[Galaxy Note5 General] @rbiter:
Android M is supposed to bring back support for SD cards if rumors are true. They're very handy and the people against them are missing out because their attitude is I don't want a screw holding my swiss army knife together and I can make the screw longer so the swiss army knife can ammodate features in these devices that truly redifined and matured with age.

Smartphone makes should wisen up and cater to major categories/niches. Samsung is chewing waaaay too much gum and spitting out wads that stick. For a few minutes. You have gamers, people who want big screens, affordable jewelry, gamers again, small phones and whatever market you think can cater to and make profit. How come somebody hasn't licensed it and went to town? we have foldable oled, some people might want a two screen phone, one that would flip up like these flip covers, or for the I want it all people two of these or one depending on how you do it, both screens having proper hardware to run individually one smartphone. To go really off cliff, two galaxy notes that can be individual, or for poops and giggles, hooked to one another at the bezels. And one S pen can come out and you can plug a battery/interconnect to have a 2x2 setup and then telescope, antenna, camera in the stylus hole. I just put some ideas out there, and some of them would be expensive or not, make a solid innovative risky we're going to advertise and cater to the some specific crowd like gamers, or scientists who would prefer handheld modular equipment that needs a Ui and processing. Get scientific on everybody. I already know there's embedded soc's for specific equipment but make phones with bigger batteries and different shapes. Who would like a slently bent rectangle with 4500 mah battery? You know like 15mm/½' thick but rounded like Moto's and LG's have gradually been doing. Are the OEM's scared to bring out a fat phone because thin is in. I want a curvy phone contoured like a mouse or a big rounded pebble or rectangle. Bigger batteries and accessories. That new Marshall marketed as an audiophile phone. Having an analog potentiometer like that would be awesome. And classic. Heck it could be a a little bigger than a dial found on a smart watch. Even more cool make it power the phone on too. And have that satisfying little click and smooth turn, or two clicks to put it on a standby you can setup for night or meettigs.

The smartphone market is boring. It's saturated with the same boring every year. Where's the phone with rubber or poly bumpers at the corner that are replaceable. Phones where we can keep the casing and/or size casing every upgraded SOC, with even competitors that will fit your case. It's boring.

This thread is debating features vs less features. Come out with a revised micro SD standard where it's two or 3 times thicker. Or try like low powered pcie ssd in a phone. Phones like that cater towards I gotta hoard digital everything. Or invest in drop box. Add a monthly priced tier for faster speeds. Like $3 a month. You know not everybody trusts putting even their expendable data like a sweet pic of a two year old or a party where everybody is putting 10lbs of firework in the shed and lit it up. At once. How come OEM's can't come up with a sustainable model of more batteries, useful accessories, not fake jewelry. How come we haven't advanced our monetary and citizenship into some unique hash that can be transferred to another phone by some special thingymajigwhatever through hardware and software interconnected to our governments. I want my phone to actually be a wallet already, and for the ladies, their purse. And makeup. Where's the pipboy 3000 you wouldn't be scared to bring to your suit and tie job?

You goto android, ios, windows it doesnt matter. We've actually got good competition there. iOS and windows have two similar ecosystems. Android just has choice, a lot more freedom, even less boundaries when you root, and they should be able to capitalize more with that freedom. Less phones and dedicate staff to accessories, the think tank where they come up with something really innovative, uniquie and sentimental designs. Screw the carriers unnecesssary bloatware. If it's that good it should sell itself in the app markets!!! Dedicate staff to staying up to date on android versions. Creative marketing. Classic marketing that says they have what you want and cherish it. Apple does that very well and they rehash the same two phone every two years. I can't believe apple is making ~90% percent of the profit. Instead of building just phones. Sell apps. Sell your launcher like we need it. We should be on software navigation all the way now. But where is it?