Are these moves by smart phone manufacturers to make sure they can keep the botnets always on?

do you have down syndrom or worse ?
it looks like, fren

Customers want thin and light phones with long enough battery life. Making the battery non removable saves space that can be used to further either of those design goals.

This
Still have my htc one m8

why the fuck would anyone want a thinner and lighter phone that lacks features when the technology is shrinking so fast that those features are

make thinner and lighter batteries, you need tenths of a millimeter to make a battery removable.

Planned obsolence
The battery is almost aways the first part that dies/heavily degrades, and always within 2 years.

I want a phone that actually lasts more than 2 days.

>dad has an htc one m7
>battery lasts less than a day on standby
>can't just replace it because it's built in
>ifixit score of 1/10
it's not fair, bros.

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> non removable makes the phone thinner

are you fucking retarded? are you legit dumb?

At the rate "smartphones" are going with anti-customer botnet bullshit I'm going to unironically switch back to landline exclusively in a few years.

There is no botnet without cellular connection. Yes it is the point.

Limit yo phone to 2g

>removable battery is more bulky
>because it has an outer frame
>so if you drop the phone, the battery won't explode
It's almost like there's a reason for things!

>why the fuck would anyone want a thinner and lighter phone that lacks features
A lot of people don't hate buying new phones

In fact, many rather enjoy it and will probably do it every 2-3 years regardless of removable batteries or repairability.

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You don't need to maintain constant cellular connection to maintain the botnet.
Also other wireless methods are lower power.

let's talk about the kikery of botnet phone manufacturers for a second

>own several samsung and htc smartphones over the years
>after a year or two, battery life plummets to a few hours standby time, and less than an hour in use
>replacing the battery doesn't improve the situation much
>almost completely useless phone
this happens every fucking time, and i'm not the only one. do these companies push updates that inhibit low-power states or something? i recently got a hand-me-down iphone 5c and the battery still lasts days in standby in spite of it having been constantly charged most of the day every day for four years. it's a stark contrast, and although i hate being unable to change batteries, i don't seem to need to for a long time yet.

It is so because they want you to just buy a new phone when the battery starts acting up. No working person has the time to drop off their phone at the service centre and wait a day or two for them to fix it up. Their only option is to buy a new one.

>no cell connection
>only emergency calls are viable

What's the point of the removable back on the left one?

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sim card is still removable, from the looks of it

This is why I still have my old phone. Lasts 14 days without charging.

Oh, I forgot that sim trays weren't always a thing.

Customers buy thin and light phones that can't be used without a case and then they buy a thick and heavy case for their phone. Muh thin&light is a fucking meme.

It's because you have bloatware all over your phone running constantly brainlet. Just do a full cleanup.

You can replace it. You just have to reglue the speaker covers or buy new ones if they break. I've done it some time ago with my moms m7.

He is probably a crapple fanboi and needs to kill himself asap.

Who cares how thicc a phone is as long as the battery is big and replaceable.

predictable response, but wrong. beyond the initial settling in stage i don't install anything; what even is there to install?

>drop old phone all the time
>cover pops off, battery falls out
>most of the momentum is transferred to the heavy battery and the phone never takes any damage

>new phone has non removable battery
>mfw

Not to mention that it's extremely inconvenient not being able to just hard reset your phone incase something hangs.
Even if a company wants to benefit from space savings with non removable batteries, surely it's not so hard to add a button/mechanism somewhere to physically disconnect the battery from the phone.

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>as soon as your cellphone provider allows it
You need the permission of your provider to get a new phone in america?

Well yeah if you don't disable useless stuff like cloud storing or other preinstalled shit you're gonna have a bad time bro. I had the same Samsung for 3 years and it works perfectly.

Samshit made their batteries non removable because of the Galaxy 5 fiasco and retards fucking up the waterproofing or buying chink backs that weren't waterproof.

zzzzz

only if you're contracted onto a phone. You can upgrade early, but since you didn't pay the full price for the original phone you need to pay cancellation fees. you don't need their approval if you have a phone that's not on a contract since it's not violating any agreement.

Customers do not want thinner/lighter phones. They want new phones. The new phones happen to be thinner and lighter, so the manufacturers see causation in the correlation. The next phones are thinner and lighter. People buy them because they are _new_

It's just a feedback loop, but if you ask anybody what they want most in their next phone, nobody is saying thinner or lighter - they all want it to last longer between charges

Well note that the chart says 2015. for a long time most burgers got "free" phones by signing up to two-year contracts with a provider. The phone was, of course, as "free" as Yuro healthcare - the cost was just hidden by the contract. And by the fact that until your contract was up, it wasn't your phone, and if you wanted to cancel, you got an early-termination fee and had to give the device back. At the end of a contract the provider would say "Hey! Re-up for another term and you get a new device, for 'free'!", as incentive to stay locked into that expensive contract.

Its since become significantly more common here to not do that, and get a device outright and have no-contract, month-to-month service. This only really happened because one of the major carriers broke ranks and started offering that, historically a contract was often your only option.

Plenty of morons still finance fancy phones though, and carriers are usually happy to hook you up with crap like that. As was proved in the housing crisis, Burgers will borrow themselves into slavery if you give them half a chance.

Okay, so if you stay in your expensive contract and just put the sim card in another phone you bought privately there wouldn't be a problem.

sure, but then you're paying off your old phone in addition to already having bought a new one. don't do that.

>nu/g/ is so tech illiterate that they think a "non removable" battery is actually non removable unless you're some sort of specialist expert
The fucking state of this board

Of course yeah, just trying to clarify.
Thanks.

Do you carry the tools around to remove the battery everywhere you go in case you need to change it?

I have them at home (a screwdriver and a guitar pick) if there ever comes a point where the battery becomes unable to hold a charge. I have already switched batteries on my phone with no issue. The process takes 15 minutes tops

So you can only change your battery when you are at home and have plenty of plugs around. Maximum brainlet.

imagine a day in the future when its discovered phones can be scrapped and used to build some crazy weapon and all thats required is somebodys old device and theres some terrorist group out there that for the last 5 years has been doing nothing but gathering up phones people have been tossing away

>he buys a phone that won't even last him a day on full charge
And you call me the brainlet

i'll take a solid build phone with a metal back anyday instead of a cheap shitty plastic cover with pressure buttons holding it in place. hell, even glued glass backs are preferable to clicky plastic caps. i never changed my phone's battery anyway.

Isn't that already how IEDs work? There's a phone with the speaker or whatever wired to the detonator, and to set the bomb off remotely they just call the phone?

Not everyone is a neet and newer phones don't just come apart with a screwdriver and a guitar pick. Try replacing a battery of a glass phone that is glued shut in 15 mins.

Easy for me to replace.
However, techies are not a majority. Normies are. And they see a non replaceable battery

ITT: retards who don't understand the thermal implications of having a removable battery on the type of powerful phones sold today

>calls others NEETs
>definitely doesn't work himself otherwise he could just charge his phone while he's working and wouldn't be complaining in the first place
Stop buying glued shit. Carry a powerbank if you're that desperate for charge. My Xperia E4G comes apart just fine. Sure it's not a new phone but it does 100% of all the essential phone tasks.
>caring about normalfags
WDYTWA?

Who are you quoting ?
Anyways, i'd rather have a removable battery than carry a damn powerbank. Glued shut phones will inevitably become impossible to avoid sooner or later just like removable battries did.

There has literally never been a smartphone that can do that.

My phone does.

>only when it stops working
>47%

so more than half of the iphone users dont buy a new one when their phone stoped working? forever?

>in america
fuck off shitflinging foreign fuck

>caring about normalfags
You fucking think I care? It's the phone makers that obviously care you numbnut

>non-removable battery
>can still remove it
What did they mean with this?

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How hard it would be to connect a custom battery cradle and the screen from a different (smaller res) phone to the internals of an old phone I smashed? I would love to have a thicker but compact phone personally...