to phones which expire within a day. I tried a colleague\u2019s Note too, and while it does look a little strange to be making calls with a phone that hearkens back to those days of those brick-sized phones from the early \u201890s, in reality it doesn\u2019t look that bad. So, it was the Note for me.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-photography-OLYP0174-galaxy-note-sony-xperia-neoV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-2012-photography-OLYP0174-galaxy-note-sony-xperia-neoV_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-photography-OLYP0174-galaxy-note-sony-xperia-neoV\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Next to Ling&#8217;s Sony Xperia Neo V, which looks positive dimunitive in comparison!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yep; the phone\u2019s huge. Significantly larger than my wallet even. And alongside the red protective case I picked up for it, Ling remarked amusedly that it looks like I\u2019m carrying around the Singapore passport.=)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the Samsung Galaxy Note on Thursday evening. I really liked the Motorola Atrix I had been using for six months. It was well-built, fast, the longest battery life I\u2019ve experienced outside this Nokia mono-color phone I use<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/03\/11\/galaxy-note-the-mother-of-all-smartphones\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Galaxy Note &ndash; The Mother of All Smartphones<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[551],"class_list":["post-16087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toys-technology","tag-smartphone","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/blog-2012-photography-OLYP0174-galaxy-note-sony-xperia-neoV_thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35340,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16087\/revisions\/35340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}