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My only experience is with the Note II, but third-party camera apps are somehow much worse than the crappy native Samsung camera app. I had high hopes for the G
by Chevalier 12y ago
My only experience is with the Note II, but third-party camera apps are somehow much worse than the crappy native Samsung camera app. I had high hopes for the Google Camera app, but they're all fairly terrible... and very few can do competent HDR. Even the amazing Windows Phone cameras are apparently held back by crappy camera software/image processing. Only Apple seems to do photos right, for some reason.
Agreed about the S-Pen. I almost never use it, but my artist girlfriend LOVES to doodle with it and it makes a ton of sense for walk-and-talk jobs.
Samsung should be applauded for their innovation. When the first Galaxy Note premiered, every critic insisted that a tiny form factor and fingers-only were the only correct way to build a phone. To this day, articles on phablets are filled with hysterics about how large phones are terrible. I just hope that size innovation won't stop at 5.5-5.7 inches...
- bane 12y agoI had an amazing experience earlier today with the pen during a complex phone conference. I wasn't near my computer and I needed to take a bunch of notes. Put it on speakerphone, switched to the s-note and got everything written down without a problem, then just shared the notes I just took as a PDF in my dropbox so it was on my computer when I got back to my desk. It's one of the few times in recent years I felt like technology had actually done something magical for me. In the long long list of things modern smartphones can replace, a notepad is now absolutely one of them. It's taking me an effort to fit the s-pen into my workflow, but when I do, it's usually a good experience. It seems to me to be more a matter of realizing I have a digital notepad on hand and actually using it than anything wrong with the tech.