Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge coming soon
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hiraethified
I can live with that if it has a decent battery life. My Sony z3 can keep going for two days, unlike my s4 which would need about four batteries over the same period.
Obviously everyone is different. If I was in the market to spend £500+ on a phone, I would want to be able to replace a worn battery myself, rather than it being a repair shop job.
Even if you are in a money-no-object situation, I would want to be able to buy a spare battery once mine started getting a bit worn and fit it at my leisure. That's something that's easy to do on most lower end Samsungs but of the flagships only the LG G4 offers this (and it's not clear if that will continue on the G5)
Since I'm not in the market for a new phone I guess it's all a bit moot, but I doubt I'm the only one who feels this.
My nexus 6p lasts two days of heavy use. I think the battery life on high end phones is far better than it was only 3 or 4 years ago so manufacturers are less inclined to go down the removalable route. Plus you can get USB power packs the size of a bar of soap that'll top you up!
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I thought it was some kind of sin to have a non removable battery for an android phone?
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
They always bring a new one out after I upgrade 
The s6 battery lasts me 2 days. I'm really chuffed with the camera
The s6 battery lasts me 2 days. I'm really chuffed with the camera
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
But the desire for a removable battery is not really about battery life, per se. That is, it's not about how long the battery lasts on a single charge when the device is new.
It's about battery longevity. And even newer devices and batteries with very good single-charge endurance lose that endurance over time. A device that lets you get two full days in the first few month's of the device's life might barely get you one day after 18 months of use. For users who change their devices regularly, this might never become an issue, but for people who hang onto them longer, it can be a deal-breaker.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Nail and head. Although I can remove the battery I tend not and charge from a usb power bank. It's about having the option for when it's had enough charge cycles you can just swap it over. It won't be a deal breaker on my next phone, but it will massively influence it.
I also find peoples usage stats not that helpful as we all use phones differently. I've a Note 4 which is supposed to score highly, but it's charge every night for me. To much browsing urban I guess.
It's a very capable phone and I struggle to see why I'd want to upgrade after the contract runs out. In fact the move from Note 2 was the least inspirational upgrade I've done.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Depends the cost of having it professionaly done I guess.
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hiraethified
Well, I did only spend £279 on my z3 Compact
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
I'm meh on a removable battery (although what happens when the phone freezes as my S5 has done a couple of times?), but had they stuck with a non-alterable SD card I'd have been out, that's my deal breaker.
FWIW, 'deal breakers' for me would be a non removable battery and the lack of an FM radio. Yes the latter is a bit old school, but there you go. It's something I want and if I was paying that sort of money I think I'd have the right to be a bit picky.
SD expansion is certainly a 'nice to have' but I'd rather have at enough built in storage to keep everything on board.
But everyone's priorities are different.
SD expansion is certainly a 'nice to have' but I'd rather have at enough built in storage to keep everything on board.
But everyone's priorities are different.
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hiraethified
Some of the external battery chargers are small enough to make it less of an issue for me.
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
Can you explain what you mean here by non-alterable? Doesn't an SD card have to be alterable, by definition, if you're writing files to it? Is this something peculiar to Samsung?
skyscraper101
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I like the 2TB of storage via micro SD.
Where would one find such a SD card and how much would it cost?
Where would one find such a SD card and how much would it cost?
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Yes, struggled for the word.
Got a 128gb micro SD in my S5, would hate to be restricted by the manufacturer.
skyscraper101
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Anyone?
bi0boy
Power User
Currently 512GB is £200, so it will be a while until a 2TB card is cheaper than several smaller cards.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Not in micro SD size though.
bi0boy
Power User
Well yes, I'm just indicating that the optimum price per GB point isn't quite at 2TB yet. For microSD cards it's currently at 64 GB with prices doubling with doubling size up to 64, but more than doubling after.
Anyway you can get SD to microSD adaptors, whether it would spoil the aesthetics of a phone to have one sticking out is a matter of opinion.
Which makes the price premium between different versions of the S6 and Iphone 6 look even more ridiculous.
The problem with just shoving a micro SD in there is that most apps can't be moved to the SD card.
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
I've never quite understood how this is a problem.
If you've got a 16GB phone, it takes a LOT of apps just to fill the phone up with apps alone. The only storage problem most people face is when they want to have all their apps AND a whole bunch of downloaded/stored files like ebooks, or photos, or videos, or mp3 files.
I have all the apps i will ever need loaded onto my 16GB Galaxy S5, and the phone itself still has over 25% of its storage space available. The microSD card in my phone, however, has space for 64GB of music, pictures, video, ebooks, whatever. And while not all the apps that use these files can be moved to an SD card, they can all be set to automatically save to the SD card. Whenever i listen to an album from my collection on Google Play, it automatically puts the album on the SD card. Whenever i take a picture or a video with the phone, it goes straight to the card for storage.
I admit that it's probably possible to fill up your phone with apps alone if you're someone who likes to play games. Some of the game downloads are in the hundreds of megabytes, and even gigabytes, but i'm not really interested in gaming on my phone. I just can't see the combination of 16GB phone + 64GB SD card (or 128GB, if i decide i need more space) being any sort of problem, at least for someone with my set of priorities for my phone use. The card does exactly what i need it to do: it stores my media files, which leaves plenty of space on the phone for the apps.
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
8Gb is certainly a bit tight.
If i had an 8Gb phone, i'd have to be ruthless about clearing the cache, or preventing apps from doing any sort of sync. There are so many apps that download a whole bunch of stuff in the background, and it adds up quickly.
I subscribe to the New York Times, and the default behavior for the app when you open it is to begin downloading all current news stories, including images and video, in the background while you browse. This makes browsing faster, of course, but it eats up bandwidth and storage in a hurry. And the app itself doesn't even let you turn off background downloading. You can set it to only update over wireless, which solves the problem of eating into your data plan, but the best you can do in order to save storage space is have it download only the "Top stories" rather than ALL stories.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Not particularly. 16GB on an S4 is more like 9 once you account for the system. Plus some more for cache etc.
Then usual stuff like Facebook is 300MB alone. Then a game like say Plants vs Zombies is 600MB, without any data.
I've run out before in fairly normal usage.
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