Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

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The question I’ve been asking, since this whole water resistance thing became a trend, is why do we even need water resistant phones in the first place?

We survived just fine with flip phones, walkmans, Gameboys, pagers, etc that had no water resistance.

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I love water proof phones, it’s a massive reduction in anxiety and means I don’t have to avoid bringing it into the bathroom.

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They’re not even waterproof though, just water resistant. But even the weather resistance from a few years back when phones had headphone jacks and replaceable batteries seemed sufficient. Now they’re overkill, being able to handle being dipped in water. I mean it’s fine if they make phones like that, but does everything need that kind of resistance?

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My S8 has been dunked in water and sprayed by the shower plenty of times with no issue. It might not be strictly water proof but it’s kind of a semantic difference.

And nah, not everything needs that kind of resistance, but it’s nice to have

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The yellow sony walkman was waterproof.

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While I manage ok without (but would appreciate the feature) I know several people who have destroyed too many phones by accidentally dropping it into some sort of water to ever want anything but a waterproof one.

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