• @what_is_a_name
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          01 year ago

          Let’s wait for the final bill.

          I do not thing we will return to user swappable batteries. It will just be easier to have a shop replace your battery. But that is just my guess. We do not know the final bill yet.

      • candyman337
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        201 year ago

        That’s the screen, there’s a pull tab under the battery that you pull out and then you can remove it

          • @Lars34
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            111 year ago

            In the newer iPhones you can even get to the battery through the back of the phone. No need to remove the screen.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Honestly, it’s just the 14s that have the battery accessible through the back, and the back glass is still glued on, so it’s not even easier than previous generations. But removing the screen/back glass isn’t even the annoying part, it’s the awful adhesive strips that Apple uses that tear the instant you try to remove them. Always ends up with a bit of heat, alcohol and prying. Not really difficult to do if you have the tools on hand, but not even close to the ease of yesteryear when you could just pop the battery out.

    • Stez
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      41 year ago

      Dude the battery is just as removable in the phone in this picture as any new phone today

    • @thorbot
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      This comment is idiotic. That’s how every iPhone has been and still is. You can remove the display and can lift up the battery and replace it.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        You’re idiotic. You used to be able to do this on all phones without disassembling the screen .

        • @thorbot
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          -61 year ago

          Yeah because I fucking engineered the phone to be like that. It’s my fault.

          • nyoooom
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            21 year ago

            The point is that by default today the battery of a smartphone is not removable by a random individual, it might not be super duper hard to do but you still need proper hardware and knowledge to do it.

            10 years ago even my grandma could have swapped the battery.

    • @[email protected]
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      Wait. You people can’t remove the batteries from your phone? 🤨 My phone is only 2 years old and I can take off the back and remove mine whenever I want. The fuck kind of shit companies are you buying from?

      • @[email protected]
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        There are only few devics with an easy to replace battery and I get some cynical vibes from your comment so you are probably aware. There are even less devices in the price class between 200 - 300€, a lot of people can’t afford the Fairphone. Hopefully the EU will deal with that shit soon.

        • @[email protected]
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          -151 year ago

          You all need to hit up Best Buy then, because you can buy a $200- $300 unlocked phone from which you can, in fact, pop out the battery.

          Please for the love of god, tell me you idiots weren’t signing on to contracts and indebting yourselves to phone companies just to get access to shitty, locked, censored and controlled iPhones or Galaxies.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            Many people think that’s the only way of doing it. Just because you know about it doesn’t mean everyone else’s does, but yes, you can likely go to any electronics retailer and get an unlocked phone pretty easily

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Not everyone lives in the US btw.

            And please tell me, what phones in that price category have a removable battery (that aren’t complete shit, and the only feature is a removable battery)?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I don’t even know if I can, my phone is a literal tank weighing half a kilo. It has some weird bezels you can screw out but I never tried to see if they reveal the massive battery