"The Note 4 is a crowd pleaser'. You want the storage? Great, get a card! You want to use the cloud and the heck with card storage? Great, don't get a card! The Note 4 as a device was more about choice than the Note 5."
You nailed it with this statement... The previous Note's gave people a lot of choices, but now not so much.
I'm sure a lot of people will be happy with their pretty Note 5... but I never seen this much complaining on the forms about any of the previous Note's, whether it was looks or functionality. Will these choices pay off for Samsung? I personally hope the Note 5 sales are **** compared the the Note 4, so hopefully the Note 6 will be something that I'll buy again.
What I want to know is why anyone would want a phone with a glass back, especially one this big? Is the looks of the phone really worth having a glass back? And how many people who buy the SG6's and Note 5's actually are brave enough to go without a case... if the vast majority use a case, then what is the point of having a pretty glass back when you have a case on the phone? I always have a case on my phones, and there's no F' way I would even consider using a glass backed phone without a case... so again what's the F' is the point of a pretty glass back.
Everyone who thinks the Garilla Glass 4 on the back is so tough... have you watched any drop test like this one below? With a glass back you've got almost 100% chance of breaking your phone from dropping more than a couple feet high on a hard surface.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od3UWz9gdk8