On 16 Oct 2007 at 2:16, William T Goodall wrote: > > On 16 Oct 2007, at 01:03, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > At 05:35 PM Monday 10/15/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > >> "The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, > >> glued and soldered in to the handset" > >> > >> That is something you can't shrug off in the same way though. > >> > >> AndrewC > > > > > > So after a few hundred charging cycles when the battery dies you have > > to throw the whole iPhone away and get a new one for however many > > hundred dollars it is then and re-enter everything in the new one? > > You send it back to Apple and they replace the battery and dispose of > the old one safely for a reasonable fee. Or you can send it to one > of many third party battery changing companies who may be cheaper.
You have to send the entire phone back, right. This clearly makes the phone unsuitable for a lot of uses. > Making lithium batteries user replaceable is an incredibly bad idea > environmentally speaking because the old one is going in the > household trash 99% of the time. Most mobile phone companies take the battery back now, and indeed give you a steep discount on a new one if you hand them the old one (which would be a far better way of handling it). Having an internal battery glued in means you can't carry a spare (making it unsuitable for still further usage), and drastically increases the price of the battery to the consumer. It's precisely the same thing as Music DRM - it's assumed the customer cannot make choices about what he wants, he gets a packand and has to deal with it. This is, bluntly, highly objectionable. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
