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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Post by swiftcoder »

losvedir wrote: post #524
swiftcoder wrote: post #511

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people replace their phones because the battery isn't good anymore Pretty much exclusively? The last 4-5 iPhone purchases in my family have all been due to dying batteries (plus a couple of off-brand battery replacements by local cellphone techs). Nothing else on iPhones really ever breaks, provided you keep some sort of case on it. The only non-battery failure I've ever had was a corroded lightning port (on a i…

And what did you do with them? Throw them away? I bought and used an iPhone 11 for a year last year, and it came with a perfectly functional, replaced battery. People on HN have such a blind spot around old, used phones which thrive in secondary marketplaces. You'd think iPhones are filling dumpsters with the rhetoric here but they actually hold their value remarkably well, which means they have a much longer useful…

> And what did you do with them? Throw them away?

The ones that aged out of running needed software are still sitting in a cabinet somewhere. A couple of the others were killed off when their battery pack swelled, and another didn't survive a local tech's efforts to replace the battery...

With batteries that could be replaced without delaminating the whole device, (and ideally, an open boot loader), I'd be able to make use of most of them.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Post by darkwater »

macintux wrote: post #550
darkwater wrote: post #540

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And this time the whole world can thank the EU, Apple is definitely not going to create a special iPhone hardware just for us.

Or curse the EU, if the compromises necessary to make the battery replaceable result in a less robust product.

If you don't care about e-waste and repairability, of course.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Post by estimator7292 »

rendx wrote: post #269

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries Article 11 Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries 1. Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during th…

For something like a smart ring, a user-replacable battery is just totally impractical. Particularly if you want any sort of water resistance. The thing is just too damn small and will require special tools no matter what.

I don't think it's at all reasonable to expect such a product to have a user-replacable battery without doubling the cost. Sure it'd be nice, but the reality is sometimes it just isn't possible to accommodate.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Post by macintux »

darkwater wrote: post #552
macintux wrote: post #550

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or curse the EU, if the compromises necessary to make the battery replaceable result in a less robust product.

If you don't care about e-waste and repairability, of course.

If the phone is less waterproof or otherwise breaks more frequently, it could result in more e-waste.

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Post by kllrnohj »

numpad0 wrote: post #457
nixonpjoshua wrote: post #425

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I don't think it will be possible to make wireless earbuds or a ring with replaceable batteries without seriously compromising the ergonomics of fitting onto or into the human body. I have a pair of earbuds designed to be as diminutive for sleeping comfortably and I have no idea how you would do that with a replaceable battery even if Airpod sized devices can be done.

Counterexample: hearing aids.

Now use rechargeable batteries that are not user replaceable

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Post by abustamam »

jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #366
Aurornis wrote: post #163

> How long does the battery last? > Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording. On average, I use it 10-20 times per day to record 3-6 second thoughts. That’s up to 2 years of usage. I feel like I’m usually good about being able to imagine a market for different devices even when I’m not the target audience, but I’m having a hard time with this one. Having 20 different 3-second thoughts transcribed to notes that I have to p…

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when microcassette voice recorders were a fad, and pretty much everyone found they just weren't worth it. Psychologically there's a sort of information hoarding aspect to this. I think a lot of people experience this with browser tabs, where they don't want to read something right now, but also don't want to just abandon it. So you end up with this backlog you feel you have to hold on…

Tangential, but I found similar success to Jira Iceboxes. If a ticket has been untouched for a month, delete it. If it truly were important it'd rear its head back up.

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Post by r2_pilot »

itomato wrote: post #407

No way this made it out of internal vetting without a recharchable battery. Man, if I even suggested this over lunch with my old Sparkfun colleagues, I would have been shot down before I finished chewing my bite of open-faced turkey sandwich.

Instead of casually dismissing the idea, perhaps they considered it and found recharging had its own engineering costs, namely the potential for a swelling battery on your finger, a long life which means you probably would lose a custom charger, and the increased size for the extra requirements.
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