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Handheld Devices With Replaceable Batteries

Devices that contain user-replaceable batteries without the following obstacles or traps:

  • Glued-on battery covers.
  • Glued-in-batteries.
  • Batteries that require proprietary tooling that is not widely available.
  • Firmware-locked batteries that don’t allow replacements to work.
  • Batteries that are not supplied by the manufacturer and also not standardized or available.

Key Indicators And Symbols

  • Standardized: This refers to an ubiquitous and standardized battery format that can be purchased from electronics stores instead of directly from the device manufacturer. One example of that is 18650 batteries.
  • [Purpose-Built]: This means that the battery is built specifically for that device and has to be obtained from the manufacturer or a third-party vendor that builds that specific model. These batteries are not standardized and are harder to find. Most phone batteries are of this variety. However, some are replaceable.
  • Prismatic: Prismatic is a thin, flat, rectangular cell design. These are generally harder to find due to a lower likelihood of standardization. However, they are necessary for thinner devices such as phones and tablets.

Handheld PCs, Phones, And Tablets

Standardized Cells (18650 and other widely used standards).

  • ClockworkPi Pico Calc – [Standardized | Widely Available] – 18650 cells.
  • ClockworkPi uConsole Kit RPI-CM4 Lite. [Standardized | Widely Available] – 18650 cells.
  • Fairphone 5. [Prismatic – Purpose-Built].
  • Fairphone 4. [Prismatic – Purpose-Built].
  • Fairphone 3. [Prismatic – Purpose-Built].
  • Fairphone 3+. [Prismatic – Purpose-Built].

Laptops

  • Framework Laptop 13. [Purpose Built].
  • Framework Laptop 16. [Purpose Built].
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