How is the Galaxy Note 1 better?

[shure2]

So I'm thinking of coming over to the N4 but worry that its not much better than the note I have. I'm mainly looking for more speed and RAM (including fully working butter on vanilla android)

I don't use the s pen so that's no worries, and the screen could be a little smaller (I'm not someone who keeps wanting bigger).

I don't have masses of data, 16gb would probably do.

Is the battery life comparable? I get around 4h on WiFi with the lowest screen brightness, airplane mode with web browsing.

It would be interesting to hear from other people who came from the note.

Thanks in advance

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[drpurasevic]

I ve got note n7000. Great phone, display, battery, camera. I love it, root-> uninstall stupid apps to get more free RAM and then is fucccccking awesome i used many roms, but stock jelly bean + root is what am i using now

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[gee2012]

Having had both the Note 1 and Note 2 i can definately say the N4 is waaaaaaaaaay better than the Note 1. I found the Note 1 laggy and battery life was not spectacular, because it only had a dual core cpu and a older gpu off course. The Note 2 is much much better and choosing between both the Note 2 and N4 is hard and is a matter of preference.
But that aside i would gladly swith from the Note 1 to the N4 if it we`re me because of the incredible user xperience in speed, fluidity and customizebility.

 

[shure2]

Having had both the Note 1 and Note 2 i can definately say the N4 is waaaaaaaaaay better than the Note 1. I found the Note 1 laggy and battery life was not spectacular, because it only had a dual core cpu and a older gpu off course. The Note 2 is much much better and choosing between both the Note 2 and N4 is hard and is a matter of preference.
But that aside i would gladly swith from the Note 1 to the N4 if it we`re me because of the incredible user xperience in speed, fluidity and customizebility.

Thanks for your opinion. It does lag a bit, especially with CM10 where butter is not fully implemented.

The other main concern I forgot to add was the camera. I don't use the camera a massive amount on the Note 1 but I'd rather not go backwards to the N4. I only ask because the N4 hasn't got great reviews for the camera.

 

[Nigeldg]

The N4's camera isn't great but it's not awful either. It wouldn't be a huge step back from the Note at all, and the benefits of the N4 are just so much huger that there's no doubting that it's better. As for battery life, it gets me through the day without issues and I expect you can manage around 4 hours of web browsing on the lowest brightness. I get 2 and a half hours of a variety of things on full brightness with WiFi/Mobile data usually on and am left with 20% battery at the end of the day.

 

[shure2]

OK so camera is probably a sideways, if not slight downgrade but I can deal with that.

The most annoying things about android phones for me is the screen latency, it takes a few m/s to register your finger where as the iphones react to swypes and touches better. Does the n4 come closer to that or is it the same screen latency as the note 1.

I've just score between 7800 and 8400 on antutu. What are you guys getting?

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[estallings15]

OK so camera is probably a sideways, if not slight downgrade but I can deal with that.

The most annoying things about android phones for me is the screen latency, it takes a few m/s to register your finger where as the iphones react to swypes and touches better. Does the n4 come closer to that or is it the same screen latency as the note 1.

I've just score between 7800 and 8400 on antutu. What are you guys getting?

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I haven't had latency issues. I get between 18000 and 22000 depending on the ROM/kernel.