Re: How to get a loaner iPhone

Oxford <colalovesmacs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

notinuse2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Hayes) wrote:

no ed, wrong again, look at the PCB board, it's just taped on, just cut
the tape, pull the old battery off, put a new one on, no soldering
required.

Whatever the replacement method, the user has to open up the phone to
replace the battery. What's wrong with standard slide in batteries so
Joe Bloggs could swap batteries and carry a hot spare should he wish?

it makes the device thicker, less reliable,

I've had mobiles for over ten years. Their reliability has never been an
issue. And if you're relying on tape of all things to secure the battery
to the PCB, well, I can't think of a less reliable method. You need some
form of clamp mechanism, and once you do that you might as well engineer
in user replacement.

plus a battery like that rarely needs replacing anyway.

What if you want to carry a spare battery?

people are thinking about traditional cell phones in this area, they
haven't yet understood this isn't a cell phone.

How does that change the basic premise that the battery could have been
made user replaceable without any cost in reliability?

Most design decisions are tradeoffs between competing factors, Here we
have a tradeoff between looks and user (in)convenience, and the decision
taken turns out to be dumb because it places too high a burden on the
user when the battery dies. Oh, and the cost involved seems to have been
kept a secret until after the phone goes on sale.

<snip something c&p from who knows where>

One other difference with the mobile phone market, even
with higher end phones, is that many customers obtain a new phone when
the contract is renewed because of the carrier subsidy for a new phone
or a desire for the latest device features, often before a new battery
is needed.

So you're now saying the iPhone isn't going to be the mobile for the
next 80-100 years?

--

Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter
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