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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by jon_richards on Friday March 03, 2017 @12:08AM (#13780890)
>You'd be hard pressed to sell someone on 'This new phone we made is great, you get the same battery life as before but it weighs 40% more!'

It's actually super easy, you just say things like "solid construction", "substantial", and "build quality".

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by rangibaby on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:51AM (#13781199)
> It's actually super easy, you just say things like "solid construction", "substantial", and "build quality".

"Beats By Dre headphones teardown finds metal parts included just to add weight"

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by Findy3ti on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:04AM (#13782865)
I know of a hardware manufacture who used to put concrete into their DVD players to give them that quality heavy feel
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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by marcusjt on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:21AM (#13783403)
Are you sure that wasn't to dampen vibrations which might affect (or even themselves be caused by) spinning the disk and movements of the read head? (Same reason there's concrete blocks in the base of a washing machine)
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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by 2muchcoffeeman on Friday March 03, 2017 @01:35AM (#13781149)
The iPhone 4 with the steel frame was great.
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