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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that's not stopping anyone but Apple.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Totally agree. The smartphone market is wayyy to homogenous. All they compete over is price and what alphanumeric digits the chips contain. Give us foldables, sliders, cheap phones, high end phones, phones full of ports, small phones, and big phones. This is what the phone market used to be about until the mid '10s

[–] Dempf 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And what about phones with a removable battery? Would be real nice to keep a couple spares instead of a big power brick I have to charge it from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

you will never see that happen again. they need phones to be disposable

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Batteries for phones sold in the EU will all be replaceable within 3.5 years:

The new rules foresee that batteries will need to be easier to remove and replace, while consumers are better informed. Portable batteries in appliances should be designed so that users can easily remove and replace them. This requirement will become mandatory three-and-a-half years after the rules enter into force.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20220228STO24218/new-eu-rules-for-more-sustainable-and-ethical-batteries

The EU actually forced companies to help consumers, so they are already planning to comply... even Apple.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Would be good if they also force companies to support security updates for more that 5 years...

I don't need to change phone. I like my S10+. It does what I need. But I feel I'll have to change it soonish if I want to continue using for online banking etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I love my XCover Pro for this.