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Originally Posted by kdarling
We swap spare batteries all the time:
When my wife forgets to charge her phone and is going crazy leaving for work.
When we're on a camping trip, it's simple to take spare batteries.
After I spend all day on the phone and then want to go out all night. Just swap in a charged spare and I'm good to go.
After my daughter spends a long time using Slingplayer watching TV and my battery is about dead, I don't mind... just swap in a spare.
People without the ability to use a spare battery, often adjust their lifestyle to their phone. I believe the phone should adjust to mine.
Swappable batteries also make a phone more attractive to business usage, and they could be very handy if video calling gets popular.
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I completely appreciate the direction you're coming from however the wider society now needs to consider conserving energy and using those sources which can be reused. Our disposable attitude is in detriment to our planet as a whole. This purchasing of additional batteries goes against the grain of the common green/environmental argument surely.
With Apple staking the reputation of its products being considerably more green than those of the competition it seems a contradictory move to their green initiative. I believe that that the current protocol makes more sense than the ability to replace it as an when it suits the user. Ive never had to purchase a spare battery for any mobile phone I've had in the past 20 years, never. Better battery technology is clearly the key in the longer term however accessibility to recharge most devices has never been better.
I care little about this and in fact the EUs direction that all manufacturers should allow the battery compartment to be accessible is equally ridiculous. Copenhagen was a ?++@@ shambles whoever the aim was to reduce carbon emissions and increase the drive for renewable energy. Where does producing more batteries for devices come into this.
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You are not alone. I've owned approx 20 mobile phones in my life (combination of personally owned and work provided), and I've not needed to carry additional batteries for over 10 years thanks to the vastly increased capacities of newer batteries. Also, processors and a lot of the other silicon inside a phone, and the display, is moving towards lower power consumption. Just take a look at the vastly increased performance of MacBook Pro batteries to see how things are going.
I therefore believe the days of requiring a user changable battery are long gone. On the rare occasions that you need extended battery life, you can add external battery packs (including powered skins).
Seems like a backward step to me, but I suspect that if these images are in fact real, the unit is a pre-production trial unit and may therefore be useful for testing to have a user replaceable battery. Should this design make it through to a final product, I full expect it to be an enclosed battery.
Phil
Hallelujah! Someone who with precision cuts through the naff argument for accessible battery compartments. Awesome.
I agree however that the design that we are seeing is what it is, a prototype. Apple upon designing the first iPhone never disclosed the final design to AT&T until the very final stages. In addition we need to look at all the designs Apple has brought to their products;
Unibody Design for all Mac note books
Clean design with nominal viewable seams, iPhone 3G/S
Simple buttons that allow a number menu options
End to glass for their screens
Seamless bezels etc
The current iPhone design is a step forward from the original iPhone which was not as elegant as the current model, therefore for as many people have pointed out this would be a step backward rather than one forward. Apple is not a company that is likely to do the former.
Seriously, if this is about access to the battery compartment as well as SIM card access blah blah, then the simple removal of the back cover would suffice without compromising on design. Just add pressure springs so that you would need to push down and slide off to gain access. Thats not even difficult and the design can fundamentally remain the same.
There is one other important thing that people need to take note off, the current iPhone 3G/S design is a total winner. You only have to look as the number of companies that are literally copying the design. This could not be more complimentary to Apples execution/delivery of a beautifully well designed device with functions at the time of its release beat the competition pants down.
Imagine if you will the design team of the major phone manufacturers taking a glorious wacking to their bare a.... if you will with both cheeks burning red as executed by the CEO of those companies.
The protoype is is far too fussy, a seam here for this a seam there for that. Very unlike Apple to go in this direction and I somehow cannot see SJ or JI wanting to release a flagship product looking like a piece of @$$%$^^ crap which could not be differentiated from the competitor.
As for features, hey iChat on the fly bring it. Cant wait.
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