Admittedly, I've not had much time to play around with it but now that I finally own a phone with curved screen edges, my response is pretty much the same as it was three years ago when I chose the Samsung Note 4 over its asymmetrically-curved new sister, the Note Edge: 'Why?'
That question is made all the more difficult to answer since it's essentially mandatory that the first thing one do after acquiring such a device is shoe-horn it into an overpriced plastic case that hides all but the faintest hint of the phone's most unique feature.
This is the feature Samsung ranked higher in value than the convenience-ensuring, privacy-protecting and PR-catastrophe-preventing qualities made possible by a removable battery? Something that looks cool until you have to cover it up to keep it from breaking?
Most of my working adult life has been spent either carrying or working with others who carry two-way radios (aka: walkie-talkies). One of two things typically happens when your radio battery dies. Either you swap out battery packs or (if the battery isn't removable) you swap out radios. You don't just plug it in to charge and "go silent" for the next 30-60 minutes.
Given that the technological requirements (not to mention hardware costs) aren't yet at the point where we can simply swap out one phone for another in less time than is required for a pee break, it seems pretty reasonable to assume that either your phone's battery should be swappable or your phone should be expendable enough to go hour-long stretches without it. Put another way, to quote the strip-club boss from Kill Bill vol. 2:
"What are you trying to convince me of exactly, that you're as useless as an a--hole right here? [points to elbow] Well, guess what, buddy... I think you just f---ing convinced me."
Stop and consider for a minute, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your smartphone. Most people pay between $35-$75/month for service, another $10-$40/month for the 'lease' or phone payment itself, plus maybe you're paying a monthly fee for what I call sloppy-seconds insurance (that's where you pay $11/month and if your phone breaks, they replace it with a previously repaired device).
That's between $45 and $115 a month (or $1.50-$3.83 per day) for something that even the manufacturer thinks is so non-essential that you should be able to leave it parked on a charger at least once or twice a day.
Maybe that's why two of the smartest men I know still use flip-phones.
