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.
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?
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.
I absolutely love how LG G5 handled it: https://youtu.be/8l4QHBMpXLo
That is, until they also jumped on the non removable battery bandwagon.
Replaceable batteries were great. I could keep phones going for years until Samsung started pumping out bloated software updates that slowed them down.
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
Counterpoint: I’ve never owned a smartphone without a removable battery as I see it as a requirement.
This is encouraging news for me.