Samsung GALAXY Note II Verizon User Reviews

Larry_ThaGr81 posted on 2 hours ago

10

The smartphone without equal

Larry_ThaGr81 has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

This is hands down the best phone I've ever owned. I've owned the Original Droid, Droid X, Droid 3, HTC Thunderbolt and HTC Rezound. From my history of phones you can tell that they usually don't last long, but this phone is damn near perfect and I anticipate it lasting me until the Note IV comes out.

Build quality 9/10 Fills slippery in the hand due to the plastic casing.

Reception 9/10 I haven't had dropped call yet, but the reception could be better at times.

Call quality 10/10 Calls sound perfect on my end and I haven't received a single complaint from others that I talk to regarding call quality.

Internet 10/10 Very fast and smooth.

Multimedia 10/10 It has more multimedia features than I know what to do with. The stylus features is what puts this phone ahead of the competition.

Camera 9/10 It could be better in low light conditions, but all camera phones suffer in low light conditions.

UI speed 10/10 This is the smoothest UI I've ever had the opportunity to use.

Everyday usage 10/10 I have such a hard time putting this phone down that I often find myself trying to figure out what I can do on it aside from playing games.

Text input 10/10 I wish all keyboards came with a separate numbers row.

Display 9/10 The best I've owned to date. All this hype around 1080p resolution is ridiculous. However, it could be a little brighter for outdoor usage.

Battery 10/10 A phone that can easily last me more than a day under heavy usage and last me two to three under light usage deserves the highest marks.

Pros

• Everything

Cons

• Outdoor visibility

Larry_ThaGr81 alternatives:

Samsung Galaxy S4

HTC One

Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD

HTC DROID DNA

Google Nexus 4

Waffleny posted on 17 Feb 2013, 19:20

10

Words can't describe....

Waffleny has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

I switched from Sprint *gag* to Verizon less than a month ago, chiefly for the sake of coverage (lived on a Sprint dead zone.... I now get 4G LTE+ with Verizon). When it came down to choice of device, I wasn't decided as I walked in the door. I was considering the very popular mobile titan that is the Galaxy S III, but after seeing all the other fancy and shiny choices, I was at a crossroads. Eventually, I made my way to the Samsung section, and saw the gorgeous Note II. The only thing I disliked about the S III was its shape, that ugly ovular pebble like build. As soon as I saw the rounded rectangle design of the Note II in person I fell in love. After playing with its glam features on the display model for 5 minutes, I really had my mind made up. Oh and I don't really have much to say about the S-pen. It's very useful for creating long messages using swype typing. It provides superior control for drawing, which is complimented by the awesome screen. It can be used in most stock applications, and proves to be a handy luxury at trying moments. I bought it with a 2 year contract, and also purchased an otter-box case, seeing as it was as thin as 4 sheets of stacked construction paper, and I don't trust myself haha. I just... I really can't tell you how great this phone is. Really. I've owned a few Motorola Androids, the HTC EVO 3D, and a slurry of pre-droid feature phones. Mark my words, nothing has come close to the indescribable quality of this phone. It will forever have a special...  

I switched from Sprint *gag* to Verizon less than a month ago, chiefly for the sake of coverage (lived on a Sprint dead zone.... I now get 4G LTE+ with Verizon). When it came down to choice of device, I wasn't decided as I walked in the door. I was considering the very popular mobile titan that is the Galaxy S III, but after seeing all the other fancy and shiny choices, I was at a crossroads. Eventually, I made my way to the Samsung section, and saw the gorgeous Note II. The only thing I disliked about the S III was its shape, that ugly ovular pebble like build. As soon as I saw the rounded rectangle design of the Note II in person I fell in love. After playing with its glam features on the display model for 5 minutes, I really had my mind made up. Oh and I don't really have much to say about the S-pen. It's very useful for creating long messages using swype typing. It provides superior control for drawing, which is complimented by the awesome screen. It can be used in most stock applications, and proves to be a handy luxury at trying moments. I bought it with a 2 year contract, and also purchased an otter-box case, seeing as it was as thin as 4 sheets of stacked construction paper, and I don't trust myself haha. I just... I really can't tell you how great this phone is. Really. I've owned a few Motorola Androids, the HTC EVO 3D, and a slurry of pre-droid feature phones. Mark my words, nothing has come close to the indescribable quality of this phone. It will forever have a special place in my heart. If you have the chance to purchase this amazing product, get it. That's the best advice I can give.

Build quality 9/10 The plastic build could be seen as "cheap", but honestly, I think it's perfect. The backing is a bit hard to remove, but besides that, flawless

Reception 10/10 4G LTE (verizon) EvErYwHeRe. Consisten 20+ MBPS speeds. Never lost reception once, reliable and fast always.

Call quality 9/10 Incoming voices sound clear as landline, and outgoing voices sound just as nice

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10 Videos, pictures, notes, documents, everything. All so easy to share. Everything I've thrown at it has been supported. Polaris office comes on board. Awesome.

Camera 10/10 Pictures come out with quality comparable to my Canon Rebel T3i DSLR (quite the expensive camera) and the autofocus can even outperform the Rebel in some cases. Flash is bright, yet never washes out colors. Blurring can be noticed, but doesn't happen very often. Video is literally astonishing. Detail is amazing, frame rate is constant, slow down is rare or nonexistent. There's also slow motion capture (as slow as 1/8th speed) and fast motion capture (as fast as 800%). The video I took of playing

UI speed 9/10 From afar, the Samsung Nature UI seemed to look sort of lame and rather elementary, almost a downgrade to stock android. But after a day of using it, I fell head over heels in love. Gorgeous in every way. Fast, efficient, complex yet simple, this UI is something that really grew on me.

Everyday usage 9/10 The Note II Is the definition of what I would call an every day device. Reliable service, easy usage, never running into any problems, the large screen is great for typing messages, drawing pictures, watching videos, reading documents, we surfing, EVERYTHING. Perfect size. At first it seemed a bit overly large, but now I believe it's the best size one could have. Big enough to do anything, small enough to do anything.

Text input 10/10 The sheer size of the display always provides easy input. Portrait typing can be done using one hand, but 2 would be preferred. Landscape is a bit.... large, but usable. On my old EVO 3D I depended on autocorrect features to make sure I didn't send messages full of errors, but with the Note II, I make maybe one error every thousand characters. the S-pen also helps with swype typing.

Display 10/10 Big. Beautiful. Great viewing angles. Perfect size between phone and tablet. Big enough to do anything, but small enough to keep with you. Details are sharp, colors are QUITE vivid, white is bright and black is breathtakingly deep.

Battery 10/10 The 3100 mah monster in this phone could probably power a hybrid for 500 miles. Joking aside, draining this beast is a challenge. A full day of heavy usage (taking pictures & video, 4G LTE enabled, sending/receiving email, listening to music, constant texting/calling, etc) can only bring it down to maybe 20% at the end of the day. Lowest it has ever been down to was 17% after forgetting to charge the night before. A w e s o m e.

Pros

• Everything. Really, everything
• fast
• easy
• gorgeous
• future proof
• nearly flawless

Cons

• can't put it down :/

Waffleny alternatives:

HTC DROID DNA

Samsung Galaxy S III Verizon

prettysenshi posted on 01 Feb 2013, 17:19

7

Disappointed

prettysenshi has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

I had really high hopes for this phone. I did, and I was extremely excited to purchase this phone, but I was extremely disappointed. The first Note that I had, there was some sort of distortion regarding whenever the other person spoke on the phone, which would quit as soon as they stopped talking. Took it back in and exchanged it out, new one is even worse than the previous one.

The second thing is the multi-window (multi-task) and how each carrier can limit and choose the apps they display on it. Not too through, especially when there are only 5-6 apps that work, even though certain apps like facebook have it already built in. You can't drag and drop it into the multiwindow bar. Tightly sealed off with Verizon and each carrier.

The deal breaker that is making me return it permanently is the camera. I had high hopes with everything. Needless to say, the camera is cruddy and even in good lightening the pictures come out blurry and pixilated/grainy. And before anyone asks, I have changed the settings dozens of time, tried third-party camera apps and nothing will work simply because it's the hardware itself. I think Samsung had a good idea of what people wanted, but poorly executed it. I previously had a Droid X (which was stolen) and loved the quality of everything, the phone, and the camera. Only downside was it was 3G. Upgraded to the Droid Razr, pretty good phone, ended up trading it for the iPhone 4 which I ended up cracking the screen and replaced it with the Note 2, which...  

I had really high hopes for this phone. I did, and I was extremely excited to purchase this phone, but I was extremely disappointed. The first Note that I had, there was some sort of distortion regarding whenever the other person spoke on the phone, which would quit as soon as they stopped talking. Took it back in and exchanged it out, new one is even worse than the previous one.

The second thing is the multi-window (multi-task) and how each carrier can limit and choose the apps they display on it. Not too through, especially when there are only 5-6 apps that work, even though certain apps like facebook have it already built in. You can't drag and drop it into the multiwindow bar. Tightly sealed off with Verizon and each carrier.

The deal breaker that is making me return it permanently is the camera. I had high hopes with everything. Needless to say, the camera is cruddy and even in good lightening the pictures come out blurry and pixilated/grainy. And before anyone asks, I have changed the settings dozens of time, tried third-party camera apps and nothing will work simply because it's the hardware itself. I think Samsung had a good idea of what people wanted, but poorly executed it. I previously had a Droid X (which was stolen) and loved the quality of everything, the phone, and the camera. Only downside was it was 3G. Upgraded to the Droid Razr, pretty good phone, ended up trading it for the iPhone 4 which I ended up cracking the screen and replaced it with the Note 2, which is why far the worse phone I have ever had.

I find also the Samsung keyboard doesn’t quite capture the finger movements like it should and constantly clicks on nearby letters requiring you to have predicted text on. Now the display....I am not a big fan of the AMOLED as it tends to be darker and the colors not as vibrant as LCD/Retina display; however especially noticeable in certain apps like the camera the difference between the PPI (meaning up close it looks not truly like low quality but enough where it's instantly noticeable). Drives me up a wall, that consumers would pay so much ($299 as of now), and get such a low quailty device when there are better devices for cheaper.

Build quality 9/10

Reception 10/10 Never had to worry about not having service

Call quality 4/10 Some sort of distortion/static when other person spoke, disappeared when they stopped. On every single phone call, both outgoing and incoming.

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 7/10

Camera 1/10 Low grade image quailty, blurry and grainy, no matter the settings. Gave either a blue tint or a brownish hue not even close to true colors.

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 5/10

Text input 6/10

Display 6/10

Battery 7/10

parnav posted on 01 Feb 2013, 02:43

9

SUPERB......

parnav has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

Superb phone...... must use it! this devices quenches the thirst smartphone and tablet.....
Samsung as we all know produces auspicious technologies and mind freaking gadgets
Smartphone that makes it useful in every aspects and tastes..... so dude make ur way to this smartphone!

Build quality 10/10 becoz i hv used it!

Reception 9/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 8/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 9/10

Text input 7/10

Display 10/10

Battery 9/10

Pros

• Amazing phone to serve all purposes

Cons

• no cons atleast for me

PhoneUser posted on 18 Jan 2013, 18:06

10

Best Phone EVER!!!

PhoneUser has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

I have yet to find anything wrong with this phone. I was worried that the size was going to be a problem but after 2 days i got used to the phone and now every other "regular' size phones looks and feels tiny in my hands.

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• EVERYTHING

Cons

• NOTHING

corymcnutt posted on 02 Jan 2013, 16:26

9

Best Phone I Have Ever Owned!

corymcnutt has owned it for less than 3 months before publishing this review

The Note 2 is absolutely a dream phone - large screen, good battery life, S-Pen for Note taking and drawing, Great Camera, nice software package, good reception and sound. It is the FASTEST and smoothest phone out there. If the size does not bother you, this is THE phone to own.

Build quality 9/10 Plastic and do not like the Home, push button; just something to break.

Reception 9/10 I have fairly good bars in weak signal areas.

Call quality 9/10 For the most part I can hear very well and the speaker phone works well.

Internet 10/10 Great internet connectivity, whether 4G LTE or wi-fi.

Multimedia 9/10 Could use a better music player - I use ProPlayer, much nicer, more options.

Camera 9/10 Excellent camera and options.

UI speed 10/10 Super fast and smooth as butter.

Everyday usage 10/10 The best phone I have ever used - the Note 2 makes it easy to do whatever it is you want too.

Text input 9/10 I use 2 hands to text so the size of the phone doesn't bother me.

Display 9/10 Absolutely beautiful and BIG - makes reading very easy and colors are great. I would like better outdoors viewing.

Battery 10/10 The best service I have ever had and mine is on all day long.

Pros

• Large Screen
• Great Battery Life
• S-Pen is awesome
• A true Phablet!

Cons

• Better outdoor viewing.

AbsoluteDude posted on 02 Jan 2013, 06:00

10

Best Phone I've Ever Had!

AbsoluteDude has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

I have Blackberrys, went to Android, then to Apple, and then back to Android and with this phone I'll never leave Android ever again! Absolutely love this phone! The Screen is huge and amazing and the battery life is awesome. Believe me, this phone is super fast with no lag at all. The stylus is flawless and responsive. The camera quality is clear and shoots quick. Call quality is clear and the internet speeds out does all the phones I've ever owned. Get this phone, its light and durable and you will not be disappointed.

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• Huge Clear Screen
• Great Battery Life
• Awesome Camera and Video
• Call Quality is Clear
• NIce UI
• Stylus is Accurate and Responsive
• Great Multi-tasking Speed
• Sturdy and Durable

Cons

• Haven't Found One.

AbsoluteDude alternatives:

Motorola DROID X

Motorola DROID BIONIC

Apple iPhone 4

Motorola DROID X2

nopayne posted on 02 Jan 2013, 04:25

10

the best

nopayne has owned it for less than month before publishing this review

I think this is by far the best device on the market right now. Everything works so smooth and a big pretty display makes it easy to see and use, 5.5" makes it really easy for me then you have 1 handed option can't get any better

Build quality 10/10

Reception 10/10

Call quality 10/10

Internet 10/10

Multimedia 10/10

Camera 10/10

UI speed 10/10

Everyday usage 10/10

Text input 10/10

Display 10/10

Battery 10/10

Pros

• its all positive

Cons

• can't find any

nopayne alternatives:

Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD