I hope the battery of the Note 3 is a bit better than one hour.

This depends on your usage of the phone.

• it once lasted two days when I just had it turned on in my pocket in airplane mode
• it once lasted one day when I just had it turned on in my pocket in airplane mode, but with some stupid apps I installed that were running in the background
• it once lasted <i don't know how many exactly, but not a number higher than 4> hours when I was playing games.

I have a Note 3 myself. I was worried about the region lock too, but it seems like the phone is only locked when first using it. I mean that you can't power it on for the first time with a SIM that doesn't come from the same country. But once unlocked, you can swap SIMs as you wish. You can check that on the internet, but that's what I remember.

And if you want "the" Note 3, well you still have the SnapDragon/Exynos choice. You have two versions of the Note 3, one having a 4-core and 4G, the second one having a 8-core and no 4G. But the 8-core has a lowered frequence and the processor is quite new, so you don't gain much. I have the 4G version (and GTA San Andreas still runs ! ).

Other than that, it depends on what you want to do with your phone. If you want to play games (like GTA San Andreas ), take the latest one but if you mostly want a phone for "phone usage" (but with a big touchscreen), take the Note 1 and save money

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Now about rooting. It is true that there is a new "protection" (KNOX), but you have a rooting method (Root De la Vega) that doesn't increase the KNOX counter, so you don't have to worry about that. Also, the only thing that counter does is saying "you messed up with software", but if it's the hardware that fails, the warranty still has value (at least in France). Check on the internet which versions that rooting method supports before buying
And I never used any warranty on anything so I just didn't care and rooted my phone as soon as I got it, incrementing that flag once and for all
The other thing that rooting without caring kills are the OTA updates. Since I did that, they are no longer proposed to me (but I don't care, I can find them on the internet). I don't know if the Root De la Vega solves that, you should see on the internet too

Anyway, I never regretted anything with that phone

I only played the last three of the series, and the one I prefered among those was Revelations. The city was perfect for Ezio to jump everywhere, and you had really useful weapons like bombs or Axes that you could throw (plus the fact you were able to kill passants ).
III had a really good story and a really long life, but that was all, the city had too large street to enjoy jumping on buildings.
IV is a really good game... for a Pirates of Caribbean game. It has interesting cities but you spend 70% of your time on your ship. And it has a very short life.

• DoorsCS is (was) too big for French people with a regular 83+ (160KB of Flash, with 16KB taken by French language and 16KB taken by the Periodic table, you can guess that DoorsCS is (was) hard to fit in with some programs)
• A lot of people read readmes where it's written "Ion compatible shell", then download Ion
• A lot of people read readmes where it's written "Ion compatible shell like MirageOS", then download MirageOS
• A lot of people don't read readmes where it's written "needs DoorsCS for the GUI" and will just think "dat game sux" and review it bad so coders try to avoid dependancies
• And that last argument is only my opinion but I prefer zStart to DoorsCS so I use it instead, and that prevents me from using DoorsCS's GUI.

True, but I still agree that the screenshot was very long and repetitive at the beginning. Of course seeing the editor in action is great, but just show 10 seconds of it on an almost finished map then show the movement on it during ten seconds too

Nice progress anyway

I don't know if it is any faster (I use that Axiom but never have programs where Text commands eat a lot of time) but Jacobly wrote an Axiom to have more flexibility with text commands. It might be faster since it doesn't use TI's routines.

I would have preferred the T-shirt over the TI83+. You can't get a tshirt like that anywhere else. You can pick up a used 83+ for the same price as the tshirt after all

Well you can order the t shirt whenever you want, but you can't (at least in France) easily find a 83+SE.