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Re:Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Rein... by nickspacek on Monday January 07, 2019 @12:44PM (#18847655)
A lot of smart phones? Maybe I'm not a discerning enough Android fanboy, but none of my phones have had removable batteries:

* Nexus 4

* Nexus 5

* Nexus 6P

* Samsung Galaxy S7

* Samsung Galaxy S9

The only recent phones I was aware of with removable batteries were the LG G*, but I don't think the latest model of those has a removable battery anymore either.

Re:Before the Electric Car Takes Over, Someone Needs to Rein... by culot on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:04PM (#18850051)
Up until last year at least swappable batteries were still common in lower-end smartphones. Generally none of those OEMs sold spare batteries though; even when many high-end models had swappable batteries, up until 2015/2016-ish, almost no OEMs sold spare batteries. I think it was the beginning of 2016 that LG actually started selling spare batteries, the same year they produced their last two high-end smartphones with swappable batteries.

Even though swappable batteries do continue on the low-end, I think maybe [in the US] only Motorola actually makes spare batteries available for consumers to purchase, even for devices that don't have readily swappable batteries. I think this year Motorola will ditch swappable batteries, pretty sure, but will supposedly continue to make spares available for select models via Ifixit.