Your post had me worried. When I had made my group shot of phones my Gnote OG did not turn on. Further, it would not charge up. I figured it was probably a battery gone bad but then you said your phone would not start up, even with a replacement battery. So yesterday I decided to buy a new battery and fortunately it fired up and would complete the remaining charge. I really loved the dimensions of that device. The 2 and the 3 are not quite as wide but that mm or so makes a difference. I also was using a rom that was based on the Note 8 so it had a tablet feel to it. One thing that I especially liked was that I could open a floating app that could go full screen and back to floating window by pressing a tab in the corner of the window. Anyways, as I played with it, it kind of struck me how the response was not that different than my Jolla phone. I then checked out the specs and in many respects, despite the different screen size, they were about the same. My guess, if I was really forced to choose between the two I might pick the OG...