• copd@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    In fairness the removable battery came with a pretty significant tradeoff.

    Water resistance.

    Many would happily take a reduction in water resistance for replaceable batteries, the problem is no one gives us the choice

    EDIT: inaccurate statement. Fairphone offers removable batteries

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      4 days ago

      There are phones that give you this choice. The Fairphones for example. The back cover is easily removable and you can pop out the battery like in the ol’ days. It has an IP55 as far as I know.

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        3 days ago

        That sounds sweet, I’ll consider Fairphone once my current samsung dies its not so noble death

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          3 days ago

          I don’t know what a Fairphone costs where you live but where I live the Fairphone 5 starts at 550€ and the model with more storage and memory is 629€. That is no where even in the near of three times the price.

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          3 days ago

          For the kind of money flagship phones go for these days, I want that bastid waterproof down to 300 meters AND last a week.

    • CΓΔSΗ ΘVΞΓΓΙDΞ@moth.social
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      3 days ago

      @copd @Sam_Bass here’s another aspect these people aren’t thinking about, wireless changing. That Qi pad is usually glued to the top of the battery or in some way attached that would make switching out batteries cumbersome at best.

      Most batteries also get through the day and the ones that don’t, usually have fast charging, which makes giving up your ingress protection to remove a battery, that much more silly.

      It’s not 2014. 😝