Review: HTC One (E8) for Sprint
Too Bad.
I, for one, prefer plastic over metal due to battery accessibility that is available with many plastic devices. HTC failed in not making this version with battery removable option.
As a tech enthusiast for over 40 years, it absolutely irks me that many of today's fellow enthusiasts are so uninformed of the nature in why manufacturers are doing this. I have 3 friends that work in phone sales and each have expressed their experience that a phone may come in for service once a week, two or three weeks due to the phone swelling up like a puffer fish. All due to swollen batteries. Rather than just the swollen removable battery causing the back cover to come off, the customer is forced to fork over substantial cash to replace the whole device.
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As a tech enthusiast for over 40 years, it absolutely irks me that many of today's fellow enthusiasts are so uninformed of the nature in why manufacturers are doing this. I have 3 friends that work in phone sales and each have expressed their experience that a phone may come in for service once a week, two or three weeks due to the phone swelling up like a puffer fish. All due to swollen batteries. Rather than just the swollen removable battery causing the back cover to come off, the customer is forced to fork over substantial cash to replace the whole device.
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Plastic or metal doesn't necessarily matter as far as a removable battery, there are devices that have metal backs and removable batteries. And how much money is the manufacturer really making off these repairs and replacements anyway? Not much compared to the sale of a new device I'm betting, so I doubt it's a scam for manufacturers to make more money selling replacement devices.
I think the biggest factor is the size, making a battery removable eats up a ton of room once you factor in the contacts, the removal/retention mechanism, the gap between the battery and frame, and the additional strength they have to put in the actual battery shell to make it durable enough to be removed and replaced hundreds of times. I think given today'...
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I think the biggest factor is the size, making a battery removable eats up a ton of room once you factor in the contacts, the removal/retention mechanism, the gap between the battery and frame, and the additional strength they have to put in the actual battery shell to make it durable enough to be removed and replaced hundreds of times. I think given today'...
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