Can 5,3 "Galaxy Note replace iPhone 4s and iPad 2

I - the user iPhone 4s and iPad 2. I use the phone for calls, messaging, social Veins and to quickly check your emails. On it I do not read and do not go on the internet. All this I do on iPad. Plus on it I'm reading RSS-feeds and prepare topics for themselves and blog authors, read books and watch subscriptions on YouTube. There is a problem in this celebration of life - I was straining to carry iPad in a separate bag and I would like to have a universal device for these tasks. So I got the idea to test the candidate for this role - SAMSUNG Galaxy Note (after prior acquaintance with him at @dennydov). Here I will not go into the intricacies of the Android OS and do not want to project then their attitude to the OS. I cared only unusual form-factor device that I used as the basic for two days.

Phone

Not. Dot. And if you reveal a thought, it looks like the device at the ear is almost as absurd as an iPad :) But if you are talking on the headset or bluetooth-headset, you will not care about its size. If we consider the phone a classic pattern - definitely not. I categorically do not like phones and all these calls in an arbitrary period of time, but because I did not embarrass Note its size, to my ear, he had no chance once. All pockets climbed at presedanii not broken down in jeans - and excellent.

Reading books and articles

The phone has been installed FBReader program and book reading device is ready. It is lighter than the iPad, which, with all its advantages, too hard to read, especially standing in transport. Note, too, but not without sin - the device lightweight (178 grams versus 613 grams of iPad), but it does not have edges around the screen to hold it in his hand was like experience with the usual book. Take a small notebook format Moleskine and hold it for a long time without touching the top surface - can be, but is not convenient. What cartridges screen format, it is ideal to read - not too small, not too big. And a very high quality. The sun does not behave worse than my gadgets, but also reflects the surrounding sun-drenched world.

You can read here and book with Amazon.

I installed in the gadget to your favorite reader long articles Readability, which came under idelno form factor devices.

the Internet

The browser works fine, the site shows full (screen resolution of 800 × 1280, a joke eh? :) Works here Flash, but it is more useful in the winter to warm the hands of the phone. At start of this technology is that the machine starts to operate at higher frequencies and warm its circuit. In general brauzit comfortable and pleasant, I recommend. Browser does not twitch and runs so smoothly, as I used to in their original gadgets.

reading RSS

Under this operating system is not reading room Reeder, but because as qualitatively read RSS, like on iOS I did not succeed. But Google Reader is also a good application. Put it and read RSS. Conveniently!

Urban and car navigation

Very much my general impression about the gadget corrected new product Yandex - Navigator. This screen is as large as it is necessary to install in the car! the iPad - just the heavy and hefty - dangerous inertial mass in the interior of your car, that is when an accident could kill you. iPhone - for boys and girls with an eagle eye, and Note - that you can go as much as possible. Loud speaker broadcasts priyantnym female voice loud enough to hear even in noisy traffic.

If you do not live in Russia and in Ukraine, Yandex. Navigator does not apply. Use Google Navigator - he is on this screen is incredible beautiful and comfortable.

It is better to look at the Android OS and Google Maps, Yandex. Cards. On iOS Google Maps is too primitive, and maps used by Yandex unpleasant eye low-resolution maps that time would have to be changed to something fresher.

But there are a Yandex. Maps problem - at the maximum zoom gadget Galaxy Note rooms were small houses. In short, use the Navigator :)

Keyboard

Since my last contact with gadgets on Android (it was SAMGUNG Galaxy Tab), Default keyboard was just a feast for the eyes. And with this amount of gadget it is even in the upright position of the smartphone easy to use and works correctly. IPhone users to understand me, I will say that it works the same way as in a horizontal position on our gadget, but only vertically. If we compare with the iPad, is at work on weight, Note udelyvaet it as small. But as soon as you put the iPad on the table at an angle from Magic Cover, the Note immediately lose. Still, not to work in the hands of iPad created.

Wand

In naming samsungovskogo devaysa is the word of the Note (the note), it is due to the fact that the device provides for work with a stylus (pen, stick, pen, pencil, ...). Really I did not come in handy. Frankly, I use a stylus with the iPad for drawing and simple kalyaki-Malaki at the thought processes or to quickly sketch a picture diagram for e-mail. When the size of the iPad makes sense, when the size of the Note, I did not find the meaning.

Batareechka

Then the battery is certainly not like the iPad, but also better than the average Android. I keep reading 6-7 hours. Flights for the fine, but we need more, given how much on the gadget now hangs tasks - must work for two :)

What do you think about the prospects of the Note?