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.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Tbh, I don’t miss this.

    Phone batteries generally last 3-4 years (sometimes longer depending on the size), and by that point it’s usually time to upgrade to a new phone anyway for the latest security updates and such.

    • Vestern@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I kinda agree. Going back to back panels that fall off and batteries popping out isn’t a win in my book. However, making it so that batteries are replaceable by the consumer with some use of tools is a reasonable compromise.

      On a side note I see that the Reddit etiquette of downvoting comments you disagree with is in full effect already.

    • AccidentalLemming@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If I can install Windows 11 with the latest patches on a 5-year-old computer, smartphones should be able to do the same.

      Throwing away perfectly good hardware because of updates is an inefficient use of resources.

      • DontMakeItTim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They don’t?

        I’m pretty sure you can install iOS 16 on an iPhone 8, which came out in 2017, almost 6 years ago. And that’s a major system update. If you just need security updates, the latest one was in January and supported phones as far back as the iPhone 5s, released almost 10 years ago today.

        But in reality, people want better phones and better cameras every few years, so they buy them. And they tend not to throw out their old ones, but sell/trade them or pass them along to someone else.

        • jemorgan@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Ah, but then they’d have to use an iPhone if they want to keep their device for 10 years, and everyone knows Apple is evil doesn’t let you use old phones. /s

          Hilarious that that only phone OEM that meaningfully supports hardware past 5 years is the one that the goofy goobers here love to shit on for checks notes not letting them use older hardware.

      • MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I have a ten year old iPad that i pretty much only use to watch TV in the shower. It just became incompatible with Hulu last week due to the iOS and I’m super frustrated by that. I can still use it for Netflix and paramount + but i was in the middle of several Hulu only series!