I'm undecided not because of the battery or Touchwiz. I've had an S4 so I'm used to a bloated UI and I actually liked it. the battery if it's still good as the S5 (and my m8) will be fine for me.
What bothers me is two things that was mentioned in the podcast and the question thread that Andrew did.
1) having Clean Master built in to Touchwiz.
Not an app and uninstallable, but built in to the UI? Are you freaking kidding me? This crap better be able to be fully disabled or I'm flat out returning it unopened in less then a minute.
This garbage fools way too many people into thinking that there is something wrong with their phone. The problem is that what's wrong with their phone is that CM is installed. But to be fully integrated into Touchwiz? Wholly brain wash Batman, there are going to be too many fools that fall for this gimmick and get addicted to speeding up their phone and cooling it off every hour on the hour like my friend who is about as smart as dirt when it comes to phones.
You wanna know what really was wrong with my friends phone running so hot and losing memory faster then grease lightning? Nothing. Nothing at all but that he had some trash apps installed, and the biggest piece of garbage was Clean Master.
2) Samsung pay not available right away.
What is this Knox on the S4 all over again? Why promote a feature that won't be available until the summer?
Unlike Knox, I was looking forward to Samsung pay. In fact, in one of my threads I mentioned that one of the 3 major reasons for me getting the phone is because I hate taking my wallet with me when I'm in basketball shorts or bathing suits during the summer. The lack of pockets I have during the summer won't be an issue if I can just carry my phone and make payments with it. But what if like Knox it's not here until late August or September at best? How will this help me buy things at many of the mom and pop stores/restaurants that I frequent? I might as well wait until the note 5 as it will be ready by then. (and I was originally waiting for the new note 5)
I don't know. I'm not pre-ordering until the 3rd anyway. But with one of the features I want not working for months at best and Clean Master giving me pop ups telling me my phone is too hot when I'm not even gaming... I just don't know.
Omg, I'm a gamer? Will CM be annoying?
Hmmm, I better go and clean up my cashe and stop typing as I'm sure that my phone is running soooooooooo hot from just thinking about this. /sarcasm
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