Galaxy S5 will reportedly be Samsung’s first all-metal smartphone

Wow, where did they come up with that innovation. It really is becoming ___ for tat* between Apple and Samsung (and Google), three ways.

*___ for tat
noun
Repayment in kind, as for an injury; retaliation

 

I for one sure hope they don't. I'm so tired of the concept of a non-user-replaceable battery... especially in an Android phone.

 

HTC One doesn't have a removable battery and neither do Xperia Z & ZL. Anyway, plastic has a tendency to spring back if not cracked... metal just dents.

 

I was trying to show a trend

 

___ for tat, is slang for 'this for that'

 

I don't really see it as an issue anymore. With phones changing once a year, and many times 2x a year, the no-user-replaceable battery is working well. The battery lifetimes are a good 2 years. And if you need more juice, cheap external batteries are a better solution, IMO, since you can use those with the next phone which will have a different battery size and capacity.

I wasted a lot of money on custom Nokia batteries that were obsolete before they were dead batteries.

 

Yes, I understand you do not care, but to me the fact that these two batteries used to be the same size is disturbing. Also, my extended battery for my Nexus set me back a whopping $17 and even though it's now fat it fits a lot better into my jersey pocket than it would with an external battery attached to it, not to mention a USB cable constantly plugged in while crammed into a tight pocket would probably cause damage to the tiny connector.

Well, my battery was still ticking too, but it wasn't the kind of ticking I liked, so I unplugged it before the timer ran all the way down

For the record, we have the same kind of thing with a battery in one of the Blackberries at work. Less than two years, not even being plugged in every day. Bad battery? Perhaps. But why should I take a chance my $600 phone will fry over a $40 part that should be replaceable?

 

Finally remembered to take a snap of the BlackBerry battery at work.

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