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what's up guys david air from bumble calm and in this video i wanted to share my thoughts and experiences that I've had with the galaxy note 2 now I've been using this phone as my daily driver for well basically since October when the first came out in the US and you know that alone should tell you what my overall opinion of the phone is especially when you consider how many phones I get to work and play with on a daily basis in this line of work but I'm still using it as my daily driver today and you know I'm gonna be changing it very soon actually which I'll tell you about in the next video but for now I want to share with you guys you know what it's been like for me living with the galaxy note 2 so let's go ahead and get right into it so there are so many things that really make you know having the Galaxy Note 2 a unique experience but out of all of them I don't say the one that really stands out to me is how many people have come up to me and asked you know Oh what kind of phone is that or hey is that the new galaxy you had a couple of people come up to me and ask is that the iPad Mini now regardless of what people ask me the thing is people are really curious about the phone I mean I've never had a phone get so much attention and you know for those of you guys who are a little bit shy I think it would be a good conversation starter but obviously the phone gets so much attention because the thing is huge I mean this is one big phone now for some people that alone could be a deal-breaker in fact I've heard a lot of people say oh you know I could never use a phone that big you know I like it but it's just too big and I can see why some people would say that for example if you have smaller hands it could be an issue I mean it is a big bone and reaching across the screen can be really really hard you know as it is if you have smaller than average hands might be a deal-breaker and it doesn't really have to adjust your hand size you can do with your clothing too for example I know a lot of girls up there you know who say you know I'd really like to use that phone but it's just too big to fit in my pocket and it's not just a girl thing by the way it could be you know with for a guy too if you wear tighter clothes or if you have clothes with smaller pockets but definitely is an issue if it doesn't in your pocket you know if you're a girl maybe you put in your purse but I don't know how convenient that would be but if this size isn't an issue for you or if you just get over it but you know I'm telling you once you use the phone for about a week or two you really do start getting used to it and you know when you go back to another phone the other phones will actually feel small and feel like it's smaller than it should be but anyways when people ask me you know why I used to note2 over all the other smart phones that I have I tell them you know two things yeah more than two things you just put two main things one is the fact that the battery on this thing is amazing I mean with the big phone comes a big battery it's a thirty one hundred million battery and I don't ever have to worry about this thing dying on me and you know some of my other smart phones you know I would either have it die on me I'd be worried about it dying on me by the end of the night and with this thing you can have a forty five percent battery at four o'clock in the afternoon and I won't really have to worry about it which you know it's really nice I'm a heavy user and that's something that I definitely definitely you know appreciate in the phone now the second thing is probably the more obvious one and that's the big screen I mean having a big screen like that is really awesome obviously it could be a drawback but it could be a huge literally benefit in the 5.5 inch HD screen watching you know videos or browsing the web on the screen this big is just you know better than anything you could have on you know I spun with the smaller screen size because this for example if you're watching a YouTube video like this one for example and you want to watch it with a friend or our family member you know you can just kind of gap it around the phone and everybody will be able to see what's going on on the screen where if you have a smaller screen size it's a little bit hard and thankfully the speaker here is actually good too so it only adds to that experience now besides the battery and the screen size you know this probably a dozen other features that I really like but if I were to go into a mall the video would be way too long so the main one I want to cover is TouchWiz now if you follow that channel you probably you know are wondering why I say that because I'm generally a fan of the pure Android experience but I really Samsung really adding some value with TouchWiz on the note 2 there are certain features that I really appreciate it and you know the top ones I'd say is one is the messaging app the messaging app I really like because it gives you the option to schedule future text messages so for example it's really really great for sending a text message on its own birthday at midnight another thing is the alert repetition which is really good for me at least because sometimes when I get a text I don't check it right away and then I end up beginning to check it later because it's the phone just in my pocket and with this alert repetition it'll basically you know do the same notification you know I add a set interval which I I think I've mine on 10 minutes basically every 10 minutes it'll vibrate and you know make my ringtone or sound my ringtone and until I actually go in and check it and it ensures that I don't miss text message it was great because I've missed a lot of text messages in the past speaking of alerts another feature that I really like is the smart alert feature so for example with smaller a few different phones are sitting down on a desk and you want to pick it up and go what it does is your unread text message it will actually vibrate so there's no need to actually look at the screen and you know turn it on every time you check you pick up your phone or you're not going to sit there and wait for the LED notification light to come on which you know I found to be really convenient if my phone throw in my pocket if I don't feel it vibrate at all if it does vibrate I'll check it you know I don't have to check it every single time which is a pretty big convenience and then the other thing I have to say that's among the top of my list for Samsung TouchWiz features is the ability to hide apps now you might say you know you could just uninstall an app that you don't need to remove your gonna hide it you might as well install it and I kind of get what you coming from where you coming from but personally there's sometimes there's an app I'll use maybe only once a month but doesn't necessarily mean I want to delete off my phone being able to hide it now has allowed me to consolidate my app pages to down to two pages which makes it a lot easier to find you know what I'm looking for in these two pages and whenever I need the app that I hit I guess you know unhide it and it comes right back on no need to download it again no needs to depend on that data connection which you know it's really nice so I'm really convenient and adds to that great experience now the one feature on here that you know it's marketed heavily by Samsung is the S Pen and honestly you know it's not bad at me it's actually really good it works really well we're just like you'd be expected to but honestly I don't use it I mean I've had this phone for a couple of months and I think it uses like two or three times two times I used it because I trying to explain something to somebody and they weren't quite getting me so I just kind of drew it and you know I was able to get that message across really clearly which is pretty cool and the one other time was actually signed a contract on the phone I was in Las Vegas for CES I signed a contract on my phone and said I'm happy now you know worried about printing it faxing it doing the old-school way then all my phone pull the S Pen did his signature on the acrobat sent it back for your email and I was done so really cool I don't know if that's the future I'd go out of my way to you know buy a phone for but having it you know doesn't hurt and the S Pen doesn't get in the way at all I mean if you don't want to use that spend you just leave it in there and you'll never even notice it now I've talked about you know a lot of things that alike with the phone obviously I like it more there's more things that like button I just like but I do like to give you know some of the negative feature negative things about a phone in my reviews and the one thing I have to say you know I already mentioned is the size I mean it is a big phone and it is it does take some getting used to and personally you know what I found out when I've used the phone for an extensive amount of time for like 45 minutes or so or longer my hands start to get a little bit cramped up and that might be because I wanted a keyboard all day at work and you know might be contributing to that but I haven't really had it happen with other phones so definitely something worth mentioning but other than that you know I have to say I'm pretty happy with what Samson did with the note to me it's got the quad-core processor 2 gigs of ram and HD screen that's huge great a big hustle camera it has LTE NFC boosters for window removal battery a micro SD card slot so I mean it has pretty much everything that I'd want in the phone maybe the only thing I'm saying other than the size that the drawback is the plastic design not really you know I've never been one to really complain about Samsung's passi designs and at this point they're kind of known for it but I dropped my phone recently and it got a little scuffed Morgana's like from like one foot up I was like on a chair and I fell down on a on cement and it got scratched which you know so my other poems' even like the iPhone 5 hasn't done that so that's a downside but if you don't really drop your phone not that big of a deal but yeah I mean those two drawbacks are definitely something to consider but I think that the pros heavily outweighed the cons would be no - at least for me personally now that's the thing with phones it really comes down to personal preference and you know it matters what's important to you if the size is too much for you to deal with then obviously this isn't the phone for you but you know that's not to say that the phone can't be improved - and I'm sure the note 3 there's a lot of things that Samsung's gonna be able to do but that's it that's how it is with all the technology I mean technology moves at such a fast rate and of course it could be an HD screen I mean right now this is a 720p screen there's HD screens Full HD screen should I say as 1080p I'll you know the Galaxy s4 is just around the corner but the thing about the note 2 and for example comparing to the galaxy s4 or any other galaxy s phones is that it's a completely different breed of a smartphone I mean they're not in the same like segment the note 2 you know confers you that half tablet half smartphone experience with the s-pen you know if you're one to use it it really changes the whole dimension of the phone and you know that's something to consider when you look in the note 2 you can't really compare it in the same way as you would you know the galaxy s4 and the HTC One but that's pretty much it for me in this video if you found it helpful or if you liked it please give it a thumbs up it really helps me out a lot and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already for more mobile technology videos just like this alright guys I'll see you guys the next video thank you for watching