Yeah I had been looking at the Wedge too. I'll probably get one of those, just gonna keep looking a bit and maybe see if I can't get a good price on one.
So far I'm liking this Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition (but damn that's a long name for a tablet!). I like how the Pen has it's own slot to keep it in on the tablet which conceals it well, I couldn't even find the thing at first. After changing the settings/apps a bit the battery life seems good. The screen really is beautiful, that resolution is very high I honestly don't know why they felt the need to go above 1080p but I've played a couple games and it's very good looking. But that nice screen is probably also quite the battery drain. The handwriting recognition software is pretty good, I have a tremor and my handwriting is notoriously bad but it recognizes most of what I write. It works in several apps too, even Skype - not very useful, but still cool. It's quite responsive and I imagine you could draw pretty well if unlike me you have artistic abilities.
I'd read somewhere that it wasn't easy opening/editing PDFs on Android but whatever software this came with has no problem. PDFs booted right up, selecting text is easy and I can underline/highlight with no problem and even write out little notes or circle things.
I tried out watching a few videos and again the screen is great and speakers are surprisingly good.
I haven't quite figured out the whole 'multi-window' thing. So far I haven't found much use for it and figuring out how to close one of those windows is kind of hard.
It comes with a lot of built in features that have to do with gestures or keeping the screen on while your eyes look at it, or hovering the pen above the screen - that type of stuff. Honestly I turned most of those off just b/c I probably won't figure them out or use them so it's just needless battery usage.
I'm sure there is a lot I haven't figured out yet. However it was easy to set up, and having a Galaxy S phone I already knew how to do most things on it. It synced up nicely with my email and google accounts, and I even found an app to be able to text from the tablet (it even shows the Phones battery % which I thought was neat). Oh and SnapChat works on it, I didn't think it would. SnapChat has never worked right on my phone (probably b/c it's an old S2 model) so it's neat to have a fully working version lol.
Oh it has this 'My Magazine' thing built in that I have not figured out in the slightest. I think it's basically like Flipboard - but I never figured that out either. Can't say much about it.
So far it seems well built, functional, and has good utilities. Battery life so far I think seems good, but I'll have to use it more to be sure. For $300 I think it was a good deal, now just to find a good case and keyboard, really I'd like a case with the keyboard built in but those are surprisingly hard to find for this model - the 2014 edition has different dimensions than the previous so cases built for the old one will not work.