darknyght00
Well-known member
Portable battery packs/chargers are useful, but to use them, you'd have to either leave them plugged in for an extended period of time to charge up your phone or keep your phone plugged in to avoid depleting your battery. Depending on how on-the-go you need to be, leaving it plugged in may be inconvenient or make for a cumbersome, not-so-portable phone. On the other hand, if I buy a 2nd battery, I can go from 10% charge remaining to 100% by simply swapping the battery. And a battery pack is usually a lot bigger and heavier than my spare battery.
Plus, as others have pointed out, if you want to keep your phone for a while, when the battery starts to degrade, you can't replace a non-removable battery (or at least not easily).
Fair enough. However, I maintain that this is not typical of the majority of users and that the swappable battery would be best served as a specialty feature instead of people crying foul every time a handset is released without it. As for keeping phones for extended periods (long enough for the battery to degrade), I think that a hardware refresh every so often is a good thing. I may be a bad example since I'm kinda a gadget addict but new things come out and I want to try them.