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Smart phones

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Does anyone else think that smart phones in the future should concentrate more on thinks like new screen types etc so that older phones aren’t forced to be replaced even though they’d still be fine without being forced onto the latest is which slows them

also hopefully the new European laws apply ro the uk so phone battery’s have to be a simple pop off the back and clip out the dead one and pop in rhe new one as battery’s are a huge part of slow down too 

it’s like me I have the iPhone XR and am planing to get a 14 for my buisness rhe XR will be mostly for work but when am off work will be for non buisness related apps when I’m out on buisness I’ll have a 3310 as a personal phone so I can leave the XR at home but also only receive job calls on the 14 but that means out of 3 phones 2 will be forced replacements someday not too long from now 

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  • The battery shouldn't make it slow down unless it gets low and/or there is a power saving mode. The main issue is the battery capacity gets lower after a few hundred charges which reduces the usable time.

    Phones used to have separate batteries so people could buy spares. But the cost was high, so people bought cheap 3rd party ones. The problem was some missed safety circuitry and were dangerous. There were fires. It could harm the manufacturer image and caused problems and legal issues.

    Putting chips in the batteries to make it so only official ones worked also is a problem as 3rd parties can copy this too. Same as for copying the holographic stickers.

    The only way to make them safe is to stop people changing the battery. It also allows for slimmer designs and nicer more solid devices.

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  • The battery shouldn't make it slow down unless it gets low and/or there is a power saving mode. The main issue is the battery capacity gets lower after a few hundred charges which reduces the usable time.

    Phones used to have separate batteries so people could buy spares. But the cost was high, so people bought cheap 3rd party ones. The problem was some missed safety circuitry and were dangerous. There were fires. It could harm the manufacturer image and caused problems and legal issues.

    Putting chips in the batteries to make it so only official ones worked also is a problem as 3rd parties can copy this too. Same as for copying the holographic stickers.

    The only way to make them safe is to stop people changing the battery. It also allows for slimmer designs and nicer more solid devices.

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  • in reply to Stuart333
    Stuart333 said:
    The only way to make them safe is to stop people changing the battery. It also allows for slimmer designs and nicer more solid devices.

    Or the government could ban 3rd party batteries and make manufacturers price cap theirs.

    The drive to integrate the batteries was to accellerate the planned obsolescence and make you buy a new phone because the cost to replace component was prohibitive.

    How else can the likes of Apple produce a new model each year and still sell loads when it is just a little bit better than last years offering? It is all greed driven.