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Unless there's something special about this battery cover, aluminum plating is not a good idea if you intend to use NFC at all. There's a reason the Evo 4G LTE has a plastic cover over the area with the NFC chip. The metal will also have a negative impact on all radio transmissions - cell, wifi, GPS, etc, which is why Asus stopped making the back of their tablets 100% out of metal. I'm willing to bet either the aluminum plating is so thin that it'll chip off quickly from normal use anyway, or you'll have a terrible experience using your phone for anything network-related.
Exactly so why are people complaining about the use of plastic? I have a TF300 and while it's plastic it's still sturdy. I like metal, but that gets hotter, and scratches much easier. There is also the problem with radio signals of the phone. The iPhone 5 does a decent job at this problem with the two toned design, but then I don't wan't every phone to look that way. I like my plastic back.
Like another user said, build quality is the quality of the materials used and how they were put together. People tend to use build quality with the texture/feeling they get from the product, making all DSLR camera's horrible quality in their definition I guess.