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You state absolutely valid facts, but removable batteries carry one huge additional risk: You can now go purchase a no-name cheap explosion-prone chinese one, w
by gruturo 10y ago
You state absolutely valid facts, but removable batteries carry one huge additional risk: You can now go purchase a no-name cheap explosion-prone chinese one, which your phone manufacturer (barring recent incidents) most likely would have protected you from, with their QA.
Granted, you can do that anyway today if you go to an unauthorized shop for a replacement, or even get it yourself via Amazon/Ebay & co., but the general availability of shitty batteries for retail purchase would increase the size of the problem by an order of magnitude.
- kbart 10y agoYou can still purchase and connect "shitty batteries" (aka power banks) to your phone's USB plug with, potentially, same consequences. The only difference is that responsibility using external batteries shifts from a phone manufacturer to the user. I'm yet to see valid pro irremovable battery arguments from the perspective of a user, not manufacturer.
- gruturo 10y agoActually I had completely forgotten about battery packs. Point taken, absolutely. Hopefully the crappy ones are simply overstating their capacity instead of actually trying to reach it within volume/safety constraints (and cutting corners to do so), so they won't be as explosion prone - but indeed, valid point.