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You can still buy smartphones with user replaceable batteries. Oddly enough, it's the cheaper phones that have this "more expensive" feature. My brother recently decided I needed a newer phone (because he got one). So now I've a Blackberry KeyONE, which is nice but too big to carry — so I'm still using the Blackberry Q10, which is going to need another battery replacement soon. (Actually I've put the KeyONE on Tello, for $10 I get unlimited talk and text and a GB of data, so I use it at home and carry it in the car sometimes.) The KeyONE is the first cellphone I've owned that did not have an easily replaceable battery and DOES have USB-C.
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12-06-2019, 09:58 PM | #64 | |
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So a couple of days longer using your phone with a tired battery and less than 30 minutes without it. A little longer than your quest for 10 minutes I must concede but hardly shabby. In the end most phone batteries these days last long enough 'til the owner wants to renew. Saw some where recently that average turnover of cellphones is around 2 years and owner upgrades. So not a big deal in the scheme of things. |
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My information comes from the "horse's mouth", speaking to the retailers. If you have information for around here rather than for elsewhere I would be interested to see it. |
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12-07-2019, 06:03 AM | #66 |
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rcentros: AFAIK the LG V20 is the last flagship phone to have a removeable battery? It also has an sdcard slot and a headphone jack
It would be nice to have a DIY made ereader running Android. An option could be to use a speedreading flasher app of some kind with a small 1" display to flash single words at a time. There are eink displays for the Raspberry Pi Zero but they have very slow refresh rates AFAIK. I would be happy with a very small screen ereader. I guess an apple watch would be an easier thing to use. |
12-07-2019, 06:39 AM | #67 | |
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And, again, present sales say nothing about the installed base of ereaders. There's still people out there happily reading on original Kindles, Aztaks, and Jetbooks. Spending their money on ebooks instead of readers or phones or tablets. Anecdotal visibility is not an effective means of identifying the health of a market, especially when the primary use of the product is in private. It's not easy to analyze a market for media consumption devices. Any day now we'll hear about a flattenning out of media streaming devices. All markets do it, there's even a generic curve that resulted resents adoption rates. Try this: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/best/s.html Note that while sales of a mature market flatten out or even decline gradually, the installed base--the number of people using the tech--represented by the area under the curve. And that one keeps increasing steadily. |
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Oh, I just assumed that as you gave what appeared to be thought by you to be authoritative account in response to my post, in which I clearly stated applied to my own country, I just assumed that you must know what country that was.
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12-07-2019, 05:28 PM | #70 |
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I easily replaced a battery in a Kindle Keyboard. Look on youtube. Most of the ereaders have batteries that are easily replaced with a couple of tools.
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12-07-2019, 08:29 PM | #71 |
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Why non-replaceable batteries?
Because non-replaceable batteries equate to higher profits for manufacturers. It's that simple. These higher profits come at both ends of the device life. At device birth, it's cheaper to build in the battery. At device death, the customer is forced to buy an entire new device when all's that is really needed is a replacement battery. The device is not really dead, but the customer is forced to treat it as such. All other manufacturer-stated reasons for non-replaceable batteries are spin and mental gymnastics, trying to distract customers from the real motive - profit. |
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Yes, of course....because being intentionally terrible to your customers is such good business.
Any money saved in manufacturing isn’t necessarily extra profits. It can go to lowering the cost. And since “everyone” is sealing the batteries....then if you don’t lower the price, you run the risk of being priced out of the market. If you make products that don’t last as long as the competition...you’ll eventually lose sales. If sealed batteries had no other purpose than “money for the manufacturer”... some competitors would keep user replaceable batteries as a sales advantage. |
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It is true, but it isn't the only reason, and so isn't that simple. Non-removable batteries reduce size and weight, by not needing a battery shell, and allowing the battery to flow around other components. Non-removable batteries allow sealed bodies and so make waterproofing easier. |
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12-08-2019, 12:55 PM | #74 |
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I have Kobo mini 4 inch reader easy to open and replace battery and install larger SD card.
I also have last Samsung Note with easy replaceable battery and it has very poor battery life not lasting a day before needing charging. Battery was easy replaceable making carry a backup battery or buy larger battery with plastic back for larger battery. But those batteries had bad reviews. Now using old reliable flip phone. My old 6 inch Kobo needs new battery and should be easy to replace but the 2 new Kobos from Walmart with covers are much lighter. Replace old Kobo's battery sometime as easy project. Have new 8 inch Fire tablet and Samsung A8 tablet. Like Fire Tablet cover better with magnetic switch tuning on off the tablet. Local WALMARTs have terrible to no cover choices for Samsung A8 Target is better. |
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Country by country varies, depending on the size of the market. Most countries it isn't. |
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