For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

  • @LemmyIsFantastic
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    I’m about to lose non-swappable batteries.

    It’s going to be garbage. Screw the EU on this one.

    • Victor
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      511 months ago

      Why is it going to be garbage? Add more size to the hardware?

      • @LemmyIsFantastic
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        I very much think so as well as lower mah and more expensive ip67/68

        • Victor
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          111 months ago

          Let’s hope there can be compromises where there’s basically only positives to this outcome.

      • @LemmyIsFantastic
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        -111 months ago

        Absolutely not. They’ll be less capacity, bring back the shitty flimsy back covers, and have the covers sliding off and on like it’s 2013.

        It costs $15 plus the battery ($75 for official Google shit) and a half hour of time every three years to replace a battery.

        I’ll take the integrated offering every time. Fuck the EU and this ineffective grandstanding. Everyone is still going to buy a new phone every two years.

        I’ll be happy if phones don’t suck going back to removable but I won’t hold my breath.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          I never had a problem with a “flimsy back cover” or it coming off when I didn’t want it to on any of the phones I had. I’m still using my LG V20 from 2016 and it’s fine. I can get a new battery $20 and do it myself in seconds. A big reason why I haven’t bough a new phone is because I’ve been able to do that and nothing that has come out since then has as many features while getting ever more expensive.