The Wall Street Journal's gadget guru, Walt Mossberg, has a
review of the 5-inch Galaxy Note by Samsung.  The Note is
supposed to be a smartphone and a tablet. But, in trying to be
two things at once, it fails to be either thing particularly
well, says Mossberg:  After testing the Galaxy Note, I have
decidedly mixed feelings about it. It isn’t a very practical
phone and, as a tablet, it can’t match the experience of the
iPad, which is more spacious and has over 150,000 apps designed
for it. However, I can see where some folks might consider the
5-inch screen a good trade-off for much better portability than
other tablets, and Samsung has done some very interesting work
in making the stylus, which is stored in a slot on the device,
useful.  Mossberg seems to be really put off by the size of the
phone:  As a mobile phone, the Galaxy Note is positively
gargantuan. It’s almost 6 inches long and over 3 inches wide.
When you hold it up to your ear, it pretty much covers the
entire side of your face. You look like y