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The idea that Samsung named the successor to the Note 5 the Note 7 shows just how much Samsung wanted to compete with the Apple Iphone. To be clear, I personally own 2 Samsung Note 3s and an Iphone 5s and have no real issue with any of my devices. The Misses owns a Note 4 and similarly she has no issue with it. I enjoy all of my devices. My Primary phone is the Note 3, secondary phone is the Iphone 5S which allows me access into the ios world when I need it and the other Note 3 backs up the main Note 3.

The beauty of the Note 3 is this "Premium" phone has swapple batteries and micro sd so battery life is never an issue nor is there a need for storage. It has an infrared port which I constantly use to control my household electronics. The phone gives me no need to look around for the remotes for all of my devices as all the codes that I need are on hand in the device. The S-Pen is a delight which I rather have than not have. Signing documents or jotting down notes are a breeze. The Camera is great and at 12 Megapixels I am doing quite fine with it.

When it comes to the iphone 5S for me it is the perfect compliment to the Note 3. When I don't need the full capability of Note power and size and want a more compact device it surely fits the bill. In addition, if there is a piece of software exclusive to ios I now actually have access to it. I can say that I actually say that I love the Iphone 5S for what it does but comparing it to the Note 3? I would have to be dillusional to think that there is a comparison. The Note is a superior device.

I could easily "upgrade" all of my devices but I have no reason to. Both Apple and Samsung are more concerned with milking the consumer for and easy grand than they are legitimately making significant updates. This is more so for Apple than Samsung as the internal and external evolution of the iphone in the past 10 years is rather slim. Sure, they made the "bigger" 6 line and the SE which is the exact form factor to the 5S but tell me, what am I really missing out on? APPLE PAY? A fingerprint scanner? a better camera? Surely it is not a removable battery, removable sd card, an infrared blaster or the S-Pen because Apple does not have any of those features on any of their devices. So give me a break the Iphone 5S works fine for me. On the Note side what am I missing out on? I had great hopes for the Note 5 until I hears that they sealed off the battery took away the micro SD and eliminated the infrared blaster. I welcome the upgrade of RAM from 3GB to 4GB. I hope that they would have done that to the Note 4 but they passed on it and left it for the 5.

The Note 5 was a signal to the world that Samsung was willing to sell it's soul to compete with Apple financially. Their attitude was to hell with the consumer. Fast forward to the Note 7. I must say that the Note 7 had one of the most beautiful displays that I have ever seen on a phone and yes they brought back the micro sd card but the battery was still sealed off. SAMSUNG you have indirectly given me and many of your loyal customers the middle finger when you decided to seal the battery. If there was a removable battery as the Note 3 or Note 4 there would be no reason to recall the Note 7. Overheating? catching fire? exploding? Please. The good thing about having a removable battery is if for some reason the phone stalls, someone is trying to externally take control of your phone, you notice overheating taking place you can simply take the battery out, go into recovery and wipe the cache and restart the device. Once restarted, more times than not the issue is gone. If in fact the battery was the real issue it is as simple as replace the battery and move on with device in hand. Instead you FOOLS decide to seal the battery and rename the Note 6 the Note 7 to compete with the launch of the Iphone 7. Now look at you!

Your greed and lack of loyalty to your core customers has your stock plunging and now you are forced to terminate the Note 7 line. Explain to me why I should ever upgrade again from my two Note 3s and Iphone 5S if you put out another "premium" device without a removable, battery, removable micro sd and infrared port? One more thing don't be a fool like Apple and take away the headphone jack. That may be the last time either of you ever get $1000 from me for any phone that you produce.