Should i Wait for Samsung Galaxy Note 4

[sanjaynegi1998]

I read about Samsung Galaxy Note 4 here galaxynote4us.com and it seems a nice phone so i am thinking to purchase it, tell me what you think, should i buy LG G3 or wait for note 4?

 

[Rukbat]

IF the article is correct, the 4 seems to have a few advantages over the 3. (Retinal scanning to unlock? Nice.) And - again, if the article is correct - the price will be about the same as the 3. If I were looking to buy now, I think I'd wait. Even if the 4 turns out to not be so great (4k on a phone screen? Even when I was young, and had exceptional vision, I don't think I could tell that from 1080 on a 6" screen), the 3 would drop in price.

The LG? Not for 2 reasons. 1) I'll never buy a phone that doesn't have a user-replaceable battery. The battery goes bad (and it seems as if battery manufacturers are getting sloppy - I keep hearing more and more stories about problems that are probably dendritic shorts in the battery), instead of $25 for a new battery, it's a couple of hundred dollars for a trip to the repair depot. You can't keep a spare battery with you - and swap it in when you MUST make that one call and the battery is dead. And if the battery starts to overheat rapidly, I can pop the back off and lever the battery out in about 1 second. Another 3 seconds to get far enough from the battery so that if it goes Sony (do a little research if you aren't familiar with Sony's Lithium Ion Fire Starters that were supposed to be phone batteries) I'm safe. With the LG, you toss he phone and watch $700 burn to a crisp.

2) No external SD card. I admit that I'm a software junkie, and I have to uninstall a few dozen apps every month or so (I'll try 5, keep using one and forget to uninstall the other 4), and still haven't run out of 32GB. But I eventually will. And anyone who likes to keep movies on their phone is going to run out of space. (I rarely watch a movie twice.) But I have the option of adding 128GB of storage to my phone (so far) if I want to. And I have a few ROMs on my SD card. The current one I'm running is fast. Too fast for a couple of games. So it's a couple of minutes to restore a slower one.

No LG for me. (No Samsung any more either if they keep welding their firmware shut.)

Just my 5 cents (inflation).

 

[chong67]

If 3 months wait is not long for you, then get the Note 4.

I will never get a non-replacement battery phone again.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

Spoiler

IF the article is correct, the 4 seems to have a few advantages over the 3. (Retinal scanning to unlock? Nice.) And - again, if the article is correct - the price will be about the same as the 3. If I were looking to buy now, I think I'd wait. Even if the 4 turns out to not be so great (4k on a phone screen? Even when I was young, and had exceptional vision, I don't think I could tell that from 1080 on a 6" screen), the 3 would drop in price.

The LG? Not for 2 reasons. 1) I'll never buy a phone that doesn't have a user-replaceable battery. The battery goes bad (and it seems as if battery manufacturers are getting sloppy - I keep hearing more and more stories about problems that are probably dendritic shorts in the battery), instead of $25 for a new battery, it's a couple of hundred dollars for a trip to the repair depot. You can't keep a spare battery with you - and swap it in when you MUST make that one call and the battery is dead. And if the battery starts to overheat rapidly, I can pop the back off and lever the battery out in about 1 second. Another 3 seconds to get far enough from the battery so that if it goes Sony (do a little research if you aren't familiar with Sony's Lithium Ion Fire Starters that were supposed to be phone batteries) I'm safe. With the LG, you toss he phone and watch $700 burn to a crisp.

2) No external SD card. I admit that I'm a software junkie, and I have to uninstall a few dozen apps every month or so (I'll try 5, keep using one and forget to uninstall the other 4), and still haven't run out of 32GB. But I eventually will. And anyone who likes to keep movies on their phone is going to run out of space. (I rarely watch a movie twice.) But I have the option of adding 128GB of storage to my phone (so far) if I want to. And I have a few ROMs on my SD card. The current one I'm running is fast. Too fast for a couple of games. So it's a couple of minutes to restore a slower one.

No LG for me. (No Samsung any more either if they keep welding their firmware shut.)

Just my 5 cents (inflation).

hid the above quote for space.

Just to correct the quote above, so the OP isn't misinformed.

The newly announced LG G3 does in fact have a removable battery along with extended storage via SD card slot.

In my opinion, you can't go wrong either picking up a g3 when they launch sometime next month. Or waiting a few months for the note 4 to be announced and launched in the months to come.

Whichever you choose, you'll have an amazing device on your hands.

 

[breadnatty08]

The Note 4 will more than likely come with a SD 805 (again, just speculating), but it really is necessary because of how bloated Touchwiz is.
I "could" come with 4Gb of RAM, but I wouldn't hedge my bets on that.
The Note 3 was announced on Sept. 4th, so I'd anticipate something close to that for the 4. LG still hasn't given a firm date on the actual release of the G3, so you'll likely not have to wait long from release to announcement (for G3, Note 4 respectively) to decide.

 

[Shocky]

Maybe, I'm not a fan of the Galaxy S5.

I've been disappointed by all the new products this year, OnePlus One has my attention but only because of the price.

So yes worth waiting, but not necessarily for the Note 4.

 

[Sandroidfan]

If slightly bigger size and a little more waiting is not issue, I would say Note 4. Some benchmarks on G3 performance, battery life shows it really needs S805 to run QHD screen properly.

There is also S5 prime coming with 5.2" QHD, S805 chip which should arrive no later than Note 4.