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This can't come soon enough. In my house we a drawer full of electronics, from tablets and game consoles to phones and laptops that have been made obsolete by t
by drooopy 3y ago
This can't come soon enough. In my house we a drawer full of electronics, from tablets and game consoles to phones and laptops that have been made obsolete by their glued in batteries. It doesn't help that a lot of those devices also came with their own proprietary cable connector for charging so we can't even use most of them even with a dead battery as we don't have the chargers anymore.
Also, I really don't care about devices becoming thicker because that's a non-issue these days. They are too slim for their own good. My iPhone SE 2 bends in my pocket.
- neop1x 3y agoThen why don't you sell them on eBay? There are many people buying older, broken stuff but if you put it for 10 years to a drawer, it will become too old to be useful even for them...
- sparrowInHand 3y agoIt could literally have twice the thickness of the phone as batterypack in the back.. wish you could order that..
- flagged24 3y agoThis was not uncommon in the early smartphone days. I rember buying a battery with twice the capacity for my HTC Touch HD, it came with a larger back cover.
- evilkorn 3y agoI had one for my g1. The chineseium plastic was pretty bad though and I had to buy replacement back covers for the extended battery.
- quijoteuniv 3y agoAgree, they have been getting away with this for way too long. I would love to see another law saying that if they do not support the hardware anymore they need to release, open source the drivers so that it can still be used.
- t0bia_s 3y agoI wish there is something like that for SLR and DSLR cameras. Not only Magic Lantern for Canons.
- cultofmetatron 3y ago> something like that for SLR and DSLR cameras. My nikon has replaceable batteries and the connectors are standard. as far as I knew, dslrs and even new mirrorless cameras all have user replaceable batteries
- quijoteuniv 3y agoDo you know about http://gphoto.org/ http://gphoto.org/ ?
- t0bia_s 3y agoNever. It looks like dated software for geeks. I have no idea what is it about and I consider photo nerd myself.
- quijoteuniv 3y agoYou can control a long list of dslr from a computer. So for example you can use an old dslr as a webcam. Or you can have a rasperrypi triggering photos remotely or anything you want to program. I used my old D600 as webcam during corona. Worked like a charm.
- t0bia_s 3y agoAh, so it is completely different approach than Magic Lantern. Basically it provides output signal to data cable so you don't need HDMI receiver for computer.
- scarface_74 3y agoYes and I’m sure the obsolescence of the phones don’t have anything to do with the fact that Android manufacturers including Google have a piss poor track record of supporting older devices. But of course the EU with it’s usual cluelessness won’t address that issue first
- drooopy 3y agoHuh? What usual cluelessness? They recently started discussing a proposal that will force all phone manufacturers to support devices for at least 5 years. https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-smartphone-updates-rules-3205112/ https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-smartphone-updates-rules...
- scarface_74 3y agoHow well did the whole GDPR thing work out? All they did was made the web experience worse with cookie pop up banners.
- hypertele-Xii 3y agoIt's the websites themselves that make the experience worse. Nobody forced them to have cookie pop up banners. GDPR simply forced them to be upfront about what they're doing and get permission - and they chose to be in your face and dark-pattern about it. The "web experience" was infinitely better before ads and tracking infested everything.
- scarface_74 3y agoIf given a choice, do you really think most users are singing the EUs praises about cookie pop ups and websites to be upfront? When was this mythical time the web wasn’t ad ridden? Do you not recall the pop up camera ads and the punch the monkey banner ads?
- wizofaus 3y ago