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You all need to hit up Best Buy then, because you can buy a $200- $300 unlocked phone from which you can, in fact, pop out the battery.
Please for the love of god, tell me you idiots weren't signing on to contracts and indebting yourselves to phone companies just to get access to shitty, locked, censored and controlled iPhones or Galaxies.
Edit: I count 8 idiots. Holy crap, how did you let yourself get schnookered?
Not everyone lives in the US btw.
And please tell me, what phones in that price category have a removable battery (that aren't complete shit, and the only feature is a removable battery)?
There are several brands of Android phones you can buy unlocked in my neck of the woods where you can pop out the back and replace the battery. I forget which brand mine is but I just checked and verified mine is battery - removable. It's fucking inconceivable to me that you all put up with such garbage.
You can try Amazon or maybe Temu and look up unlocked Android phones and you should be able to find some that are repairable in that sense.
How can you forget, what Phone you have?
Also, you could just check, under settings - about the phone
It's an off-brand, not Samsung, that's why. I don't even think about such things because the fundamental way I approach such things is different than anybody else. I don't need brand name shit, I need shit that is functional and works, so it doesn't matter what the name of the brand of phone is I use. All I have to know is that I can waltz into Best Buy, go to the unlocked phone section, and pick between two or three of them, and I'm straight.
Tell me why knowing the name of my off-brand phone would actually matter for anything
Because I'm curious what kind of a phone in that price segment has a removable battery?
sigh Fine, let me go through my system specs. Give me a minute
Mine is a Moto G Power. Oh shit, that's right, I forgot I upgraded a couple of years back. That's why I bought it. :P Anyway, on these, you can pop the battery out the back; here's a shitty Youtube video showing how. I can't record myself popping out the back of mine for obvious reasons.
Anyway, you can buy these unlocked and the prices are not bad, in all honesty.
I really, REALLY don't get why you all are stupid enough to sign onto contracts to put yourselves into debt for machines you don't really own and can't take apart and control yourselves. Like what do you do if the battery goes kaput? AND you wind up paying upwards of a thousand dollars for them when a Moto G Power like mine costs only $300 at most?
That is crazy. That is batshit fuck nuts.
OK so it's actually just like pretty much any other phone, where you need multiple special tools, and can actually fuck up the process to change the battery. Could have just said so in the beginning.
With "removable battery" most people actually mean something like with the Fairphone. Where everything is actually engineered to be easily replacable.
And by the way, most people don't actually have a locked phone. Are those actually still a thing? The last locked phone I had (locked fo 2 years, after that it's open for everything), was back in 2014.
Also, are you trying to be the biggest asshole in this comment section or is that accidental?
Lol someone's mad they were wrong, and it ain't me 😄 You can try to downplay the meaningful alternative I use all the time and am letting you know about if you want, it won't change the fact that it's there and it won't take away the foolishness you pay for when you drop $120+ a month to pay for a phone you don't really even own or control.
I can only lead you to water, I can't and have no need to make you drink. You've got to deal with dehydration on your own. Ciao~
Lol, you are the one that was wrong. "Removable battery" my ass. My phone's battery is just as removable as yours and probably 95% of the phones available.
I mean it's still funny how 1. Assume that everyone but you actually pays that much for a phone (mine cost 300€ and my phone contract costs 20€ a month, that I can cancel anytime) and 2. How you still put everything in $ even though I already told you I'm not from the US.