After downloading those images to my PC, yea... I really don't see that big of a difference in image quality between the Note 4 and the Note 3.
I am kind of concerned with the image sizes, though. 4.5-6MB a pop, WTF?! I'm sort of trialing the Google+ stuff (again) right now and there's no way I'd let a phone Auto Backup images that large over Cellular.
2. You can put an HTC One M8 (I have one here, inches away form me with my Note 3) face down and it will still blow away almost every other phone on the market. The reason why HTC's speakers are great has a lot more to do with their design than their mere placement; and I don't find them to be all that superior to the Droid Maxx's speakers. The Moto X 2014 is supposedly on par with the One M8.
What I do find superior is the M8's ability to pump out ear-breaking volume (really HTC? why?) through the headphones. They really hit pretty "unhealthy" volume levels easily. I tend to use my Note 3 for listening through Headsets (better quality to my ears compared to the M8's headphone Jack especially with Boomsound turned on) and the M8 when listening to music through the speakers (+ since it isn't my daily drive I don't care how much battery I waste on it
) since they're on a different dimension compared to the Note 3's single speaker (which is still placed better than the Note 4's).
I was not happy when I seen Samsung put the speaker on the back of the phone. Seems like a step backwards.
3. I think a few tablets shipped with that resolution.
4. No Evernote on my Note 3 (and certainly no WhatsApp), but there is a version on Samsung Galaxy Apps which may be the one you're referring to. I don't use Evernote, so I've never bothered to check that.
5. Correct ;-) However, on my phone even if I have Dropbox installed and Activated, it stays FTP. Which is fine, as long as the cloud storage provider in question supports Android's Storage Access Framework (Drive, OneDrive, and Box do... I assume Dropbox as well).
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Does anyone know if the Note 4 supports Synching Google Tasks, or are you still limited to Samsung Account Tasks or using another PIM Service (like Outlook.com) which supports Tasks Synchronization (Granted, you can always use Google Now for Reminders, but it isn't really the same thing...).