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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.

We've been waiting a few years

Yes, I had checked it. And relatively not very far away in time - as I watching the non-progresses of the market I got scared about having backups for mine. (Incidentally, for me the LG V20 was not an option as I require the palm device as a mobile reading device, so I want OLED to optimize the light emission (and battery!) - of course I read light on black ("off"), on such devices, for that purpose).

Which brings to the "10 years" tentative figure that occurred a few times in the last posts. During the horrible past decade, it appeared that that figure may in some period be a realistic span to wait to find an interesting product good enough to replace your own.

Originally Posted by AnotherCat

Even if one goes mad and says that an E Ink ereader gets the equivalent of 1 full charge per week

This can reinforce the above idea of long delays forced to non-casual users in the development of the Industry.
I use an Onyx Boox Max 2. Almost excellent, and I shall remain with it... if only for lack of alternatives: at some point Onyx decided to go button-less, which is what Zod called "the One Thing [you feel you're missing]" in the Light Phone thread - those (insane, I add) implementation details that make a product go outside your requirements. The hardware buttons, very many of them, are pretty much required - let us wait till they come back.

Now: I used the device with Office Automation software, sometimes as a monitor (still to do Word Processing), and now mostly for reading using software applications of mine, which do more than rendering pages upon request and so can be assumed to use more battery charge. To read uncommitted I swap pages but to study, since the dawn of monitors, I process text; furthermore, even other uses, for efficiency, of your material emerge. Those activities - which do not exhaust the uses of the tablet - are more demanding than basic "ereader" function. I unfortunately do not have the stats, but extensive and/or "different" use can easily pass the "1 full charge per week" value.

Originally Posted by Frenzie

Wasteful, I know. :-/

And this suggests another factor: I have seen the EU promulgate perplexing to insane to doomsday-provoking directives. Some of them, "apparently" related to pollution. It remains to be seen whether legitimate drives - oriented or not by mental sanity, the rarity of this Age - will impact these matters of industrial obsolescence. I suppose there could already exist something, I am currently not aware.