We recently reviewed Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 3 phablet and long story short, we loved it. The device marks the beginning of Samsung’s war on feature spam, and we went as far as to call it our favorite Samsung phone ever. The Note 3 is by no means perfect, of course, and aside from its monstrous size our least favorite thing about the handset was probably its cheap-feeling build. Whereas rivals like Apple and HTC use metals and other premium materials on its smartphones, Samsung continues to opt for plastics and, in the case of the Note 3, pleather. Rumor had it that the company would finally move away from flimsy-feeling plastics on next year’s flagship Galaxy S5 model, but



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