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The golden age of mobile phones was 2011 to 2014.

In 2012, the Note 2 brought Air View functionality with the S Pen.

It allowed previewing information such as overflowing text contents and message previews by merely hovering over it!

In 2013, the S4 had the same for fingers. It was fascinating, using self-capacitive touchscreen technology that co-existed with the normal, mutual touch. The Xperia Sola had it too.

In later 2013, the Galaxy Note 3 combined both S Pen and Finger AirView in one device. The only device to have both.

The S5 had finger Air View only? and the Note 4 only S Pen Air View.

But in 2015, toxic mininalism took over Samsung.

The Galaxy S6 was still a good device with numerous improvements, especially at the camera.

But none of these core Samsung features were available anymore:

  • MicroSD (back in 2016)
  • Water resistance (back in 2016)
  • MHL HDMI
  • Replaceable battety
  • USB 3.0
  • Many manu features (<irony>thanks, Hyun Yeul Lee!</irony>)
  • Air View

Also, they sacrificed battery size for crappy slim design. If one wanted that, therewas for that.

Samsung disowned their power users when the Galaxy Note 5 also followed that design trend, instead of being the ultimate supreme power-user device (2013: Galaxy Note 3).

The LG V10 was still there, and it had a marvellous camera user interface with many adjustable parameters and settings during video recording, like real camcorders (e.g. Sony FDR-AXP33, their compact flagship back then).

Then came the LG V20 in 2016. Sadly the last LG V series device with replaceable battery.

The golden age of mobile phones was 2011 to 2014. In 2012, the Note 2 brought Air View functionality with the S Pen. It allowed previewing information such as overflowing text contents and message previews by merely hovering over it! In 2013, the S4 had the same for fingers. It was fascinating, using *self-capacitive* touchscreen technology that co-existed with the normal, *mutual touch*. The Xperia Sola had it too. In later 2013, the Galaxy Note 3 combined both S Pen and Finger AirView in one device. The only device to have both. The S5 had finger Air View only? and the Note 4 only S Pen Air View. But in 2015, toxic mininalism took over Samsung. The Galaxy S6 was still a good device with numerous improvements, especially at the camera. But none of these core Samsung features were available anymore: - MicroSD (back in 2016) - Water resistance (back in 2016) - MHL HDMI - Replaceable battety - USB 3.0 - Many manu features (<irony>thanks, Hyun Yeul Lee!</irony>) - Air View Also, they sacrificed battery size for crappy slim design. If one wanted that, therewas [Apple](/s/crApple) for that. Samsung disowned their power users when the Galaxy **Note** 5 also followed that design trend, instead of being the ultimate supreme power-user device (2013: Galaxy Note 3). The LG V10 was still there, and it had a marvellous camera user interface with many adjustable parameters and settings during video recording, like real camcorders (e.g. Sony FDR-AXP33, their compact flagship back then). Then came the LG V20 in 2016. Sadly the last LG V series device with replaceable battery.

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