Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
by Fnoord on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:13AM
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> iPhones do have replaceable batteries, only not DIY. It's like $80 w/o warranty or AppleCare.
The easiness of replacing the battery has gone up with iPhone 7/8/X compared to iPhone 6. You can verify this on iFixit guides. The iPhone 6 is _relatively_ easy to replace because you don't need say a heatgun. You do need some special screwdrivers which you gotta buy. You can, on iFixit. I just bought a whole kit (on sale during Black Friday).
> I've bought dozens of Android replacement batteries and the only batteries worth the cost of shipping were actual real OEM ones. And those always cost >$60.
The easiness of replacing the battery has gone up with iPhone 7/8/X compared to iPhone 6. You can verify this on iFixit guides. The iPhone 6 is _relatively_ easy to replace because you don't need say a heatgun. You do need some special screwdrivers which you gotta buy. You can, on iFixit. I just bought a whole kit (on sale during Black Friday).
> I've bought dozens of Android replacement batteries and the only batteries worth the cost of shipping were actual real OEM ones. And those always cost >$60.
20 EUR for mine: https://shop.fairphone.com/en/spare-parts/fairphone-2-batter...
Replacing any parts on my phone is very easy. Only thing is that the main module with CPU board etc is ~300 EUR.