Having been a Note owner from the very beginning, and now having owned them all (Note, Note 2, Note 3, Note 4, Note Edge), there's something about the larger screen and the freaking awesome stylus that I can't part with. It would be rather unfortunate that Samsung MAY remove the removable battery (see what I did there) and also remove SD card support. This seems to be a trend that is happening with all android manufacturers. Heck, even Google who outlines the design of the Android flagship phones, never had the removable battery after the Nexus S, and stopped using SD cards after the Nexus S I believe. So it isn't anything new.
They are not offering a wide variety of onboard storage sizes (which doesn't solve it) and is rather refreshing that only being able to have 16 GB (from the original Note).
For all those willing to jump ship to apple, and in my personal opinion, call that dumbing down, You get a TINY hair of response faster, but everything else is trailing behind, apple is not playing catch up with the likes of google and their many manufacturers.
Each iteration of the Note have become a welcoming improvement after the previous one. So this one, I'm hoping, should bring some WOW, as well as subtle touches that makes it stand out from the crowd, and it has been doing that since October 2011, when they launched the first one.
THE MAJOR PROBLEM THOUGH, IS that Samsung is getting bigger by the sales, and could give 2+ expletives what we think, they're going to release what they want. LOL