I’ve always wondered if there is a physical limitation why the battery couldn’t go in like a sim card? Just a slot where it goes in. I’m curious how this all will work out.
Space, as a connector is slightly bigger than a soldered connection, and the battery itself has to be slightly bigger and stronger too to be safe to transport and handle without being protected by the phone’s case.
Water resistance; it’s far easier to make a phone’s case waterproof by just glueing the whole thing shut than having to use seals and gaskets and such to make it possible to open and close it at will.
I don’t see an issue, but perhaps nobody ever thought to really try shipping a device with something like that. Specially since the water proofing advent.
I’ve always wondered if there is a physical limitation why the battery couldn’t go in like a sim card? Just a slot where it goes in. I’m curious how this all will work out.
That’s pretty much how it used to work.
The main reasons why it changed are:
Space, as a connector is slightly bigger than a soldered connection, and the battery itself has to be slightly bigger and stronger too to be safe to transport and handle without being protected by the phone’s case.
Water resistance; it’s far easier to make a phone’s case waterproof by just glueing the whole thing shut than having to use seals and gaskets and such to make it possible to open and close it at will.
I don’t see an issue, but perhaps nobody ever thought to really try shipping a device with something like that. Specially since the water proofing advent.