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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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[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

the old razer flip phones were horrible. I went through four of the things in the course of a year because they got so much of a whiff of water they'd crap out. the last time, it was left in the truck while I was fishing and the humidity killed it.

Another model... got done in at a pool, it was left on a table and kids happened.

it's not that people are klutzes and drop their phones. It's that shit happens. Yeah, it was a trade off, but, sealing it against stuff... is a lot easier when it's sealed