Large screen suggestions/recommendations please...

If you are not going to root (as in you will be using the manufacturer's Android interface), you would probably be most comfortable going Samsung to Samsung.

Why not the Note 2 or Note 3 (whenever it comes out)?

 

I moved this over to the device comparisons forum for better exposure there. Hope you don't mind.

If the Note3 is gong to be available in the UK soon, maybe that will be an option for you? It's supposed to be a really superb device. Let us know what you ultimately decide!

 

There are also rumours of a 6"-ish HTC in preparation, but if the Note 3 is too late for you chances are that will be too.

What I would say is to look at the full specs of the screen rather than just the size. The Mega 6.3 has fewer pixels than your current note (720x1280 rather than 800x1280), but in a much larger screen. So it won't display any more information than your current device, just at a lower density. Maybe that's what you want, just wanted to be sure.

Whatever you settle on, I'd always recommend looking at the real device first rather than ordering based on other people's opinions.

 

Ahhh, ok. I haven't been keeping up on the launch date, thought it was a tad sooner.

Hadron has a good point above about screen density etc. If you watch HD movies and such the lower resolution might be noticable, if you're not worried about that, get the larger screen device with the best hardware specs.

I need to go look at that Xperia, haven't seen the specs on it yet.

 

Interesting question, and not sure I can answer it. In the "zoomed-out" full page view in a web browser it's straightforward: you are displaying the same information (full page), so everything will be larger but less sharp. Whether this helps I guess depends you your eyes.

Zoomed-in it probably depends on how the browser handles this. To my mind the obvious way would be to use the font sizes in points, in which case since a point is a fixed size (0.35mm) you will get more text (if less sharp) on a larger, lower resolution screen. As the pixel density is still higher than most laptops you should still be able to read smaller fonts perfectly well. If the browser were to interpret character sizes in pixels then of course you'd not get more info on, though some browsers let you adjust font sizes.

Conclusion: I think you're probably right, but I cannot be absolutely certain as I don't know for sure how the browser would work.

 

Yes it did, larger screen larger text.

If this is the main intent of a larger screen, and the small difference in HD content isn't a big deal for you, the mega may be the way to go.

 

Yes, it does, and I agree with Granite.

There are two things that limit readability: the point where the text is too small for your eye to resolve the characters regardless of resolution, and the point where it's too small for the screen resolution to make the characters clear. So while a higher resolution screen will make it easier to read very small characters, my feeling is that in any case most people wouldn't choose a character size so small that the Mega's screen can't handle it, in which case the larger screen should give you more usable space.