Comment by stavros
13 hours ago
Yeah, it's a tragedy that we throw devices away because the battery has a short expiration date :/
At least I guess watches are on the more understandable end of the "hard to repair" continuum.
13 hours ago
Yeah, it's a tragedy that we throw devices away because the battery has a short expiration date :/
At least I guess watches are on the more understandable end of the "hard to repair" continuum.
Looking at you Withings. My perfectly able and capable Steel HR needs to be binned and repurchased (quite hefty price too) after 8yrs of good use as now the battery lasts only 3 days. Tried to contact them to swap the battery (at a cost) they suggested the only option is the bin... 8yrs is definitely more than an Apple Watch probably, but way less than the Zenith my father wore for more than 30 years.
Truly does suck, imagine the waste... To be fair to the average person though, we're a far away from when you could just pop open the back casing of the phone and switch the battery with your bare hands, no wonder people are afraid of doing these things themselves.
I'm fearing the day my waterproof bone conduction headphones have poor battery health, changing the battery on that will be a whole 'nother challenge.
Yeah, anything waterproof is going to be a problem. I'm curious to see how the new EU laws on battery replacement deal with this.