monocle_layton said:
Unfortunately, many phones are opting to remove the privilege of removable batteries. Baffles me how people are perfectly fine with it. |
I feel like I should clarify that I'm also not a fan of non-user replacable batteries. I was just pleasantly surprised at this one since it looks pretty easy to replace. While it might not be ideal, it is better than soldered and glued in batteries. And while there might be phones out there that still offer easy battery replacability, the flagship smartphones by Samsung and Apple are all a major headache to take apart and perforn any kind of repair on. I don't think I've seen a single tablet with user replacable batterys out there, but they might exist.
In the context of a market landscape where the standart certainly isn't user replacable batteries, with many devices not even being easy to open up without breaking them, this was nice to see. I'm not totally fine with it it, but in light of the fact that Nintendo didn't offer easily user replaceable batteries on any of their devies since the original gameboy advance, I'm honestly a bit baffled to see it expected now.
I can totally understand being hesitant of opening a 300+$ device on your own. And by the time your battery is likely to loose significant capacity your warranty will have run out as well, so sending it in to Nindendo or a third party service will probably cost you a pretty penny. No. I'm not ok with that either.
If you have ever build your own rig, replaced a battery in your 3ds before or did any sort of thing with electronics this will be no problem for you though and even if you didn't, with a sufficient tutorial you could probably do it without any kind of prior experience of that kind.
The 3DS battery only needed 2 screws..................
I am a firm believer that the only time a feature should be removed is if you are replacing it with a better one, or improving the current one. |
Yeah............?
I really don't see the diffrence beween 1 or 10 screws. If you're hesitant to open up you device in the first place even a single screw is going to be a deterrant. If you aren't then ten screws is just going to take you slightly longer.
The real problem are propietary or uncommonly used screws like the triwing screws imo. I really couldn't tell by the pictures what kind of screws the Switch uses, but standart phillips like the 3ds would be nice.
For the user replaceable batteries, see above. I'm not a fan of non user replaceable either, but was pleasantly surprised by Nintendos implementation in light of the direction the market is moving in.
