Finally got my phone. Had an issue with the preorder however because the guy who placed my order over the phone changed my data plan from unlimited to 300MB!
After speaking to a couple reps, got everything sorted out so I have my unlimited data again. I asked the rep if I could have some credit for the inconvenience and she gave me $40 towards my next bill. Add that towards my previous credits/discounts and I ended up getting the Note 2 for $55 on 2 year contract. That's ridiculous!
I'm still playing around with the settings and setting up my different home screens but I can definitely see the potential in the device. Never cared about widgets but now I see why people like them. My phone was probably half charged when I got it. Took about 10 hours of use to kill the battery (turned off wifi and left on LTE to try to drain it faster). I still haven't even played around with the S Pen features! So far, so good. Glad I made the switch.
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I'm going to call BS. I bought my girlfriend a Galaxy Nexus (4.65") after her Nexus S (4") broke. She told me that the Galaxy Nexus was bigger than she liked and ended up going back to the Nexus S. We now use the Galaxy Nexus to run Netflix on our dumb HDTV or play downloaded tv shows using an MHL adapter.
That's fine that your girlfriend thought the Nexus was to big but that doesn't somehow translate to all girls thinking anything over 4" is to big and claiming BS.
I see plenty of girls using S3's and overseas, there's a huge market with females using larger devices, including the Note.