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Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) (マリウス.com)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The hardware was certainly designed to be less repairable and phones less upgradable. Gone are the days with user-replaceable batteries and MicroSD card slots.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just bought a Motorola 5g 2025 stylus. It has a micro SD slot, 1/4 " audio jack, and the battery is replacable

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    A 20 minute video on how to replace your battery with batteries that are glued down and you need a pry tool to remove them and hopefully not puncture them is not exactly what I would call user-replaceable batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxS5wQ5Bhc

    I'm talking about ones like the Samsung Galaxy S3, Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS, etc had where you could just open the cover, take the battery out, and then put the new one in.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My favourite argument for these things is always: but it has to be water tight. It has to be aesthetic and thin. Okay cool, then make phones for people who use them as a fashion statement or throw them into the water and make one that you can just crack open. I know it's something completely different but my first phone was an alcatel where you could take out the battery and throw in 4 AA's in case you ran out of juice.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Re: But it has to be watertight, so it can't have any ports or buttons or doors or hatches or a replaceable battery!!!

    Uh-huh. Sure.

    Feel free to trot this one out the next time some glassy-eyed Apple apologist is making that argument at you. That one annoys the shit out of me, too. This has been a solved problem for thirty years. Probably longer.

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