I am a high school student who as been using Samsung products for a while now, and I usually obtain the latest and greatest Samsung gadgets. I got this phone last April and fell in love with it. This product is excellent for all age groups, no matter what field you are in. It can be used rather well as an educational and occupational tool for my 6 year old nephew. He actually learned a rather large percent of what he now knows from this phone. I am a high school student in the eleventh grade and I use it all the time at school. The multitasking is great at school; I can take notes with the S Note feature while browsing the web and doing research for school work. All of my teachers are rather impressed by what I can get accomplished on my device. The possibilities for this phone are endless, it's a great tool for anyone! It can do so much with so little under the hood. Since I got it last April I have dropped it several times and I am hugely impressed with the impact resistance it has; not a scratch yet. Although I have recently upgraded to the more advanced Samsung Galaxy Note III. Both products are simply wonderful and I would highly recommend them to Anyone in a heat beat.
I love this powerful phone! The graphics do not disappoint and I love its functionality. Any problems I have had with this was because of my own ignorance but once I figured out what I did, I was quick to remedy the situation. I highly recommend this phone.
Pros: Bright display, Durable, Realistic color
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Very happy man!
on April 1, 2014
Posted by: TheCounselor
from Minneapolis, MN
Expertise:Intermediate
I got a great deal on a Note 2 back in October 2013. I had an Iphone 4 at the time and struggled with texting because of its small size. The Note 2 was so much easier to use I fell in love immediately! The note has so many great features like the S-pen which lets me write out my reports for work rather than having to lug around my computer. My next tech purchase will absolutely be the Galaxy Note tablet!
This is an awesome phone. It has never crashed or disappointed me in any way.
on April 1, 2014
Posted by: RegularGuy11
from San Francisco, CA, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
I love the big screen and reliability of this phone!
Pros: Bright display, Inexpensive, Durable, super reliability
Cons: none that i've experienced
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Great phone
on April 2, 2014
Posted by: Stergiiboii
from albuquerque, NM
Expertise:Intermediate
I love my galaxy note II SOOO very very much I would have just love the design more if it was less curricular edges but other then that this phone is 100% good!!!
Ever since switching to Android, I have missed being able to use a stylus. I have a collection of capacitive styli that I bought for my previous phone, but they just don't feel the same.
I was used to using Graffiti/Graffiti 2-style text entry rather than onscreen keyboards; my thumb typing even on the one phone I had with a physical keyboard never caught up to my lettering speed. (As a touch typist, I know where letters are primarily by muscle memory. It takes extra thought to hunt and peck or thumb-type.) Needless to say, the Note II's built-in ability to use the S-pen for text entry was a major part of the decision to get this phone, but the handwriting recognition really exceeded my expectations. I thought I would be printing one character at a time, but instead, I'm writing whole words at once now!
The size of the screen is a turnoff for some and I thought it might be too awkward for me to hold comfortably, but it turns out the phone is light enough that my hand doesn't get sore even though it's a slight stretch for my small hand to hold. My two previous phones were metal-bodied because I like the solid feel of metal, so the plastic body was initially a minus, but a metal phone this size would definitely fatigue my hand. So far, although feeling so much less substantial, the phone has held together just fine.
The only other potential con for me, the screen resolution, turned out to be basically a non-issue as well; I compared the Note II and a higher-resolution phone in the store, and I really couldn't tell the difference on casual inspection between the higher resolution and the Note II.
As far as day-to-day use is concerned, the Note II is the best smartphone I've ever had. The hardware specs are sufficient to run all the current apps I've thrown at it so far (probably around 100), and it has yet to have its interface slow down to the point where I need to start removing stuff and rebooting periodically. Can't say the same of my previous two phones! That creeping slowdown of *everything* on the phone is what made me buy a new phone each time.