Galaxy Note 10.1

[bigsofty]

Anyone have one, tried one? if so, I am interested in how it performs with regards to its stylus and drawing, how do you rate its performance(accuracy, pressure sensitivity, touch lag etc.)?

[bigsofty]

I traded in my Nexus 7 (Great little tablet BTW  ) against a refurbed Note 10.1.

OK, to answer my own question. Drawing with the tablet is great, its pretty accurate, has 1000 levels of stylus pressure and has palm rejection. A worthwhile purchase to anyone who enjoys digital drawing.

The best software, with good stylus support I have found is Layer Paint on the App Store.

[mentalthink]

I read about the Amazon, Kindle Fire, it's very cheaper and runs very quick, I think it's only 190$, and I don't know if they launched yet another new model... then the fire goes down price a lot..

[bigsofty]

Sounds like a good price! 

The main reason I went for the Note 10.1 was because it uses Wacom Stylus tech. to achieve a Cintiq'ish (see... http://www.wacom.com/products/pen-displays/cintiq/cintiq-12wx) type of user input. TBH it works pretty well and has a much less scarey price too! 

[mentalthink]

I think for have a "cintic" you can buy an special pen... iPad have the same it's a pen of Wacom too 40$... thanks when I was in the school the pencils don't cost 40$ each 

About the Wacom it's a good product, I have Intuos3 and goes very nice for paint the textures and this things like Zbrush...

Well only 13$... (I buy too much expensive...  )

http://www.amazon.com/MiniSuit-Capacitive-Stylus-Compatible-Touchscreens/dp/B005O2URES

[erico]

I just got a galaxy note II (ye,glupped samsung once again ).

Since it is a similar tech, I suppose note 10.1 is as nice if not better.
The response time on note II is acceptable, not instantaneous like a wacom tablet, but really good and way better some ipads/phone I tried (though I haven´t tried the latest Ipad yet).

I guess samsung is partnering up with wacom, so their pen-area is sure to improve a lot over next itterations, like the note 8.

I will check that drawing app you recommended bigsofty, but I will first try looking at the grafx android version.

Wasen´t there a thread we list our gear? I can´t seem to find it anymore, would like to add up the new toy.
Can´t wait to try GLB on it, I hope I have things going in it by this week.    

[bigsofty]

I not had a chance to use the Galaxy Note II yet but my sister has one and she continuously praises its virtues to me. The Galaxy Note 10.1 is pretty quick, pen lag is there but only if you really look for it and are quick with your pen swipes. The software that you use can make a big difference though. One piece of software, apart from Layer Paint, I use is The Quill, it's a note taking app that just works really well with the S Pen, very smooth and accurate but not a fully fledged drawing app unfortunate but a lot of fun none-the-less.

[erico]

I completely agree.

First time I played around the note II I got a bit depressed on the pen response, but now that I got one (as a gift) I changed my mind, software does make a huge difference on that front, but still, not as fast as the caanoo

The note II is a big phone, not a tablet, so it may not be that cool to play with the kids and so on, I think a bigger tablet may come more in hand depending on your uses.

I have to start getting into android (and thanks for the recommended softwares), might do an off topic thread to collect some info on what people here are using.

But what really pisses me off is how android try to manage stuff for you and the shovelware the phone operators on samsung pushes without asking.
Sucks to an abnormal degree!

I plan to install cyanogenmod into it later next month to get rid of the crap (and when issues get resolved on the latest stable build).
It is just as now I wanna have GLB apps running into it so I can´t bother modifying it while I´m learning.

But your sister is right, it is a really nice gadget!

Did you look into the note 8? But still, if the 10.1 is coming cheaper, I think it is worth.

[erico]

Hi bigsoft.

There ia an android UBUNTU NOROOT application that comes with gimp pre installed. I'm struggling a bit with the pen but it seems quite fine! Maybe there is a blender version too ?

Good thing while we wait for the ubuntu mobile

[bigsofty]

Blender would be great on a tablet, as long as the interface was customised for tablets that is. Hmm, how are you getting on with Ubuntu Erico, How does that even work without root?!? 

[erico]

I have no idea, you run the app and an ubuntu standard interface pops up, gimp is pre-installed.

Desktop seems to work fine,
Gimp does have a response time on the bad side and it does have its share of crashes too.

But there may be use for it from the image processing side of GIMP, and maybe, drawing pixel art in zoom, is fine too.

I did a couple tries attempting to make the stylus work, it does, with good precision.
I still have to try out a picture image to see if it really is useful or just a soft marvel.

edit:typos typos

[bigsofty]

Hmm, sounds very interesting, I think I will give it a go, thanks for the heads up.