Galaxy Note 5 wishlist

D13H4RD · July 14, 2015

My wishlist isn't that large. In fact, it's pretty simple, but there is an important point I'd like to make.

- Keep the phone at 5.7-inches or make it 6-inches but design it in such a way so that it's not overly large.

- Keep improving the already superb S Pen. Add more features or cool stuff.

- Keep what made the Note 4 awesome and improve on its flaws.

- Do not increase the resolution of the screen, and do not make the battery smaller

- Improve the software experience over the improvements made in the S6, namely the overly-aggressive memory management

Basically that. But notice that I didn't say 2 things. Removable battery and a microSD card slot. Why? Because looking at the S6, they're unlikely to make it to the N5.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of both, which is a big reason why I opted to go with the LG G4 over the Galaxy S6, but the Note-line has always been based off the year's S-line device, so if the S6 doesn't have both, chances are the Note won't as well. Not to mention the lack of expandable storage is due to UFS 2.0. Now, I'm not going to say the usual baggage "that UFS 2.0 is so fast and it turns your phone into a rocket ship, blah blah blah", but it's still the reason because UFS 2.0 uses an entirely different type of memory controller that is apparently incompatible with SD cards, even Class 10 ones. The current workaround is to put 2 memory controllers, but that is hard and may lead to compromises that Samsung probably didn't want to make. It might be possible, but it'll take time, and with the Note 5's reveal rumored to be a month away, there's not much time.

As for specs, I'm expecting the most bleeding-edge hardware Samsung can use. So that's a 1440p SAMOLED display, a revised Exynos 7420 with a higher clockspeed (rumored to be called the Exynos 7422), 4GB of LPDDR4, and a battery above 3000mAh (hopefully 3500mAh or larger) with Qi/PMA wireless charging and quick charging as standard. Internal storage may be 64GB base, hopefully.

If the Note comes with a 3500mAh+ battery and 64GB of internal storage base, then we'll have another product worthy of the Note family. I can't wait to try it out! Hope it doesn't disappoint.

XTankSlayerX · July 14, 2015

A leaked CAD file shows a similar back to the Galaxy S6.

It looked like they could use glass, and there was no "notch" to pull off the back.

It also had a sim card sled. Which further indicates that the back won't be removable.

I personally, don't really care. 32GB of storage is more than enough. If you keep your pictures in the cloud then you should have no issues with 32GB.

That being said, this day in age bigger is better.