6 Must-Have Apps for the Samsung Galaxy Note

1. Draw Something

If the drawings on OMGPOP’s message boards are any indication, the secret to Draw Something's success is a big screen and a stylus. But since an iPad won’t fit in your pocket, the Note's 5.3-inch screen and the S Pen stylus are great substitutes.

Even if you’re no da Vinci, your drawings will still probably be better than your friends’ finger paintings

2. Autodesk SketchBook Mobile

S Memo is great for writing down ideas, but if you really want to get serious about artwork or photo annotations, check out SketchBook Mobile. The app features 30 brush types for 15 different art tools, supports layers, imports photos from the Note’s 8MP camera and makes it simple to share your artwork with others.

These tools, coupled with the precision of the S Pen, make creating a masterpiece on the go a whole lot easier.

3. Netflix

With 4G or Wi-Fi, you can watch your favorite TV shows and movies anywhere, without skipping a beat. Plus, with the Note’s big Super AMOLED screen, you can easily see all kinds of detail.

4. Amazon Kindle / Barnes & Noble Nook

Sized just shy of the Kindle and Nook Touch, the Note is still a great ereader. The backlit LED screen means faster page turns, full-color menus and night reading capability. And if you turn on the auto-adjusted brightness, you can even read in direct sunlight. Of course, you also have a 4G connection so you can buy books anytime.

5. Comics by Comixology

With Comixology and a 4G connection, you can read the latest adventures of your favorite heroes faster than a speeding bullet. Thanks to the Note’s big, bright screen, the artwork looks gorgeous. And you might not even need the app’s pinch and zoom feature or automatic scrolling function to read the dialog.

6. Soonr Scribble

With Soonr Scribble, you don’t have to wait until you’re back in the office to finalize that proposal. Now you can use the S Pen to add notes, arrows and highlights to Office documents, photos and PDFs, then sync your edited file to the cloud. Colleagues back in the office receive your changes immediately, make the edits, and send the final version to the client for approval.