[Nexus 4 General] Tomatoes8:
Are you seriously arguing that tablets have removable batteries? LOL They are not meant to be removed by anyone except service technicians. When I say Samsung phones have removable batteries, I am talking about removable back covers where you can take out the battery easily and replace it with a spare yourself in 5 seconds, I am not talking literally. Sigh. Therefore, you bringing in tablets into the argument is frankly hilarious and irreverent, PERIOD. If we are talking literally, I can technically crack open a One X with force and rip out the battery, of course I wouldn't be able to put it back together but that is not my point.

How is the screen size being 5.5 inches an invalid distinction? You think it is easy to make a 5.5 inch phablet that is only 8.9 mm thin, Quadcore, 2GB of ram, LTE, a removable back cover with EASY access to the battery, a micro SD card slot, a stylus, without the design philosophy they use? If they used the LG design or Apple design philosophy, it would be thicker, heavier, and would not have a removable back cover period. How you fail to see that is beyond me. Unless you think making the Galaxy Note 2 is easy, then my point about you bringing it into our discussion helps my argument and not yours.

How is their desire to include a micro SD slot irrelevant? I just gave you facts and examples that say it is totally relevant. No one else includes them in their high end handsets except Samsung and if you design your handsets to have both a removable back cover and a micro SD card slot, you have to design them the way Samsung does to keep it light/thin and include all the goodies. That is clear, otherwise someone would have done a uni body, with easily replaceable battery, micro SD card slot, and thin/light by now. Since no one has, it has something to do with the way Samsung designs their phones period. That is clear as day and totally obvious to anyone who is objective.

You do realize that my whole argument is based on Samsung build quality not being disposable garbage like the other poster suggests right? If you never said or don't agree that Samsung did not have quality, then why are you arguing with me about it? That is all I have been doing this whole time, explaining the reasons why they design phones with removable back covers and why they should not be categorized as disposable garbage just because they design PHONES that way. AGAIN, THIS HAS ABSOLUTE NOTHING TO DO WITH TABLETS, which are another class of product ENTIRELY with DIFFERENT design philosophies. Tablets are irrelevant to phone design because they are not phones.

Also, phablets are more difficult to make thin compared to normal phones period, heck, Google and LG couldn't keep the Nexus 4 thinner than 9.1mm and that is not a phablet with a 5.5 inch screen and stylus. So bringing up the Note 2 supports my argument, not yours, if you have an argument and know what you are arguing about that is. I am not sure you know what you are arguing about though.

Okay, I have now explained the facts as clearly as I can state them. If you still do not realize that my argument has nothing to do with half the things that you are saying, I give up. Here is a hint, if you do not agree that Samsung is disposable garbage, then you shouldn't even be replying to me at all.