Re: Reduce the e-waste?
"User swappable battery needs to make a come back, at east in some models (not everyone needs it)"
Not every person, but every phone does. I have a collection of phones that I've retired for one reason or another. Usually it's because my carrier stops supporting them and they aren't usable anymore on the network. I tend to use things up. One of the bigger ones I've stripped down as much as possible and it runs Torque Pro in the car. Another is dev device for Arduino/Pi stuff. One is a music player and a backup. All of them have a replaceable battery. They'll be useful for quite some time as a small computer with a screen, primitive input device, audio I/O and wireless functions. If I had to steam open the cases to replace the battery, they would be far less convenient.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
