Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    824·
    2 years ago

    Tbh, I don’t miss this.

    Phone batteries generally last 3-4 years (sometimes longer depending on the size), and by that point it’s usually time to upgrade to a new phone anyway for the latest security updates and such.

      • DontMakeItTim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        2 years ago

        They don’t?

        I’m pretty sure you can install iOS 16 on an iPhone 8, which came out in 2017, almost 6 years ago. And that’s a major system update. If you just need security updates, the latest one was in January and supported phones as far back as the iPhone 5s, released almost 10 years ago today.

        But in reality, people want better phones and better cameras every few years, so they buy them. And they tend not to throw out their old ones, but sell/trade them or pass them along to someone else.

    • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Security/OS updates: 4 years on typical android at this point (fair phone claiming 7) 5 on an iPhone.

      I did a battery replacement on my iPhone 7 at about the 3 year mark and got another 2 years out of it. Full updates from apple and 100% App Store app compatibility that whole time.

    • Vestern@programming.devEnglish
      64·
      2 years ago

      I kinda agree. Going back to back panels that fall off and batteries popping out isn’t a win in my book. However, making it so that batteries are replaceable by the consumer with some use of tools is a reasonable compromise.

      On a side note I see that the Reddit etiquette of downvoting comments you disagree with is in full effect already.

    • Galluf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      That’s been true, but I wouldn’t expect the year over year differences of phones to continue indefinitely.

      Advances were very rapid when it was a nascent industry, but it’s already slowed down significantly. It will slow more by 2027.

    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      There’s abolutely no reason a smartphone couldn’t be designed to last +6 years. My laptop is 7 years old and it still works perfectly fine - even has the original battery in it. My PC on the other hand is almost 15 years old and still in use.