• despoticruin@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know why people keep parroting that crap. PHONES CAN HAVE REPLACEABLE BATTERIES AND STILL BE FULLY WATERPROOF.

    I had a galaxy S5, it had an SD card slot, replaceable battery, headphone jack… AND WATERPROOF.

    It was also thinner than my current OnePlus with the camera bump.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah wasn’t sure how truthful that is, just what I had heard being touted.

      But now that I think about it, some GoPros are waterproof and some of them have removable batteries too. So yeah, lazy excuse on their part. Probably being cheap or disingenuous.

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        2 days ago

        It is insanely disingenuous to think that manufacturing capabilities that could cheaply mass produce waterproof cameras and consumer electronics for 30+ years couldn’t handle miniaturization.

        On that note, I never once had water ingress issues with my S5 in a few years of ownership, and I would shower and swim with it. Just had to make sure the back was all the way on for the gasket to seal (the phone would detect it and warn you)