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Feel like all of this would be a bit irrelevant if we just had easily replaceable batteries. Phone batteries don’t cost that much. Rather than worrying about c

• sans_souse 2y ago
  Totally agree. Tbh I never needed the phones to become as thin as cardboard. At the cost of sacraficing the ability to easily remove/replace the battery I certainly never wanted it.
  • 542354234235 2y ago
    >I never needed the phones to become as thin as cardboard And it is only thin until you put on the bulky case. If phones put a real battery and intigrated basic protection, it would still be thinner than the current small battery/outer case situation. Most people don't need tank-like Otterbox protection, they just need something that keeps bumps and small drops from shattering something.
• dingnuts 2y ago
  give me a battery door and a charging cradle so I can have two batteries, one that charges on the cradle and one in the phone to use and I'll swap them whenever I need, and never have to wait. The same way my Game Boy worked in the nineties with NiMH batteries. Why did we abandon that pattern?
  • vbezhenar 2y ago
    Replaceable batteries require thick case and also it's not easy to make the case waterproof. Consumers prefer thin waterproof cases.
    • satanfirst 2y ago
      I think most people prefer an older phone style. The difficulty is that the screen implies a large surface which then requires thinness to not have a problem of large volume as well as general awkwardness.
• Aurornis 2y ago
  In a world where I can have my iPhone battery replaced for $99 by Apple with official parts and a quick turnaround, my desire for self-replaceable batteries is completely gone. I’ll take the reduced size, lower weight, sturdier construction, and better waterproofing I get from the current build style. Saving tens of dollars and an hour or two of my time every 4 years isn’t worth the compromise.
  • xandrius 2y ago
    Instead you could spend $10-20, be able to buy a couple in case you wanted some backups in certain situations and not have most people replace their phone when their batteries start losing juice and make their system feel sluggish. All to have a slight thinner device.
    • satanfirst 2y ago
      Yeah, I miss the old Nokia battery system and ironically technology has made it all more painful since it is now once or twice per day instead of per ~week that you might realize you want to go out but have put off charging.
• ianburrell 2y ago
  A long time ago, I had a phone with replaceable battery. I would much rather charge phone. I had to change the battery every few hours, partly because the battery was small to make replaceable and partly cause wireless sucked. Battery life is much better now. I put phone on wireless charging pad and it is always charged when I need it. I use it all day and still have power. I carry power banks in bags if need it. External battery is better because it works with any device without having device specific batteries. Also, there are now batteries that magnetically attach to phone and wirelessly charge. It would be nice if it was easier to replace battery, but don't need replaceable battery every day for something that happens in couple years.
  • mystified5016 2y ago
    The battery in your current phone is not that much bigger than the replaceable cells of yore. The big difference is simply that battery chemistry has improved and new cells have more energy per volume. There is no technical reason at all that we can't have replaceable cells with the capacity of current internal batteries. Unless you count waterproofing, which I've always viewed as nothing more than an excuse for planned obsolescence. There are definitely ways they could engineer water-resistant phones with replaceable cells.
• hulitu 2y ago
  > Feel like all of this would be a bit irrelevant if we just had easily replaceable batteries. "Don't you want to be online all the time, so we can spy on you ?" . Sincerely, FAANG /s