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This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds
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this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Swapable batteries were common on cell phones in the 80's and 90's except no fancy machine was needed.
Some fairly recent phones even had docks that would charge your phone and a swappable battery at the same time
That's whole century.
News from 2011 about the HTC Thunderbolt dock.
You mean a decade. A century is 100 years.
I mean /s
…..fuck.
and... get this: while you were swapping your battery you could drop in a swappable expansion on storage. Utter madness.
Many phones let you upgrade storage without opening it. Madness, I know.
I was using an LG G5 that had swappable batteries 3 years ago.
IKR.
Why did we start building batteries into phones?
So they can sell you a new phone instead of a replacement battery.
90's, definitely.
Which 80's models mobiles are you thinking of, exactly?
The Motorola DynaTAC. They had a big Ni-Cd battery that is also the back of the case. You would need often need two batteries to get through a whole day, so they were made to be easily swapped.