Later today review on these two cased

Hello everyone. Later today I'll be updating my blog to include two reviews for these two cases.

Lots of updates soon.

Hello everyone. I will soon be updating the blog with lots of reviews of accessories for the galaxy note.  :)

How to add a lanyard to your Galaxy Note and a TPU case

Hey guys! I've decided to make a picture guide on how to add a lanyard to your Samsung Galaxy Note and not have to break anything, all the while keeping it secure and safe and scratch free!!


As you know the Note is a big phone! I love it :) but sometimes I feel like I'm going to drop it while one-handing it, so I decided to make this tiny tutorial. It's REALLY easy.

All you're going to need is the following:

• A TPU case. (The two I got are located here and here off of eBay).
• A needle.
• Tweezers
• A lanyard

 Take your TPU case and your needle and find a good location to hang the lanyard off of. Take into consideration how you'll hold it, if you like to hold it more with either your left or right hand... I'm more of a righty for just holding my phone, so I picked the bottom right corner. Also you can do the bottom right side (as seen on my white TPU case).

 Proceed to stab your TPU case :) Don't worry, you won't hurt it. You can just take the need towards the middle or middle bottom of the case, and push through. I found it a little hard and the needle started to stick into my finger, so I just grabbed a towel and pushed it through that way, that worked fine. You could also just put a thimble on. I currently don't have one as I just moved! So towel it was.

 

 

 After pushing the need through some what, you can take it out. The next step is to take your tweezers and grab the lanyard loop with the tweezers, and try and keep it as close as possible to the sharp end, if you've got a sharp end.

 With the sharp end of the tweezers find the tiny hole you made with the needle and stick it through. It'll take a little force, so don't worry.

 After getting it through you're going to hold onto the end of the lanyard with your finger and then let go with the tweezers and take the tweezers out. Pull the lanyard a little and you're almost done.

 Put the other side of the lanyard into the loop to make a "knot" and you're done!

 Attach the other end of the lanyard if you've got one, in this case I do.

 And put your phone back into the case after tightening the lanyard line.

 This is how it looks with the side hole, which I personally like more. But I guess it's personal preference.

And this is how it looks when I'm holding it or using it.

The TPU case is perfect for it since it's a hard rubbery silicone and doesn't rip easily. I find it really comfortable to hold now knowing that if I do drop it, or it falls there won't be an issue. I also pull it out of my jeans this way, too. I've had it like this for a week so far and there has been no additional tearing to the TPU case so I think it's a good candidate material for it.

I am not responsible if your lanyard breaks and you end up breaking your phone. This is just something I found useful for me, and it's a lot safer for me at least.

Good luck! Take care.

Kent.

Crown Stand for the Galaxy Note

Hello readers! Firstly, sorry about the picture quality. My normal camera is not with me at the moment, but I thought I'd still give it a review with pictures taken with my SGSII.

I've got the Crown Stand dock for you guys today :). The dock is nice, and it works pretty well, but I guess it's not for me. I don't want to break my Note in the near future, so I wouldn't really recommend it. And I'll show you why.

First the packaging comes with this extension usb cable to make the connector longer.

This is the box that the crown dock came in.

And the back.

 Here is the USB cable that goes in the dock itself, and allows you to stand the Note straight up while connecting it. It sits fairly firmly in there. There's hardly any movement, but that's not what worries me.

 This is what the dock looks like "assembled" which means running the cable through the hole and under the dock mount. The dock mount comes with 4 little spongy stickers that fit only 2 at a time (one on each side) to hold the phone up if you AREN'T using a case. It comes with a paper which says so.

 This is what it looks like with the spongy stickers are on it.

 I took off my case to try it with the stickers. If you look, the entire phone is balancing on the USB stick! This is what freaks me out.

 This is it with a TPU case on. But it still just "balances" on the USB plug, which makes me worry about it coming lose some day.

Overall, I don't like the USB dock. Back from my SGSII days I used a dock for my phone and it always made the dock spot a little loose, so I'm done with the stuck inside dock. But the good thing about this dock is that if you look at this last picture, you can see aside from my mini salt shaker on my desk a groove to hold the phone sideways! This is WONDERFUL! I use this dock EVERY DAY. I turn it sideways, it sits VERY nicely and I charge it that way next to my bed. You can still use the charging cable they gave you, or the OEM one (which is the one I am using at the moment). Here are some more pictures

I got it off eBay.

Would I recommend it? Sure :) but not for a plug in dock, only for a lay down dock (just how the last 4 pictures depict)

Any questions? Fire them off in the comments.

My new dock. Let's see hehe.

This is my new dock. I love it. Hehe.

Let's give it a few more days to try it out and then I'll let you all know how good it is or bad hehe.

Kent.

Samsung Galaxy Note Size Comparisons

This is my size comparison review for the Samsung Galaxy Note.

This is a BIG phone. But I have to admit, it's just perfect. It's too big for the common user, that's for sure. I have had the SGS2 and the Dell Streak, and you'll see them in a moment, but they're smaller than the Note. Actually, the Dell Streak is a bit taller, but the Note is wider. It makes it a little harder to hold from end to end with your fingers, and makes one handed use almost impossible.

Without making you read a lot more, here are the picture reviews.

Probably its closest brother is the Samsung Galaxy S2, this is the international version i9100.

A lot of people will compare this beast to the Dell Streak 5. As you can see, the Streak is slightly taller, but not as wide. This helps a lot in the field of typing.

The Blackberry 9700 is completely dwarfed by this phone.

Blackberry's latest weapon out of its arsenal is the 9900 Bold Touch, a fantastic device if I may add. Here are the comparisons between the two.

 

While I was having some Mexican food with a friend, I noticed she had the original Samsung Galaxy S. So here is a picture to compare the two.

The SGS2 was my personal device for 7 months, and honestly, it is one of the greatest devices I've ever had. So here is another picture to compare the two. Sorry about the flash, I took it in a rush.


More to come about the actual device.

The new Samsung Galaxy Note!

My newest conquest. :) It's HUGE!!! I mean... REALLY HUGE!!!!

I'll be reviewing it shortly :)

Just to let you guys know what ROM I'm on:

Android 2.3.6

PDA: KL7

Phone: KL7

CSC: KL7