The point isn’t about whether or not there is a notification for new messages. The point is the ability to customize the information that is displayed when the message arrives. I want to be able to simple turn the screen on and be able to see at a glance whatever information I decide is valuable (such as who the sender is that sent the new email) without having to unlock the device. This was not possible with Gingerbread and Google acknowledged that it was working to add this type of functionality in future versions of Android.

The issue isn’t knowing whether or not I have a new email/text/etc. It’s abotu being able to display relevent information about the message on the lock screen that allows a user to determine the importance of responding to the message.

So what happens when you get two notifications? How do you determine relevant info from more than one notification from the lock screen?

Folks it is senseless to justify any Android related benefits/advantages and/or choice with this writer. His head has been saturated with Apple stuff. End of story.

Love this answer!

you my friend, are an apple fanboy who is blind and retarded. no one wants to hear your illogical arguments and fallacious attempts to prove the iPhone superior in one aspect that doesnt work for you.
theres your personal attack for the day you sheep.

You said it. Your problem is your ADD, and you are blaming the phone. Get a life. NO email/text is THAT important it can’t wait until the end of a reasonable length meeting – (and if it is over an hour, it isn’t a reasonable length). If I was running the meeting, I would confiscate your phone – if you aren’t paying attention to what the meeting is about, then you shouldn’t be there, and I would throw you out.

Finally a response with some meat to it. Tasteless meat, but meat nonetheless. Define “work normally,” please. If “work normally” means “works the way the iPhone does” then you should learn to write more precisely. Please note that this statement is not a personal attack, it is an attempt at constructive criticism.

If instead you intend “work normally” to mean “work exactly the way I want” then that makes more sense. I see your frustration that Google has not fixed what it admitted back in Gingerbread was a flaw. But as others have noted the other features you get should more than make up for this. If they do not, you still always have the option of rooting your phone – maybe more work than someone coming straight from iOS is willing to take on as the choices there are far fewer, it often simply works as the user wants it to out-of-the-box. In contrast, woe to the user who wants an Android feature moving to iOS, it’s just not going to happen. For your move it might be a fair amount of extra work but you can have all of the nice Android features plus the ones you enjoyed from iOS.

Also, I find it interesting that you seem to believe Google made a deliberate decision to not include this feature. This is small beans compared to the other features they’ve been adding. Sure, they’re a corporate giant, but that doesn’t mean their development time is limitless. Let’s be real here – sometimes the pressure to get the new releases out the door precludes fixing something in a previous release that only a small minority of users will even notice.

In regards to personal attacks, I have seen very little evidence of this other than one or two posts accusing you of being a fanboi (out of 165). Most of the comments have actually been people trying to be helpful, or angry that they read a terrible article. And it truly is a terrible article, make no mistake. Sorry, bad turn of phrase – you’ve made several mistakes in your article, as others have pointed out you have an inaccurate title, only cite one reason for disliking it which most people will not even notice or will actually take the time to fix, and form a personal attack on your entire readerbase by assuming that they will attack you first. Perhaps you consider preemptive strikes good journalism?

Additionally, Android is open source, so of course other companies are going to try writing their own version of it. And some of them will suck at it (or certain portions of it, such as email vs. calendar as another commenter noted). It’s the beauty of open source, you pick the one you like. If there really are many other things you are dissatisfied with in the Note 2 then check out another Android device, there’s a good chance it will suit you better. Not performing your civic duty as a consumer and checking things out beforehand may not entirely be your fault, it’s why some Android users look down on Apple users as “sheep.” Your post certainly demonstrates their reasoning, but I feel they are too harsh in judging sometimes. You should have the opportunity to explore the brave new world you have stepped into.

Finally (much because of your review), today I bought my new Samsung GN2!

I thought something so badly rated, by a so partial and bootlicker guy like you, should be certainly, a good choice for most people, with something in his head!
XD

I’m not sure if you just don’t know the OS properly or your trolling, but here’s the right info.

What I will mention below is tested by myself as I have the Galaxy Note 2.

Since the Note 2 is based on JellyBean there’s the expanded Notifications.

From the lock screen directly, you can see in the notification that you have unread emails

You can then swipe it down and it’ll show you how many unread emails each account has.

If you want more details you can simply swipe down on the notification in question with 2 fingers (will be switched to 1 finger swipe in JB 4.2+) and it’ll expand it and show you the sender and the subject of each unread e-mail.

all that from the lockscreen directly

Thank you,
Khar00f

how did you become a writer? wasting my 5 minutes. 0 value. if you really want to compare device, write thorough reviews. If you just want to complain about notification of Android, say so. why tie it to note 2? so your article can be associated with a hot search word on google to get extra attention? you should be ashamed of yourself.

Same here! iPhone then note 2 and android marketing malware.

I think the note is great but enjoy the simplicity and security of iPhone.

Will miss the big screen!

When an article starts with saying it will only talk about “Facts” and then the very first thing is just wrong (you can see how many unread messages there are, you don’t have to unlock the screen first (you just swipe down) and and then it shows a preview the top messages) I can’t help but comment.

Problem is: Apple is much, much better about showing the world how to use their phones (their ads used to show how, but their press keynotes now do just as much for education). Google? Absolutely the worst at this.

How is the author supposed to know what just works? Android isn’t iOS. Things are different. It can take months — or longer — to really get to know a new operating system. Going the other way is just as infuriating, too. And trying to use both a lot is frustrating because of all the little differences.

Most people have agreed for a long time that Android notifications are way, way better than iOS notifications and find it the one thing that can really push people away from iOS because of how poorly implemented the iOS ones are. Jelly Bean made them better — with all the message preview stuff, and whatnot.

But… to be fair, don’t get me started on the Samsung keyboard. It’s terrible compared to even the stock keyboard. And they don’t provide the stock keyboard as an option. And, in general, most of the add-ons just don’t improve things. Hardware stuff, like S-pen, has to be weighed against this. Is it worthwhile given the other problems?

I think this article presents a legitimate complaint, but I also think it’s way overblown. It doesn’t sound like anything that would drive most people crazy. Hopefully this is just an issue that will shortly be worked out, and then we’ll all be happy.

I’m sending my Note II back tomorrow and then getting either the Nokia 920 or 810. The voice dialing over bluetooth is totally unacceptable on the Note II. I came from a Lumina 710 and it was rock solid for voice dialing over bluetooth with my 1200 contacts in Outlook, but the Note II is slow in delivering a contact, and then wants me to choose from 5 or so different names on it’s screen, that the Lumina would have gotten right on the first go round. Sorry Note II, even though you are beautiful, your function is not up to par with Windows Phone, and I have never had an iPhone. Ken B.