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Originally Posted by petermillard
I don't know anyone who's ever carried a 'spare' battery just in case their phone dies. . . .
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Ah, the perils of anecdotal evidence. I own a spare as well as an extended battery for my Galaxy S, and I know three people at work who've bought them for other phones as well (and those are only the people I've spoken to about it). Saying a feature is useless because no one you know happens to use it could be construed as a wee Hank conformist (though I'm not accusing you of that). And a non-conformist by *anecdotal* definition is not necessarily a "techie."
It would be nice if we could lament companies' excuses for not implementing features without being reduced to zealots for one platform or the other. Flash compatibility is a feature (or was until this announcement).
So is a replaceable battery, and I wish my Sony and Amazon eReaders had that feature. It's a feature that becomes steadily more important if you don't want to be a good little consumer and buy each new iteration of a product. And continued development would mean the continuing slimming down of batteries whether removable or not.