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On 5/3/24 07:42, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2024-05-02 13:21, bad💽sector wrote:
>> On 5/2/24 02:14, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2024-04-26 22:53, bad sector wrote:
>>>> On 4/25/24 21:28, micky wrote:
>>>>> In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:53 -0400, bad?sector
>>>>> <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/25/24 05:29, Nick Cine wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:47:17 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>>>>>> How does any of that work? I don't know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For one thing the battery should be removable with one hand,
>>>>>> blindfolded, in 3 seconds or less.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wyatt Earp could do that but I can't.
>>>>
>>>> Regulations require it for oxygen masks, if enough people demand it 
>>>> the same lawmakers can just as easily require it for cell phones as 
>>>> well.
>>>
>>> The EU is planning to regulate user replaceable batteries in phones 
>>> and other devices. No mention of doing it "with one hand, 
>>> blindfolded, in 3 seconds or less", though.
>>
>>
>> I don't think they know what it means :-)
>>
>> Seriously, they're way ahead of us in handling foxes in chicken-coops! 
>> I say if a camera can have an easily ejectable battery then so can a 
>> phone. period.
> 
> Yes, but cameras are significantly thicker. And they are not water 
> proof. Not even rain resistant.
> 

Reasonably good point and a hard switch can handle that, but a battery 
having no moving parts is easy enough to waterproof too.



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