My Samsung Note 3 was a solid performer. It was an overall great phone for work and play. I kept the phone for a 2 year duration. I opted to upgrade at that time to the Note 5. I kept the phone and gave it to my son.
Pros: Bright display, pen, large display, android operating system, google play
I bought this phone a while back and I still don't use most of it's options (just because I either don't need them or am not that smart, lol). It is a bit on the expensive side, but then, owing one of these phones, you won't be using your computer anymore. I love it
I bought this 2013 and this phone was the beast. Today at the end of 2015 it's still a beast. Overall rating is 5 stars because it got everything I wasn't even looking for but very happy that it's there which is the S pen, 3 gig ram, expandable memory up to 128gb, snapdragon, 4k video, 13 megapixel camera, blah blah blah...although plastic its very durable and I don't even use a case on this one and it never bend unlike iPhone 6 and never drop a signal by holding it as you normally hold a phone...unlike the IPhone 4 (last iPhone I purchased). Display is an eye candy. Not too big not too small and 4k display. I wouldn't be upgrading this phone for a while especially Samsung decided to remove features I mostly love about this phone which are swappable battery and SD card slot. Hopefully Note 6 will be my next smartphone if Samsung realized what they have done with Note 5.