Hands-On: Samsung Galaxy S5
This is why Samsung copied Apple....
(Especially bad considering Motorola, HTC and Sony are doing a pretty bang-up job.)
Retaining my mainstream user roots, has allowed me to view the scope of outside the technical blog sites. I hear very few people claiming they want metal phones and very few are complaining about the phones they purchased regardless of plastic or metal.
In short, your view is based on personal choice and does not represent the 200 million individuals who have purchased plastic Samsung phones or ...
Lots of good phones are made of plastic for functional reasons (Moto X). There are a lot of phones that put beauty first (Xperia Z1). But I'd say phone excels at neither.
People don't care. They want what they want. Plastic is a necessary across all industries. If it was so bad, why is the autom...
Therfore, I would say that plastic is superior for metal in phone design.
Plastic isn't bad, but that doesn't mean all plastics are created equal. Samsung's plastic, which suffers from stress cracks, surface abrasion, and an all-around crumminess (see Phonescoop's take on look/feel) is far inferior to that used by Motorola (which uses a kevlar weave in some cases) , HTC (which uses a higher strength polycarbonate) , and even Nokia (whose phones are chunky but finished nicely.)
No. He's not a fat *ss either.
Your sole argument is access to the battery and an sd card slot. The only reason why you keep complaining about metal is because it angers you when some people say they like the metal. I do the same thing when you say plastic is better.
Stop arguing about plastic and metal and contain your arugment to access to the battery and a removable SD card.
First and foremost is ease of accessibility. This is the utmost importance for consumer control and derail of unnecessary costly expenditures. Computers have always had the ability to remove batteries and upgrade memory at will. No one ever complained. In fact, it was preferred by most people so the computer could expand with needs of the consumer. Techies like to tinker and accessibily allowed this. The industry is eliminating this luxury. You purchase a phone and you get what you get. If you out grow it or want to expand memory or repair your own battery, you're out of luck. Just throw your expensive phone away or never use it again. Great concept. Industry controls you. You have no control. This is the ne...
Removable batteries add:
-Thickness (you need a mechanism to store/hold the battery)
-Weight (that mechanism adds weight)
-Fragility (contact points, etc. need to be reinforced to handle insertion/removal)
Removable Memory adds:
-A new hardware failure point
-A new software failure point (If an SD card isn't read properly and an app caches to it, it leads to instability, of course.)
-Fragmented file system storage
Do you know what the average consumer hates?
Having "Out of Memory Errors" because their Samsung device maps internal storage as SDCard, confusing a lot of apps (Rdio and Google Play) into storing content on the paltry 16GB instead of the actual S...
They are either forced to purchase higher memory phones which are 100+ dollars more depending on the amount of memory, or they are resorting to pay monthly for cloud storage. It only appears people are content because they really don't have much of a choice. There is Samsung(which you hate) for extracting batteries or sd cards. OR, there is everybody else that has practically eliminated this choice. Those that don't like Samsung like yourself, chose to go with another brand in spite of their wishes for accessibility. Many I know ...
The market has spoken that is why the iPhone continues to grow in sales.
I've never had a customer ask for a removable battery. Some have asked about removable memory.
True very few people complain about it but thats only because thats all they've ever owned. We, the ones who stay up to date on the subject, who handle phones of different builds, know how they feel. Some of them don't even know there are non-plastic phones other than iPhones.
And you can't use sales numbers for this case at all. Because frankly, if 95% of all phones made are made with plastic, then of course there will be millions of people who have plastic phones.
Also, as someone who sees customers phones every day, the number in a case is much closer to 75% then 95%. And that would go down even further if manufacturers made phones more durable l...
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