New EU legislation can bring back user-replaceable batteries
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- DGV
- 20 Dec 2022
warning label don't remove the lid risk battery can EXPLODE?
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
Rosso, 20 Dec 2022Or, for SD card support, alternatively offer higher minimum... moreI don’t need cloud storage if my phone has enough local storage. Also, I don’t want to use my data outside for that. Cloud storage is only useful for me for documents that need to be available on multiple devices all the time. I even got by with the 5 GB free iCloud for years now because of that. I‘d rather have more internal storage. For the time we keep our phones, 256 GB should be the baseline now, especially because it costs manufacturers pennies to upgrade from 128 GB.
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- DGV
- 20 Dec 2022
Anonymous, 20 Dec 2022Thinker phones > marginal with more complex construc... moreGorilla Super Glue will be included in your phone box and a treats when applied?
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- Jackmannequin
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- 20 Dec 2022
Great news. User replaceable batteries along with longer software support will make people user their phone/tablet for a longer period of time since nowadays new generation smartphones don't offer a huge leap in specifications/ technological advances as it was the case a few years ago where for example a new generation of the galaxy s made your current Galaxy S look extremely outdated (camera, CPU, Display....)
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
No 3.5mm jack no buy, 20 Dec 2022The IP rating argument was used against replaceable battery... moreIf this continues we‘l soon lose SIM card slot. Oh wait…
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
cyber, 20 Dec 2022apple wont be happy,they dont have such of productsMacBook Pro Late 2008 had a cover with a flap you could pull to release the battery and hard drive. Much simpler than even what phones with removable backs do.
The iPhone 4 was not advertised as having a removable battery, but after loosening the screws on the bottom, you could just slide the glass panel up. Also very easy in practice. No glued in back, no glued in battery.
Apple can do repairable design, they can even do it very well as demonstrated by my examples and how the Mac Pro can be expanded. Sadly, they choose against it in almost all of their products so that people buy new products sooner.
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- Naveen Chaudhary
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- 20 Dec 2022
They should mandate some fast standard for External Memory cards, slow MicroSD has been here for ages, now they should adopt UFS class faster external storage. External storage is the key to data rescue/recovery when the phone gets damages or touchscreen fails.
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
Daemon Targaryen, 20 Dec 2022Sony Xperia ZR from 2013 was also water-resistant and had r... moreWater resistance is more about accidents, dropping it in water or when it’s raining. After stories I read of water resistant phones dying while submerged, I think it‘s best practice to not trust a phone‘s water resistance.
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 20 Dec 2022
PMKLR3m, 20 Dec 2022The part of replaceable smatpjone batteries is a 'Dumb... moreThinker phones
> marginal
with more complex construction
> not an issue when it helps repairability, even Apple took this trade with the iPhone 14
water/dust resistance
> see XCover 6 Pro
and with higher price
> the cheapest phones on the market have removable batteries. It should not be expensive. And a single battery swap that did not need complicated repair already saves more money.
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
.alpha, 20 Dec 2022You know it's a bad idea when the people celebrating r... moreObsolete you say?
Take some rest , and get a life....
Because according to you, making life worse and giving all of your date to google/apple(because I guess you r talking bout cloud storage) is really a great idea.
And on top of that you will argue what if the phone gets stolen, they will get access to you data stored in sd card,, but there are so many great encryption app you could use , so that reason becomes obsolete, like your opinion.
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- Rosso
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- 20 Dec 2022
Anders, 20 Dec 2022The EU do occasionally do something good. Now it would be r... moreOr, for SD card support, alternatively offer higher minimum storage and free cloud storage.
What's that, Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi don't want to put SD Card slot? Okay, you need to give your users at least 128GB free cloud storage to save their files.
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- Rosso
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- 20 Dec 2022
.alpha, 20 Dec 2022You know it's a bad idea when the people celebrating r... moreLoooooollll no.
3.5mm jacks and SD cards aren't obsolete
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- Rosso
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- 20 Dec 2022
Anonymous, 20 Dec 2022Glass backs and looks? This isn't a place of fashion, ... moreLook, phones are essential part of our lives, if I got to use same thing for 3 years I want it to at least look decent.
Do PCs need all those cool RGB lights? No, but my god does it make them look incredible.
It's all about compromise, sure some people might only care about tech, other solely about style of said tech, and me personally, I like the balance, I am willing to sacrifice few less important things for me for something more important for example.
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
Anonymous, 20 Dec 2022Glass backs and looks? This isn't a place of fashion, ... more👍🏻 right
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- Rosso
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- 20 Dec 2022
IpsDisplay, 20 Dec 2022Enlighten me please tell me what is the reason smartphones ... moreCorporate greed, phone makers would rather have you send their phone to their repair shop for a battery replacement, or even better, but whole new phone.
Sure they try to justify it with "it's for water protection" and yeah that's somewhat true, it's going to be easier to make a seal when a part doesn't need to be removable by anyone, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.
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- .alpha
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- 20 Dec 2022
You know it's a bad idea when the people celebrating replaceable batteries also wants headphone jack and SD card back, two techscompletely obsolete already
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- Rosso
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- 20 Dec 2022
cyber, 20 Dec 2022apple wont be happy,they dont have such of productsApple will proceed to sell a phone that doesn't have a battery, instead it needs to be plugged into a movable power bank.
Fr tho, I already am suspicious they will remove charging port completely because god forbid iPhone has a USB-C, so I wouldn't be surprised if they got around some sort of trickery with this too.
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
Rosso, 20 Dec 2022Well, as long as they keep water resistance, glass backs an... moreGlass backs and looks? This isn't a place of fashion, it's a place of technology.
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Dec 2022
Anonymous, 20 Dec 2022Stop for a moment. Forget all of what you think of this an... moreThe same people that voted for a universal charging cable to reduce waste.