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Originally Posted by jago25_98
AFAIK the last, highest spec phone you can get with a removable battery was the LG V20. It also had a headphone jack, sdcard, IR blaster and DAC quality audio. It had 4GB of RAM but bad thermal cooling and LG boatware software. You could replace the battery with a monster 11000mah brick. All of us V20 owners are waiting for a phone that can replace that phone.
As a reference, the Fairphone3 is 4GB RAM like the LG V20 but the V20 is 80EUR new and the Fairphone is €450!
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Of course fans of niche tech failing to support small manufacturers doing their best to manufacture that niche tech is why that tech doesn't succeed.
Any time I see someone saying 'wouldn't it be nice if there was a phone that did such and such...' and then that phone is released by a small company that doesn't benefit from economy of scale and has to price accordingly only to eventually fail tells me that there really isn't enough demand. Even the die hards won't put their money where their mouth is.
For a similar case, see this thread on the
Light Phone.