Or…just make a damn removable battery And allow people to buy new batteries. I don’t need my phone to charge in half a second with a high chance of it exploding or killing itself from being charged at high speeds…I just want to be able to replace the shit you glued in
honestly agreed, I don’t mind the fast charging, but I would love removable batteries. Even if it meant shorter life spans. like I used to be able to pay 20-30$ on a battery and replace it, but now you need adhesive and a heat gun
You can still replace the battery. It requires more work but it’s generally not a complicated or difficult process on most phones and you only have to do it every few years. I’m not trying to defend non-removable batteries, but I think sometimes consumers pretend they are more powerless than they actually are over these issues.
With a replaceable battery, you just carry a second one and swap them on the go
You shouldn’t need to do that anymore, batteries are much larger and chipsets are more efficient than when removable batteries were the norm. But even if you do need to charge, that’s why fast charging exists.
In which you’d need a power bank and cable that youre carrying if you don’t want to be tethered to an outlet (which may or may not be available.)
Seems a second battery is just a better option.
How do you charge the 2nd battery? Do you charge it slowly when home and keep it as spare while you use your main battery and wait for it to charge to full.
Remember when you too some spare AA batteries with you for your Gameboy/Walkman/Discman so that you didn’t run out of juice in the back seat of your parents suburban on the way to grandma’s?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
I have a Fairphone with swappable battery, I keep one charged at 80% in case I need a quick reload of my phone. And after I used it, I recharge it in the phone and swap back to the empty one to also recharge it.
There used to be external chargers. I’m not speaking Nokia times, I had a Xiaomi phablet with Android 5 or 6 with one of these. Just a frame for the battery with an USB input.
You shouldn’t need to do that anymore, batteries are much larger and chipsets are more efficient than when removable batteries were the norm.
Carrying a spare battery is much more compact than a power bank and charging cable though. Or even a wall adapter and charging cable, which also requires an outlet.
Isnt the problem with a swappable battery, like you describe, that the phone will lose its waterproofing?
Dont get me wrong, i dont think they should be welded to the internals like they are these days, they should be easily removable, but getting into the phone shouldsnt be super simple unless they find a decent way to waterproof a removable back plate.
I’m going to reply with a link to review of a phone that solved it with IP67 rating
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s5-smartphone,3908-3.html
That’s pretty cool! i never had the S5. Looks like a good solution. It looks like it would work on a lot of phones today.
Although, i think there are design changes to consider on newer phones with more powerful hardware. I believe they contain empty space that is there to aid with cooling the phone so the solid body of the S5 shown in the link might not work, meaning there would need to be a specific cut out space for the gasket to seal against.
I appreciate that its probably not the most challenging problem to overcome, and i would very much appreciate companies spending more money on solving the issue. But i don’t think its a “one size fits all” solution in a world of vastly differing design choices, folding phones and modular phones.
Having said all that, i would much prefer for there to be less makes and models of phone and for the focus to be on designing something that won’t be useless in 5 years. It should all be about longevity and reducing e waste.
A pet peeve of mine is when I drop my phone 2 feet from the floor and the battery pops out.
I’d rather see a different mechanism where you trigger a battery removal by inserting a sim tool pin, just like how the sim cards are removed. This way, we can preserve IP ratings.
Pretty sure it’s by design. It transfer the kinetic energy when it falls and keep the phone safe.
There’s reason why old Nokia is called indestructible.
Imo It’s not quickly charging that’s an issue, more about the capacity
I mean after their latest hideous UI 7 update I’m never getting a Samsung again. I’m tired of them chasing Apple trash.
I dont keep up with apple products anymore, what did samsung do to mimic them in one UI 7? I thought they just added a couple of nothing features from stock android.
They split the notification shade and control panel into two separate screens, accessed via a swipe down from either the top left or top right portions of the phone. It’s quite similar to how iOS has worked for a long time now. I can see the benefits if you’re someone who receives a lot of notification spam, because now you can see more of that on a single screen, but I’ve always been very strict with app notifications so it’s essentially watered down the usefulness of both. It’s far from the end of the world, though, and I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
Oh! I quite like that change. I guess it’s similar to apple in that it’s separatated notofocations from quick settings, but doesn’t apple have a swipe up and swipe down? Or is it double pressing the home button? I haven’t held an iPhone in many years now, so i can’t remember. But how you access the two menus is different. I dont think an apple user who tried android for the first time would intuitively know how to access the two menus. So i wouldn’t say samsung had copied apple. Rather, they have been influenced by the idea. Plus, i believe stock android has this as an option in versions 15 and 16
That aside. You can go into your settings and swap back to the old notification shade.
Personally, couldn’t care less. I always disable fast charging and have been charging my phone at 5W for forever now without issue.
And it’s better for battery health
I can’t wait until one if these devices blows with 5000mAh of energy
