On Thu, 2018-03-22 at 09:02 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 21/3/18 9:13 pm, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 19:18 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Why don't I have a new phone? I don't want to spend $1K for a phone I > > > will have to toss out when the battery dies because, with VERY few > > > exceptions, you can't replace the battery in new phones. IMHO, this is > > > absolutely inexcusable! I think only LG phones still have replaceable > > > batteries. LG should be applauded for this, the rest of them should be > > > ashamed of themselves. "Oh, the battery explodes! You'll need to replace > > > the phone!" What? How about just replacing the defective batteries. > > > > At least some of Motorola's phones also have replaceable batteries and > > are reasonably priced. > > I've mainly used samsung phones and I haven't had one where the battery > is not replaceable. I've even had a samsung phone (many years ago) where > you had to take the battery out to insert the sim card because the > battery physically sat on top of the card cage. I've seen that in quite a few phones. I suspect it's done as a way to force the phone to reset when the SIM is changed. Modern phones with nano-SIMs don't seem to need to do that any more. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
