[Galaxy Note 4 General] NamelessFragger:
Okay, I'll take the bait on this one, because I feel the need to utterly destroy some out-of-touch smug git's arguments right now.

Yes, because cloud storage is totally secure, unlimited and truly accessible at all times, isn't it? Let's see you continue to sing the praises of cloud storage once your data gets compromised or you lose your data connection once you leave your carrier's coverage zone. Even AT&T and Verizon don't have 100% reliable networks, contrary to what they may want you to think.

Let's not forget the relative lack of unlimited data options, too. Anyone who's unfortunate enough to live in an area where Sprint and T-Mobile don't have good coverage and aren't in a grandfathered unlimited AT&T or Verizon plan are gonna get reamed hard for data overages just accessing that stuff in the cloud!

And don't insinuate that anyone who wouldn't need cloud storage also wouldn't need more than 128 GB of local storage. There's people out there who want their music in FLAC and store 2K videos to take full advantage of their screens, and that eats up space fast. Streaming isn't an option for them because of lossy compression, and they want quality.

USB OTG may be an alternative, but then you're unable to charge your phone and use USB storage at the same time if so needed, maybe unless you can get your hands on one of those smart docks with an AC input, MHL/HDMI-out and a couple of USB ports.

How about a wake-up call for you: it's still not enough for some people who are constantly out and about in places without AC outlets available. At least with removable batteries, you have the option of getting extended batteries if so desired, even upwards of 10,000mAh, and you'll never need to take a heat gun to the back of your phone to swap out old, dead cells inside.

Don't give me that crap about external battery banks, either, because few things are more unsightly and unwieldy than seeing someone try to hold an external USB battery bank together with their phone as the internal batteries charge up. Even fast charging (which is NOT mutually exclusive with removable batteries, considering the Note 4 has both) takes a little over an hour to fully top off a battery from zero. If the internal battery is in and of itself replacable, it's pop and swap, simple as that.

It's also pretty handy to just yank out the battery in case your phone freezes instead of waiting for it to exhaust normally.

Built-in batteries are a planned obsolescence ploy, plain and simple. They want dead cells sealed in your phone after a few years so you either spend a lot of money to get a tech to replace them, risk breaking the phone yourself because of the glue they use, or just spend that repair money on a new phone.

You want to talk about petty, how about all those benefits you spoke of, especially with the major detrimental downgrades made this time around for the sake of vanity and planned obsolescence?

Phones are tools; they need to adapt to the user's needs, not the other way around. Otherwise, the users don't buy them because they're incapable of doing what they want.

Okay, so it's more solid-feeling, but that doesn't need to come at the expense of a removable back. There's no technical reason for it. Even one of the HTC One M7 variants overseas had a removable back cover providing access to the battery, as I distinctly recall. Too bad that wasn't the standard over here.

You'd also better put that beautiful aluminum unibody phone in a case before it takes an unexpected dive right into some hard concrete pavement, because it sure won't look nearly as nice afterward. Too bad you can't enjoy the solid feeling of a phone when it's in a case nearly as much...

It's still a 2560x1440 screen according to the rumors, and the one on the Note 4 already has ludicrous color gamut and brightness. Any improvements are bound to be incremental at best 'til they start rolling out the 4K phone screens, and even with those, the only people who would really want that are Gear VR users. The existing 2K PenTile screens are already ludicrously sharp when not held under magnifying lenses.

This should've happened a long time ago, to be honest, and I mean 128 GB MINIMUM STANDARD internal storage instead of the 16/32 GB we were getting for years. The real problem is that the carriers and stores don't always sell the higher-capacity models, and when they do, it's always at a huge price premium.

See what I said above about extended battery options on devices with removable batteries. I could go out and get a big-ass battery for my Note 4 right now, if I felt the need, and I wouldn't need to tie up my USB port in the process.

Incremental upgrade. Not a bad thing, but I have yet to run into anything that makes me feel like a Snapdragon 805 is too slow right now. The only things that do are all Gear VR apps hit with a nasty Lollipop GPU driver performance regression.

It's sort of like going from an i7-2600K to an i7-4770K. Yes, you get newer instruction sets and architecture and all that, but most people don't see much of a practical difference once both are overclocked to their typical limits.

Again, incremental upgrade.

Not a deal-breaker, but the lack of "halo" on my Note 4 would've been nice.

Not nice enough to give up everything else that makes the Note 4 a near-perfect phone, though.

Do I even have to spell it out here? Sure, we could all just continue to buy the Note 4, but it's what happens AFTER the Note 5 that has us worried. If Samsung continues to take away options on their flagship of flagships, then people will jump ship to other things, perhaps the LG G4 or the Huawei Nexus if they're not as insistent on the Wacom S-Pen as I am.

In my case, I already have a Note 4 and have to stick with it for another one-and-a-half years, and I'm okay with that. But there were people who hadn't upgraded yet, were looking to the Note 5 as the prime time to do so, and without the features they've come to expect, may overlook the Note 4 and instead jump ship to all the other phablet offerings on the market.