![]() You’ll need a strong fingernail, it’s a tight fit! Try to use it one handed and you’ll be juggling the plastic slab up and down and across your grip, a recipe for disaster. It feels terrific in the hand, albeit just that bit too large to be used one-handed. Housed in a more rectangular shape (reminiscent of the Galaxy S II several years ago) than its more curved predecessor, the Galaxy Note 3 is solid and well built, all plastic (as usual) but heavily disguised, as stitched leather on the back and as ribbed metal around the perimeter. In order to buy it, you really, truly have to want the stylus and its functions, and for more than just fiddling around and showing off to your friends. And, thanks to Samsung’s desire to experiment with specs and form factors, you can now get an even bigger screen in an Android phone for half the price of the Note 3… ever heard of the budget Mega 6.3? Surely a large part of the reason why people have been drawn to the Note series in the first place is the larger display, great for watching YouTube or Netflix or browsing web sites, great for playing games. After all, you can get plenty of alternative tech for the purchase price of a Galaxy Note 3. All in something that’s the tech fan’s wildest dream, spec-wise. But however clever all this is, it’s tough to get much real work done that wouldn’t be done better by having an ultrabook or even an iPad Air or similar, alongside a phone in a more traditional device form factor. Yes, the stylus is a cool piece of tech. I get it, you can scribble notes and produce sketches and crop text and annotate screenshots and drag windows around and have a lot of fun. There’s also something of a question hanging over why people have been buying the Note, the Note II and now the Note 3 in droves. The S Pen is THE reason to want – or not want – a Note 3…
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