why do people believe this? even my original motorola droid x had a removeable battery and it was very thin. samsung has had removeable batteries for years and their phones have been thin and light weight
Should have worded my comment better. The right decision to maximize sales in the flagship tier. A flagshp of flagships today needs to look and feel great. If they had some way to do a unibody with a removable battery that would have been great. But they couldn't.
I get that some users who actually use removable batteries will be dissapointed, but it's clear the vast majority of users don't carry around extra batteries. Good battery life and fast charging is more useful.
It sucks you and others fall outside their focus, but I understand why they chose to focus on the 90%, not the 10%.
I'm in your boat but for mSD - until storage stops having 10-20X markup, mSD is important.
why do people believe this? even my original motorola droid x had a removeable battery and it was very thin. samsung has had removeable batteries for years and their phones have been thin and light weight
Not sure what you're talking about. I was referring to their decisions to move to a unibody vs frame and cover. I like my Note 4, but I understand when people say the back doesn't look and feel as premium as a unibody like the z3 and m8.
People are idiots. A cell phone is the ideal use for plastic. It's durable, looks reasonably good, and if you're a careless oaf that somehow manages to screw it up enough to look bad, it's easy and cheap to replace. I want a metal phone as much as I want glass bumpers on my car.
It's also not water and dust resistant. It's a form over function phone. aka an iPhone. I don't buy Apple, and I don't buy anything that apes Apple.
Should have worded my comment better. The right decision to maximize sales in the flagship tier. A flagshp of flagships today needs to look and feel great. If they had some way to do a unibody with a removable battery that would have been great. But they couldn't.
I get that some users who actually use removable batteries will be dissapointed, but it's clear the vast majority of users don't carry around extra batteries. Good battery life and fast charging is more useful.
It sucks you and others fall outside their focus, but I understand why they chose to focus on the 90%, not the 10%.
I'm in your boat but for mSD - until storage stops having 10-20X markup, mSD is important.
Maybe there's going to be an S6 active. I'd never bet against Samsung to release lots of versions of their flagship.
I'm not absolutely stuck on having a removable battery it's just that Samsung phones have fairly small batteries stock but you can replace those with good quality high capacity replacements. If they are going to remove that option then they should have increased the base capacity by a fair bit.
People are idiots. A cell phone is the ideal use for plastic. It's durable, looks reasonably good, and if you're a careless oaf that somehow manages to screw it up enough to look bad, it's easy and cheap to replace. I want a metal phone as much as I want glass bumpers on my car.
That's an overly simplistic way of looking at it. Remember, a smartphone is often the most important piece of tech you own these days -- some people want a device that feels good to hold (and, yes, show off), because they'll be holding it a lot. You can sometimes do that with plastic, but it's not as easy as with metal.
Part of the problem is that, until now, Samsung often did its utmost to show the bad aspects of plastic. The GS4 in particular had all the allure of a washing machine at the laundromat -- it looked cheap, it felt cheap, and there was zero sense of art to it. And to add insult to injury, it frequently used plastic to imitate nicer materials, like metal or leather. Microsoft/Nokia did well with plastic in part because it embraced the material's properties with wrap-around, colorful shells. Up until mid-to-late 2014, it was painfully obvious that Samsung was using plastic mostly because it reduced manufacturing costs.
The GS4 in particular had all the allure of a washing machine at the laundromat -- it looked cheap, it felt cheap, and there was zero sense of art to it. And to add insult to injury, it frequently used plastic to imitate nicer materials, like metal or leather.
That's an overly simplistic way of looking at it. Remember, a smartphone is often the most important piece of tech you own these days -- some people want a device that feels good to hold (and, yes, show off), because they'll be holding it a lot. You can sometimes do that with plastic, but it's not as easy as with metal.
Part of the problem is that, until now, Samsung often did its utmost to show the bad aspects of plastic. The GS4 in particular had all the allure of a washing machine at the laundromat -- it looked cheap, it felt cheap, and there was zero sense of art to it. And to add insult to injury, it frequently used plastic to imitate nicer materials, like metal or leather. Microsoft/Nokia did well with plastic in part because it embraced the material's properties with wrap-around, colorful shells. Up until mid-to-late 2014, it was painfully obvious that Samsung was using plastic mostly because it reduced manufacturing costs.
This won't last me a day or use, that's my problem with it.If the phone lasts a full day of moderate to heavy use, I don't see what the issue is. Typical life cycle of a phone is around 2 years anyway. After that, it's time for an upgrade!
Also, with higher screen rez and same battery capacity, that means less battery life? Also, and most importantly, what's the price?
Another question, since the curved screen is the same resolution and bent at the edges, how does anyone expect that not to mess with full screen content? I wouldn't want one just because of that... If it had been 16:10 the curved would have been more appealing.
If the battery life turns out okay, I'll buy this phone. Camera looks amazing.
EDIT: Based on PhoneArena's photos of their benchmark tests, it looks like the regular display spills over onto the edge displays.
The curved version is the more eye-catching of the two devices, but it does distort things slightly. In particular, the curved screen distorts the sides of apps, bending parts of the interface that are supposed to be horizontally straight.
Wow, no mSD. This will be the first galaxy I don't get.