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>>Same reason batteries in your phone or laptop are each a different shape and non-removable. What? Most laptops on the market today have removable batteries,

>>Same reason batteries in your phone or laptop are each a different shape and non-removable. What? Most laptops on the market today have removable batteries, to the point where you can buy spare battery packs for them for long trips. Same with a lot of smartphones. Unless of course you mean Apple products.

jstarfish 8y ago
User-serviceable and removable are not the same. There are few consumer laptops with removable (pops right out) batteries these days. I haven't seen one since the early 00s. At best there are still those which are user-serviceable (requires a screwdriver and some finesse at the least). And Apple products where you cannot do even that. Some business models still have the external removable battery, but have lower specs and higher price than consumer counterparts. Almost no modern smartphones have removable batteries. It's rare enough that the LG G5 tried to make it a selling point a few years ago.
nickspacek 8y ago
A lot of smart phones? Maybe I'm not a discerning enough Android fanboy, but none of my phones have had removable batteries: * Nexus 4 * Nexus 5 * Nexus 6P * Samsung Galaxy S7 * Samsung Galaxy S9 The only recent phones I was aware of with removable batteries were the LG G*, but I don't think the latest model of those has a removable battery anymore either.
- culot 8y ago
  Up until last year at least swappable batteries were still common in lower-end smartphones. Generally none of those OEMs sold spare batteries though; even when many high-end models had swappable batteries, up until 2015/2016-ish, almost no OEMs sold spare batteries. I think it was the beginning of 2016 that LG actually started selling spare batteries, the same year they produced their last two high-end smartphones with swappable batteries. Even though swappable batteries do continue on the low-end, I think maybe [in the US] only Motorola actually makes spare batteries available for consumers to purchase, even for devices that don't have readily swappable batteries. I think this year Motorola will ditch swappable batteries, pretty sure, but will supposedly continue to make spares available for select models via Ifixit.

jstarfish 8y ago

User-serviceable and removable are not the same. There are few consumer laptops with removable (pops right out) batteries these days. I haven't seen one since the early 00s. At best there are still those which are user-serviceable (requires a screwdriver and some finesse at the least). And Apple products where you cannot do even that. Some business models still have the external removable battery, but have lower specs and higher price than consumer counterparts. Almost no modern smartphones have removable batteries. It's rare enough that the LG G5 tried to make it a selling point a few years ago.

nickspacek 8y ago

A lot of smart phones? Maybe I'm not a discerning enough Android fanboy, but none of my phones have had removable batteries: * Nexus 4 * Nexus 5 * Nexus 6P * Samsung Galaxy S7 * Samsung Galaxy S9 The only recent phones I was aware of with removable batteries were the LG G*, but I don't think the latest model of those has a removable battery anymore either.

culot 8y ago
Up until last year at least swappable batteries were still common in lower-end smartphones. Generally none of those OEMs sold spare batteries though; even when many high-end models had swappable batteries, up until 2015/2016-ish, almost no OEMs sold spare batteries. I think it was the beginning of 2016 that LG actually started selling spare batteries, the same year they produced their last two high-end smartphones with swappable batteries. Even though swappable batteries do continue on the low-end, I think maybe [in the US] only Motorola actually makes spare batteries available for consumers to purchase, even for devices that don't have readily swappable batteries. I think this year Motorola will ditch swappable batteries, pretty sure, but will supposedly continue to make spares available for select models via Ifixit.