remember when phones had removable battery's

>>105634063 (OP)
Samsung XCover series still have removable battery.

And microSD slots.
And a headphone/mic jack.
And physical, not under screen fingerprint readers
And multiple SIM slots
And extra, assignable buttons.

I'd take the meme /g/phone with a built in floppy disk, emergency hand crank and Serial port over a phone with only a USB-C port.

>>105634063 (OP)
>cant remove battery
>battery bulges
>display pops off
>displays are attached cheaply since lol battery doesn't need to be removed anymore
smartphone designers are having an all you can eat buffet on the stupidest most dogshit design

>>105634063 (OP)
>battery's

>>105634063 (OP)
27 phones released since 2024 year with removable batteries:

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2024&chkRemovableBattery=selected

There have been 27 phones released since 2024 with removable batteries:

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2024&chkRemovableBattery=selected

>>105634615
they are almost all senior citizen phones and no flagships

>>105634131
Xperia has all that minus the extra button

>>105634615
I love rolling the dice with Motorola.

>This phone is removable battery!
>This one isn't! :^)

Phones will return to be having removable batteries in a few years. Just hold your horses.

>>105634451
>>105634063 (OP)
I blame Motorola's marketing for the original Razr. Suddenly, everyone wanted the thinnest phone they could get, which then started contaminating other devices as well.
I don't need a phone, laptop, or tablet thin enough to shave with.

>>105636133
yeah thick/thin is a big nothingburger for me. what i do want is much lighter and smaller phones. the comically long smartpaperweights arent funny anymore. really what i want is highly configurable/hackable slates to become the norm. fuck apple/google/samsung

>>105634063 (OP)
yes
I also remember when brown people didn't start threads on 4chan

>>105634063 (OP)
I miss it. I went 2 years with a phone without plugging it in to charge. Just pop in a charged one and back to 100% in moments

>>105634615
pain

>>105636133
Everyone puts on a case to make it thicker anyway. Imagine if you could just have a phone that was 2x or 3x as thick (like how phones with a case are), maybe put it in tough rubber-like plastic case, and have at least double the battery life for no additional space or weight.

>>105634615
Okand how many arent huge phablet or weird senior phones?

>>105634063 (OP)
Yeah, and I upgraded my mother to an iPhone when they stopped making batteries for her feature phone
She’s better off now

>>105634063 (OP)

yep... and I remember when they had a headphone jack, custom roms, unlocked bootloader, didnt fucking brick like faggots when you rooted them, when the parts could be sawpped without faggotry and I remember when samsung wasnt shit ass faggot cock dog pussy

>>105634063 (OP)
Hoping EU will force them to return.

>>105634615
Only 1 of those is an actual smartphone.
Here is another list but these are all niche brands without much updates if at all:

https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphones/f_min_dm+unveileddate.5,fe_battery-removable

>>105634063 (OP)
yeah. mine still does.

>>105634063 (OP)
And notification lights?
Fuckin chud tech dude, nobody needs that shit.

>>105634063 (OP)
I still have a smartphone with a removable battery.

>>105634063 (OP)
owners started buying cheap badly made batteries that would be over charged, explode, output the wrong voltage and kill the device. then thay complain to the manufacture. consumers can't be trusted to do the right thing.