It came time to replace my Motorola Droid X with another Android smart phone. After some research, I picked the Samsung Galaxy Note II. I liked the Palm like feature which was a stylus with note taking software.
The Droid X was a hot running machine with a black case that was always warm to touch. It was a nice hand heater in cold weather. The Note II runs cool to touch.
Mostly I have been using the Note II as a movie player while commuting back and forth from downtown Los Angeles and Claremont on Metrolink. This task it does extremely well. Most Google Play movies run about 0.6 Gig and take approximately an hour to download at a WiFi hotspot.
Magazines on Google Play take a long time to download at WiFi hotspots and must be at least half downloaded before being ready to read. The Note II have a large enough display to read magazines but the download time is a negative.
The camera on the Note II is very nice.
An adapter allows the micro USB port to be used to plug in a USB flash drive into the unit for direct backups without a computer. This is a very useful feature for backing up photos and data while traveling.
KingSoft office was very useful for editing a Microsoft Word document sent to me by email and returning the edited copy to the sender. This is free software and a Windows PC version of this software exists as wall as an Apple iPad / iPhone version. The Note II has a large display which makes word process tolerable.
Other useful software available includes: ArcGIS, QuickOffice, Photoshop Express, Outlook.com, Adobe Viewer, Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Drive, Documents to Go, EverNote, LinkedIn, DropBox, AutoCAD viewer,
