Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt...
by jdmichal on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:35PM
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I agree with you. But also, to be fair, I'm pretty sure in that time phone bodies have transitioned from mostly plastic to mostly metal? I'm sure that has something to do with the weight, and I would guess that the metal shell is probably thicker too?
Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt...
by okanat on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:44PM
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Why should they be thicker? Metals are resilient and strong. That's why we use them to build all sorts of stuff. I expect metal bodies to be thinner not thicker.
Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt...
by jdmichal on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:11PM
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I would imagine that thin plastic is more resistant to permanent deformation than thin metal. Or, in other words, when then metal bends, it tends to stay bent. Thin plastic can more easily bend, but then restore to its original shape.
But I'm not a materials engineer. This is just in my lay experience of how thin materials I've encountered perform.
Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt...
by scarface_74 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:18AM
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> And also had gps and wifi and phone. And were ip67 rated.
Only if the flap covered the ports…
Modern phones are going for sexy, that's all. They are large in every dimension but Impractically thin even though everybody adds another 3mm - 6mm of case anyway because they're sleek to the point of unusable. I particularly love when we buy a sexy sleek thin phone and then put an otterbox on it :-)