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		ensocode on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's official: Smartphones will need to have repla... This is so overdue. Hopefully this will not affect water resistance and shock resistance too much, but I am sure there will be innovations until 2027 in this field.

GuB-42 on July 14, 2023 [–]

The Galaxy S5 was water resistant and one of the toughest of the "mainstream" phones of its generation. All that with a removable battery.

When you get into the rugged territory, there is diving equipment with removable batteries, so it is absolutely not a limitation.

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