I found the touchscreen typing to be more than bearable on the NOTE. Frankly, when you have 5in of screen, the buttons just align properly.

I think the best screen typing is on a 7in screen in portrait mode. On a 10in device its horrible and shouldn't be used for comparisons.

Touch screen Typing isn't perfect, but its better than dedicated QWERTY which is going to make the device thicker, introduce a moving part and can't change layout for other characters and languages.

For games, the keyboard doesn't work well until you have something like GameGripper. But then you don't have any thing to control movement or camera like a Joystick, or to a lesser extent Nubs, trackballs, track pads, touch pads. With most Apps you have "virtual touchpads“.

At the end of it, its a compromise. It just depends on you and what your willing to compromise. For instance, this post took 3min to type from NOTE.

PS. That attachable keyboard for the Note, is horrible. If your going to get a device like that look for Logitech Dinovo Mini, its pricey but its worth it.