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First I got a smart phone with a touch screen, the HD2. It was pretty handy, it was Windows 6.5 OS. I liked it for reading but it was just too small.

Then I bought an I-Pad. It seemed perfect, at first. Trying to write on it was a nightmare. I could type but being a fast typist it just was not a good experience so I got a blue tooth keyboard for it, I nearly never used the keyboard. Most of the time you don’t write letters you write notes, fill in calendars etc.

I’m a reader, scriptures, magazines, the web they are great on the Ipad. Then I got a Nook tablet. The perfect reading platform, I mean perfect. A friend said I needed to root it and put a full Android OS on it. I did, it was simple. I never use the Ipad anymore.

Recently while cutting the grass on my tractor with the 6’ finish mower attached I ran into a tree limb, it snaped back and hit me in the shirt pocket where I keep my HD2. It knocked my phone out of my pocket and it fell right under the wheels of the tractor. Goodbye HD2, I practically cried.

I couldn’t do without a phone. A week earlier I was on vacation in Cape Coral Florida and I saw a fellow using either a large phone or a small tablet. I started a conversation with him and he showed me his phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note. It is a large phone. It still easily fits in a shirt pocket with much room to spare but it was larger than my 4.3” HD2, it was 5.3”. Anyway, after looking at that I told my wife that when it was time in a year or two to get a new phone that’s what I would get. Well, a year or two turned into a week.

I have the Galaxy Note, I like it very much. It is actually a great little platform to surf on, even to read a book on, kinda like a small paper back. One of the things it will do that none of the tablets I have owned will do is allow me to hook up USB devices, Thumb drives, Keyboards, Mice, HDMI TV and USB hubs it is cool. It also has a pen to write with on it. You don’t have to use it but it is fast if you do. Speaking of fast, the download speeds are about 4 times faster than my broadband at home.

I don’t mean to be a commercial but I have never had a phone that I thought was so wonderful. I won’t be purchasing the Nexus-7.

I think I won’t need my Nook Tablet or my Ipad anymore.