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[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s always amusing when people who aren’t engineers assume something must be simple to make. Please show me a Nokia phone that was as thin as a current iPhone, with auto focusing video cameras (aka moving parts), and had a user-replaceable battery. I’ll wait. Samsung’s galaxy phones caught fire because they tried to make it just as thin ~~with a user-replaceable battery~~ (leading to short circuits), so that’s yet another thing you have to prevent in your hypothetical “it’s easy!” phone. Oh and it has to be rugged enough to withstand multiple drops like current phones AND not lose any of that thinness.

Edit: okay the galaxy battery wasn’t replaceable but you still need to make higher tolerances in a user-replaceable item to prevent that, meaning it cannot be too thin for safety reasons.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Samsung note 7 that had the exploding battery issues wasn't a removable /swappable battery, so you're wrong. That whole phone was as glued together as iPhones of the time.

Such a weird take.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Good point, but that still supports my overall point; you’ll need higher tolerances to prevent shorts and fires which means you need thicker casings. A user-replaceable battery has thicker battery cases and connectors compared to devices where the battery isn’t accessible.

Look at laptops for a similar story; making batteries user-inaccessible allowed them to shed thicker casings and instead fill more space when they weren’t constrained by a user compartment and casing and need for easy-detachable connector. Going back to a user-removable design in the exact same size case means slightly lower capacity batteries, which customers don’t want as a trade off.

[-] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Which Samsung phones with replacable batteries caught fire? Picture unrelated.

this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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