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European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
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Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...

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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, I get it, I just remember phones exploding into 3 parts whenever you dropped it as well as the back cover wearing out to the point it wouldn't even stay on. People really do just have the nostalgia blinders on; as long as there isn't an arbitrary lockout there's nothing wrong with having to open the phone to swap the battery. Plus you have a 0% chance of being SOL if you get a cheap Chinese battery and it blows up (the shop that swapped your battery would be on the hook).

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

    Let me introduce you to the Nokia 3310, aka 'The Brick'.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, that phone was not as nearly as indestructible as the internet memes would suggest, thanks for proving my point about nostalgia blinders. As you can see in this video the phone utterly explodes from a simple chest high drop. The casing itself even splits open and ejects the keys out from under the faceplate. Yeah such a "brick" huh. Ironically, the new 3310 he compares it against fares much much better in that drop.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Don't know about the video, my personal experience and that of my generation is that we abused the duck out of those phones and they survived.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    No, this is not your personal experiences, that's the nostalgia blinders yet again as if you couldn't prove my point any more. I am actually old enough to have had a 3310 and they exploded at the slightest drop. Sure, you could put it back together and it'd work, until it didn't.

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

    Put it in a case. It's not difficult.

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