This is awesome! For only $450 you can get a machine that can automatically swap battery packs placed on bulky $120 phone cases.
You don’t need to plug a cable in your phone anymore, your over engineered machine can swap battery packs for you
I never imagined that I would live this long to see the future
Swapable batteries were common on cell phones in the 80’s and 90’s except no fancy machine was needed.
Some fairly recent phones even had docks that would charge your phone and a swappable battery at the same time
and… get this: while you were swapping your battery you could drop in a swappable expansion on storage. Utter madness.
Many phones let you upgrade storage without opening it. Madness, I know.
I was using an LG G5 that had swappable batteries 3 years ago.
IKR.
Why did we start building batteries into phones?
Because we kept buying thinner and lighter phones, and gluing the battery in makes thinner and lighter phones with better battery life possible. As a convenient side effect glue creates a nice watertight seal that can make devices more water resistant.
Hrm maybe.
I mean a wristwatch can be 200m water resistant and still be user servicable. A simple rubber gasket, some silicone grease and some screws.
So they can sell you a new phone instead of a replacement battery.