Poll results: Samsung Galaxy Note5 is the Phablet of the year 2015

01 January, 2016
First phones, now phablets - Samsung made it a clean sweep in our devices of the year polls.

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  • 11 Jan 2016

If Micro SD is put inside S7, it will give a hint of Note6 as well (I hope Samsung learned enough about its big mistake to remove SD card slot in 2015). If not, there are TONS of similar phones out there who offer Micro SD slot. Anyone says 32GB is more than enough (around 25GB is available to user) in 2016 is living inside a cave!

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    • Anonymous
    • 42y
    • 04 Jan 2016

    Yes, because the 2015 competition simply can't compete with a phone with a wacom digitizer in it, this is what makes the Note special.

    But the Note5 is actually a very bad phone. No MicroSD, no removable battery and hard to remove back cover (has adhesive that needs heating). It's a piece of expensive junk.

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      • Jarret
      • 25G
      • 04 Jan 2016

      Samsung did it again... Congrats!

        AnonD-100398, 03 Jan 2016more than almost 98 % of u ppl who r saying that they neede... moreYep, I mainly don't like it because of its glass design (I just hate that slippery thing), plastic is way more durable and practical for random usage and no offence, but I am not a girl who takes care of her phone like her child, and the removing of IR blaster was also sad, I have found myself using that several times! I don't care much about SD cards really, used Moto X 2013 without one for over eight months, using Note 3 32 gigs for 13 months now without one, never ran out of storage, I simply plug in my Sandisk OTG drive if I need to see some photos or listen to some FLAC. You are mostly right about the storage space reason for other people :)

        Anyway, really looking forward for Note 6.

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          • AnonD-463876
          • NQF
          • 03 Jan 2016

          Is anyone really taken aback by this? As the sole creator of the phablet category I wouldn't expect anything less from Samsung.

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            • AnonD-100398
            • g33
            • 03 Jan 2016

            AnonD-421330, 03 Jan 2016There is no doubt Note 5 is the best phablet of 2015 becaus... moremore than almost 98 % of u ppl who r saying that they needed removable battery do not even use that feature.but the ppl like u use this topic just to bash samsung & note5 lol
            I use my smartphone a lot & i had lots of smartphones with removable battery but always hated to remove the battery.
            plus the ppl who says that they need the sd card there sd cards are normally filled with p 0*n LOL.

            just joking abt p 0*n.
            however 64gb of internal memory on a smartphone is really of a great value than having only 16gb or 32gb internal memory models & 64 gb is more than enough for approx 98% ppl hence the bottom line
            Note5 is such a huge sucess even without the removeable battery and a card slot & a lack of 128gb modal :) There is just no better smartphone out there rightnow than note5.

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              • AnonD-421330
              • 3@A
              • 03 Jan 2016

              There is no doubt Note 5 is the best phablet of 2015 because of its stylish look and awesome features . But I'm still preferring my Note 4 because of SD card & removable battery. My next phone will be Note 6 if there is SD card support.

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                • AnonD-467404
                • YTY
                • 03 Jan 2016

                android guy, 02 Jan 2016That was my opinion? Im not even talking about rubbish ipho... morethat's on paper. in real life apple is copying features from others. American patent laws are very weak. that's why they can take patents for unrelevent things. they can make of use of simple things against legit competitors. what makes them special is they give wonderful names to technologies that copied from others. if it was in India we wouldn't provide patents for such simple common things . actually iPhone 6 design is inspired from HTC.

                  ArtificiallyYours, 02 Jan 2016Neighbor just got a Note 3, it's so much better than this n... moreAre you referring to me? I got the Note 3 for two years now. Greater phone than the half-baked Note.5 - fragile glass back, flawed S Pen silo storage, no memory expansion, no user changeable battery, and no infrared function.

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                    • AnonD-397371
                    • M9F
                    • 02 Jan 2016

                    android guy, 02 Jan 2016your comment is childish comparing copysung from 2013 note ... moreNothing is more childish than saying Huawei 6P is the Top phone of 2015.

                    Simply shut up, use your phone and start acting like a normal person.

                      android guy, 02 Jan 2016https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONdUlTkuIgY Hopefully, i... moreI have owned 32 or 33 phones in my life, all top end, from 2004, Note 3 is my 5th Samsung phone I think, all previous being SE and Nokia and HTC mainly. It simply says one thing, I go with the flow. Brand means nothing, as simple as that. Samsung makes overall better devices than anybody else now, that's a fact, I deal with it, do I like Samsung? Heck no! I would love to see Sony ruling the Android phone market, but that's not happening sadly :(

                      What makes Note 5 best? The whole package. The stylus is the backbone. TouchWiz is superbly optimised for it, anyone who has used a Note won't even consider moving to anything else, unless one's a college kid. I myself hated the Galaxy S4 to an unlimited extent and moved to Moto X, because I got bored with TW and wanted vanilla Android, but then I realised I was getting one better thing, the software, but everything else was a compromise, that led to the nightmare and I'm back with Samsung.

                      Besides TouchWiz itself has changed quite a lot, course it sure is sluggish than vanilla Android, still, but that margin has reduced quite a lot, and that's more than enough for me.

                      In short I want 5 great things, 3 good things and 1 below average thing in a phone, rather than 1 really good thing and all other being average, and some way below average.

                      Consider this my last reply to you.

                      Best of luck with your 6P (this is not a pun, but serious wish).

                      Ta ta.

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                        • android guy
                        • 0xS
                        • 02 Jan 2016

                        ithehappy, 02 Jan 2016I am not trying to prove anything, that's the point. I am m... morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONdUlTkuIgY

                        Hopefully, i hope you are not talking about speed comparisong. But i dont know whats so special in note 5? stylus? thats why it deserves top 1? no its because samsung, and people who voted has probably 40% samsung phones, so they will go for samsung for sure lol, fans.

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                          • android guy
                          • 0xS
                          • 02 Jan 2016

                          Khan, 02 Jan 2016LOL its funny you said sammy kept the same design for each ... moreThat was my opinion? Im not even talking about rubbish iphone, lol. And samsung is just copying it. But still, same design over years, only edge version seems "a bit" different.

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                            • Khan
                            • x7w
                            • 02 Jan 2016

                            android guy, 02 Jan 2016your comment is childish comparing copysung from 2013 note ... moreLOL its funny you said sammy kept the same design for each phone. But you havnt notice for iphones. Lets start from iphone 4 then 4s then 5, 5s, all of them were same in design, now back to 3 then 3s, iphone 6, 6plus, 6s, 6s plus dont you think from 3 to 6 same design but just the same is different and a bit thin lol and yes offource in 6 the back antina design is actually a copy from htc one lol

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                              • kR5
                              • 02 Jan 2016

                              kat, 02 Jan 2016I hope they bring back the microSD and removable battery in... moreAgree. That's the only reason why I bought Note 4 instead. No SD and removable battery killed it for me.

                              Good job on top spot, Sammy.

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                                • ray
                                • v{u
                                • 02 Jan 2016

                                im an iphone 6s plus, but i totely agreed with results, so that dosent mean i dont like my iphone . i love it,

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                                  • android guy
                                  • 0xS
                                  • 02 Jan 2016

                                  android guy, 02 Jan 2016your comment is childish comparing copysung from 2013 note ... moreNote 5 is top 1st in this poll is JUST because probably about 40% of earth people uses samsung. So why not vote for samsung? lol

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                                    • android guy
                                    • 0xS
                                    • 02 Jan 2016

                                    ithehappy, 02 Jan 2016I am not trying to prove anything, that's the point. I am m... moreyour comment is childish comparing copysung from 2013 note 3 with these flagships. You dont even giving facts WHY when i am giving. Software means nothing? you are soo wrong, how old are you? Software is a huge part of the phone. Note 5 is not worth to be top 1st just because it is samsung, has stylus. Nexus 6p performs even better than 4gb on note. Note 5 was released wayy earlier than nexus 6p. One more thing i dont like that note has same design over years. Not a huge point for upgrading phone it it looks actually the same. Jesus just go on youtube and do some researches.

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                                      • kat
                                      • 3xK
                                      • 02 Jan 2016

                                      I hope they bring back the microSD and removable battery in the Note 6 :)

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                                        • Andro
                                        • PEr
                                        • 02 Jan 2016

                                        ..., 01 Jan 2016you are definitely wrong,only reason why samsung won is cau... moreYou are living in a dreamland sir.Samsung galaxy s6 is cheaper than its Sony,htc and nokia equivalents,very slightly but still cheaper than its lg equivalent.Motorola maybe cheaper but is way underpowered but you have the galaxy s5 and note 3 @21k-23k Inr cheaper and more powerful than the moto x pure.

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