I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws.
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I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.
Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.
Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.
Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don't fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they're not being opened.
I used to carry 2 batteries. Though that's probably not a large market. But if made around that idea it could be done well.
Either having hibernation or some power source to keep the RAM powered during main battery swap (small supercapacitor, small regular Li-Ion battery, thin lithium ceramic battery, I don't know what's best), and a dock for battery charging.
Kind of like LG G5.
Preferably, the battery would have integrated charger so you don't have to carry around a dock. Just what you do now, just with the spare battery replacing a power bank in more convenient way. Maybe it could come off with the charging port just like LG G5, but it would be built-in rather than being something you pop a different battery into.
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I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.
Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.
Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.
Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don't fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they're not being opened.
The exploding phone was actually a lot less likely to break. Making the phone a rigid bar of glass and aluminum makes it more likely to be destroyed when you drop it.
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I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.
Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.
Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.
Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don't fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they're not being opened.
I'm glad I didn't have that experience. I think I had cases on those phones, so that might have been what made the difference.
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I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.
Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.
Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.
Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don't fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they're not being opened.
Not to mention that a removable back plate would eliminate the waterproof and dust-proof seals that I have come to appreciate quite a bit over the years.
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Not to invalidate your experience but I have never seen one with screws yet I have never heard of a back cover accidentally popping off (aside from extreme falls). My current one isn't removable but each one before this was, and I would for years fidget with it by popping the cover on and off, and even after that it held on just fine. Though screws would regardless be more secure and that is good, I agree.
I still have a Samsung Galaxy S2, which has such a cover. From the beginning, the phone would lose its back cover (and the battery would fall out) whenever it hit the ground, even just from a table. I solved it with getting a thin plastic phone case, and even after 14 years the phone works just fine.
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I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.
Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.
Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.
Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don't fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they're not being opened.
Having a spare battery in the bag, and just switch them over mid-day? Glorious. Would love to see that again.
It's freedom to be able to bring extra batteries and not need a charger for days.
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Having a spare battery in the bag, and just switch them over mid-day? Glorious. Would love to see that again.
It's freedom to be able to bring extra batteries and not need a charger for days.
i’d tape a screw driver to the battery.. the tiny drivers you’d need for modern phones could be tiny: look at the sim ejectors… that, but as a screw driver
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Not to invalidate your experience but I have never seen one with screws yet I have never heard of a back cover accidentally popping off (aside from extreme falls). My current one isn't removable but each one before this was, and I would for years fidget with it by popping the cover on and off, and even after that it held on just fine. Though screws would regardless be more secure and that is good, I agree.
Flashback to my Galaxy Ace circa 2012 with its cheap plastic back cover that literally snapped in half, leading to me being "that kid" in school with my phone held together with tape...
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I had a phone with a back cover that popped off without screws. It was the stupidest fucking design.
Drop your phone? Phone explodes and battery falls out.
Put your phone in your tight pants pocket wrong? Back cover comes off.
Toolless designs are great for things you access frequently. The only time I had to open the back of that phone was to put a sim card in it. Phones should be more repairable, but I want them to be held together with screws so they don't fall apart during the 99.9999% of the time they're not being opened.
Drop your phone?
I'm careful with my phone, and for the last 15 years I did not have such problems. except when I had, but then the battery flying out was a very small problem compared to others
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I still have a Samsung Galaxy S2, which has such a cover. From the beginning, the phone would lose its back cover (and the battery would fall out) whenever it hit the ground, even just from a table. I solved it with getting a thin plastic phone case, and even after 14 years the phone works just fine.
I don't understand how can all your smartphones keep working after it repeatedly hitting the ground.
