It worked really well on my Galaxy S5. IP67 and easy enough to replace the battery on without tools. They’d just have to switch out the back for something not glass probably on modern phones.
It won’t happen though. It’ll be a kind of malicious compliance from the manufacturers: we’ll incorporate replaceable batteries but we’re not going to waterproof anything
It worked really well on my Galaxy S5. IP67 and easy enough to replace the battery on without tools. They’d just have to switch out the back for something not glass probably on modern phones.
That is good to hear. Do they have some sort of rubber gasket inside?
That’s exactly it, gasket around the inside but not where it would get damaged. It was a pretty slick solution.
It won’t happen though. It’ll be a kind of malicious compliance from the manufacturers: we’ll incorporate replaceable batteries but we’re not going to waterproof anything