On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 21/3/18 9:13 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 19:18 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
Why don't I have a new phone? I don't want to spend $1K for a phone I will have to toss out when the battery dies because, with VERY few exceptions, you can't replace the battery in new phones. IMHO, this is absolutely inexcusable! I think only LG phones still have replaceable batteries. LG should be applauded for this, the rest of them should be ashamed of themselves. "Oh, the battery explodes! You'll need to replace the phone!" What? How about just replacing the defective batteries.
At least some of Motorola's phones also have replaceable batteries and are reasonably priced.
I've mainly used samsung phones and I haven't had one where the battery is not replaceable. I've even had a samsung phone (many years ago) where you had to take the battery out to insert the sim card because the battery physically sat on top of the card cage.
I've seen that in quite a few phones. I suspect it's done as a way to force the phone to reset when the SIM is changed. Modern phones with nano-SIMs don't seem to need to do that any more.
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