Been hanging onto my 3yo phone for environmental reasons and because I like having a removable battery.
Now I’m worrying if I won’t be able to get an upper-ish-tier Android phone with a removable battery if I wait too long, just like I wasn’t able to get one with a keyboard…
Any battery is removable if you try hard enough. What’s the motivation for that?
What, having a removable battery?
Aside from that I’m considering ordering a replacement battery for only like $10 + shipping, which would probably double my phone’s battery life again,
and environmental concerns, including opposition to planned obsolescence on these things that we’re paying so much for and spending so many resources on, which are not easy to recycle,
I like having the ability to turn turn a phone COMPLETELY OFF if it starts screaming and fucking up, or if I just want it to be completely and totally off, and my experience has been that the hardware switches to force this are apparently not hardwarey enough or something.
If the phone is not responding and has locked up while I am stranded somewhere, or I get into a social situation where the phone must be off now, I can literally physically remove the battery and force the issue whether the phone wants to turn off or not. No waiting 12 hours for the battery to die.
rustingbridges: oh are they getting rid of removable batteries, why, why is that good
Supposedly, to make phones thinner or more waterproof. In actuality, to limit phone effective lifespan. I’d consider putting a luxury goods tax on it, and on all methods of planned obsolescence if I were in charge of things.