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How would it be very easy to make the battery user replaceable? I don't even know where they stuck the battery.

• dghlsakjg 5y ago
  I’ve resoldered the batteries on my generic wireless earbuds that were very much meant not to be serviceable. It really wouldn’t be hard to make them serviceable, even if they weren’t user replaceable. There’s one in each bud, and another in the case. A battery only needs two electrical contacts on a component that is already self contained. Its a very simple device. The lithium ion ones in this size range are a few bucks each on the wholesale market. There are even standardized button cell sizes. It is very much a design choice. The other side of it is that lithium ion battery tech is at the point where the battery lifespans is starting to exceed the device lifespan. Certainly true for the cheap side of the earbud market
• squarefoot 5y ago
  The battery is contained in the stick coming down from the AirPod body. They could make them threaded with concentric tracks at the top making contact with springs, so the user could simply unscrew them and swap with fresh ones, so that the parts cost of replacing the battery would be the battery itself plus a piece of plastic, some wire and a small almost empty pcb, surely not the entire device.
  • brewdad 5y ago
    I know I would fidget with mine and end up unscrewing them partially leading to erratic behavior and eventually completely leaving me without a power source.
    • theshrike79 5y ago
      Or unscrew it partially, breaking the moisture protection and get some sweat in there.