You know, I thought at my age a bigger screen would help, so I purchased the Note II, as said previous, yes it's a good phone & if you have the niceness w/Samsung OS & if you have the ability to use the S pen & if you have a way to carry it. The items needed for it are still being made so you'll have fun dealing w/the Note II as is. Now I'm not telling anyone what to buy, the choices are for each individual. Motorola I think, has reached the end of it's line & now that Google has purchased Motorola, I'm quite sure there will be a whole new line developed the way Google wants to make new phones. It's good you have until May, the next conference in February (I hope) should bring a group of new phones to the market. I'm anxious for new technology. I want to add, I have external batteries to deal w/enclosed batteries, which are not really that expensive to buy. I'm adjusting to the new designs.