Note 4, why doesn't it have water & dust resistance?

[Teletha]

Why doesn't it have those flaps on the usb port and the rubber lines under the battery cover like the s5 does? i mean it costs even more than the s5 is it not worth the extra cost?

[Mateyyy]

Maybe just for nicer looks, to try and make it thinner and because it has metal sides now, maybe they didn't to have any plastic on the sides. Also opening and closing that flap and trying to get the cable in, on the S5, is so annoying..

[LAwLz]

It's not that easy to make a phone water resistant. Maybe they didn't want to out in the extra time and effort or maybe it had side effects like worse speaker, annoying flaps, extra thickness, can't have the band out of metal etc, and they didn't want to compromise it that much.

[Humble Bee]

I don't know why it doesn't tbh... I always think that I'm not likely to get my phone that wet. But on the other hand, when I'm spending £500+ on a phone I'd like it to be waterproof. Just so that if I accidentally dropped it in the water I wouldn't end up with a £500 paper-weight.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

What the others said, plus it's more expensive. The Note 4 is already a fair bit more expensive to manufacture than the S5, and IP67 (or similar) will eat into profits too much. I don't think they're brave enough to charge even more for the phone.

[Sklo]

I would asume that Note users are less likely to fap during a shower.

[Guest]

I would actually guess it's due to complex brand image reasons.

Having the flaps that depend on deliberate, correct sealing means plenty of users are going to mess the sealing part up, brick their phone and whine on social media about Samsung being crap.