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European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

Sealed devices have way better water resistance

My dive computer has a user replaceable battery, and it's waterproof to more than 250ft.

This is just a non-argument to me.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    And has a shit ton of casing.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The fact that you'd want a dive computer to be waterproof beyond 3 feet might have something to do with that, though.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Either way you’re giving up some space to have a battery that’s easily replaced.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Barely.

    It doesn't even have to be easily replaceable as in: on the go, so that I can switch out batteries during the day. That's really not important to me.

    It just has to be user replaceable, so that I can switch it out at home, with normal tools, when the battery has degraded so much that the phone becomes unusable.

    As things are, i have to throw a disproportionate amount of money at some shop to switch out a $10 part, or risk breaking the screen and digitizer when I disassemble the phone with a suction cup and hot gun, just so I can get at the glued down battery.

    That's just ridiculous to me.

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