Do you still remember mobile phones with removable batteries? How could we just remove the back cover, change the battery, and we had 100% battery again to handle a super long day?
If you don’t remember this, it’s probably because you’re much younger than me. But I’m only 28 years old. Hmm, onwards!
That said, nowadays, if you want to replace your cell phone battery, chances are you’ll have to break it! But why?
At a time when any high-end smartphone costs more than 1000 €, why do manufacturers choose to hide the battery inside a glass and aluminum sandwich?
Are we at the bottom, being victims of a gigantic conspiracy by the most prominent manufacturers? Companies that just want their fans to buy a new smartphone every year? Or at least pay absurd amounts for a new battery … Let’s try to understand!
A part of me entirely agrees with the idea mentioned above, that the manufacturers concluded that making the batteries non-removable was an excellent way to keep money flowing in!
However, there are other reasons why this type of battery is a thing of the past. Now read!
Although the removable battery remains on the wish list of many enthusiasts. There are other fields that users want to see improved! All improvements, which in the end, create a conflict with the removable battery. Now see:
1. Water and dust resistance certification
This is one of the most important fields! In case you don’t know, a mobile phone with a removable battery is much harder to seal. What immediately makes this type of resistance unfeasible.
2. Removable batteries are also thicker and harder
If you happen to have already opened a modern smartphone. You may have noticed that the batteries are super thin, but much taller and wider, compared to what we could find in the past. In addition, they are very flexible and soft … And this has a reason for being! At the end of the cable, in the past, a removable battery had to have a protective cover. In order to reduce the risk of fire, and also to increase the ease of installation.
So without this case, we now have thinner smartphones.
3. The slim and lightweight design of any ‘Premium’ smartphone
We live in a time when smartphone manufacturers really have a concern for battery life! But above that, there is always the appearance of the device.
And for that, they try to preserve the space inside the phone as much as possible! In order to keep the body of the device thin and light. After all, it is because of this that we are losing some ‘old school’ components like Audio Jack.
In short, a mobile phone besides being powerful and equipped with features. It must also be visually appealing to the consumer. And with a removable battery, in addition to the appointments inside the smartphone, we also have the appointments outside this one.
After all, with a battery of this type, they can say goodbye to cell phones with glass and aluminum bodies. (The vast majority of ‘Premium’ smartphones today.) And who wants a plastic phone in 2024? Probably nobody. If a mobile phone with a removable battery was launched today. Would you buy?
Furthermore, what do you think about all this? Share your opinion with us in the comments below.
