• what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 years ago

          Let’s wait for the final bill.

          I do not thing we will return to user swappable batteries. It will just be easier to have a shop replace your battery. But that is just my guess. We do not know the final bill yet.

    • Stez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      2 years ago

      Dude the battery is just as removable in the phone in this picture as any new phone today

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
      02·
      2 years ago

      Wait. You people can’t remove the batteries from your phone? 🤨 My phone is only 2 years old and I can take off the back and remove mine whenever I want. The fuck kind of shit companies are you buying from?

      • gigachad@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        There are only few devices with an easy to replace battery and I get some cynical vibes from your comment so you are probably aware. There are even less devices in the price class between 200 - 300€, a lot of people can’t afford the Fairphone. Hopefully the EU will deal with that shit soon.

        • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
          03·
          2 years ago

          You all need to hit up Best Buy then, because you can buy a $200- $300 unlocked phone from which you can, in fact, pop out the battery.

          Please for the love of god, tell me you idiots weren’t signing on to contracts and indebting yourselves to phone companies just to get access to shitty, locked, censored and controlled iPhones or Galaxies.

          Edit: I count 8 idiots. Holy crap, how did you let yourself get schnookered?

          • frenchyy94@feddit.de
            1·
            2 years ago

            Not everyone lives in the US btw.

            And please tell me, what phones in that price category have a removable battery (that aren’t complete shit, and the only feature is a removable battery)?

          • HamBrick@programming.dev
            1·
            2 years ago

            Many people think that’s the only way of doing it. Just because you know about it doesn’t mean everyone else’s does, but yes, you can likely go to any electronics retailer and get an unlocked phone pretty easily

  • argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
    111·
    2 years ago

    Take the 100$, tell the wife the phone is unfixable…. “But I managed to save a few things from it, including the call history.”

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 years ago

      “It’s unfixable, the only thing I could save is the call history, who cares about that, right?”