>I have a pretty nice Android tablet - the ASUS Transformer 700 and I was feeling pretty good with it. I use it for just about exactly the same stuff you mention below. Very nice for all that but now I have the Galaxy Note 3 and by comparison, I don't know if it is the 3gb of ram, the Android 4.3 or what but the phone seems so much faster than the tablet and the Android seems so much less prone to just going away periodically.

currently best ARM cpu (architecture plus speed) plus another gig of RAM above current high end standard (mostly for switching between RAM-loaded apps)...