Do you think smartphone manufacturers will still make them water resistant?
You had IP67 water resistant phones with removable batteries back in the day, no reason why that design can't come back.
It still is a thing like the Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro (IP68).
Will this impact water proofing?
No, we have ip68 smartphone with removable battery.
Are there any devices that allow a replaceable battery and wireless charging? I know battery swapping can become common, but I also do not want to lose a feature that I currently enjoy.
you could easily add a charging coil in the back of the phone and just have some contacts
my fairphone 4 already has a pair of contacts on its back, with accompanying pogo pins in the body, although i think that's just for an nfc antenna. still, the same system would totally work
Although I support the idea, I'm not sure how useful this is for android phones. All android phones I've owned have long gone out of update support before the batteries have noticeably degraded.
4 years since the last update on my phone, I really don't see why I would change unless core apps like Firefox were to stop working.
Great news, now require the producers to standardise on 2 or 3 different battery shape formats!
On a side note, I wonder if there will be a market for slightly thinner phones with non replaceable batteries imported from foreign markets.
That was my thought, you can’t maintain the size with a user replaceable battery. A lot of people would rather have a bigger phone with a removable battery but not everyone.
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