• coderipper@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The big issue for me is waterproofing. It seems that this would present a significant opportunity for fluid ingress. Personally, that is a design trade I would be unwilling to make.

    • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      We’ve had waterproof phones long before glass and metal sandwiches with irreplaceable batteries became the norm. Sure it’s probably a bit more difficult, but not impossible.

      If nothing else there are fairly simple steps that can be done to at least make a battery swap not too painful.

    • withersailor@aussie.zoneOP
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      1 year ago

      Phones had removable batteries and were waterproof. It was all marketing saying they changed for waterproofing.

      They changed to increase their profits.