I’ve owned all the major phone brands at one point or another. The whole removable battery thing doesn’t bother me.
My phone right now is a Samsung Nexus (The google phone of yesteryear) its a great phone… Feels a bit cheap but its solid.
I do somewhat miss the “luxury” feel of an iphone so to speak which is why the HTC really appealed to me. However really thinking about it I know that phone will get destroyed. The droid phones I had with aluminum frames looked like shit when i was done with them.
The notes are too big. I know a few people with them who said after some time it feels normal, but I just don’t want a phone that big.