Samsung Galaxy Note 3, White 32GB (Sprint)

Pros: lightweight, beautiful screen, fast, powerfulCons: Somewhat awkward to hold, confusing software, expensiveAwesome phone with plenty of potential. Great if you are willing to put in some time to optimize it. Software suffers from having 3 masters: Samsung, Google and wireless carrier(in my case Sprint). Everyone wants you to use their store and apps. My advice is to use Google (it is an android phone after all) and add the other bits as you need them. If you're really ambitious troll YouTube for Note 3 tips and techniques.If you prefer phone use with one hand there are special setting to shrink and move the buttons to facilitate that. But I'd recommend a Galaxy S4 or iPhone instead.Update 06/06/2014Still love the hardware. The software or rather the battle with the software providers is getting on my nerves. For example, picture handling is totally out of control. Google started automatically downloading my pictures to my google+ account. Samsung would like to but I don't have a Samsung specific account. Dropbox has to be stopped from automatically doing this. What I really want is to download pictures to my computer where I can edit them. Simple huh? Well not in this new world. Android phones and Mac computers don't like each other. If you want to do what THEY want you to do, life is a trip down a water slide. If you want to do something else its a climb UP a water slide.Also: car chargers are an issue for this phone. See my review for the  PowerGen 4.2Amps / 20W Dual USB Car charger Designed for Apple and Android Devices If you DON'T keep your phone in a pocket or on your belt this is a great, inexpensive case: i-Blason Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Note III N9000 Smart Phone Leather Slim Book Case Cover with Stand Feature (Black)

I've had the galaxy note 3 for about 2.5 months now. It's packed with features that seem impressive at first but do have some glitches. I had to return my first phone as the charging port wouldn't work. But Amazon quickly replaced it. The phone is supposed to have voice commands for its music player which seldom work. The other hand free commands work well though. The stylus is excellent and offers great functionality. The greatest drawback of the phone is its size which can make its use pretty cumbersome and outright difficult with one hand even with the one handed feature. I have small hands though and this could be the problem. The camera is really good. I have used the s4 also and most of the features are present in the s4 while being less unwieldy. The scrap book is great! Obviously movies are awesome on the wide screen.The bottom line is...if you like the stylus go for it but if you like something less gigantic and still with nearly all the features, look elsewhere but then again if that was the case...you wouldn't have looked at the note in the first place! Enjoy!

and for me its about the same phone to me. Not much of a difference and both became extremely glitchy as the time went on. One thing i hate is that if you looking at a text and you slide the text slightly it will immediately call that person. When the call starts up the screen goes black so you have to hit the home key to make the screen come up just so you can hang up the call before it goes through and interupts someone that maybe at work and it is extremely annoying and does that a lot. I do like the screen resolution and size and colors but as i said it gets glitchy as it gets older meaning apps will hang up and freeze more, internet crashes, and more resets of the phone to even beable to use it cause it will freeze up to where you will have to restart the phone to get it functioning again. But this is usually with all the Samsung phones, I dont know if this is just how they make them or what but I may need to try another kinda phone to get away from the glitches that samsung seems to allow to continue to go through on all there phones no matter the model.

The screen is big enough that I was able to ditch my tablet. Some say the big screen is a downside, but since I always use my LG HBS-730 Tone+ Stereo Bluetooth headset with it, I don't count it as such.My only downside is that it has all the Samsung stuff pre-installed and there is no easy way to uninstall it. I wish I could have the Nexus experience on this hardware. I am moving from an open Google Nexus branded phone and the proprietary Samsung experience and it is not even comparable. The Google Nexus experience wins hands down. The Samsung hardware wins hands down. This is why the old Google Nexus S by Samsung did so well; the best of both worlds.

I have not stopped using all the functions from I got this phone. I can surf the net faster and smoother. All the apps are easy to navigate. I use the pen sometimes, it is very handy. Now that I have this phone, I can never go back to a small regular phone, the screen is large, but not too large that you cannot hold the phone in one hand. I love the large screen, it is much better to surf the internet on a bigger screen. I would recommend this phone. The only issue I have is the volume is a bit low. I have to use the volume boost button.

This device ROCKS!!! GET THIS BAD BOY IF YOU LOVE TO MULTI TASK WITHOUT DELAY OR PROBLEMS! THIS THING IS SUPER FAST, MINUS THE IFY SPRINT SERVICE NETWORK, BUT ROARS ON WIFI!!! THIRE IS NOTHING THIS BEAST CANT DO! THE SIZE IS PERFECT TOO. I keep mine in my pocket all day, no issues. Love the s-pen feature, now I can jot down all my spontaneous ideas, plus I love being able to write fluently as if I were writing it down on a piece of paper, SUPER SMOOTH!! THIS IS BY FAR MY MOST FAVORITE DEVICE YET!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND IF FINANCIALLY-ABLE?? 5*s!

Great battery life, large screen, easy to use and set up. This is a must have for those that need to create notes to themselves on the fly. The great thing about the notes are the fact that you can email, text, etc., the information in your own handwriting. Lots of storage space and only seems bulky when the case is on. A slim, sleek phone that will help any business person on the go. Love the access to the camera from the lock screen. If in the market for a phone, this is one that should be considered.