Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2, 32GB (Wi-Fi), Black

A little background so you know what I was looking for and why I am satisfied with my purchase.The last tablet I purchased was a 7 inch generic Android Tablet a few years back. Never really cared for it and while I thought I wanted something small and portable I found myself wishing I had gotten something bigger.I currently am using a Note 3 for my phone which I absolutely love. I had been using it as an all purpose device for work to take notes during meetings and looking at excel documents. While it served it's purpose sort of. I had some problems with certain excel files and never did find an office program I was completely happy with and it was hard to take lengthy notes without a proper keyboard and while the screen is big it wasn't big enough for long lecture note taking.For me this product was a good compromise of a tablet and a laptop. The bigger screen of a laptop with the portability of a tablet. I wanted something I could use for work and for play.This thing is big though. With that being said I wanted that extra 2" of screen real estate. For me 6' tall with longish arms and average sized hands I can comfortably cradle it in one arm and use my other hand to operate it. I also find it very easy to read and operate laying down propping it up on my leg.The display is beautiful. My only complaint is in a dark room I can see a tiny bit of bleeding at the bottom when it's first booting up. Not a deal breaker for me. Movies and games look good.I'm currently using a Note 3 with the quad core snap dragon processor and was not sure what to expect with the Octacore. I am not disappointed in the least. The system is responsive with no real noticeable lag.I love the new Magazine UX Samsung implemented with this tablet. I personally find it a refreshing change up. A lot of the reviews talked about this and it seemed to be a love it or hate it. Don't let that scare you away though the core Android system you are used to is still there. There are still home screens to customize and your standard app tray. The 4 part multi view works awesome and doesn't feel cramped and you can resize the windows.It comes with Hancom office viewer by default and you can go In and download the editor for free. By FAR the best office suite I've used on Android. I have a logitech 810 bluetooth keyboard I bought to sync to this to take notes and I had zero problems getting it to work with this and both were very responsive with no lag. Made typing up emails and word documents a breeze.The S Pen functions work great as they do on the note 3. Though I wish they had made the pen a little bigger. It's the same shape as the pen in the Note 3 but 1/8" to 1/4" longer and just a tad thicker personally I didn't notice much difference till I put them side by side.Battery life has been fantastic hard to say how long I have been getting on a charge because I have been playing on it non stop.The built in speakers are quite adequate in both volume and sound quality. I have a bluetooth JBL Flip speaker I usually hook up to listen to music or watch Netflix on my phone to get increased volume. And while the JBL speaker was still better for overall quality and volume I didn't find it a necessity to use like I do with my phone.Camera quality is fine though I don't plan to use it for taking pictures or video I have my phone for that. And rarely will I be using it if at all for video calls. Though the option is certainly there and does a solid job.Internal storage, I went with the 32GB model. Almost 10 gigs of that is taken up by the OS and other bloatware. The good news of course is that it takes a micro ST card so you can expand the memory without having to overpay for a tablet with more space.All in all extremely happy with this tablet. Hope this review can help someone out.Update - 3/10/14I opted to get a keyboard and mouse for this tablet. I picked up the logitech k810 keyboard and logitech t651 trackpad. Both work perfect.I have been using this tablet for a few weeks now and I thought I would update. I am actually typing up this review with my logitech keyboard from my tablet :)I have been using this tablet a lot for work. One question came up which was did it seem to much to have both a Note 3 and the 12.2 pro. I think this comes down to the user. I use sNote and Evernote quite a bit. I like that I can jot down quick notes with my phone and reorganize on my tablet later. I wish evernote had a better tablet layout but thats not samsungs fault thats evernotes fault. However with the large screen size on the tablet I can just go to the main website for Evernote and log in there which is handy.One thing I am really enjoying is reading comics on this. It's one thing I really wanted to be able to do with my Note 3 and it just didn't work. To much zooming and moving around. The screen on this thing is perfect for that and combined with the comixology app...MONEY!What have I been disappointed in? Since everything cant be 100% sunshine and rainbows. Lack of customization for the new magazine UX. Samsung pulled a bunch of the widgets for that. I didn't notice it at first because I didn't really end up using it as much as I thought I would. It wasn't till I was reading on the XDA Developer forums that I noticed this. I have noticed a bit of stutter when sliding between screens now that I have loaded up some of my apps.They could have made the icons smaller to allow more icons in a row rather than making them bigger.The only other thing I wish it had was sPlanner. I love having that widget on my Note 3 as I put everything in there and its nice to be able to slide a screen quick to get a quick glance rather than opening the app.Aside from that I am normally very quick to root my devices but am still rolling stock at the moment.I still don't regret my decision. And I liked this thing enough to dump another 100 bucks into a mouse and keyboard and another 150 for a "man purse" if you will that holds the tablet keyboard mouse cables and external battery backup. I got that from sfbags.com

Purchased the product as a replacement to my iPad 2. Was excited for the larger screen, open source capabilities and note functionality. Really enjoyed the multi-tasking capabilities although I was disappointed how few apps were compatible. It was a little heavier but for the bigger screen it was worth it. Was much easier to screen share, etc than on my iPad 2 and you could download content much more efficiently (I'm not an iTunes fan). I was also surprised with how much easier it was to screen share and interact with other devices. I have used Samsung Galaxy smartphones and it was nice to share apps, contacts, etc seamlessly. All in all I would have given it 4 out of 5 stars...until the warranty expired.About a month after it expired, the screen started flickering randomly and would shut the device down. I followed the support instructions, downloaded and installed the latest releases and that reduced the number of issues but they didn't go away. A week later, I notice that it is no longer charging. After looking more online, I found this is a common problem. The solution was to replace the battery, which I did. Good news, the device worked fine while the battery had power. Bad news, it still doesn't charge.I opened up a ticket on Samsung.com and got no response. Called the number and was on hold for 30 minutes before anyone came on. He asked basic questions: "Did you drop it?" No. "Have you tried a new charger?" yes. "Does it work when you plug it into the computer?" No. "Ok sir, since it's out of warranty, I'll have to transfer you to our Depo department for service." After 30 minutes on hold, I get transferred to an answering machine "Thanks for calling Samsung. Unfortunately, we're unable to take your call. If you'd like to speak with us, please let your name, number and ticket number and we'll return your call"....really? When they finally called back and leave me a voicemail, I get the following: " Hello, I'm calling from Samsung Depo on regards of your tablet. We just wanted to inform you since your unit is considered out of warranty, we would require a holding fee of $437.58. If you choose to proceed with the service, please return our call at 310-669-4334. Thank you" No they don't answer again. On further discussion, the $437.58 doesn't include shipping costs and could end up being more (but is probably close) depending on what they find. Given that I only paid $650 for the thing in the first place, not a chance I'm trusting them. I can buy a new iPad for that amount.Funny thing is, I'm back to using the iPad 2 I thought I was replacing to begin with....cracked screen and all. At least it works.