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Is Samsung Working On a "Galaxy B" Phone Without a Bezel?

http://pocketnow.com/android/is-samsung-working-on-a-galaxy-b-phone-without-a-bezel
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I wouldn't want to worry about inconsistent touches with the sides of my fingers and palm...

It's a cool concept. Personally, if it's not a Nexus I won't be purchasing it.

Not a fan at all. Looks weird to me. Maybe it's just cause I'm so used to a bezel?

I'd hit it.
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It's a cool concept. Personally, if it's not a Nexus I won't be purchasing it.
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This also.

1. It is ugly
2. Interested to see how a case can be put on it.
3. If it ever fell on any corner that screen would be finished.

Why is a dead person holding it?

That should have been the Zoolander phone.

Can we have this on desktop LCDs instead? Three of them would make for a killer Eyefinity / NV Surround gaming setup.

I dunno 'bout bezel-free but I reckon itd look awesome with a very thin bezel....

This would be awesome. I can see this happening easy. The HD TV's Sammy and LG have basically no bazel at all.
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That's horribly unattractive, and looks really 'shopped to me. Oh, wait, it is... " For instance, if you take a look at our mock-up above...". Not that it matters, it's still ugly. I think producing a "round" screen with no bezel might be kind of cool. I look at the Gnex and think how sweet it would be if the screen matched the contours of the top and bottom of the phone. Some times I look at the screen and think square peg, round hole.

Do you think your phones big?

When ever a friend see my galaxy nexus they always comment how massive it is.
Personally when I first got it I thought it was huge too the first day. Now it seems normal sized to me. I did notice how thin it was though.
What do you guys think?

coming from the S2 it felt slightly bigger, however i got used to it very quickly, feels really good using just one hand. once the One X came out and i held my friends one, it made the nexus feel slightly better in the hand
its got a very nice feel to it and it'll probably feel even smaller once i try out the S3

It's still too big, but it's the best phone choice currently, so I will be happy with it. Hopefully when Google fleshes out the Nexus line in November, there will be additional size choices.
I have fairly large hands, but when I hold the phone in my right hand, my thumb cannot reach the top-left portion of the screen without losing balance of the phone. Lack of one-handed operation is going to be a showstopper for most people.

Its a touch too big. I'd prefer if they could've either dropped the screen size to ~4.5" or reduced the physical dimensions by a couple mm each way.

Coming from the galaxy note it feels like a tic tac box. But I think it has the perfect form factor
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One-handed, with a little effort, I can touch anywhere on the display. So it's not too big for me.

I think its a great size. I was a big fan of the 4.3" screens, but the extra .35" really makes a difference. Its a good difference.
My sister saw my GN today for the first time. She said "wow the screen looks so nice, but why is it so big?"
She has an iPhone and I responded with "why is yours so small?" Sibling rivalry never ends.
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jelliottz said:
I think its a great size. I was a big fan of the 4.3" screens, but the extra .35" really makes a difference. Its a good difference.
My sister saw my GN today for the first time. She said "wow the screen looks so nice, but why is it so big?"
She has an iPhone and I responded with "why is yours so small?" Sibling rivalry never ends.
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Lol... well played my friend... well played indeed
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jelliottz said:
I think its a great size. I was a big fan of the 4.3" screens, but the extra .35" really makes a difference. Its a good difference.
My sister saw my GN today for the first time. She said "wow the screen looks so nice, but why is it so big?"
She has an iPhone and I responded with "why is yours so small?" Sibling rivalry never ends.
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You should have used the time tested quote I always use for I sheep......" Your holding it wrong"
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I can barely reach the far top left corner when holding it with only my right hand. I would much prefer a 4.4 inch which I think is a nice sweet spot to all this massive phone war.
Hopefully the next Nexus will either remain the same or drop it down a notch.

It seems normal sized now, coming from my OG epic 4g.. its a monster. Definetly difficult to handle with one hand but once you get the grip just right its pretty seamless.

Wish phones would go back to a 4in screen size. This phone is nice. But massive.
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overthinkingme said:
Wish phones would go back roba 4in screen size. This phone is nice. But massive.
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They make plenty of phones in the 4" size ....you don't have to buy one that is bigger unless you want to....
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It seems normal sized now, coming from my OG epic 4g.. its a monster. Definetly difficult to handle with one hand but once you get the grip just right its pretty seamless.
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thats what she said?
(sorry, i couldnt resist )

I have slightly smaller hands but I've adjusted to holding my nexus with one hand in some strange grip that seems to work lol... this adjustment just makes it so much easier for me and I can probably handle a bigger phone in the same way. I'll try with my brother's Note.
I guess the gnex is the perfect size for me, I quickly got used to it and now it feels so normal and everything else is tiny at times I feel like my screen isn't big enough lol

After trying the Note, the GNex is small.

Coming from an iPhone (Which I previously thought was the perfect size), this phone seemed huge at first. After a few days though, the size really grew on me. Now, I can't imagine ever going back to a phone with a smaller screen. I was playing around with my mom's iPhone yesterday, and it felt like a toy!

It's too small
That Note...that felt perfect in my hand...

The phone fits and feels perfect in my hand. Although I think anything bigger than this would be to big for my liking.
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shahm0nsterr said:
Coming from an iPhone (Which I previously thought was the perfect size), this phone seemed huge at first. After a few days though, the size really grew on me. Now, I can't imagine ever going back to a phone with a smaller screen. I was playing around with my mom's iPhone yesterday, and it felt like a toy!
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Same goes for me too. Every time I pick up my brothers iPhone it feels like a tiny toy to me and I have trouble pressing buttons on the screen since they're so small thanks to the screen.

If you've made it this far continue on with a straight face.

Note 2 doesn't feel so big anymore

Better yet most other phones now seem extremely small. Friend of mine has an iPhone 4s and I realized last night how much smaller the screen really is. I feel spoiled now and and do not feel like I would want to go back to a smaller phone. I use this thing as my Netflix device all the time too simply because of the enormous screen size. Truly a phone of its own kind in the marketplace today. Even better it's already picking up steam with support. I am now running the cmenard ROM with multi-window functionality among all the apps. Buttery smooth and battery life is awesome as expected. Sorry, just expressing my happiness with this phone. I paid full price like most everyone else but I feel it is totally worth it!! :good:

i noticed that too after about a week of having it. when i had a vibrant the sgs 2 and 3 seemed huge compared to it, but after having the note 2 you are completely right that it feels like a normal sized phone and just makes others seem overly small in comparison.

It's funny you say that cause when I first got it I was thinking about taking it back cause I thought it was too big. But now when I hold an S3 or something similar, which I thought was the perfect size now feels so small. Go figure. Next step I'll be holding a Nexus 7 to my ear. Lol.
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Tiffany84 said:
It's funny you say that cause when I first got it I was thinking about taking it back cause I thought it was too big. But now when I hold an S3 or something similar, which I thought was the perfect size now feels so small. Go figure. Next step I'll be holding a Nexus 7 to my ear. Lol.
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Yeah, me too, when I hold my GSIII it feels like a different phone lol like the mini version or something...

Funny thing is just last night I told my brother the phone does not feel so big anymore. When I held his S3 it felt like a tiny toy, and my girls iphone4 felt like my ipod touch.
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Agreed, it doesn't really feel that big... until i step back and realize how large it is in my hands, but the screen is so stunning... I don't even care

This makes my old samsung precedent look like a wristwatch lol
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I've been saying the same thing myself. The Note II feels normal to me now and every other phone seems tiny. I don't think I could go back to a smaller phone at this point honestly.
I do also like that the Note II is still somewhat slim in the width and (to me) shaped like a phone. The Note I looks a bit wider and more like a small tablet to me.

I ended up in a few Apple stores last week during a business trip to DC. In each store, my friend and I asked an Apple Genius to take our picture next to the iPhone 5. Both of the genius' were happy to snap the pics. My buddy and I both held our Note 2s next to the iPhone 5 and smiled... and watched the Genius grumble as he snapped the pic. *snicker*

Just wanna jump on the bandwagon and say that after playing with my Note 2 for a couple of week it now feels natural. The other day I went to open the casket of my GS 4G and I thought that the phone shrank, but it was actually still the same size as it was before. Haha! There is now way I'm going back to anything that is below 5.5.

Hell yea. I'll contribute. All I've ever had are relatively big phones. It started with the Motorola Droid. That was big for it's time. Then the Droid x which everyone knows was one of the first 4.3 inches of android. Then the galaxy nexus which I thought was big as hell opening the box. But now the note 2 is the biggest jump yet. 5.5 inches is a night and day difference to anything out there. I honestly feel like it's perfection. Watching movies, Playing 3d games, Drawing pictures, Browsing the web, and anything else is so much better on this phone. When the note 3 comes out I'm dropping 700 easy on the damn thing
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My stepson was amazed when he put his old att smartphone up to it and his whole phone fit inside my screen. It was great. Lol
From the Best: Note 2

Phone feels completely normal now and my old HTC HD2 feels like a childs toy.

mgioia2 said:
Phone feels completely normal now and my old HTC HD2 feels like a childs toy.
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I'm using an HD2 right now, and thinking of going to the Note 2 (need the bigger screen for these aging eyes!). If you don't mind me asking, how did you move your telephone contacts, text messages and browser bookmarks from your HD2 to your Note 2? I'm using the stock HD2 ROM and the Opera browser. Thanks in advance for your reply!

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I'm using an HD2 right now, and thinking of going to the Note 2 (need the bigger screen for these aging eyes!). If you don't mind me asking, how did you move your telephone contacts, text messages and browser bookmarks from your HD2 to your Note 2? I'm using the stock HD2 ROM and the Opera browser. Thanks in advance for your reply!
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Stock as in WM6.5? Holy WOW...my HD2 was on Android since it was available...i use Gmail to backup all the contacts but that's the only thing i'm ever worried about, i never backup texts or bookmarks, sorry...

Haha, I thought this thread was "pointless" until I picked up my Sensation last night... it literally feels like a toy now... so cute compared to my Note II

I'm on the bandwagon too, I was initially worried about the size but liked the idea of not having to carry around two devices and a sketchbook. I did a review of a case* earlier and I was taking pictures with my old Amaze...let's just say my Amaze felt tiny, I mean really tiny. My Nexus One feels even smaller. lol
*if you're interested in taking a look at the Seidio Surface case check the link below out
Seidio Surface Mini Review

I can agree. Went from my Moto Photon to this and now it seems small. I compared it to my Samsung moment which was my first android device and I can't even use the screen on it anymore because it's so tiny.

Never thought I would say it

Ive had my Note 2 for about a month and a half now. I got it for the screen size. Is it just me or is the phone starting to look smaller like a regular phone? Every other phone looks like a mini phone. Ive been thinking lately that in the future I might want a phone....thats a little bigger. Any of you have one of these thoughts anytime?
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Nellyinda803 said:
Ive had my Note 2 for about a month and a half now. I got it for the screen size. Is it just me or is the phone starting to look smaller like a regular phone? Every other phone looks like a mini phone. Ive been thinking lately that in the future I might want a phone....thats a little bigger. Any of you have one of these thoughts anytime?
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I know mayne. I was fixing some issues on my old Mytouch 4g slide and it was like handling a toy . the screen looked like it coulda been a watch face or something.

As I had the note for a month I feel like its rather small too.. kinda weird
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Same here. Maybe because they made the width smaller? We have been spoiled "/
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My wife has an iPhone 4S and I used it the other day and caught myself squinting holding it up to my face.
I could go for a 6 inch screen. This one doesn't seem so big anymore. That's what she said.

Haha I think I will be in agreement once I get mine.
Just going into the T-Mobile store and messing around with it today I thought "damn I swear this phone was bigger than this last time I saw it"
I think 6" will be the max though.. my Nexus 7 is just too big to use as a phone. Though it does have some excessive bezel..

Maybe 6" having edge to edge display. That would be something
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Coming from the S II on t-mobile, I thought this phone was huge on week 1. Now on week 2 it doesn't seem that big until I hold the S II up to it and realize the entire phone fits inside the screen of the note 2.
My tab 2 will not fit in my pocket no matter how big the pants. Well maybe if I dig out some of my 90's raver pants from JNCO it would fit. I knew I should have gotten the one with the sim card slot while I was in Malaysia. I saw people using the 7 inch tablets as phones all the time while I was there.
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limpysmalls said:
Coming from the S II on t-m9bile I thought this phone was huge on week 1. Now on week 2 it doesn't seem that big until I hold the S II up to it and resize the entire phone fits inside the screen of the note 2.
My tab 2 will not fit in my pocket no matter how big the pants. Well maybe if I dig out some of my 90's raver pants from JNCO it would fit. I knew I should have gotten the one with the sim card slot while I was in Malaysia. I saw people using the 7 inch tablets as phones all the time while I was there.
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Hella raver pants lol I rave
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I have medium size hands, and I think the size is perfect. I will probably never go smaller, but any bigger really would make it un-pocketable.
I totally agree about other phones being dinky and almost useless to me now. My old Captivate feels like an imitation phone. The screen buttons are so small, I get instantly annoyed with it.
Swyped from the closest Galaxy.

Got it the day it came out for Tmobile, and for a while now I been complaining that it feels to small and want something bigger.
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it does feel smaller after using for awhile but compared to my wife3's gs3 it's huge.

It feels normal to me, too! And I thought I was the only one... When my friends or co-workers ask me how I can use such a big phone, I hold it in front of me like I'm pissing and say, "I'm used to it." Haha. Never gets old.
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Id go for a 6 inch. Tho I would have to move the phone to the front pocket.

I feel the same way guys, the phone feels normal to me now. As of right now I thinks it's perfect but I wouldn't mind going 6"edge to edge hehe. Today I used my Co workers 4s,and I was really saddened with the experience lol. It felt like a toy, screen looked like crap compared to my Note2, I don't see myself ever going smaller again.

Coming from an iPhone 4 this phone is simply mind blowing. I'm 6'3'' with very large hands and do everything one-handed. I was looking at my 4 today, it's like a kid's crackerjack box toy. The screen is a joke.
I for one can never go back to anything less than a SGN2. I feel like Capt. Kirk 500 years in the future.
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I'm at the point where my Note 2 feels very much the way my SIII used to feel and my Droid DNA just feels like a normal size phone. I also get confused when people say "How can you use that thing??" I'm like "What? It's normal. . . "
Just yesterday I was comparing it to a friends iPhone 4 and the first thing I said when I grabbed the iPhone 4 was "awww it's so cute!!". Later on my friend kept being amazed at the things I could do with my phone. Things like multiwindow, being able to select a part of the screen and copy it, writing with the SPen, writing notes on the back of pictures and a few other things, oddly enough he was much more impressed about the fact that there was a little dot that would follow the stylus around on the screen even though the stylus was not touching the screen.
By the end of the night I ended up selling him my Nexus 7 which I no longer needed because of the Note 2. I already have a Note 10.1 and the Note 2... oh yea and that droid DNA that I hardly use now.

I'm surprised how small every other phone feels after using the GN2 for just a few weeks. Maybe Huawei 6.1in screen will be my next device :cyclops:
http://bgr.com/2012/12/06/huawei-galaxy-note-ii-competitor/

It took a week, tops, for me to feel like all my other "big" phones (HTC One X, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Nexus) were small. The One X feels downright tiny to me, and the S3, which always felt big, now feels like the minimal size I'd be happy with.
I don't feel like the Note II is small, though. It's certainly the ideal size for me right now, 90% of the time, anyways. It does seem a little large in the hand to be using the device while driving, not that I ever do that...
I'm interested to play with a Droid DNA to see how it feels and looks.

How about a 6.3in Galaxy Note 3?
http://www.slashgear.com/6-3-inch-samsung-galaxy-note-3-tipped-for-2013-13260736/

S Pen Tips: white tip vs. clear tip

Just happen to look at the S Pen tips that came in the box with the tip removal tool. While doing so I noticed that most of then are white however there are two clear. Swapped the white for a clear and can feel a huge difference in how smooth the S Pen operates and slides on the screen. Anyone else tested the clear tips. Just wondering if there is actually a difference or if I'm just imagining it.

When I glanced at them mine were all black but I have the black n3. Going to have to take a gander late
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Big difference. Been using the clear ones on my old 10.1 for the whole year now. The clears don't get smudgy and spongy after a while, they also glide a lot better in the screen.
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Big difference. Been using the clear ones on my old 10.1 for the whole year now. The clears don't get smudgy and spongy after a while, they also glide a lot better in the screen.
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Great tip, no pun intended. I just checked those little tips and sure enough 2 of them were smooth and not the rubber coated ones.
Changed it out, now it feels 1000x better. I hated the sticky rubber coated tip from day one, it made me miss the S-pen on my Note 2.
Now I get the same super smooth action. Loving this phone more and more because of you guys. :good:

Awesome! Didn't realize they made a rubberized one and and smooth one. I have the black note three and all the tips looked the same. Glad I ran into this thread.