I remember, and I’m gen z. And some higher end laptops had two battery slots so you can hot swap the batteries without turning it off.
Those were the days. Everyone talks about how smartphones nowadays get people addicted to instant gratification and convenience, but IMO the ability to swap out the battery when it died was a level of instant convenience we had decades ago that modern devices are severely lacking. Having to tether your phone to a battery bank while on the go is nowhere near as good as just popping the back cover and replacing the battery.
Galaxy S3 had swappable battery, micro sd, headphone jack, and a freaking IR blaster.
Same with the S4. I still use mine, it’s on it’s third battery now and is running LineageOS.
Same with my old Samsung Note. In addition, you could buy a bulky aftermarket battery that had way more capacity.
Yup, that’s what I did with mine… forget the capacity but it would go 3 or 4 days on a charge. Even came with a thicker back panel on the phone because the original wouldn’t fit.
And it was very easy to repair.
Remember when cell phones did next nothing other than make calls, and their batteries would still die before the day was out?
what’s way more angering is the deliberate constant raising of prices. tech is supposed to get better and cheaper at the same time. what was thousands in '06 should be like $100 now. no, a desktop is still supposed to cost north of $1000 without a monitor.
mentioned it a coupla times, RX 570, a midrange GPU, was introed in 2017 at $170. nowadays, midrange starts at like $700?
that same year I bought a Redmi Note, a feature rich budget phone from a budget line for $140. nowadays, a comparable Snapdragon model with an insignificant performance and feature jump is $300+.
I had one of those laptops (a PowerBook). Yes, it had two slots that could be used for batteries. But that meant taking out the CD drive. Modern laptops don’t have that anymore so I’m not sure where the room for another battery would come from. The other thing is, it lasted at best 4-5 hours on one battery when doing light work. Its modern counterparts last 10-15 hours on one battery.
The same thing actually happened with phones. But now we literally can’t spend half a minute not looking at them and we also play energy hungry games on them etc. You can still get a phone with replaceable battery though, e.g. Fairphone or Volla.
They will again starting in 2027 thanks to the EU.
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I remember times where the charge of the Phone battery last more than a week
I had a Nokia flip phone in the 90s (no internet), and it was freaking amazing! I’m looking for a basic cell phone with no internet, and would welcome recommendations. I made this decision 2 weeks ago when I went for a walk with a friend around a lake. Beautiful walk, the lake, the spring flowers, water birds… and almost everyone we passed on the trail was on their phone. They didn’t even look up when we passed. I found it really disturbing, and I’m opting out.
I have a galaxy Xcover 6 pro. It still has all of the good features people want. My first smartphone the Galaxy S5 also had those.
