I, too, am patiently waiting for the note 2 on Verizon. It'll be the first non-motorola phone for me. I'm making the switch not only because of what this beast is, but because moto phones cannot handle system upgrades. My droid x was a great phone. But then along came gingerbread and this phone slowed to a crawl. So I got the bionic and loved it. Then along came ICS. Now my bionic is crawling along and has to be charged 3-4 times a day WITH THE EXTENDED BATTERY. my friends with samsung phones have no problems with their system upgrades and, no, they don't have to do a FDR. Ad to that a crappy camera, and I have great reason to change. I was so hoping that the razr maxx hd was going to have 2 gb of ram, and a great camera. But no. So can't wait for November 29th.