Something that should never have gone away to begin with.
I really miss replaceable batteries in my phones. It was so good to just swap an empty battery out for a fully charged one. Glad to see that making a return.
I personally don’t. I’m not anti removable battery by any means but my phones battery hasn’t annoyed me to the point where I wanted to change it since I got it in 2018.
EU on a roll last view years. Wonder if there are going to be European models with replacable batteries and American without. You already see that kind of behaviour with Apple: end of this year you can side load apps in the EU but in America they are stuck with the app store (according to the rumors).
That is easy in software only, in hardware you would neglect economy of scale. It is more likely it gets sold as an innovation in some form to safe money and face.
A guarantee apple trying spin it into their own decision.
Making two separate versions for the US in EU market would be really expensive so I doubt it’s gonna happen.
They could use proprietary screws or add glue. Of course I’d just buy the EU model in that in case, but I wouldn’t put it past the mega corps to just be trashy because they can.
Definitely another reason to hold off buying a handheld for me
'27 is pretty far from now though.
Doesn’t the steam deck already support this? It has a user accessible battery and replacements for sale
And it’s fucking superglued in. You have to use a heat gun to even have a chance of removing it, and Valve have acknowledged they may change it in the future as right now it is admittedly ridiculous.
So yes but technically no. It is not immediately user serviceable.
Not really, changing out the battery takes 2 hours because you need to take out everything else first and it’s anything but foolproof.
For the record, you don’t have to take “everything else” out first. It’s actually quite accessible once removing the Steam Deck back plate, which is easily done with a Phillips head screwdriver. The bulk of the 2-4 hour estimate on iFixit is dealing with the battery adhesive. (source: I’ve opened my Steam Deck to swap the SSD, and I just opened it to attempt a band-aid fix to the right bumper after dropping the Deck directly on it while waiting for the part to restock)
Would be nice if we went back to using the AA, AAA type batteries too. I’ve got like 20 rechargables still good and only need them for my controllers and remote. Everything else seems to have done away with them. :(
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The battery life on a Switch/Steam Deck would be horrific with AA/AAA batteries. Plus the reasoning for this legislation is to reduce e-waste, using AA/AAA batteries just creates more.
What part of the legislation requires small batteries like AAs?
If the unit has a LIon battery, make it slide out like UPS batteries do. Make it a custom shape if you hate people, or make it a common hi-density cell if you aren’t apple.
