Good, the biggest reason I have to buy a new phone is the battery effectively dying. I've already decided that when my current phone needs to be charged at least twice a day then I'm buying a phone with replaceable parts, something like Fairphone. From experience my phone has at least 2, maybe even 3, years left so maybe by that time I have a lot more options to choose from.

It's always been absolutely crazy to me that a normally easy to replace part that has a known short lifespan would be moved deep in the bowels of the phone where you can't get to it.

I'm all for this. I don't think I'll use it but I appreciate it will be an option for those who may wish to use it.

This is great news!

No more thin phones then?

I'd love to see it this would actually give some phones a longer lifespan. Especially for people like me that "charge" their phone 24/7 because of USB-Tethering.