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Pre-SXSW goodness and the new Galaxy Note: Nice to know that the iPhone really isn’t the only game in town.

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My friends at Sam­sung gave me the Galaxy Note to play with at this year’s SXSW.

It’s a sort of tablet-meets-phone. A smartphone with a HUGE screen and little dra­wing stylus.

I drew the car­toon above on the Note. No, I really did. With the little sty­lus that comes with it (You can alos use a regular-sized Wacom sty­les with it as well, if your fin­gers are to big etc). Fun!

Besi­des that, it takes pic­tu­res, which you can THEN DRAW OVER on the spot. Here’s a pic­ture I did yes­ter­day here in San Anto­nio (I’m here visi­ting with my clients at Rackspace):

As an artist, this Android-powered device allows me to do stuff on the the go that my iPhone simply doesn’t. That is HUGE for me.

Here’s another one; this time at a Texas Hill Country Beef Jerky place 100 miles West of town, yes­ter­day morning:

I’ve had nothing but fun since I got it. I unders­tand other artists were given one to try out at SXSW (Follow their cam­paign hash­tag, #BeNo­te­worthy), so we’ll see what kind of collec­tive inte­rest can be got­ten over the wee­kend there.

My take? Frankly, I’m deligh­ted by it. I’m not saying the Note is the new “iPhone Killer”; that being said, it’s quite reas­su­ring to know that the iPhone is no lon­ger the ONLY game in town. As a tra­di­tio­nal iPhone user, I was accus­to­med to thin­king that Android was just a poor man’s iPhone. And then the Note comes along and pro­ves me wrong. Dead wrong.

I hope to be pos­ting more photo-drawings as my busiest wee­kend of the year pro­gres­ses. Thanks to Sam­sung for the great oppor­tu­nity. Rock on.

Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileUSA?sk=app_252790058139346

[Check out Guy Kawasaki’s post on the sub­ject here.]

#BeNo­te­worthy #feed

[Disc­lo­sure: Pro­mo­tio­nal con­si­de­ra­tion by Samsung]

10 Responses to “Pre-SXSW goodness and the new Galaxy Note: Nice to know that the iPhone really isn’t the only game in town.”

1. kathleen says:

   March 9, 2012 at 9:32 AM

   that is too cool!!!

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2. Matt Fangman says:

   March 9, 2012 at 10:38 AM

   Too funny. I’ve been desig­ning online mar­quees selling this phone/tablet and totally thought of your illus­tra­tion style would be a fit for it.

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3. yaz headaches says:

   March 11, 2012 at 3:03 AM

   Per­fectly com­po­sed writ­ten con­tent, regards for selec­tive infor­ma­tion. “The bra­vest thing you can do when you are not brave is to pro­fess cou­rage and act accor­dingly.” by Corra Harris.

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4. Michael Sitarzewski says:

   March 14, 2012 at 7:41 PM

   Hey Hugh. You can do that with Sketches in iOS. My 7yr old son’s been doing it for years (that’s not com­men­tary on the art, just the capa­bi­lity).

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5. Linda says:

   March 15, 2012 at 5:01 PM

   Very good, Hugh — but for a dino­saur like me, can it be used to make a phone call!! I’m still using those hand held things with wires dan­gling and a piece of paper for my doodling.…

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   March 20, 2012 at 9:48 AM

   […] bias: today a wide range of great mobile devi­ces can do many things an iPhone does and some­ti­mes more. Ever heard of Android? They have an apps­tore as well, but because Android is open-source, you […]

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7. Momo says:

   March 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM

   Hugh,

   Was that store in Seguin by any chance?

   Thanks,

   Momo

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   • Hugh MacLeod says:

     March 24, 2012 at 10:11 AM

     No… about an hour South of Rock Springs. Middle of nowhere hill country

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8. entrpreneur says:

   March 27, 2012 at 10:24 PM

   I lear­ned something new­just now now I’m ful­fi­lled for today. Thanks!

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9. Time for a new phone – thoughts | Whistling in the dark says:

   April 8, 2012 at 7:26 PM

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