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Galaxy Note 3

hashholly said:
Coming from an iPhone 5S, and currently using a Nexus 5 I can say from experience that no email app comes close to the stock iphone mail app, especially when it comes to multiple email accounts, with push notification, all in one app that looks polished.
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Yeah the stock email app is not very good - but the Samsung/TouchWiz one that ships with their 4.3 phones is decent - supports multiple/combined mailboxes with push and works reliably.

Android OEMs get a lot of flak for their skinning and feature bloat - in most cases fairly - but some things are just much better on the OEM skins.
 
hashholly said:
Coming from an iPhone 5S, and currently using a Nexus 5 I can say from experience that no email app comes close to the stock iphone mail app, especially when it comes to multiple email accounts, with push notification, all in one app that looks polished.
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Can't speak for the Nexus but with the Note 3 and it's version of 4.3 it does offer all of the above noted likes you have and then some. Priority Senders, threaded or individual views, multi accounts, push notifications, combined inboxes, etc...but with the added advantage of just hitting print and getting a real PC looking Preview, the ability to configure just about any WiFi enabled printer (no need for airprint) and more.
 
Not heard anything new other than the potential Jan/Feb release date rumour.

TBH i'm not expecting too much. Other than going into "About Device" I doubt we'll even be able to tell it's KitKat what with TW being on-top.
 
Battery life is intense on this!
 

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AQUADock said:
Samsung have just started making internal builds. So it shouldn't be too long, around January. This is according to someone who manages to get leaked test builds.
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Samsung might be ready to give out initial builds to the carriers by January in the best case. The carriers then take their own sweet time to test/retest and release to the end users. So 2015 may not be such a bad estimate. Not sure how Moto is getting around this - may be being close to stock helps them.

At least for me the recent Note II 4.3 update hasn't caused any issues - so hopefully the double testing helps.
 
Last few days my phone has lasted

1 day, 6 hours
1 day, 5 hours

Both with between 4 hours to 4 hours, 40 mins screen time. Love it.
 
If I wanted the best battery life possible which should I get? Note 3 or LG G2?

How much screen on time could I get with both at 90% brightness all day?
 
hashholly said:
Coming from an iPhone 5S, and currently using a Nexus 5 I can say from experience that no email app comes close to the stock iphone mail app, especially when it comes to multiple email accounts, with push notification, all in one app that looks polished.
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The 4.4 stock email app is FINALLY updated.....loads better than before. Basically the same as the official Gmail app.

Long overdue IMO and much appreciated.
 
jrswizzle said:
The 4.4 stock email app is FINALLY updated.....loads better than before. Basically the same as the official Gmail app.

Long overdue IMO and much appreciated.
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Im not sure if I had the updated version or not, it looked pretty much like Gmail, only no push for third party e-mail which was a killer. I actually just set up a return for the Nexus 5, back to the iPhone 5S for me.
 
hashholly said:
Im not sure if I had the updated version or not, it looked pretty much like Gmail, only no push for third party e-mail which was a killer. I actually just set up a return for the Nexus 5, back to the iPhone 5S for me.
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Ya - I know push has been killed mostly across the board. The only accounts that push for me on my Nexus 5 are the hotmail and gmail accounts.

Of course, my battery is pretty pathetic, so I've set everything to manual!

The battery is the one thing about the N5 that keeps it from being the ideal Android phone for me. Even the camera is fine.
 
So how is everyone's screen on time like recently?

What would be normal to expect? 5 hours or more?

Do you guys think the SGS5 will feature a 3000 battery too?
 
jrswizzle said:
The 4.4 stock email app is FINALLY updated.....loads better than before. Basically the same as the official Gmail app.

Long overdue IMO and much appreciated.
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It was a very welcome update! I have a Nexus 10 with my Note 3, and it's finally usable as an email client, my main annoyance they finally fixed was when you receive a HTML email and it's too big, until the 4.4 email client you couldn't zoom out to look at it all, but you always could in GMail.

If only they put the email client on the Play Store, I'd download it for my Note 3 in a heartbeat.
 
Dr McKay said:
It was a very welcome update! I have a Nexus 10 with my Note 3, and it's finally usable as an email client, my main annoyance they finally fixed was when you receive a HTML email and it's too big, until the 4.4 email client you couldn't zoom out to look at it all, but you always could in GMail.

If only they put the email client on the Play Store, I'd download it for my Note 3 in a heartbeat.
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You can install the KitKat Mail client APK and it works great. Just remember to remove the mail accounts from the old samsung client.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...4-4-with-gmail-style-ui-and-a-slide-out-menu/
 
Sensamic said:
So how is everyone's screen on time like recently?

What would be normal to expect? 5 hours or more?

Do you guys think the SGS5 will feature a 3000 battery too?
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Depends on where you use it

I got 2 days total usage yesterday and because of that got around 3 hours screen time.

With normal usage it's between 4 hours to 5.but if I'm at home on wifi I'm looking closer to 6 hours
 
Well after a few months with the iPhone 5S, I decided to sell it and get a Note 3 here why.

At first i came from a S4, really liked the 5S when i first bought it, the small size was brilliant and iOS 7 was fine, but after a couple of months i began to see how restrictive iOS really is compared to Android & some of the bugs where starting to annoy me, like the springboard crashing for no reason on 7.0.4 & calendar app was just terrible.

As i've already had the S4 in the past didn't want to go back to one, so went for the Note 3 instead mainly because of the 32GB internal memory & higher specs & being a much newer device plus it only cost me £429 simfree aswell, which the iPhone 5S paid for :).

I had my Note 3 now for 2 weeks & got use to the size of this device, not had a single problem with it, I've now tried iOS and it wasn't for me, so will be sticking with Android from now on.
 
is it worth getting the note 3 now or is the note 4 on its way soon
i can get one for a good price here now unlocked and off contract but i read about some small problems here and there and is there going to be a 4.4 android update to it ?:confused::confused:
 
callawayno1 said:
is it worth getting the note 3 now or is the note 4 on its way soon
i can get one for a good price here now unlocked and off contract but i read about some small problems here and there and is there going to be a 4.4 android update to it ?:confused::confused:
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Yes, with the Note 4 on it's way, you should pass on the Note 3. Since you could have the Note 3 now at a good price and unlocked/off contract doesn't matter because the Note 4 will arrive soon and be problem free. It might be more expensive, but that's okay because it will be better than the Note 3.

It doesn't make sense to me that people buy stuff now knowing full well that a newer version is coming out...
 
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