Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing::Foldables are barely 1% of the market, but that’s not stopping anyone but Apple.

  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    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

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

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

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          10 months ago

          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.

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            10 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.