{"id":307,"date":"2014-04-02T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.swappa.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2014-04-02T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:14:22","slug":"is-the-samsung-galaxy-note-pro-worth-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/is-the-samsung-galaxy-note-pro-worth-the-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro worth the money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has really outdone themselves in sticking to their Galaxy line&#8217;s mantra &#8220;The Next Big Thing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a gorgeous 12.2 inch display this device will confuse most lay-people who witness you using it in public\u00a0because,\u00a0&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know they made iPads that big!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Using the device at first is complete joy, I found myself grinning from ear to ear just in awe of the size of the thing. Aside from its weight, web browsing and reading are great. I really like the soft-touch, leather textured rubber of the back panel. On a device so big and unprecedented in the Android world, I didn&#8217;t find the TouchWiz UI to be overbearing or annoying at all, but mostly because when dealing with a totally new form-factor, it&#8217;s easy to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.swappa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Galaxy-NotePro-12.2-inch-front-001-631x401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-315 aligncenter img-responsive\" alt=\"Galaxy-NotePro-12.2-inch-front-001-631x401\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.swappa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Galaxy-NotePro-12.2-inch-front-001-631x401-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Note Pro is huge, but so is the price. At $750 with a 2-year activation and $850 outright, I can&#8217;t say I would recommend this device to anyone who didn&#8217;t know for a FACT it was worth the money for them, or have a very good reason why this is the tablet they need.<\/p>\n<p>Read my full review of the <a title=\"Android Guys Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/2014\/03\/31\/verizon-samsung-galaxy-note-pro-lte-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon Galaxy Note Pro LTE<\/a>\u00a0on AndroidGuys.com<\/p>\n<p>Check out listings for the <a title=\"Verizon  Galaxy Note Pro 12\" href=\"http:\/\/swappa.com\/buy\/samsung-galaxy-note-pro-12-verizon\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon Galaxy Note Pro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t need the Verizon model?<\/p>\n<p>Look at the Wifi model of the <a title=\"Samsung Galaxy Note Pro WifI\" href=\"http:\/\/swappa.com\/buy\/samsung-galaxy-note-pro-12-wifi\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung Galaxy Note Pro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has really outdone themselves in sticking to their Galaxy line&#8217;s mantra &#8220;The Next Big Thing&#8221; With a gorgeous 12.2 inch display this device will confuse most lay-people who witness you using it in public\u00a0because,\u00a0&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know they made iPads that big!&#8221; Using the device at first is complete joy, I found myself grinning from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,75,542],"tags":[],"products":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-device-reviews","category-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"products","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/products?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}