I think 5.5in may be too much.

There's room for improvement by shaving the bezel, but increasing the screen size means the width (83mm) will also increase, possibly to 84-85mm. That's my biggest complaint with the NOTE, its width size. To me its workable, but slap on the TPU-cover and it becomes 86mm and about 11mm thick... which impedes my large (solo-hand) grip over the device.

If they do increase it to 5.5inches, they must shave the bezel, square off the sides, shave down the dimensions to under 9mm. And shaving the top/bottom bezels would be ideal too (Samsung your logo goes to the back).

I'm guessing Samsung will make an incremental upgrade for NOTE 2:
- Jelly Bean + TouchWizz
- 1.5GHz Quadcore A9 (same as sGs3)
- 2GB RAM (possibly slightly OC'd cpu and gpu)
- 1280x800 resolution, SAMOLED +
- Slightly updated "pebble" design
- On-screen buttons (S Pen compatible)

I think I'll stick to the original NOTE, thank you.