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Samsung will debut 'Galaxy S9' at Mobile World Congress next month
Who needs 50m water proof for their phone? Watch is one thing, but who takes their phone that deep? Give me water resistance to 10' and anything more is so edge-case it's not worth even trying to make a selling point. Make it safe to the deep end of a pool, nothing more. I have cameras that are waterproof more than 50' and I can swap not only the battery but the card too. It even has ports for plugging it in, still water proof. So please don't pretend that they couldn't make a simple sealed door for a slide in battery. I don't care if it is 30% thicker, the tradeoff is more than worth it.foggyhill said:
The phone would be at least 30% bigger than an equivalent Apple phone (possibly more when you take into account shaped batteries in the Iphone X) and offer huge amount of constraints in placement of components (since the battery would need to be squarish and accessible and the door cannot have components on it). if Apple keeps the battery swap at $30 (or even $50), there is little advantage to that.airnerd said:
I know it will never happen, but if Samsung were to make their flagship phone with a removable battery, game over. If you could have a legit top end smart phone and swap the batteries they would gather users from all of their product lines under that one phone. That's the only way they can differentiate from Apple at this time, and it would be a huge differentiation. You could still maintain water resistance, even.BubbaTwo said:The Galaxy S8 is a GREAT flagship for the money -- especially when one can pick one up on sale which is often. If the S9 moves the fingerprint reader and includes a bigger battery, then that's even better. I especially appreciate that Samsung still includes a headphone jack on their flagship phones.
The only knock on the S8 is Bixby, however, I'm not a big user of voice assistants so I can overlook that....
There is a reason Samsung switched to sealed, it is not just on a whim.
Apple will probably get the Iphone to be as water proof as the Apple Watch (50 meter) very soon (including speakers expelling water) and you'll not get that if you can open the battery compartment.
With wireless charging, Apple could just offer a battery sleeve (for women to put in their purse) and the battery would essentially always be charged to 100%. For everyone else, the presence everywhere of wireless mats now that the standard is now universal means people don't have to carry a useless big battery everywhere. Their phones could be charged essentially all day long at near 100% without having to carry a cable or break your insertion point by constantly plugging and unplugging.
Wireless charging is great, but as we have seen I hope you plan to have that "sleeve" with you at all times to recharge as the battery holds less and less charge over time.
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Samsung will debut 'Galaxy S9' at Mobile World Congress next month
I know it will never happen, but if Samsung were to make their flagship phone with a removable battery, game over. If you could have a legit top end smart phone and swap the batteries they would gather users from all of their product lines under that one phone. That's the only way they can differentiate from Apple at this time, and it would be a huge differentiation. You could still maintain water resistance, even.BubbaTwo said:The Galaxy S8 is a GREAT flagship for the money -- especially when one can pick one up on sale which is often. If the S9 moves the fingerprint reader and includes a bigger battery, then that's even better. I especially appreciate that Samsung still includes a headphone jack on their flagship phones.
The only knock on the S8 is Bixby, however, I'm not a big user of voice assistants so I can overlook that....
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U.S. government questions Apple over iPhone slowdown debacle
You should restrict your lawsuit to every manufacturer that has a battery which can't be easily changed and that they are intentionally degrading service based on the age of the battery. Power tools are the perfect example. Yeah the Lithium batteries wear out but I can swap a new one pretty darn easily, and as the battery holds less and less charge the thing still spins at the same RPM. That is what happens with old batteries and everyone knows it. But I'm in complete control of my user experience, something Apple hasn't given me.rob53 said:Here we go again, someone who knows next to nothing about how rechargeable batteries work. Why is it nobody cares about all their battery operated devices needing new batteries? We hardly ever hear about those but everyone is complaining about Apple's batteries as if they expect them to last forever. People need to get a grip and realize we're not using Star Trek era power sources that last longer but also don't last forever. As for Apple being required to give people free replacement batteries, if the courts demand this then I'm suing every manufacturer of battery operated devices for a lifetime supply of batteries, starting with my rechargeable batteries in my power tools. It's the same thing and don't get me started on Apple changing software to slow their devices down a bit to extend the life of the power in their batteries. This makes sense and people should appreciate it. As for the law firms going after Apple, I think Congress should investigate them and all the other ambulance chasing lawyers. Get rid of them.
Now if they release a new iOS which allows me to turn that "slowdown for old battery" option, all is well. To me the biggest issue is the underhanded way they rolled this out knowing full well what they were doing and not alerting anyone. Not until they got caught did they have a nameless drone put some "yeah, we do this and sorry we got caught" letter on their website. As far as I have seen the man at the top has still yet to be on record with an apology or explanation. The more and more I think about this the more shady it looks.
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Ad firms losing 'hundreds of millions' after Apple clamps down on Safari tracking
If guerrilla advertisers are against it, then even armed with no more information than that...I'm for it.
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Editorial: The super exciting failure of CES 2018
Sounds to me like the writer either wasn't invited or wasn't allowed to attend. Reads like sour grapes.drewys808 said:“That's why big-headline companies hiring low-paid writers see CES as a goldmine of clickbait--perpetuating its existence and inducing the press to flock to a city replete with little more than flashing lights and concealed guns, despite the fact that more than 540 people were recently shot there by rich white man bored with life.”
I’ve read quite a few thoughtful and interesting editorials on this board for many years... and this is NOT one of them.
This article just seemed self-indulgent, hateful and pointless.
...and what the fck is with the attack on flashing lights and gun rights?! For fcks sake.
