yes exactly my point, I dont want to wait to charge up my device with another device. I just want to pop in a fresh 100% battery. It used to be so simple.

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detourdog 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My powerbrick connects to the back of my phone. Form factor wise it's pretty close to my extra large StarTac removable battery that I would carry around.

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alt227 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Bully for you!

Id like my user replaceable 100% full batteries back if its ok with you?

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Aurornis an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then go buy one of the phones with replaceable batteries?

https://www.androidcentral.com/best-android-phone-removable-...

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detourdog 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fine with me purchase any phone with that feature you want.

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alt227 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Apologies, my coment came off a bit unecessarily aggressive.

It is my preference to have user replaceable batteries, and my belief is that they were only removed to make phones become obselete quicker and cause higher turnover of purchased phones.

No amount of battery packs can bring that back.

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detourdog 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No apologies needed. The market is just not working in your favor.

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giantrobot an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> It is my preference to have user replaceable batteries, and my belief is that they were only removed to make phones become obselete quicker and cause higher turnover of purchased phones.

My iPhone 12 is six years old. I replaced the battery last year. While it probably won't be workable on cellular networks in six years, outside of physical damage there's little reason it'll stop working. My original iPhone from 2007 still boots up and runs. There's no GSM service for it to talk to but it runs as a WiFi only iPod just fine if I really wanted.

The idea that non-replaceable batteries is a conspiracy to lower the lifetime of devices is sort of silly. Flagship phones are made of incredibly sturdy materials. If they were designed to be disposable they'd have a bunch of sacrificial structural elements to limit their lifetime. Instead they're built as well as they can possibly be built.

A flagship phone will be left behind in CPU power running bloated JavaScript blogs or cellular service long before any internal component fails. Non-replaceable batteries are about hitting a capacity/size target more than anything else. Replaceable batteries enforce constraints on a phone's design that non-replaceable ones do not have.

	▲	detourdog an hour ago \| parent [-]
		My 2018 car lost all it's connected features when the 3G network was shut down.

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giantrobot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's tons of MagSafe battery packs for iPhones. They charge the phone continuously. There's no need to let the phone drop to zero before attaching the battery pack. There's also cases with integral batteries. I assume there's Android equivalents for various phones.

I'd say these are more convenient than extra swappable batteries. They have integral charge controllers and charge via USB. There's no need to charge them in the phone or have to buy some extra external battery charger.

	▲	scottbez1 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They’re incredibly wasteful due to inefficient power transfer which is a huge issue with wireless charging. And it’s not just wireless that’s inefficient; with a usb connection you’ll typically lose at least 15% in a good buck/boost stage and there’s 2 involved in a usb battery pack: one in the battery pack itself to step up/down from pack voltage to the negotiated PD voltage, and then another lossy stage in the phone stepping down to 3.7v.