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You know what, I’ve never noticed the trend. Will keep my eyes open a bit more.
We recently noticed this with Samsung’s line where my mom went from one of the flagships to the lower end. She was initially hesitant but has actually been much happier.
She got a removable battery, micro SD card slot, better battery life, among other features she came to love that weren’t on the flagship. It’s crazy they don’t, but my best guess is that all these features add doors/slots that “ruin” the aesthetic of the look of the phone? I’m not sure why else they choose to do this besides that. Though I have heard the removable battery loss is due to waterproofing, and it’s not possible to have that with a waterproof design.
I don't know why people keep parroting that crap. PHONES CAN HAVE REPLACEABLE BATTERIES AND STILL BE FULLY WATERPROOF.
I had a galaxy S5, it had an SD card slot, replaceable battery, headphone jack... AND WATERPROOF.
It was also thinner than my current OnePlus with the camera bump.
Yeah wasn’t sure how truthful that is, just what I had heard being touted.
But now that I think about it, some GoPros are waterproof and some of them have removable batteries too. So yeah, lazy excuse on their part. Probably being cheap or disingenuous.
It is insanely disingenuous to think that manufacturing capabilities that could cheaply mass produce waterproof cameras and consumer electronics for 30+ years couldn't handle miniaturization.
On that note, I never once had water ingress issues with my S5 in a few years of ownership, and I would shower and swim with it. Just had to make sure the back was all the way on for the gasket to seal (the phone would detect it and warn you)