The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.

eu-cool obviously, but stuff like this is still neat sicko-jammin

Now it seems Apple will need to figure out how to allow access to the battery inside future iPhones, as will every other smartphone manufacturer.

powercry-2

Eat shit and drink piss, Apple. I have a desk drawer full of old phones with removable batteries, we had this shit figured out 20 years ago

        • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          eSIM which seems to work fine but I'm sure there are issues with it

          • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            eSIM annoyingly forces carrier involvement in some way, shape or form.

            I personally love just taking my sim out of my phone and throwing it in an old phone when I know I'll be doing activities that could endanger the very device I need for daily life.

            • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              True. I just don’t any use case for it especially since internationally mobile networks have converged on technology so if I go abroad I can use my own phone without fussing with a paper clip and nanosim at the airport

              • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I prefer traveling with a dual sim card slot, because you go to the airport and immediately buy a sim and pop it in.

                With esim I feel like your carrier back home can be more dickish, do you not have to contact them? I don't know how they work tbh

                If I could just add infinitely many esims I want from any country by only contacting new carriers then that would be cool.

                • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  My carrier has good international roaming rates (fixed fee per day) which for a short trip is easier than getting a sim

                  Edit: to clarify, esim or physical sim don’t matter because I just use international roaming which is like $5 per day in most places.

                  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    Canadian carriers are the biggest fuckers and roaming rates are ridiculous.

                    It's cheaper to buy a foreign sim and then roam in Canada. Some people buy American plans and then roam all the time, but I think they started cracking down on this.

                    • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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                      1 year ago

                      There’s a lot of free roaming in Canada and Mexico with american carriers