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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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[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only weakness with the S5 was the charging port having a cover that could easily break off, but modern ports these days are waterproofed, so they could just make one of those.

Personally, if they remade the S5, with a modern board and charging port (rather than the Micro-USB 3.0 monstrosity), I'd be very tempted to buy it. The IR blaster and everything else was just nice to have.

[–] krevassi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I had some use for the IR blaster, it's a damn shame the technology is no longer here. Audio jacks too.