Here's my critique of the phone so far, and since most of you seem to love this phone to death I won't waste my time putting down a bunch of positives, rather I will simply point out some current shortcomings of the phone - or at least things I am struggling with. If you know of a solution to anything I post below, please, feel free to respond with a solution. 
First, there is no autocorrect native with the samsung keyboard. That's inexcusable. Swype will autocorrect, but then there is no add word to dictionary function directly from the keyboard, again, inexcusable. You can always download a third party app for a keyboard for autocorrect like swiftkey3, but then that sends everything that you ever type into it to the people who created swiftkey3, even your credit cards, bank accounts, and passwords. (it even says this in the prompt when you download and install it).
Second, there seems to be no way to possibly get your contact photos (once synced with Facebook) into any of the messaging apps. So far, they only seem to appear in the conversation list area, but not within the actual individual conversations themselves. Again, you should be able to download third party apps for this, but it doesn't seem like any of the ones that were recommended to me so far have worked with Jelly Bean. This is very frustrating because I hate looking at the default icon for a contact's picture, when the phone is already linked with a photo in my contacts list.
Third, Driving Mode does not work - it seriously doesn't do anything. Most people may not even know about this, so let me briefly explain. When you go into your status bar where you can turn GPS on, WiFi on, and all that fun stuff, there is also an icon for "driving mode". What this is supposed to do, is any incoming calls or texts are supposed to be answered with a response that alerts the person trying to contact you, that you are currently driving. It then reads you the text message, or tells you who was trying to call you. It then allows you to talk to your device (hands free) and respond via text, or simply call the person directly back. However, it doesn't do any of this. I turned it on for a nice drive today, and all of my texts came through, interrupted my GPS and navigation, and it didn't read me any texts, nor did it tell anyone that I was driving, nor did it allow me to respond or call them, unless I manually navigated to an app that would allow me to do so. Example, use a messaging app, then click on the microphone button, and then begin speaking my message.. but even then I had to hit the send button manually.
Battery life has been AMAZING, I've been using it all day, downloading tons of apps, doing all kinds of fun things with it and exploring many of the settings. It has gotten a little choppy from time to time, so that concerns me since it is only day 2 of owning the phone. I must say, at times it is hard to handle the device because of its size, but I do love its size when it is laying down on a table though, and it fits just fine in my pocket (for all you naysayers out there).
I hope that some of you out there have solutions for the problems that I have come across. And please do not take my critique of the phone as a bad thing, I think the phone is great, but nothing is perfect. Thanks for reading
nice review 
For those of you walmart-ians that got the Note through there, I got an email saying they'll get inventory on Monday and it'll be shipped out "within an hour of arrival". Not sure when the $100 gift card'll ship tho, other than 'later'. 
maybe with the phone