Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

  • FreeBooteR69@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I have a Pinephone and a Librem 5 and they both have removable batteries. They might be anemic and featureless, but they are ahead of the pack on this. :)

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    good, but i am afraid they will just find another way to artificially shorten the length of a phone life.

    • enoqe@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Alright hear me out. Apple will comply to the letter of the law, but now suddenly iPhone batteries are disposable. Of course only Apple can charge them, and you must buy them in packs.

  • Psiczar@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never owned a smartphone with a removable battery and I don’t feel like I ever needed one.

    As a mostly iPhone user, will this mean we go back to phones with plastic bodies?

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      of course not. It might mean a slightly thicker phone, but with a bit of smart engineering and a regulatory incentive, I’d expect something quite elegant. Think about how your SIM tray pops out.

    • Teal@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That wouldn’t be necessary. I had a metal phone with a replaceable battery (Motorola SLVR L7). It was more common for a cellphone to be made of plastic in the replaceable battery days because most phones were still far more utilitarian and thought of for talking, text messages, email if you had a data plan and of course Snake.

      Lightweight and small was popular before large screens and smart features came along. One exception was the push-to-talk phones geared towards construction workers. Those suckers were chunky.

    • Saganastic@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Replaceable batteries were great. I could keep phones going for years until Samsung started pumping out bloated software updates that slowed them down.

      • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        When we had replaceable batteries you could just buy a new one and performance issues would be corrected almost immediately. Apple was sneaky AF about this back in the day, throttling performance in an attempt to increase battery life, something that wouldn’t be needed if you could easily swap out the battery every few years