• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Good, the biggest reason I have to buy a new phone is the battery effectively dying. I’ve already decided that when my current phone needs to be charged at least twice a day then I’m buying a phone with replaceable parts, something like Fairphone. From experience my phone has at least 2, maybe even 3, years left so maybe by that time I have a lot more options to choose from.

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    1 year ago

    This is great news, but I hope they also take steps to incentivise manufacturers to actually sell the batteries. Sure, you can get them on ebay, but the quality is variable.

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    1 year ago

    It wouldn’t hurt to make them standardized somehow, otherwise it might be that you can replace the battery but can’t find one to buy, or if you do it’s more expensive than it’s worth and it motivates you to buy a new phone entirely.

    And +1 vote for the fucking headphone jack. A standard in the audio industry since (looking at wikipedia) for over a century! killed off by Apple (and subsequently everyone else’s) corporate greed.

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    1 year ago

    I’d love to see it this would actually give some phones a longer lifespan. Especially for people like me that “charge” their phone 24/7 because of USB-Tethering.

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      1 year ago

      Remember that LG phone where you could slide the entire bottom off and it had a battery in it like a hdd cage. That would be totally doable.

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        1 year ago

        It makes it more difficult to design really thin phones because the battery needs a sturdier case and an additional connector to be easily replaceable. Generally making a phone smaller and thinner makes components less accessible. Personally I think it is more important that high quality batteries are available for a long time. In my opinion it would be fine if some tools were required to replace the battery. Ideally that only needs to be done once every 2-3 years so if it takes a bit longer it isn’t such a big deal as when there aren’t good batteries available.

      • LogischesWindows@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I knew someone was gonna say that but of course I want it to be thin when I have it in my pocket the whole day. I have a case on my phone that makes it thicker and you can already kinda see it through my pants which doesn’t really look good