Samsung Galaxy Note 2

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SandEagle

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Zink

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Totally different products, 640×320 isn't high enough for text really, only low res video. The Samsung one looks way more portable, with a sleeve you could just leave it in a bag like a phone or calculator. It looks more like a spontaneous thing though, you wouldn't want to tell someone you're bringing a projector and then show up with that. No problem guys I got this, Power Point in 320p
 

SandEagle

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Totally different products, 640×320 isn't high enough for text really, only low res video. The Samsung one looks way more portable, with a sleeve you could just leave it in a bag like a phone or calculator. It looks more like a spontaneous thing though, you wouldn't want to tell someone you're bringing a projector and then show up with that. No problem guys I got this, Power Point in 320p

yeah i like the look of the samsung, and i plan on using it mostly to display videos and games. there are others out there, but these seem to be the cheapest
 

Chiropteran

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I'm using the bright orange flip cover, grey was sold out and the other options were pink or teal. I'd have preferred grey or black, but the orange cover sure does make it easy to find my phone if I'm not sure where I left it.
 

dlock13

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How do you guys like using the flip cover when you go to take a picture? Also, the cover isn't magnetic, correct? So you end up having it flap open and what not?
 

dougp

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How do you guys like using the flip cover when you go to take a picture? Also, the cover isn't magnetic, correct? So you end up having it flap open and what not?

It's not as bad as I thought it'd be, you just have to know what position to take it in. The benefit is it can act as a shield out in the sun - not a big deal, but it can help. The cover isn't magnetic because it'd interfere with the s-pen, but I don't find it flipping open much.
 

dougp

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Although, I do have to say that one thing I'm not happy with on the flip case is that it doesn't stay open to prop up the phone. Not an expected feature but it would have been a nice bonus.
 

Dari

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Based on other threads he seems like he may have an issue with Korean stuff as a whole and not just Samsung. He always goes out of his way to push the superiority of Japanese products and even point out that his HTC One S was purchased in Japan as if that absolves it from being a Taiwanese phone with a pentile Samsung qHD Super Amoled display.

I have phones from different countries because I live/work there. I've used HTC phones since 2005. And, yes, I prefer good quality to bad. You must disagree...
 

Puddle Jumper

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I have phones from different countries because I live/work there. I've used HTC phones since 2005. And, yes, I prefer good quality to bad. You must disagree...

So you think your pentile qHD Super AMOLED display is good but the RGB 720p Super AMOLED display in the Note 2 is bad?
 

TerryMathews

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So you think your pentile qHD Super AMOLED display is good but the RGB 720p Super AMOLED display in the Note 2 is bad?

Yes, because the phone has a blue tint and we're all too blind or stupid to see it.

Dari, I didn't see your response to the color balance on my Note 2. Do Papermate pens have a blue tint to them?
 

Dari

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So you think your pentile qHD Super AMOLED display is good but the RGB 720p Super AMOLED display in the Note 2 is bad?

From what I've seen, yes. Just because it's newer it's supposed to be better? Are mp3s better than cd-quality music? Hell no. Who knows, but according to that article I linked, Samsung added an EXTRA BLUE for every pixel. They had their reason for doing this. Whatever the case, it should be obvious what the outcome would be. Also, as someone else pointed out, Samsung may have made the screen for their devices overly saturated and were bias towards blue. Whatever happened the GS3s and Notes have bluer screens.
 

Dari

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Yes, because the phone has a blue tint and we're all too blind or stupid to see it.

Dari, I didn't see your response to the color balance on my Note 2. Do Papermate pens have a blue tint to them?

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at. Perhaps if you explained it better, and had better images, I would see your point.
 

Chiropteran

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Are mp3s better than cd-quality music? Hell no.

Funny comparison to make. Mp3 are provably superior to CD music. You can either have the same or similar quality with much less space used, or with a higher bit-rate you can have superior quality music, while still using less space.

Now obviously, if your source for your mp3 files is a CD, the result will always be ever so slightly lower quality than the original CD music. But a proper mp3 made from the raw music recorded at the studio it can and will be superior to CD.
 

Dari

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Funny comparison to make. Mp3 are provably superior to CD music. You can either have the same or similar quality with much less space used, or with a higher bit-rate you can have superior quality music, while still using less space.

Now obviously, if your source for your mp3 files is a CD, the result will always be ever so slightly lower quality than the original CD music. But a proper mp3 made from the raw music recorded at the studio it can and will be superior to CD.

It was a general statement. I stopped buying CDs years ago but, when I compared them, the CD was noticeably better. I'm not up with the current debate on the two. But I could make other comparisons. For example, analog vs digital. But the entire point is that sacrifices may have to be made somewhere when you're making advancements. When it comes to OLED, you get a thinner screen because there is no backlight. But you pay in other aspects. Why Samsung is going with bigger greens (in their old OLEDs) or extra blues (in the latest Note II oled screen), I don't fucking know. What I do know is that the screen looks nauseating. Obviously, if you've been using Samsung's high end phones for several years now, you've become accustomed to poor color reproduction so these phones look fine to you. But for those of us that aren't, well, the difference is clear.
 

Chiropteran

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Why Samsung is going with bigger greens (in their old OLEDs) or extra blues (in the latest Note II oled screen), I don't fucking know. What I do know is that the screen looks nauseating. Obviously, if you've been using Samsung's high end phones for several years now, you've become accustomed to poor color reproduction so these phones look fine to you. But for those of us that aren't, well, the difference is clear.

The problem is that I have no idea what you are talking about. I look at my phone and I look at my fiancee's iPhone side by side and the only noticeable difference is that my Note 2 has a much larger screen. And "several years"? The Note 2 has been out in USA for a couple months. I've had this one for less than one full month. There was nothing wrong with the screen when I got it and it's still fine today.

Are you sure you weren't looking at a Note 2 with some blue color theme running on chrome that gave it a blue background? I can't see how you would mistake the white for blue otherwise.
 

TerryMathews

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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at. Perhaps if you explained it better, and had better images, I would see your point.

You proved my point for me actually. There was no noticeable blue tint with a known white object in frame for comparison.

Glad you didn't notice! I would've hated to be using a phone you didn't approve of.
 

Dari

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You proved my point for me actually. There was no noticeable blue tint with a known white object in frame for comparison.

Glad you didn't notice! I would've hated to be using a phone you didn't approve of.

I'm not sure how I proved your point. The picture was terrible so I did not even comment on it...
 

Dari

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The problem is that I have no idea what you are talking about. I look at my phone and I look at my fiancee's iPhone side by side and the only noticeable difference is that my Note 2 has a much larger screen. And "several years"? The Note 2 has been out in USA for a couple months. I've had this one for less than one full month. There was nothing wrong with the screen when I got it and it's still fine today.

Are you sure you weren't looking at a Note 2 with some blue color theme running on chrome that gave it a blue background? I can't see how you would mistake the white for blue otherwise.

Most of the press phones have had blue backgrounds to mitigate the blue factor. The Note I was looking at did not have a blue-themed background. Also, if you don't understand what I wrote, re-read it. Samsung has had oled screens for several years now. The note is not the first.
 

Dari

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Are you blind?

Not sure why you keep trying to goad me into an extreme response. The moderators in this sub-forum don't tolerate that. Provide a better image and explain what you are trying to do so we can have a civil discussion.
 

TerryMathews

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Not sure why you keep trying to goad me into an extreme response. The moderators in this sub-forum don't tolerate that. Provide a better image and explain what you are trying to do so we can have a civil discussion.

http://db.tt/pHRGNC7U

So, here it is again. This is a standard color balance test patten on my wife's note 2 with a Papermate ink pen in the frame for comparison.

As you can see, there is no blue tint.
 
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