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  • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    The Galaxy S5 also had atrocious build quality and never really held up to water like advertised. Very shitty phone.

        • VinceUnderReview@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 year ago

          I really don’t understand the issue with this, at all. Plastic saves on costs, and is more durable than glass. I genuinely couldn’t care less as long as the screen itself is glass (which the S5 screen was glass).

          • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.social
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            1 year ago

            There is good plastic and bad plastic. Samsung has always made shitty phones but the S5 was made of some seriously thin, chrome-covered toy-grade junk. The S6 and beyond stepped up the hardware quality a lot. Phone didn’t creak in your hand etc

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          1 year ago

          What’s wrong with plastic other than marketing people telling you it isn’t ‘premium?’ If you want to talk about shitty build quality, how about modern phones that are completely encased in fragile glass and must be kept in a case? I rocked my plastic/aluminum Note 4 for 5 years without a case. I still own it, in fact, 8 years later and it still works great because it’s made out of durable materials just like the S5 that I owned before it was.

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              1 year ago

              Unless you possess the powers of alchemy, it’ll never be stronger than the more durable and premium plastic and metal constructed phones.

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                  1 year ago

                  Using a logical fallacy doesn’t make your opinion any more valid and it doesn’t take an expert to know that glass is more fragile than the plastic and aluminum materials used previously.

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            1 year ago

            Don’t forget, the Note4 even had a fairly easy to replace aluminum outer frame/bumper.